From our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Ethan good evening. Im ethan bronner. Im a managing editor at bloomberg news. Im filling in for charlie rose who is on assignment. Joining me now is geoffrey robertson, a distinguished british barrister. He has argued many landmark cases in human rights, as well as criminal and media law. He is currently part of the legal team representing armenia at the European Court of human rights. The case will determine whether denying the genocide of armenians under ottoman rule is a criminal offense in switzerland. This year marks the centennial of the mass killings during world war i. He is also the author of the book, an inconvenient genocide who now remembers the armenians . Welcome. Geoffrey hi, ethan. Ethan the topic, i want to divide it into two parts. One is what happened and the other is why it matters. Why dont we start with what happened nearly 100 years ago next month . Geoffrey in 1915, april the 24th, the istanbul authorities
Francisco. [applause] thank you, sharon and welcome everyone. Thanks for coming. I am very pleased to give you an introduction to eric leu who is an author and educator and entrepreneur and ceo of Citizen University that works to create a strong culture of citizenship which we will be talking about later. Hes a former white house speechwriter for president bill clinton and was later the president to the domestic policy adviser after the white house he was an executive at the Digital Media company at the networks. In 2002, he was named one of the World Economic Global Leaders of tomorrow. He coauthored the National Bestseller the gardens of democracy at the new american story of citizenship, the economy and the role of government. He has written several other books including the true patriots and imagination first unlocking the power of possibility. His latest book is entitled a china mans chance one mans journey into the chinese american dream. Please join me in welcoming eric leu. [ap
And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. David ritz has been called the ultra reader emperor of collaborations in the astoldto world. Hes written more than 53 book including biographies, novels, and what he calls collaborative autobiographies. Hes written with some of musics greatest artists including ray charles, smokey robinson, etta james, b. B. King, buddy guy. The list goes on and. On this year alone he has four collaborations out working with the now new york time best selling joe Perry New York times best selling so perry and tavis smiley with his book death of a kwing king about the last year in the life of dr. Martin luther king jr. His fifth book is a biography titled respect the life of aretha franklin, which earned rave reviews from the prestigious kirkus review. One of many rave reviews for all the work hes done, calling it, and i quote, an honest and genuinely respectful portrait of a true diva by a writer who feel the power of her art. I
And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. David ritz has been called the ultra reader emperor of collaborations in the astoldto world. Hes written more than 53 book including biographies, novels, and what he calls collaborative autobiographies. Hes written with some of musics greatest artists including ray charles, smokey robinson, etta james, b. B. King, buddy guy. The list goes on and. On this year alone he has four collaborations out working with the now new york time best selling joe Perry New York times best selling so perry and tavis smiley with his book death of a kwing king about the last year in the life of dr. Martin luther king jr. His fifth book is a biography titled respect the life of aretha franklin, which earned rave reviews from the prestigious kirkus review. One of many rave reviews for all the work hes done, calling it, and i quote, an honest and genuinely respectful portrait of a true diva by a writer who feel the power of her art. I
Good evening. Welcome to the meeting of the Commonwealth Club and forum, connect your intellect. You can find us online. You can follow the best of our conversations on twitter. I am the author of the this is your brain on music. I am a professor of psychology and behavioral neuroscience. I am delighted to introduce you to my friend, one of my famous favorite guitarists and musicians. He discovered the guitar at a young age. He has played at notable vilnius such as the notable venues such as montrose and carnegie hall. I would like to start by saying that in the last 15 or 20 years of my research, one thing i found most surprising as a musician myself in exploring music and the brain is how discovering where it is that music is. I always imagined as a player that the music was in my fingers. Now i know is in the brain. It is a neurorepresentation of the figures. Music is in every part of the brain that we have mapped. There is no part of the brain that does not have something to do wit