For my COMMENCEMENT 2012 ADDRESS, click here

For my COMMENCEMENT 2006 ADDRESS, click here

For my recent commentaries, check out:

"Manufacturing Memory," Arts & Opinion, February, 2012 (Montreal, Canada)

King's demand for justice still strong in 2011

What did we learn from 9/11?

Masculinity, Militarism and Empathy

Killing bin Laden leads to questions of government, ourselves

Awakening From Obama's Seductive Spell

Wisconsin's union showdown a symbol of 'class warfare'

Washington's Egyptian Nightmare

Cuban Internationalism As Engaged Empathy

Empathy and Neuropolitics: This is your brain on neoliberal culture. Any questions?

Calling Out (and to) Homophobes

Jeremy Rifkin’s The Empathic Civilization and P.W. Singer’s Wired for War

More Terrorist Blowback from Failed U.S. Foreign Policy

Change We Can Believe In?

Frans de Waal's Age of Empathy: A Review and Critique

Afghanistan: 'Necessary' War for Empire

Empathy Marketing 101

Remarks delivered at the "Freedom for Gaza" rally at 9th & Hamilton in Allentown on 1/10/09

We Empathize, Therefore We Are: Toward a Moral Neuropolitics

The Emotional Power of Photography: From the Civil Rights Movement to Iraq, How Empathy Can Impact Change

Movie can clarify vision of rebel Che Guevera

From Mirror Neurons to Moral Neuropolitics

NEUROSCIENCE AND MORAL POLITICS: Chomsky’s Intellectual Progeny

Hard-Wired for Moral Politics: Neuroscience and Empathy

The Very Rich are Different from You and Me F. Scott Fitzgerald

Whither Diversity?

Hold Those Responsible for Iraq Accountable

Alternative media can balance establishment's experts

Nationalism, not Islam, motivates most suicide terrorists

Palestinian Diaspora Is Cause of Conflict

Graduates face choice between love or 'selling out'

Radical Teaching

Scapegoating Human Nature

Music, Meetings and Markets

Political Engagement:

Common Dreams

ZNet

Truth Out

Howard Zinn

Noam Chomsky

The Morning Call

New York Times

Monthly Review

The Nation

The Progressive

Gary Olson
Professor

Education:
B.A., Concordia College;
M.A., University of South Dakota;
Ph.D., University of Colorado;

Postdoctoral National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships: University of California, Berkeley; University of Pittsburgh; UNC at Chapel Hill; and UCLA.

Gary at Occupy Wall Street, October 3, 2011.

Gary Olson at Occupy Bethlehem in Payrow Plaza (Church & New Streets)

FILM INSPIRATION (check out this link)

Musical Musings (check out this link)

What I've Been Listening to Lately

Important musical influences in my life:

Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited
Joni Mitchell Blue
Miles Davis Kind of Blue and In A Silent Way
John Coltrane A Love Supreme
Neil Young Harvest and Harvest Moon
The Grateful Dead American Beauty
The Beatles Abbey Road
Roxy Music Avalon
Van Morrison Astral Weeks
Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon
Cowboy Junkies Trinity Sessions
Lucinda Williams Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
Neil Young After the Gold Rush
Carole King Tapestry
The Band The Band