Cambridge Forum 2005-2015 

Cambridge Forum 2005-2015 

2005 

Fall 2005 

September 19, 2005  

  • COMEDY FROM THE CAMBRIDGE FORUM: My Jimmy Senses Are Tingling. Jimmy Tingle  

September 26, 2005 

  • TALKING BACK…To Presidents, Dictators, and Assorted Scoundrels. Andrea Mitchell 

October 7, 2005 

  • BAIT AND SWITCH: End of the White Collar American Dream? Barbara Ehrenreich 

October 19, 2005 

  • THE MEASURE OF GOD: Can We Reconcile Science and Religion?. Larry Witham 

October 24, 2005 

  • THE SHAME OF THE NATION. Jonathan Kozol and Gary Orfield 

 October 26, 2005 

  • THE RAW DEAL: Current Social Security Politics and Policies. Joe Conason 

November 11, 2005 

  • GILEAD. Marilynne Robinson 

November 16, 2005 

  • GREEN CITIES. Peter Smith, Larissa Brown, and Kristina Egan 

November 21, 2005 

  • ASSESSING THE HEALTH OF THE ENVIRONMENT. Robert Watson 

November 30, 2005 

  • THE PLAUSIBILITY OF LIFE. Marc W. Kirschner 

2006 

 

Winter/Spring 2006 

January 18, 2006 

  • THE NARNIAN: C.S. Lewis and the Culture Wars. Alan Jacobs 

 

February 2, 2006 

  • COVERING: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights. Kenji Yoshino 

 

 

February 9, 2006 

  • THE LEFT HAND OF GOD: Responding to the Religious Right. Rabbi Michael Lerner 

 

February 22, 2006 

  • EPIC JOURNEYS OF FREEDOM. Cassandra Pybus 

 

March 6, 2006 

  • AT CANAAN’S EDGE: America in the King Years, 1965-1968. Taylor Branch 

 

March 29, 2006 

  • CAN WE PRESERVE THE WILDERNESS? Jonathan Adams 

 

April 5, 2006 

  • PLAN B 2.0.  Lester Brown 

 

April 26, 2006 

  • DEMOCRACY AND THE PRESS: The Role of Journals of Opinion. Victor Navasky, Jack Beatty and Robert Kuttner 

 

June 12, 2006 

  • TWILIGHT IN THE DESERT: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock. Matthew Simmons 

 

 

Fall 2006 

missing 

 

 

2007 

Winter/Spring 2007 

January 31, 2007 

  • WALT DISNEY: The Triumph of the American Imagination. Neal Gabler 

 

February 7, 2007 

  • FOOLED AGAIN. Mark Crispin Miller 

 

February 14, 2007 

  • WHO ARE THE AMERICAN FASCISTS? Chris Hedges  

 

February 21, 2007 

  • UNDERMINING SCIENCE. Seth Shulman 

 

 

April 4, 2007 

  • THE OCCUPATION OF IRAQ: Winning the War, Losing the Peace. Ali A. Allawi 

 

April 11, 2007 

  • FAST FOOD/FAT NATION: America’s Growing Obesity Epidemic. Dr. Alan Meyers 

 

April 19, 2007 

  • WRITING FROM BEHIND THE WALLS. Panel of Authors 

 

April 25, 2007 

  • HABEAS CORPUS AND THE MILITARY COMMISSIONS ACT. Jerry Cohen 

 

May 2, 2007 

  • WITH SPEED AND VIOLENCE: Tipping Points and Climate Change. Fred Pearce 

 

May 9, 2007 

  • IMPEACHMENT: The Last Resort. Elizabeth de la Vega 

 

Fall 2007 

September 19, 2007 

  • LETTERS TO A YOUNG TEACHER. Jonathan Kozol 

 

September 26, 2007 

  • PUBLIC POET: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow at 200. Dana Gioia and John Barr  

 

October 3, 2007 

  • A LIBERAL SPEAKS. Paul Starr 

 

October 10, 2007 

  • THE WEST AND CHINA: Divergence and Convergence. Niall Ferguson 

 

October 17, 2007 

  • IN THE WEST BANK WITH THE PA. Jonathan Kozol 

 

 

October 24, 2007 

  • MARCO POLO. Larry Bergreen 

 

October 29, 2007 

  • THE ISRAEL LOBBY AND U.S. FOREIGN POLICY. John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt 

 

November 1, 2007 

  • AMERCICAN CREATION. Joseph Ellis 

 

November 5, 2007 

  • MUSICOPHILIA. Oliver Sacks 

 

November 14, 2007 

  • UNRIDDLING THE WORLD: Susan Cooper and Gregory Maguire in Conversation.  Roger Sutton, Susan Cooper, and Gregory Maguire 

 

November 15, 2007 

  • UNRIDDLING THE WORLD: The Role of Fantasy in Children’s Literature and Lives. Susan Cooper, Tony Barrand and George Emlen 

 

November 28, 2007 

  • LAST NIGHT’S DREAM. Rodger Kamenetz 

 

December 5, 2007 

  • THE MISSING CLASS. Katherine Newman 

 

 

2008 

Winter/Spring 2008 

January 30, 2008 

  • THE BULLDOZER AND THE BIG TENT: Recovering American Ideals. Todd Gitlin 

 

February 6, 2008 

  • ENDING SLAVERY. Kevin Bales  

 

February 22, 2008 

  • PLAN B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization. Lester Brown 

 

March 19, 2008 

  • GETTING A GRIP ON DEMOCRACY. Francis Moore Lappé 

 

 

March 26, 2008 

  • TIBET: Lens on Human Rights in China. Dr. Lobsang Sanjay 

 

April 10, 2008 

  • AMERICAN BLANDNESS: Risky Writing and the Forces That Silence It. A Panel of Authors 

 

April 15, 2008 

  • BAD MONEY. Kevin Phillips 

 

April 25, 2008 

  • BAD RELIGION: Greg Graffin, Cultural Humanist. Greg Graffin 

 

 

Fall 2008 

September 18, 2008 

  • TALES OF SCIENCE AND LOVE. Lynn Margulis 

 

October 1, 2008 

  • IS AMERICA POSSIBLE? A Journey of Hope. Vincent Harding 

 

October 8, 2008 

  • CRUNCH: Feeling Squeezed in Today’s Economy. Jared Bernstein 

 

October 15, 2008 

  • THE OPINION MAKERS: Lies My Pollster Told Me. David Moore 

 

October 20, 2008 

  • CONFESSIONS OF AN ECO-SINNER. Fred Pearce 

 

October 29, 2008 

  • THE THREE TRILLION DOLLAR WAR. Linda Bilmes 

 

November 5, 2008 

  • HUMAN RIGHTS IN CHINA: After the Olympics. Jianli Yang 

 

November 12, 2008 

  • NUDGE: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness. Cass Sunstein 

 

November 19, 2008 

  • OLD CULTURES IN NEW WORLDS. Tom Haines 

 

December 3, 2008 

  • LOOT: Stolen Treasures of the Ancient World. Sharon Waxman 

 

 

2009 

Winter/Spring 2009 

January 14, 2009 

  • ROGUE ECONOMICS. Loretta Napoleoni 

 

January 28, 2009 

  • SO DAMN MUCH MONEY. Robert G. Kaiser 

 

February 4, 2009 

  • INVISIBLE HISTORY: Afghanistan’s Untold Story. Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould 

 

February 9, 2009 

  • PAUL KRUGMAN IN CONVERSATION WITH DAVID GERGEN. Paul Krugman and David Gergen 

 

February 11, 2009 

  • THE LONELY AMERICAN. Jacqueline Olds and Richard Schwarz 

 

 

March 11, 2009 

  • WHEN DOCTORS ARE WRITERS: A Panel Discussion. Elissa Ely and Tess Gerritsen 

 

March 18, 2009 

  • SOWING CRISIS: The Cold War and the Middle East. Rashid Khalidi 

 

March 25, 2009 

  • THE THIRD CHAPTER. Sarah Lawrence Lighfoot 

 

April 16, 2009 

  • SUSAN STEWART: Poetry and Perception. Susan Stewart 

 

April 29, 2009 

  • THE FIRST TYCOON. T.J. Stiles 

 

May 6, 2009 

  • A GREEN FUTURE: Clean and Cheap. Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus  

 

Fall 2009 

September 23, 2009 

  • CAMBRIDGE FORUM BENEFIT: Laugh and Planet Washington. Planet Washington and Ken Rynne 

 

October 5, 2009 

  • AFGHANISTAN REVISITED: Andrew Bacevich in Conversation with Charles Sennott. Andrew Bacevich and Charles Sennott 

 

 

October 14, 2009 

  • HOLLOWING OUT THE MIDDLE: The Rural Brain Drain and What It Means For America. Patrick J. Carr 

 

October 21, 2009 

  • THE MUSE AND MOOD: Creativity and Language. Paul Muldoon and Elizabeth Swados 

 

November 4, 2009 

  • I.F. STONE: The Case for the Press in Democracy. D.D. Guttenplan 

 

November 14, 2009 

  • THE ROAD TO CPOENHAGEN: Mini-Conference on Global Climate Change. Ed Markey 

 

December 2, 2009 

  • STORYTELLING IN THE ELECTRONIC ERA. Odds Bodkin and Maria Tatar 

 

 

 

 

2010 

Winter/Spring 2010 

January 28, 2010 

  • GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE: Mini-Conference Creativity and Language. Panelists 

 

February 3, 2010 

  • HEALTH CARE: Tales From the Edge. Danielle Ofri 

 

February 10, 2010 

  • AMERICAN PASSAGE: Immigration Then and Now. Vincent Cannato and Paul Watanabe 

 

February 24, 2010 

  • THEATRE: Realizing Imaginary Space. Maeve Kincaid and Diane Paulus 

 

March 3, 2010 

  • EMPIRE OF ILLUSION. Chris Hedges 

 

March 17, 2010 

  • CRITICIZING CREATIVITY. Daniel Medelsohn and Charles McGrath 

 

April 7, 2010 

  • SCIENCE AND MUSIC. Marcia Bertusiak and Lisa Randall 

 

April 21, 2010 

  • FRAMING THE STORY: Cartooning and Graphic Novels. Sage Stossel and Hilary Price 

 

May 12, 2010 

  • COMEDY’S CREATIVE POWER TO PERSUADE. The Onion Representatives 

 

Fall 2010 

Missing 

 

2011 

Winter/Spring 2011 

Missing 

Fall 2011 

September 8, 2011 

  • ONE GREAT CRISIS: How the World Economy Fell Apart and Why the Economists Didn’t Have a Clue.  James K. Galbraith 

 

September 14, 2011 

  • THE TEA PARTY AND THE REMAKING OF REPUBLICAN CONSERVATISM. Theda Skocpol 

 

September 21, 2011 

  • BULLIES AND CYBER-BULLIES: Impacts on Victims, Victimizers, and Communities. Elizabeth Englander, Tracy Vaillancourt and Odds Bodkin 

 

October 4, 2011 

  • REIMAGINING EQUALITY: Stories of Gender, Race, and Finding Home. Anita Hill 

 

October 19, 2011 

  • AMERICA THE VULNERABLE: Digital Espionage, Crime, and Warfare. Joel Brenner 

 

October 27, 2011 

  • BOB DYLAN IN AMERICA. Sean Wilentz 

 

November 2, 2011 

  • COLUMBUS: THE FOUR VOYAGES. Laurence Bergreen 

 

November 9, 2011 

  • REINVENTING DISCOVERY. Michael Nielsen 

 

December 7, 2011 

  • SOMETHING WOCKED THIS WAY COMES. Gregory Maguire 

 

2012 

Winter/Spring 2012 

January 22, 2012 

  • WHERE DOES DEMOCRACY COME FROM?: Popular Uprising and Parliamentary Elections in Egypt.  Joel Beinin 

 

January 25, 2012 

  • BEING ALIVE AND HAVING TO DIE: Forrest Church.  Dan Cryer 

 

February 9, 2012 

  • THE ALZHEIMER’S PREVENTION PROGRAM. Gary Small 

 

February 13, 2012 

  • CHALLENGES OF GLOBALIZATION: GLOBAL ENGAGEMENT Mini Conference. Joseph Nye and Panelists 

 

March 14, 2012 

  • OBAMA AND IRAN: A SINGLE ROLL OF THE DICE. Trita Parsi 

 

April 16, 2012 

  • CHALLENGES OF GLOBALIZATION: ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION Mini Conference. Dani Rodrik and Panelists 

 

April 22, 2012 

  • CREATIVITY AND STRESS. Actors from Underground Railway Theater 

 

June 13, 2012 

  • WASHINGTON, LONGFELLOW AND THE JEWISH COMMUNITY AT NEWPORT: A Test Case for America.  Ted Widmer 

 

Fall 2012 

 

September 27, 2012 

  • THE SPIRIT OF COMPROMISE. Dennis Thompson 

 

November 7, 2012 

  • WHAT’S THE ECONOMY FOR, ANYWAY? John de Graaf 

 

November 7, 2012 

  • CENSORING CHILDREN. Noam Chomsky and Barbara Lubin 

 

November 12, 2012 

  • THE SECOND NUCLEAR AGE. Paul Bracken 

 

2013 

Winter/Spring 2013 

January 16, 2013 

  • THE WORLD UNTIL YESTERDAY. Jared Diamond 

 

February 5, 2013 

  • LOUIS AGASSIZ: Creator of American Science. Christopher Irmscher 

 

February 11, 2013 

  • THE BANJO PROJECT. Marc Fields and Tony Trischka 

 

February 27, 2013 

  • RESILIENCE: From PTSD to Hurricane Sandy. Steven Southwick and Dennis Charney 

 

 

 

March 13, 2013 

  • BROKERS OF DECEIT. Rashid Khalidi 

 

April 3, 2013 

  • THE RICHER SEX. Liza Mundy 

 

April 17, 2013 

  • SHADOW LIVES: The Forgotten Women of the War on Terror. Victoria Brittain 

 

Fall 2013 

Missing 

2014 

Winter/Spring 2014 

Missing 

 

Fall 2014 

 

September 17, 2014 

  • UNCERTAIN JUSTICE: The Supreme Court and the Constitution. Laurence Tribe 

 

October 1, 2014 

  • CARBON TAX TO COMBAT CLIMATE CHANGE. Mike Barrett, Anne Kelly, and Dr. Gary Rucinski 

 

October 8, 2014 

  • IMMIGRANT STRUGGLES, IMMIGRANT GIFTS. Deborah Dash Moore, William G. Ross, Alex Nowrasteh, and Diane Portnoy 

 

October 16, 2014 

  • THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING. Naomi Klein 

 

November 12, 2014 

  • BACK TO THE PAST: Putin’s Russia. Masha Gessen 

 

November 19, 2014 

  • MUSIC BRINGS THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT TO HARVARD SQUARE. Jack Landron 

 

December 10, 2014 

  • CHRIST ACTUALLY: Jesus in the 21st Century. James Carroll 

 

2015 

Winter/Spring 2015 

 

January 21, 2015 

  • DUEL OVER DINNER: President Washington’s Clash with Governor John Hancock Over State Sovereignty. Timothy Breen 

 

January 28, 2015 

  • THE HEALTH OF DEMOCRACY: The Role of the Media. Alex Jones and Charles Sennott 

 

January 30, 2015 

  • PETE SEEGER SING OUT! Tribute. Scott Alarik, The Lonely Heartstring Band, Ellen Kushner, Alastair Moock, Robbie O’Connell, and Fred Small 

 

February 11, 2015 

  • THE HEALTH OF DEMOCRACY: Social Immobility and Civic Participation. Randi Albelda and Joey Mokos 

 

March 8, 2015 

  • THE HEALTH OF DEMOCRACY: Economic Inequality. Colin Gordon and Michael Widmer  

 

April 8, 2015 

  • THE HEALTH OF DEMOCRACY: Voter Suppression and Disenfranchisement.  Erin O’Brien and Phillip Martin 

 

Fall 2015 

 

October 7, 2015 

  • DISPATCHES FROM THE FRONT LINES OF CLIMATE JUSTICE.  Wen Stephenson 

 

October 17, 2015 

  • RISE AGAIN Sing Along.  Peter Blood and Annie Patterson 

 

November 18, 2015 

  • ISIS: Inside the Mind of a Terrorist.  Abdel Bari Atwan 

 

 

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