The Brian Lehrer Show

Copycats and Dogs

Friday, November 18, 2005

What do high fives, fashion and parrots have in common? Acclaimed theater director and neurologist Jonathan Miller examines imitation in culture, how humans and animals copy each other. He’s hosting a panel of biologists, psychologists, and philosophers in a day-long symposium called “Doing Likewise.”

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The Convention of Conventions

Scott Silliman, professor of the Practice of Law at the Duke University School of Law, as well as Executive Director of the Law School's Center on Law, Ethics and National Security
- how does international law relate to detainees at Guantanamo Bay

» Scott Silliman (Duke)

Copycats and Dogs

Jonathan Miller,
- what high fives, fashion and parrots have in common

» "Doing Likewise", a symposium at the NYU Institute for the Humanities

Fault Lines

Steve Coll, contributor to the New Yorker
- on the unexpected effects of the Pakistan earthquake

» "Letter from Kashmir" by Steve Coll in the New Yorker

Do Small Theaters Matter?

Allan Buchman, artistic director and founder of The Culture Project
and
Evangeline Morphos, independent theater producer in New York, lecturer in Theatre and Director of Television Studies at Columbia University
and
Scott Elliott, artistic director of The New Group and director of "Abigail's Party"
- discuss the health of off Broadway and off-off Broadway theaters

» The Culture Project
» Evangeline Morphos Bio
» The New Group Theater