Monthly Archives: January 2013

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Brokers of Deceit

brokers of deceitRashid Khalidi, one of the  foremost historians 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 peace process?  What needs to  change to make peace in the Middle East  a reality?

Co-sponsored by Don and Jeannette McInnes and the Middle East Education Group at First Parish in Cambridge

Wednesday, March 13 @8pm (NOTE the later start time.)

3 Church Street (Harvard Square)

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The Richer Sex

The Richer Sex

In her book The Richer Sex:  How the New Majority of Female Breadwinners Is Transforming Sex, Love and Family, 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?

Wednesday, April 3 @ 7pm     

First Parish in Cambridge, corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Church Street

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Charles Sumner at 200: The Tradition of Civil Rights in America

Charles Sumner at 200: The Tradition of Civil Rights in America

Charles Sumner

The city of Cambridge rededicates Charles Sumner’s statue in Harvard Yard to mark the  200th anniversary of his birth in 1811.  Immediately following, Beverly Morgan-Welch of the Museum of African American History and Daniel Coquillette of Harvard Law School discuss Sumner’s significance in America’s ongoing struggles for civil rights.

Recorded for broadcast, May, 2011

Cosponsored by Jane Sturtevant, Longfellow National Historic Site, Boston African American National Historic Site, Museum of African American History, Friends of the Longfellow House, and First Parish in Cambridge.

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COMMON AS AIR: Revolution, Art and Ownership


MacArthur Fellow Lewis Hyde defends the concept of the cultural commons.  How has our cultural heritage, the store of ideas and art we have inherited from the past, come to be seen as intellectual property. Does the emergence of Wikileaks endanger the notion of freedom of the press?  Is “net neutrality” possible in the ownership society?

Recorded 1/26/2011




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Louis Agassiz: Creator of American Science

Irmscher-AgassizBiographer Christoph Irmscher examines the life of this controversial figure in its Victorian cultural context.  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?

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.

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First Parish in Cambridge, Massachusetts Avenue at Church Street (Harvard Square)