<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<br>Harvard Square<br>Cambridge, MA 02138<br> <br>How We Live Today <br>Spring 2012<br><br>“How We Live Today” is a year-long, two-part non-exclusive program theme. Speakers address policy issues and social trends that affect American’s sense of well-being and optimism about the future: climate change, the slow economic recovery, a sense that society is failing its children, its senior citizens and, generally, its most vulnerable, war and terrorism. In addition to discussing specific societal challenges, forums will look behind particular issues to identify the larger trends–globalization, demographic change, political partisanship, the growing wealth gap–at home and abroad that make today’s problems so difficult to solve. <br><br><br><br>March 14 <span style="font-weight: bold;">Obama and Iran: A Single Roll of the Dice*</span><br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Trita Parsi</span>, president of the National Iranian American Council, assesses the high-stakes diplomatic sparring between Washington and Teheran during President's Obama;s first three years in office. How has Obama's approach differed from the Bush White House's? What results has it produced? What is the way forward, given the current stalemate on nuclear issues?<br><br>Co-sponsored by Don and Jeannette McInnes<br><br><br>Book: A Single Roll of the Dice (Yale)<br><br><br><br>Wednesday<br>March 21 <span style="font-weight: bold;">Deng Xioaping and the Transformation of China</span>*<br><br>Harvard China scholar<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Ezra F. Voge</span>l discusses his highly acclaimed biography of transformational Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping. How did Deng succeed in finding a path to make China a wealthy and powerful member of the international community? What personal and cultural factors contributed to his success? What obstacles did he face? Since Deng himself was extremely reticent, how did Vogel go about researching and writing this masterful study of Deng's life and legacy?<br><br>Co-sponsored by an Anonymous Friend of Cambridge Forum.<br><br>Book: Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China (Harvard)<br><br><br><br>Tuesday**<br>April 10 <span style="font-weight: bold;">The Rise of China and American Power</span>*<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Joseph Nye</span> of the Harvard Kennedy School examines the future of American relations with China. As China has become a more powerful player in the Pacific, how has it projected its strength? How have strategic alliances among its neighbors changed in response to China's growing economic and military might? What role has the United States played during this time of transformation? What does the Obama administration's new emphasis on the Pacific mean for the future of American relations with China?<br><br>Co-sponsored by an Anonymous Friend of Cambridge Forum.<br><br>Book: The Future of Power <br><br><br>Monday<br>April 16 <span style="font-weight: bold;">Challenges of Globalization: Economic Globalization</span>*<br>2:00 pm <br>7:00 pm keynote<br><br>Cambridge Forum continues its exploration of the challenges of globalization for Americans' sense of optimism, well-being and security with a mini-conference on economic Globalization. Beginning at 2:00 pm, afternoon speakers explore the impact of globalization of labor, capital, and markets on American workers, investors, and consumers. Harvard's <span style="font-weight: bold;"> Dani Rodrik</span> discusses effective responses to today's globalized 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><br>Sunday<br>April 22 <span style="font-weight: bold;"> Creativity and Stress</span><br><br>Actors from the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Underground Railway Theater</span> conduct a staged reading of a selection from Tony Kushner’s But the Giraffe! followed by a panel discussion of the relationship between stress and creativity. How does creativity help people cope with stress? How does stress stimulate or impede creativity? <br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">This is a ticketed program: $5 (Members) and $10 (General Admission). </span>Call 617-495-2727 or visit www.cambridgeforum.org to reserve your tickets. <br><br><br><br>Wednesday<br>April 25 <span style="font-weight: bold;">Wealth Inequality: The Gilded Road to Ruin?</span>* <br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Chuck Collins</span>, director of the Institute for Policy Studies Program on Inequality and the Common Good, and journalist <span style="font-weight: bold;">Linda McQuaig</span> explore the impact of the growing wealth gap, and suggest ways to reverse the increase in economic inequality. What role does the call for austerity play in reinforcing or overcoming economic inequality? Where do they see the political will to make the necessary policy changes? What can a single nation do to counteract the effects of global economic conditions?<br><br>Books: 99 to 1: How Wealth Inequality Is Wrecking the World and What We Can Do about It (Collins) Berrett-Koehler <br> Billionaire’s Ball: Gluttony and Hubris in an Age of Epic Inequality (McQuaig) Beacon<br><br><br>Wednesday<br>June 13 <span style="font-weight: bold;">Washington, Longfellow and the Jewish Community at Newport: A Test Case for America</span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ted Widmer</span>, director of the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University, speaks about George Washington's 1790 letter to the Jewish community in Newport, Longfellow's poem on the same theme, and the curious career of religious tolerance in American politics.<br><br>Co-sponsored by The Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters and Friends of Longfellow and by Ann Daily. In memory of Frances Ackerly.<br><br></font></font></font></body><pre>
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