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Lectures & Theme Weeks
2004 Season
1 | Week One > June 28-July
2
Building a Global Future
As hot spots erupt
around the globe, the United States will need an effective array
of diplomatic, political and economic responses. In 1496 Venice
began the tradition of sending a representative abroad to negotiate
and represent the country in business and foreign affairs. Today
multinational alliances, non-governmental organizations and international
corporations present new challenges to diplomacy. During this
week speakers will explore America's influence in the world and
the role of diplomacy in a global future.
Confirmed
Lecturers:
Philip C. Wilcox,
president, Foundation for
Middle East Peace, former U.S. ambassador; James
A. Joseph,
former U.S. ambassador to
South Africa; professor, director of U.S.- Southern African Center
of Leadership and Public Values, Duke University; Robert Kagan, senior associate, Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace; Strobe Talbott, president, Brookings
Institution; Richard
W. Murphy, retired career foreign service officer; senior
fellow for the Middle East Council on Foreign Relations
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Mon
28
Philip C. Wilcox
president,
Foundation for Middle East Peace, former U.S. ambassador |
Tues
29
James A. Joseph
former
U.S. ambassador to South Africa; professor, director of U.S.-
Southern African Center of Leadership and Public Values, Duke
University |
Wed
30
Robert Kagan
senior
associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace |
Thurs
1
Strobe
Talbott
president,
Brookings Institution |
Fri
2
Richard W. Murphy
retired
career foreign service officer; senior fellow for the Middle
East Council on Foreign Relations |
2 | Week Two > July 5-9
Getting Well - Staying Well - Being Well
Health,
healing and preventing illness require the intimate collaboration
of ourselves, our physicians, the community around us and the
entire health care system. Today, the needed collaboration is
often difficult to realize. Health care costs, a litigious society
and the profit motive all may limit patient and physician options.
For uninsured Americans appropriate health care may be unaffordable.
While the mind-body-soul connection has come to be understood
by many as essential to healing and wellness, present health
practices may not integrate this critical element. How do we,
as individuals, strive to live healthy lives?
Confirmed Lecturers: Christiane Northrup,
writer, lecturer, PBS host; Dr. S. Boyd Eaton,
Emory Univ. authority on evolutionary nutrition; Dr.
Edward M. Hallowell, child & adult psychiatrist;
author; instructor; Harvard Medical School; Ceci Connolly, national staff
writer, Washington Post; Dr. David Lipschitz,
chair, Dept. of
Geriatrics; director, Center on Aging, Univ. of Arkansas for
Medical Sciences
3 | Week Three > July
12-16
Applied Ethics: What is the
Business of Business?
The central
purposes of business have always been to move products to market
and to create wealth. Events of the past decade, however, have
underscored the necessity of ethical behavior in the business
community. This week will examine how the purposes of business
may influence and be influenced by investors, regulatory agencies,
governmental policy, and the business climate locally, regionally
and internationally. Speakers will reflect on the diverse roles
and pressures affecting business leaders as they shape the economy
and society of the future.
Confirmed Lecturers:
Eliot
Spitzer,
New York State attorney general; Larry D. Thompson, senior fellow, Brookings
Institution; visiting law professor, Univ. of Georgia Law School;
Richard K. Smucker, president, co-CEO,
J.M. Smucker Co.; Rev. Jesse Jackson,
civil rights leader, founder, National Rainbow/PUSH Coalition;
Steve Odland, CEO, AutoZone, Inc.; chair of Corporate
Governance Task Force for Business Roundtable
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Mon
12
Eliot
Spitzer
New York State attorney general |
Tues
13
Larry D. Thompson
senior fellow, Brookings Institution; visiting
law professor, Univ. of Georgia Law School |
Wed
14
Richard
K. Smucker
president, co-CEO, J.M. Smucker Co. |
Thurs
15
Rev. Jesse Jackson
civil rights leader, founder,
National Rainbow/ PUSH Coalition |
Fri
16
Steve
Odland
CEO, AutoZone, Inc.; chair of Corporate Governance
Task Force for Business Roundtable |
4 | Week Four > July 19-23
Breaking Barriers: Women Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
The 20th century
will be remembered as the century in which American women found
their voice. Barriers were broken and women took their place
in government, business, the professions and non-profits. What
did these first women learn? How do we reconcile womens progress
with family life? How did they re-define leadership? Today, we
have a plurality of women in professional school, but there are
still barriers to be broken. What limits womens leadership today?
How does economic status affect womens status? What barriers
are yet to be broken and what differences will it make to our
common future?
Confirmed
Lecturers:
Alice Kessler- Harris,
Hoxie Professor of American History, Columbia Univ.; Faye Wattleton, president, Center
for the Advancement of Women; Carol Tecla Christ,
president,
Smith College; Gail Collins,
editorial page editor, The New York Times; Marsha Johnson Evans, president/ CEO,
American Red Cross
5 | Week Five > July 26-30
DeTocqueville's Vision -- Voluntarism and Democracy
The vigorous
activity of the sector of society independent from business or
government, from de Tocqueville to the present, has been considered
a defining characteristic of America. Independent organizations
and volunteer citizens strive to work on what matters, whether
education, healthcare, religion, the arts, housing or any other
critical issue. Speakers this week will explore the history,
nature and promise of independent action as a signature of the
essential character of the country.
Confirmed Lecturers:
Diana
Aviv,
president & CEO, Independent Sector, a coalition of leading
nonprofits; Scott McVay,
16th president, Chautauqua Institution; founding director, Geraldine
R. Dodge Foundation; Werner Fornos,
president, Population Institute; Robert D. Putnam,
prof. of public policy, JFK School of Government, Harvard University;
Steven Minter, past president,
The Cleveland Foundation; Community Foundations of America
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Mon
26
Diana
Aviv
president & CEO, Independent Sector, a coalition
of leading non-
profits |
Tues
27
Scott McVay
16th president, Chautauqua
Institution; founding director, Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation |
Wed
28
Werner Fornos
president, Population Institute
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Thurs
29
Robert D. Putnam
prof. of public policy,
JFK School of Government, Harvard University |
Fri
30
Steven Minter
past president, The Cleveland
Foundation; Community Foundations of America |
6 | Week Six > August
2-6
Water Woes World-Wide
Seventy-one
percent of the surface of our planet is water; 99% of the living
space is water; in short, this is a water planet. From the falling
levels of the Great Lakes to the rising problems of our own Southwest,
from the abundant waters of Canada to the water needs of the
Chinese, every sign points to the biological, economic and social
import of water. This week will look to experts to understand
the problems and solutions of a world where water is many times
more valuable than oil.
Confirmed Lecturers: Sandra
Postel,
director, Global Water Policy Project; senior fellow, Worldwatch
Institute; John F. Turner, assistant secretary of state for oceans
and international environmental and scientific affairs; Steven
J. McCormick,
president & CEO, The Nature Conservancy; Maude
Barlow,
Canadian activist, writer, global water policy critic; D.
Peter Loucks, professor,
School of Civil & Environmental Engineering; Cornell Univ.;
international scholar on water issues
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Mon
2
Sandra Postel
director, Global Water Policy Project; senior fellow, Worldwatch
Institute
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Tues
3
John
F. Turner
assistant secretary of state for oceans and international
environmental and scientific affairs |
Wed
4
Steven J. McCormick
president & CEO, The Nature Conservancy |
Thurs
5
Maude Barlow
Canadian activist, writer,
global water policy critic |
Fri
6
D. Peter Loucks
professor,
School of Civil & Environmental Engineering; Cornell Univ.;
international scholar on water issues |
7 | Week Seven > August
9-13
Theater:
A Measure of Humanity
From the
ancient Greeks to modern performance art, theater serves as a
mirror to the human condition. Character, conflict, and the mysteries
of transcendence are the architecture of this art form most personal
in its expression. Playwrights, directors, actors, critics and
scholars will explore the challenges and contributions of theater
to our knowledge of self and our responsibilities to community.
Confirmed Lecturers: Michael
Kahn, artistic director,
Shakespeare Theatre, Washington, DC, in conversation with Rebecca
Guy, artistic director, CCTC; Jackie
Maxwell,
artistic director, Shaw Festival, Niagara on the Lake, ONT; Michael
York,
screen, stage actor; author; lecturer; Wendy
Wasserstein, playwright;
Ming Cho Lee, co-chair, Design Dept.,
Yale School of Drama; award-winning set designer
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Mon
9
Michael Kahn
artistic
director, Shakespeare Theatre, Washington, DC, in conversation
with Rebecca Guy, artistic director, CCTC |
Tues
10
Jackie
Maxwell
artistic director, Shaw Festival, Niagara on the
Lake, ONT |
Wed
11
Michael
York
screen, stage actor; author; lecturer |
Thurs
12
Wendy Wasserstein
playwright |
Fri
13
Ming Cho Lee
co-chair, Design Dept., Yale School of Drama; award-
winning set designer |
8 | Week Eight > August
16-20
Building
a Global Neighborhood: The Abrahamic Vision
Every
major faith teaches generosity (or peace/justice) to the neighbor.
Neighbor is a moral term, not a geographic location. Faith has
too often created barriers between people and been the rationale
for hatred and war. Today, the United States is the most religiously
plural nation in the world. How can we be neighbors to one another,
each respecting the faith of the other? How can we build a society
faithful to the Abrahamic Vision of neighbor? How can we embrace
the world?
Confirmed Lecturers:
David Saperstein, director, Religious
Action Center of Reform Judaism, Washington, DC; Gillian Sorensen, senior adviser,
United Nations Foundation; Farid Esack,
chair, Ethics/ Religion & Society program, Xavier Univ.,
Cincinnati; The Rev. Dr. Joseph Hough Jr., faculty president,
professor, Union Theological Seminary, NYC; Dennis Ross, Middle East diplomat;
director, Washington Institute for Near East Policy
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Mon
16
David Saperstein
director, Religious Action
Center of Reform Judaism, Washington, DC |
Tues
17
Gillian Sorensen
senior adviser, United Nations
Foundation |
Wed
18
Farid Esack
chair, Ethics/ Religion
& Society program, Xavier Univ., Cincinnati |
Thurs
19
The Rev. Dr. Joseph Hough Jr.
faculty president, professor, Union Theological
Seminary, NYC |
Fri
20
Dennis
Ross
Middle East diplomat; director, Washington Institute
for Near East Policy |
9 | Week Nine > August
23-27
Major Trends of the 20th Century: A First Report
In the
century just past, human progress and human violence have been
linked historical forces. Human violence has erupted into civil
wars, nationalist movements and, sometimes, worldwide conflicts.
Nuclear power, the creation of artificial national boundaries,
environmentalism, the civil rights movement, ecumenism and feminism
all arose in the immense upheavals of the 20th Century. Speakers
will assess the origins, character and pace of trends that we
see today.
Confirmed
Lecturers:
Roger Rosenblatt,
author, essayist, playwright, journalist; writing professor,
Southhampton College; Freeman Dyson,
physicist, educator, author; Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton,
NJ; The Rev. Dr. Eileen W. Lindner,
deputy general secretary, National Council of Churches of Christ;
U.S. Rep. John Lewis,
D-Atlanta, Civil Rights activist for 40 years; Sandra Day O'Connor, United States
Supreme Court Justice
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Mon
23
Roger Rosenblatt
author, essayist, playwright,
journalist; writing professor, Southhampton College |
Tues
24
Freeman Dyson
physicist, educator, author;
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ |
Wed
25
The Rev. Dr. Eileen W. Lindner
deputy general secretary,
National Council of Churches of Christ; church historian |
Thurs
26
U.S. Rep. John Lewis
D-Atlanta, Civil Rights
activist for 40 years |
Fri
27
Sandra Day O'Connor
United States Supreme Court
Justice |
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