May 2008
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Friday |
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30 |
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x
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12:30
COSPONSORED BY SIERRA CLUB
Bob Schildgen
Hey Mr. Green
12:30
MECHANICS’ INSTITUTE
Willie Brown
Basic Brown: My Life and Times
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Noon
COMMONWEALTH CLUB
Philip Bobbitt
Terror and Consent
Friday, May 2nd to Sunday, May 4th
WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL/ASILOMAR CONFERENCE
From London to Moscow: New Faces, Old Alliances
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| 5 |
6 |
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8 |
9 |
6:30
COMMONWEALTH CLUB/INFORUM
Let’s Talk about Sex Panel
Nina Hartley, Brian Alexander, Violet Blue, and Karen Queen
Nina Hartley’s Guide to Total Sex and America Unzipped
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12:30
William Bernstein
A Splendid Exchange
12:30
MECHANICS’ INSTITUTE
Clotilde Dusoulier
Clotilde’s Edible Adventures in Paris
6:00 pm
COMMONWEALTH CLUB
Eleanor Coppola
Notes on a Life
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12:30
Roger Lowenstein
While America Aged
6:00 pm
COMMONWEALTH CLUB
Larry Diamond
The Spirit of Democracy
6:00 pm
COMMONWEALTH CLUB
Willie Brown
Basic Brown
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12:30
Alexandra Fuller
The Legend of Colton H. Bryant
5:30 pm
ANCHOR BREWERY SPECIAL EVENT
Charles Bamforth
Grape vs. Grain
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13 |
14 |
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12:30
COSPONSORED BY ASIA SOCIETY
Mark Leonard
What Does China Think?
Noon
COMMONWEALTH CLUB
Sue Halpern
Can’t Remember What I Forgot
6:00 pm
WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL
Ashraf Ghani and Clare Lockhart
Fixing Failed States
6:00 pm
COMMONWEALTH CLUB
Fred Kaplan
Daydream Believers
8:00 pm
JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER
Ben Katchor and Josh Kornbluth
Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer and Red Diaper Baby
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12:30
Raj Patel
Stuffed and Starved
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6:00 pm
MECHANICS’ INSTITUTE
Susan Griffin
Wrestling with the Angel of Democracy
6:00 pm
SPECIAL EVENT/CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY
Keith McFarland
The Breakthrough Company
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1:30 pm
OSHER LIFELONG LEARNING INSTITUTE
Easing In & Out of Retirement Workshop
George Schofield
After 50 It’s Up to Us
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12:30
COSPONSORED BY MARINES’ MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION
Jim Sheeler
Final Salute
Noon
COMMONWEALTH CLUB
Mildred Armstrong Kalish
Little Heathens
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20 |
21 |
22 |
23 |
12:30
MYSTERY CIRCLE
Sheldon Siegel
Judgment Day
Noon
COMMONWEALTH CLUB
Arianna Huffington
Right is Wrong: How the Lunatic Fringe Hijacked America, Shredded the Constitution and Made Us All Less Safe
6:00 pm
COMMONWEALTH CLUB
Mary Tillman
Boots on the Ground by Dusk
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12:30
Leonard Mlodinow
The Drunkard’s Walk
6:00 pm
WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL
Laura Donohue
The Cost of Counterterrorism
6:30 pm
COMMONWEALTH CLUB
Lincoln Hall
Dead Lucky
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12:30
Michael Chabon
The Yiddish Policemen’s Union
Noon
WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL
Lawrence Freedman
A Choice of Enemies
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12:30
Susan Urquhart-Brown
The Accidental Entrepreneur
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6:00 pm
WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL
Wilford Welch, Priya Haji, and David Hopkins
Tactics of Hope
6:00 pm
COMMONWEALTH CLUB
Fareed Zakaria
The Post American World and the Future of Freedom
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6:00 pm
COMMONWEALTH CLUB
Benjamin Powell
Making Poor Nations Rich
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12:30
MYSTERY CIRCLE
Steve Martini
Shadow of Power
Noon
COMMONWEALTH CLUB
Harry Reid
The Good Fight
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