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In Journeys Begin Responsibilities: Pico Iyer

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Partner:: World Monuments Fund
Location:: The Graduate Center CUNY
New York, NY
Event Date:: 05.21.12
Speaker:: Pico Iyer
Tags:: tibet; japan; cuba; travel writing; World Culture; cultural studies; popular culture

Summary: To inaugurate the World Monuments Fund H. Peter Stern Lecture, Pico Iyer delivers a talk entitled 'In Journeys Begin Responsibilities'. In it, he shares insights about the wonder of travel and the responsibilities that accompany it."

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Pico Iyer

Pico Iyer, born in Oxford, England, in 1957 and educated at Eton, Oxford, and Harvard, is the author of two novels and eight books often found in the travel literature section of bookstores. Among his works are long-running reader favorites Video Night in Kathmandu, The Lady and the Monk, The Global Soul and The Open Road (a record of his 34 years of talks and travels with the 14th Dalai Lama). His most recent book, The Man Within My Head is about Graham Greene and the conundrums of travel everywhere from Bogota to Bhutan and Bolivia to Berkhamsted.

An essayist for Time for more than 25 years, Pico Iyer also writes for The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, Harper’s and many others. Having spent much of the past 30 years journeying from North Korea to Ethiopia and from Yemen to Easter Island, he has written regularly for Conde Nast Traveler since its third issue, in 1987, and his pieces on travel appear often in The Financial Times, National Geographic, and Granta. A two-time Fellow of the World Economic Forum at Davos, he has also written a film-script for Miramax, helped name an internationally known soft drink, and contributed liner notes to several Leonard Cohen albums.

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01 hr 12 min 53 sec

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01.: Introduction

05 min 13 sec

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02.: Pico Iyer - Cambodian Temple Antecdote

06 min 08 sec

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03.: Travel, Action and a Searchlight for Our Selves

03 min 12 sec

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04.: "Big Mistakes" in Early Life as a Travel Journalist

03 min 10 sec

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05.: Moving to Kyoto, Japan

03 min 48 sec

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06.: Protecting Kyoto

03 min 39 sec

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07.: The Impact of Travel and Globalization in Japan

05 min 26 sec

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08.: Exploration in Tibet

04 min 05 sec

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09.: The Dalai Lama and Tibet's Global Standing

04 min 40 sec

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10.: Finding Meaning in Travel and Exploration

11 min 39 sec

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11.: Audience Questions

00 min 10 sec

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12.: Q1: A Particular Destination That Has Touched You?

07 min 10 sec

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13.: Q2: Disappointed in a Destination?

03 min 58 sec

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14.: Q3: Travel Logistics and Planning a Trip? Traveling Alone?

05 min 37 sec

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15.: Q4: Why Not Travel to Africa or Europe?

02 min 32 sec

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16.: Q5: Countries That Balance Environment and Urban Development?

02 min 26 sec

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Pico Iyer: Travel is a Give-and-Take Conversation

01 min 56 sec

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Pico Iyer, travel essayist and novelist, counters the argument that travel is a "passive" experience. Iyer asserts that traveling is a conversation that requires give-and-take between traveler and culture.
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