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SPRING SERIES OF LECTURES AND DISCUSSIONS<BR>
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</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial">featuring<BR>
<B>Ali S. Asani </B>&<B> Mona Eltahawy<BR>
Marshall Goldman </B>&<B> Uri Ra’anan<BR>
Herman Badillo<BR>
Richard S. Lindzen<BR>
Edward Albee, Rick Lombardo </B>&<B> Karen MacDonald<BR>
Paul Biddinger </B>&<B> Lisa Stone<BR>
Paul Hawken
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</U></B>This spring, the Ford Hall Forum presents seven public discussions on the questions concerning our community, nation, and world. From global warming to immigration to disaster preparedness, the Forum hands the microphone to thought-provoking speakers on the front lines of these issues. To facilitate frank and open discussion, equal time is provided for speakers’ remarks and audience members’ questions. At the Ford Hall Forum, no speaker goes unquestioned and no view goes unchallenged. <U>Come join the conversation!
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<SPAN STYLE='font-size:14.0px'><FONT FACE="Arial"><B><U>You Don’t Know Us: Voices from the Moderate Muslim Majority<BR>
</U>Ali S. Asani,</B> professor of the Practice of Indo-Muslim Languages and Culture at Harvard University, member of the Board of Directors of the American Islamic Congress; <B>Mona Eltahawy</B>, award-winning New York-based journalist and commentator, international lecturer on Arab and Muslim issues. <BR>
Moderated by <B>Jeff Jacoby</B>, <I>Boston Globe</I> columnist.<BR>
Thursday, March 15<BR>
6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.<BR>
Old South Meeting House<BR>
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<B><U>Power, Petroleum, and Flawed Succession: The Roots and Impact of Putin’s Russia<BR>
</U>Marshall Goldman</B>, Katherine Wasserman Davis Professor of Russian Economics at Wellesley College (Emeritus), associate director of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University; <B>Uri Ra’anan</B>, director of the Institute for the Study of Conflict, Ideology, and Policy, and professor of international relations at Boston University.<BR>
Thursday, March 22<BR>
6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.<BR>
Old South Meeting House<BR>
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<B><U>One Nation, One Standard: An Ex-Liberal on How Hispanics Can Succeed Just Like Other Immigrant Groups<BR>
</U>Herman Badillo</B>, counsel to the law firm of Sullivan, Papain, Block, McGrath & Cannavo, former deputy mayor of New York, and former U.S. Congressman. <BR>
Moderated by State Representative <B>Jeffrey Sanchez</B>.<BR>
Sunday, April 1<BR>
6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.<BR>
Raytheon Amphitheater, Northeastern University<BR>
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<B><U>Is Global Warming a Cause For Alarm?<BR>
</U>Richard S. Lindzen</B>, Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Atmospheric Science at MIT, member of the National Academy of Sciences. <BR>
Sunday, April 22<BR>
6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.<BR>
Old South Meeting House<BR>
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<B><U>Does Theater Have a Future? The Players Look Forward...<BR>
</U>Edward Albee</B>, playwright, three-time Pulitzer Prize winner; <B>Rick Lombardo</B>, director, and producing artistic director at New Repertory Theatre; <B>Karen MacDonald</B>, actress, founding member of American Repertory Theater. <BR>
Moderated by arts critic <B>Ed Siegel</B>.<BR>
Monday, April 30<BR>
6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.<BR>
Rabb Auditorium, Boston Public Library<BR>
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<B><U>Disaster Preparedness in Massachusetts: Ready? Or not?<BR>
</U>Paul D. Biddinger, </B>MD, FACEP, chairman of the Massachusetts Medical Society Committee on Preparedness, and physician at Massachusetts General Hospital; <B>Lisa Stone</B>, MD, Hospital Preparedness Coordinator, Massachusetts Department of Public Health. <BR>
Moderated by <B>Stephen Smith</B>, <I>Boston Globe</I> public health reporter<BR>
<I>Co-Sponsored by the Massachusetts Medical Society. <BR>
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6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.<BR>
Old South Meeting House<BR>
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<B><U>Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being, and Why No One Saw it Coming<BR>
</U>Paul Hawken</B>, environmentalist, author, founder of Erewhon Trading Company, Smith & Hawken, and the Pax Group, and executive director of the Natural Capital Institute. <BR>
Moderated by <B>Steve Curwood</B>, host of <I>Living on Earth</I>.<BR>
Monday, May 21<BR>
6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.<BR>
Old South Meeting House <BR>
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</I>The <B>Ford Hall Forum</B> promotes freedom of speech and fosters an informed and effective citizenry through the public presentation of lectures, debates, and discussions. Its events illuminate the key issues facing our society by bringing to its podium knowledgeable and thought-provoking speakers, including some of the most controversial opinion leaders of our times. These speakers are presented in person, for free, and in settings which facilitate frank and open debate. As the nation’s oldest free public lecture series, it has a storied past as a venue for some of the most intriguing figures in our nation’s modern history, including Maya Angelou, Isaac Asimov, Alan Dershowitz, W.E.B. DuBois, Stephen Jay Gould, Al Gore, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Henry Kissinger, Norman Mailer, Ayn Rand, Cokie Roberts, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Malcolm X, to name just a few. <BR>
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Programs of the Ford Hall Forum are made possible through contributions from individual members as well as corporations and foundations, including The Boston Foundation, The Colonnade Hotel, Fidelity Investments, The Fred and Marty Corneel Fund, Houghton Chemical Corporation, Levine Katz Nannis + Solomon P.C., The Lowell Institute, Massachusetts Cultural Council, The Nellie Mae Education Foundation, Northeastern University, The Old South Meeting House, Prince, Lobel, Glovsky & Tye LLP, and WBUR 90.9 FM. <BR>
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