<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"><br></font></font></font><style>body{font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:#ffffff;color:black;}p{margin:0px;}</style><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>Winter-Spring 2013<br><br>Hidden Worlds<br><br>Things are not always what they seem. Cambridge Forum explores some of the hidden worlds–the secret motives, and unintended consequences of the decisions, policies, and actions that shape our nation’s economic and political life, as well as our individual social and personal lives. <br><br>Meetinghouse<br>January 16 The World Until Yesterday <br> <br>Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jared Diamond discusses his latest book, The World Until Yesterday. Diamond argues that today’s traditional societies represent a window onto the human world as it was only yesterday, measured against a time scale of the 6,000,000 years of human evolution. Traditional lifestyles are what shaped us, but there are profound differences between so-called “traditional” societies and industrial or post-industrial societies in everything from the way we count to the way we meet strangers. What can we learn from the world of yesterday as we negotiate the new challenges of the modern world?<br><br>Book: The World Until Yesterday (Viking)<br><br><br>Meetinghouse<br>Tuesday**<br>February 5 Louis Agassiz: Creator of American Science<br><br>Biographer Christoph Irmscher examines the life of this controversial figure in its Victorian cultural context. Undeniably a world-renowned scientist, credited with bringing the modern study of science to American universities, Agassiz’s career placed him in the thick of scientific and cultural debates on evolution and race that continue to affect American science, education, and social policy today. What can we learn from this 19th century life?<br><br>Co-sponsored by the National Park Service, Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site, the Friends of the Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters, the Cambridge Historical Society, and the James M. Shea Lecture Series.<br><br><br>Book: Louis Agassiz: Creator of American Science (Houghton Mifflin)<br><br>Meetinghouse<br>Monday** <br>February 11 The Banjo Project<br><br>Television writer-producer Marc Fields and banjo virtuoso Tony Trischka explore America’s quintessential instrument, assisted by Darol Anger on fiddle. Based on Field’s PBS documentary Give Me the Banjo, “The Banjo Project” illustrates the banjo’s history and performance styles from African roots to contemporary jazz with a lively narrative and masterful performances.<br><br>NOTE: This is a ticketed program: Advance tickets $15 Cambridge Forum members and students/seniors; $18 general admission. All tickets $20 at the door; reserve your seats early by calling 617-495-2727 or visit www.cambridgeforum.org<br><br><br>Parlor<br>February 27 Resilience: From PTSD to Hurricane Sandy<br><br>Psychiatrists Steven Southwick,of Yale and Dennis Charney of Mount Sinai tell the stories of POWs, 9/11 survivors, and ordinary people with debilitating diseases or grievous personal losses. Weaving together the results of modern neurobiological research and the insights of two decades of clinical work with trauma survivors, Southwick and Charney identify ways to help individuals become more resilient. How can resilience be taught? How can their insights about individual mental health help us create resilient communities?<br><br>Book: Resilience: The Science of Mastering Life’s Greatest Challenges (Cambridge)<br><br><br>Meetinghouse<br>March 13 @ 8pm BROKERS OF DECEIT <br><br>Rashid Khalidi, widely considered the foremost historian of the modern Middle East, zeroes in on the United States' role as broker of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. Analyzing the 1982 "Reagan Plan," the negotiations leading to the Oslo Accords, and President Obama's stance toward the conditions for Middle East peace, Khalidi reveals how U.S. influence has been used over the past 35 years. What is our responsibility for the success or failure of the pace process? What could we change to make Middle Eastern peace a reality?<br><br>Co-sponsored by Don and Jeannette McInnes and the Middle East Education Grup of First Parish in Cambridge<br><br>Book: Brokers of Deceit: How the US Has Undermined Peace in the Middle East (Beacon)<br><br> <br>Meetinghouse<br>April 3 The Richer Sex<br><br>In her book The Richer Sex, journalist and author Liza Mundy predicts that in the coming decades, women will overtake men as primary breadwinners and become the most financially powerful generation of women in history. She comes to this conclusion after reviewing current research and interviewing hundreds of women. Is society prepared for this dramatic change? How will this revolution transform our lives? <br><br>Book: The Richer Sex: How the New Majority of Female Breadwinners Is Transforming Sex, Love and Family (Simon and Schuster)<br><br>Parlor<br>April 17 Shadow Lives: The Forgotten Women of the War on Terror<br><br>British journalist and playwrite Victoria Brittain reveals the unseen side of the '9/11 wars': their impact on the wives and families of men incarcerated in Guantanamo, or in prison or under house arrest in Britain and the US. Her newest book, Shadow Lives, shows how these families have been made socially invisible and a convenient scapegoat for the state in order to exercise arbitrary powers under the cover of the 'War on Terror'. What is our unquenchable thirst for security doing to our tradition of human rights and civil liberty?<br><br>Book: Shadow Lives: The Forgotten Women of the War on Terror (Pluto Press)<br><br></font></font></font></body><pre>
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Phone: 617-495-2727
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