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
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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
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2011
Winter/Spring 2011
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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
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2014
Winter/Spring 2014
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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