Conversation Schedule November 2009-March 2010
11/1/09 Lincoln Center Innovations in Education
11/8/09 Jane Elliot –A Class Divided (video)
11/15/09 Fundraising in Today’s Economy
11/22/09 Broadway Center Conversation/Community Collaboration
11/29/09 Giving Thanks –Giving Back/Healthcare Reform
12/6/09 Exploring paradoxes and their effect on our lives, e.g., community-solitude; self assuredness-humility; directness-restraint; tradition-change
12/13/09 Nobel Peace Prize and War (Afghanistan)
12/20/09 Exchanging Gifts
12/27/09 Money and our Lives (Capitalism: A Love Story, (film), Michael Moore)
1/3/10 Reflections & Renewals
1/10/10 Post Traumatic Stress Disease (PTSD) what it is and how it can impact our lives?
1/17/10 Redeeming the Prophetic Vision (MLK)
1/24/10 “Bernice, Boy Willie, and the Value of History” Introducing August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson”
1/31/10 A Writer’s Life
2/7/10 Black Women in US History –The Ida B. Wells Story
2/14/10 Black History?
2/21/10 Race in the Era of Obama
2/28/10 Book Study –The Slave Ship, Marcus Rediker (Intro–Cha 3)
http://www.socialistreview
http://www.booksprice.com/
3/7/10 Book Study –Rediker, The Slave Ship –(Chaps 4-6)
3/14/10 Book Study –Rediker, The Slave Ship –(Chaps 7-9)
3/21/10 Book Study –Rediker, The Slave Ship –(Chaps 10-End)
3/28/10 Matriarchal and Patriarchal Societies
