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Even though the United States could possibly become the world's largest oil producer by 2020, America would still not be "energy independent." U.S. energy production would continue to be tied to global markets and climate concerns, according to professor Richard Newell, director of Duke's Energy Initiative. In a live "Office Hours" webcast interview at noon on Feb. 22, he will discuss advances and limits in American energy production.

Annual Brainerd Currie Memorial Lecture: Duke Law School welcomes Akhil Reed Amar as the 2013 Currie Memorial Lecture speaker. Amar, the Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University, will explain his preferred version of the so-called "nuclear option" by which a simple Senate majority may modify or eliminate the Senate's entrenched filibuster practice in his lecture.

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What's it mean to study Public Policy at Duke's Sanford School? Students and Professor Judith Kelley give you a 50-second explanation.

Six-term U.S. Senate veteran Richard Lugar used his first speech since leaving office last month to address the nation's "out of control" partisanship, criticize Congress for failing basic tests of governing and call on President Obama to sit down with political foes for potentially healing dialogs. Lugar delivered the 2013 Terry Sanford Distinguished Lecture at Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy on Tuesday. He spent the day visiting public policy classes and meeting with groups of students.

In January of 1969, WCBS-TV in New York City began to broadcast a series of half-hour lectures under the banner of Black Heritage: A History of Afro-Americans. The series, which ran six days a week until June of 1969 (108 episodes in all), was produced by historians John Henrik Clarke, Vincent Harding and political scientist William Strickland—the later two who were founding members of the Institute of the Black World, a groundbreaking thinking tank that was based at the Atlanta University Center. According to historian Martha Biondi, by providing "ordinary Americans access to the Black history courses beginning to be offered on college campuses...these men personally bridged the gap between scholarship and activism."

Left of Black is proud to be of the many progeny of this visionary project, born during an era in which Black student activism on American college campuses helped transform institutions that less than a generation earlier, Black students were largely denied access to. This moment is chronicled in Martha Biondi's new book The Black Revolution on Campus (University of California Press). A historian at Northwestern University, Biondi joins Left of Black via Skype to talk about what she describes as "an extraordinary chapter in the modern Black freedom struggle." Biondi is also the author of To Stand and Fight: the Struggle for Civil Rights in Postwar New York City (Harvard University Press, 2003).

Real Conversations with Real Leaders: Walter Robb

Walter Robb, Co-Chief Executive Officer of Whole Foods Market

Mr. Robb joined Whole Foods in 1991 as a manager at the Whole Foods located in Mill Valley, California. Only two years later, Mr. Robb was promoted to be the President of the Northern Pacific Region. During his tenure there, he grew the region from 2 to 17 stores. As Whole Foods grew, Mr. Robb rose with it. He became Executive Vice-President of Operations in 2000, Chief Operating Officer in 2001, and Co-President in 2004. Now as Co-CEO since 2010, Robb oversees six regions for Whole Foods Market.

Harvard Law Prof. Randall Kennedy discusses Browder v. Gayle, a 1955 federal lawsuit filed to challenge statutes requiring segregation on public transportation in Montgomery, Alabama. The case was a touchstone of the Civil Rights era, stemming from the Montgomery bus boycott, helping launch the advocacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and resulting in an opinion that helped topple "separate but equal" segregation laws. Kennedy's lecture was part of a civil rights lecture series supported by the Robert R. Wilson Fund at Duke University.

Dr. Einaudi’s work deals with the science of climate change and its possible impacts. Specifically, his presentation discusses the following questions:
• Is the climate changing?
• Are humans responsible for climate change?
• What are the impacts of climate change?
• What will the changes be in the next century or so?
The complexities of the Earth System, the uncertainties of its behavior and its predictability will be outlined. Climate change is a global phenomenon where all nations are involved: the relative responsibilities of developed versus developing nations will be discussed. Finally, the nature of the public debate on global warming will also be reviewed along with the interaction between scientists and policymakers.