<head><style>body{font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:#ffffff;color:black;}p{margin:0px;}</style></head><body><font color="#000000"><font size="2"><font face="arial,sans-serif">Cambridge Forum<br>Program Schedule<br>Wednesdays at 7:00 pm. **(unless otherwise noted)<br>First Parish in Cambridge<br>3 Church Street (Harvard Square)<br>Cambridge, MA 02138<br><br>How We Live Today <br><br>Winter-Spring 2012<br><br><br>“How We Live Today” is a year-long, two-part non-exclusive program<br>theme. Speakers address policy issues and social trends that affect<br>American’s sense of well-being and optimism about the future:<br>climate change; the slow economic recovery; a sense that society is<br>failing its children, its senior citizens, and, generally, its most<br>vulnerable; war; and terrorism. In addition to discussing specific<br>societal challenges, forums will look behind particular issues to<br>identify the larger trends–globalization, demographic change,<br>political partisanship, the growing wealth gap–at home and abroad<br>that make today’s problems so difficult to solve. <br><br><br>Sunday,<br>January 22<br>3:00 pm** Where Does Democracy Come From? Popular Uprising <br>and Parliamentary Elections in Egypt*<br><br>Stanford University Middle East specialist Joel Beinin discusses<br>the results of the Egyptian elections. What is their significance<br>for the future of the Arab Spring movement in Egypt? In the region? <br>What impact will the election results have on Egypt's relations with<br>Israel and with the Palestinian people? <br><br>This Program is funded in part by Mass Humanities.<br>Co-Sponsored by Jewish Voice for Peace, Boston<br><br>Book: Social Movements, Mobilization, and Contestation in the Middle East and<br>North Africa (Stanford University Press)<br><br>Wednesday<br>January 25 Being Alive and Having To Die: Forrest Church*<br><br>Pulitzer Prize finalist Dan Cryer discusses his new biography<br>of the Rev. Forrest Church. Church, the foremost Unitarian Universalist<br>of our time, championed the separation of church and state, and a religion <br>that respected the mind and fostered tolerance. In doing so, he often <br>locked horns with the religious right, notably over discrimination <br>against gays and the mistaken notion that the United States is a "Christian <br>nation." He wrote or edited 25 books,from theology to pastoral meditations <br>to histories, while building his own church, All Souls, into a congregation <br>committed to social justice. Being Alive and Having to Die chronicles his <br>journey from rebellious son of a U.S. Senator to eloquent spokesman on the <br>national stage.<br><br>Book: Being Alive and Having to Die (St. Martin's)<br><br><br>Thursday<br>February 9 The Alzheimer’s Prevention Program*<br><br>UCLA neuroscientist Gary Small looks at what Alzheimer's disease actually is and reviews the<br>research on preventing its onset. Small challenges the widely held notion that Alzheimer's is <br>not preventable and discusses a variety of ways to keep the brain healthy – there’s more to it <br>than a crossword puzzle a day!<br><br>Book: The Alzheimer's Prevention Program (Workman)<br><br><br>Monday<br>February 13 Challenges of Globalization: Global Engagement*<br>2:00 pm <br>7:00 pm keynote <br><br>Cambridge Forum hosts a mini-conference on the impact of global engagement on<br>America's sense of security and well-being beginning at 2:00 pm. During the afternoon, <br>speakers examine the challenges posed by the European debt crisis, changing <br>relationships with Israel and Palestine, and the war on terror. The <br>engagement options that “soft power” and “smart power” offer to American <br>foreign policy in the 21st century is the focus of Joesph Nye's evening keynote address.<br><br><br>This Program is funded in Part by Mass Humanities.<br>Co-sponsored by an Anonymous Friend of Cambridge Forum.<br><br><br>Book: The Future of Power (Joseph Nye)<br><br><br>Wednesday<br>March 14 Obama and Iran: A Single Roll of the Dice*<br><br>Trita Parsi, president of the National Iranian American Council, assesses the<br>high-stakes diplomatic sparring between Washington and Teheran during<br>President's Obama's first three years in office. How has Obama's<br>approach differed from the Bush White House's? What results has it<br>produced? What is the way forward, given the current stalemate on<br>nuclear issues?<br><br>Co-sponsored by Don and Jeannette McInnes<br><br>Book: A Single Roll of the Dice (Yale)<br><br><br>Monday<br>April 16 Challenges of Globalization: Economic Globalization*<br>2:00 pm<br>7:00 pm keynote <br><br>Cambridge Forum continues its exploration of the challenges of globalization<br>for Americans' sense of optimism, well-being and security with a<br>mini-conference on economic Globalization. Beginning at 2:00 pm,<br>afternoon speakers explore the impact of globalization of labor,<br>capital, and markets on American workers, investors, and consumers. <br>Harvard's Dani Rodrik discusses effective responses to today's globalized <br>economy during the evening keynote.<br><br>This program is funded in part by Mass Humanities.<br>Co-sponsored by Mullane, Michel & McInnes, Counselors-at-Law<br><br>Book: The Globalization Paradox (Norton)<br><br><br>Sunday<br>April 22 Creativity and Stress<br><br>Actors from the Underground Railroad Theater conduct a staged reading of a<br>selection from Tony Kushner’s But the Giraffe! followed by a panel discussion <br>of the relationship between stress and creativity. How does creativity <br>help people cope with stress? How does stress stimulate or impede creativity? <br><br><br>This is a ticketed program: $5 (Members) and $10 (General Admission). <br>Call 617-495-2727 or visit www.cambridgeforum.org to reserve your tickets. <br><br><br>Wednesday<br>June 13 Washington, Longfellow and the Jewish Community at Newport: <br>A Test Case for America<br><br>Ted Widmer, director of the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University, <br>speaks about George Washington's 1790 letter to the Jewish community in Newport,<br>Longfellow's poem on the same theme, and the curious career of religious <br>tolerance in American politics.<br><br>Co-sponsored by The Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters and the Friends of<br>Longfellow and also by Ann Daily. In honor of Frances Ackerly.<br><br>* Book signing courtesy of Harvard Book Store follows program.<br></font></font></font></body><pre>
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