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Challenges of Globalization: Global Engagement
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. A new grad strategy for American global engagement in the 21st century is the focus of Stephen van Evera’s evening keynote.
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. 
Coming Soon in Harvard Square
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:
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.
THE ECOLOGICAL IMAGINATION: DAVID ABRAM
In this Cambridge Forum Classic, best-selling writer David Abram, author of The Spell of the Sensuous, tells a story that reveals the subtle dependence of human cognition on the natural environment.
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What lessons can we learn from our relationship with the natural world?
Author J.K. Rowling in procession at Harvard University 2008 commencement ceremonies.
This Summer, Cambridge Forum will re-broadcast IMAGINATION AND FAILURE (Recorded in 2008)
Author J.K. Rowling discusses her own life story, as a lesson for young people looking for future success. She argues that the world in which they live suffers from a failure of imagination, and she urges them to cultivate genuine imagination to solve problems, rather than falling into the trap of magical thinking.
Henry 
“Pistol” Bow Mason pitched in the Negro Leagues for the great Kansas City Monarchs and also in the Majors with the Phillies. Here he shares his experiences of playing in the Negro League, playing alongside such greats as Satchel Page, Willy Mays, and Jackie Robinson.
In 1951, after completing high school, Mason left Marshall, Missouri, and headed to Kansas City, where he was offered a tryout with the Kansas City Monarchs. Club manager Buck O’Neil was so impressed with Mason that he signed him with the team. On opening day in 1952, Mason hurled 16 amazing innings to defeat the Philadelphia Stars 3-2.
Remembering The Negro Leagues (recorded in 2000)
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Updates
- Our recent forum on WORLD ON THE EDGE: Preventing Environmental and Economic Collapse featuring Lester Brown, president of the Earth Policy Institute is now available on audio CD. #
- A new webcast of Paul Loeb's talk on The Soul Of A Citizen is now available on the Forum Network. Pass it along: http://forum-network.org/lecture/renewing-democracy-soul-citizen #
- Watch a recent Cambridge Forum! Comedy's Creative Power to Persuade featuring The Onion editors Joe Garden and John Krewson http://forum-network.org/lecture/onion-comedy%E2%80%99s-creative-power-persuade #
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