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UCLA neuroscientist Gary Small looks at what Alzheimer’s disease actually is and reviews the research on preventing its onset. Small challenges the widely held notion that Alzheimer’s is not preventable and discusses a variety of ways to keep the brain healthy–there’s more to it than a crossword puzzle a day!

Thursday, February 9 @ 7 pm

Cambridge Forum hosts a mini-conference on the impact of global engagement on America’s sense of security and well-being.  During the afternoon session, speakers will examine challenges posed by the European debt crisis, changing relationships in the Middle East, and the war on terror. The engagement options that “soft power” and “smart power” offer to American foreign policy in the 21^st century is the focus of Joesph Nye’s  evening session.

Monday, February 13 @ 2:00 pm – Keynote @ 7:00 pm

This Program is funded in Part by Mass Humanities. Co-sponsored by an Anonymous Friend of Cambridge Forum. 

Trita Parsi, president of the National Iranian American Council, assesses the high-stakes diplomatic sparring between Washington and Tehran.

Have the diplomatic efforts of the Obama administration toward Iran failed? Was the Bush administration’s emphasis on military intervention, refusal to negotiate, and pursuit of regime change a better approach? How can the United States best address the ongoing turmoil in Tehran?

Wednesday, March 14 @ 7pm

Co-sponsored by Don and Jeannette McInnes

A mini-conference on economic globalization explores the impact of globalization of labor, capital, and markets on American workers, investors, and consumers. Keynote Dani Rodrik discusses The Globalization Paradox.

Monday, April 16 @ 2pm   Keynote @ 7pm

This program is funded in part by Mass Humanities.  Co-sponsored by Mullane, Michel & McInnes, Counselors at Law

A propaganda photograph taken by the Nazi's of the original Brundibár cast in Terezin

Actors from the Underground Railway Theater read  a selection from  But the Giraffe! , the curtain-raiser Tony Kushner wrote for the Broadway revival of Brundibar.  A panel discussion follows about the relationship between stress and creativity. Does creativity help people cope with stress? How does stress stimulate or impede creativity?

Sunday, April 22 @7 pm

 This is a ticketed program. $5 (Members) and $10 (General Admission). Call 617-495-2727 to reserve your tickets or purchase here:

Ticket: Creativity & Stress

General $10.00 USD Friends of CF $5.00 USD

Ted Widmer, 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.

Wednesday, June 13 @ 7:00 pm

Co-sponsored by The Longfellow House-Washington’s Headquarters and Friends of Longfellow and by Ann Daily. In honor of Frances Ackerly.