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"You are related to everything else in the world, since you and all things come from the same star-stuff." Charlene Brotman: We Live in a World of Awesome Stuff
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March 12, 2009 - 10:00AM, at University Lutheran THE HUMAN BRAIN: HARD-WIRED FOR CONNECTION Setting the issue: Lindsa Vallee Lecture by Amy Banks, instructor in psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Jean Baker Miller Training Institute March 19, 2009 - 10:00AM, at University Lutheran AWAKENING TO CONNECTION: WE ARE PART OF THE AWESOME WEB OF LIFE Setting the issue: Charlene Brotman* Lecture by Cassandra Extavour, assistant professor in Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University March 26 , 2009 - 10:00AM, at University Lutheran THE PLANETARY EMERGENCY: WHAT WILL WE DO WITH THE TIME WE HAVE? Setting the issue: Susan Brown* Lecture by Dianne Dumanoski, journalist, pioneer in reporting on the global crisis, author of Our Stolen Future April 2, 2009 - 10:00AM, at University Lutheran WHY WE ARE ENDANGERING THE EARTH?: STALKING THE WILD ASSUMPTION Setting the issue: Cheryl Suchors* Lecture by Elizabeth Dodson Gray, author of Green Paradise Lost and Patriarchy As a Conceptual Trap April 9, 2009 - NO TOP—CHURCH UNAVAILABLE because of a noon service for Maundy Thursday April 16, 2009 - 10:00AM, at University Lutheran LIVING IN A CONSUMERIST SOCIETY WITHOUT BUYING INTO IT: RECONNECTING WITH OUR VALUES Setting the issue: Pat Morris* Spontaneous participatory performance by Annie Hoffman & the True Story theater ensemble |
April 23, 2009 - 10:00AM, at University Lutheran ALIENATION FROM OUR GOVERNMENT: WHERE AND HOW CAN WE ACHIEVE A SOLUTION? Setting the issue: Cara Morris Stern Lecture by Arnie Arnesen, teacher, talk show host, writer for Boston Globe, "recovering politician" April 30, 2009 - 10:00AM, at University Lutheran RACE AND GENDER: HOW CAN WE EVER ARRIVE AT MUTUALITY? Setting the issue: Carol Staszewski* Responding to questions: Callie Crossley, TV & radio commentator, WGBH-TV "Beat the Press" & NPR May 7, 2009 -10:00AM, at University Lutheran OUR MOTHERS OURSELVES/ OUR DAUGHTERS OURSELVES: FROM DISCONNECTION TO COMPASSION Setting the issue: Jadzia Allison* Lecture by Ruth Nemzoff, author of Don't Bite Your Tongue: How to Foster Rewarding Relationships with Your Adult Children, resident scholar at Women's Studies Research Center, Brandeis University May 14, 2009 - 10:00AM, at University Lutheran HOW CAN WOMEN'S VALUES CHANGE AMERICA? Lectures by Katherine Adam & Charles Derber, co-authors, The New Feminized Majority: How Democrats Can Change America with Women's Values, Charles Derber is professor of sociology at Boston College May 21, 2009 - 10:00AM, at University Lutheran SPIRITUAL DIS-EASE: YEARNING FOR WHOLENESS Setting the issue: Monique Morimoto Flaherty Lecture with singing by Fred Emerson Small, senior minister, The First Parish in Cambridge (The First Church - Unitarian Universalist) *- Advisory Committee member |
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Thursdays 10AM-1PM at University Lutheran Church, Cambridge MA - while Rockefeller Hall at HDS is being renovated. University Lutheran Church is at 66 Winthrop St, just east of JFK St near the Kennedy School. 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 |