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September 17, 2009 - 10:00AM, at University Lutheran AWAKENING TO THE REALITY OF THE CHANGED WORLD AROUND US Setting the issue: Robin Melavalin Lecture by Tim McCarthy, historian, Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government September 24, 2009 - 10:00AM, at University Lutheran WHAT IS ENOUGH? DO WE NEED TO "DE-TOX" FROM CONSUMERISM?: BEING ACCOUNTABLE FOR OUR CHOICES IN LIFE Setting the issue: Martha A.L.B. Nielsen* Lecture by John Ehrenfeld, author of Sustainability by Design: A Subversive Strategy for Transforming Our Consumer Culture October 1, 2009 - 10:00AM, at University Lutheran HOW CAN WE LIVE IN THIS ENTITLED SOCIETY WITHOUT BECOMING SELF-CENTERED OR NARCISSISTIC? Setting the issue: Anna Donovan* Lecture by Linda Weltner, activist, former Boston Globe columnist October 8, 2009 - 10:00AM, at University Lutheran HOW DO YOU LIVE WITH FEAR—OR RESIST IT?—FEAR OF DYING, OF BEING ALONE, OF FINANCIAL INSECURITY? Setting the issue: Chris Farrow-Noble* Lecture by Marjorie Clapprood, former state representative and talk-show host October 15, 2009 - 10:00AM, at University Lutheran THE DILEMMA OF LIVING ALONE: THE PROS AND THE CONS Setting the issue: Marcia Miller Boehlke* Lecture by Joan Anderson, author of memoirs A Year by the Sea, An Unfinished Marriage, A Walk on the Beach, A Weekend to Change Your Life, and The Second Journey |
October 22, 2009 - 10:00AM, at University Lutheran HOW DO WE RESPOND TO A CULTURE OF BULLYING AND ABUSE WHEN SOCIETAL AND PERSONAL POWER IS MISUSED? Setting the issue: Kim Westheimer, co-author of When the Drama Club Is Not Enough: Lessons from the Safe Schools Program for Gay and Lesbian Students Lecture by Susan Eisenberg, artist, poet and educator, author of We’ll Call You If We Need You: Experiences of Women Working Construction, and creator of the installation On Equal Terms: Women in Construction 30 Years & Still Organizing October 29, 2009 - 10:00AM, at University Lutheran THROUGH HISTORY, STEREOTYPING WOMEN AS VIRGIN, WITCH OR WHORE Setting the issue: Therese Greenfield Lecture by Kate Clifford Larson, author of Bound for the Promised Land, women's history, Simmons College November 5, 2009 - 10:00AM, at University Lutheran WHAT IS THE EVOLVING MEANING OF FEMINISM? FEMINIST VOICES IN DIALOGUE Panel: Angela Maffeo, Jaclyn Friedman, Andres Castro Samayoa and Carol Johnson November 12, 2009 - 10:00AM, at University Lutheran RECLAIMING THE SPIRIT OF CITIZENSHIP: REASSESSING THE BALANCE BETWEEN THE INDIVIDUAL AND COMMUNITY Setting the issue: Susan Little Lecture by Madeleine Kunin, former governor of Vermont November 19, 2009 - 10:00AM, at University Lutheran WHAT KIND OF SPIRITUAL "CORE" DO WE NEED TO REMAIN CENTERED IN THIS TIME OF ANXIETY? Setting the issue: Esther Scanlan* Lecture by Anne Yeomans, psychotherapist, one of the founders of The Women's Well *- Advisory Committee member |
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Thursdays 10AM-12:30PM at University Lutheran Church, 66 Winthrop St, Cambridge MA - just east of JFK St near the Kennedy School of Government. To register for the series or for more info: TOP, 4 Linden Sq, Wellesley MA 02482 • 781-235-5320 |
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May 2009 • TOP, 4 Linden Sq, Wellesley MA 02482 • 781-235-5320 |