Cspan, crated by private industry, americas table Cable Television companies and brought to today by your television provider. [applause] thank you, molly. Good evening everyone and welcome to this evenings screen showing. The distinguished Speakers Series featuring a conversation with cyntoia brownlong, activist for criminal Justice Reform. I want to thank molly gould who you just heard from. It was her suggestion that we bring cynthia to campus and she was also instrument all in bringing the program and for tonights event. Thank you, molly. [applause] i also want to thank jeff burns and my colleagues for their work on this forum and on so many other events throughout the year. I like to acknowledge more than a dozen cosponsors of tonights event. There are too many to name individually but i hope you saw them recognized on the screen before we started. It is gratifying that so Many Organizations from across the university joined us to support this event. It t demonstrates the concern
Im jamie colby in oxfordshire, england. And i feel like im driving right into a scene from a 19thcentury romantic novel, which, in a way, i am. Im on my way to meet a descendant of the great writer, jane austen. Austen left a strange inheritance worthy of a quintessentially british uproar two centuries later. My name is nicky gottelier. I inherited a ring that once belonged to jane austen, my great greatgreatgreatgreat aunt. Hello. Im jamie. Hello. Im nicky. My first question for nicky how did she get the ring . I shall tell you. Come with me. She invites me in and explains her family lineage. Jane was one of eight children. And her eldest brother, james, was my forebear. So it came down through my grandmother, my father, and then me. Did everybody know about your familys connection to jane . In those days, you didnt really brag about the fact that i was a fivetimes great niece of janes. Nor would it be proper to brag or even mention that the family is the keeper of this ring made of t
Go to our website gives your email address will send you emails about every thing going on at this location and other locations item up anyones been down the Coconut Grove recently but we do the events there is well. Nothing worth mentioning down at the adrian art center, have on january 26 at 6 30 p. M. Isabel will be joining us and you can buy tickets at the art center. Org. A number of wonderful events you can visit us here, we do farm to table dinners, we do podcast with a lot of our authors, you want to tune into that be could only do that by accessing the webpage, so please visit there. We are very happy this evening to have with us mr. Christopher knowlton, the bubble in the sun, the boom of florida 1920s. So its our fault. So about their Something Else involved. Christopher is a former staff writer and london brief of the london magazine he spent 15 years the investment business. His previous book was cattle kingdom, the Hidden History of the cal boyd wes, please give them a ni
Im jamie colby in oxfordshire, england. And i feel like im driving right into a scene from a 19thcentury romantic novel, which, in a way, i am. Im on my way to meet a descendant of the great writer, jane austen. Austen left a strange inheritance worthy of a quintessentially british uproar two centuries later. My name is nicky gottelier. I inherited a ring that once belonged to jane austen, my great greatgreatgreatgreat aunt. Hello. Im jamie. Hello. Im nicky. My first question for nicky how did she get the ring . I shall tell you. Come with me. She invites me in and explains her family lineage. Jane was one of eight children. And her eldest brother, james, was my forebear. So it came down through my grandmother, my father, and then me. Did everybody know about your familys connection to jane . In those days, you didnt really brag about the fact that i was a fivetimes great niece of janes. Nor would it be proper to brag or even mention that the family is the keeper of this ring made of t
Start talking about technology. The first thing is im well aware that many of you have no idea who i am and so thank you for showing up out of the spirit appear to gossip. I think it speaks very well of you that i know theres some really, really big names at the festival and i feel very honored to be among them so thanks for coming. So who am i . A few things. I write a column called the undercover economist for the financial times. Thats the pink newspaper thats really good. I recommend it. Thank you, sir. The second thing is i present bbc radio. I present a show for the Bbc World Service called 50 things that made the modern economy. All about numbers and i would think about numbers and how numbers sometimes lead us astray and sometimes help us understand the world. I also have a podcast with a gentleman called Michael Lewis and them gentleman called Malcolm Gladwell called Cautionary Tales which is all about things going wrong come sometimes in tragic ways and sometimes in amusing w