The Joy of Personal Writing
Monday, March 22
6:30 – 8:30 PM
Room 508
Leader Lunch Discussion
Thursday, March 25
12:00 PM
Elliott Library, Room 507
Bring your lunch and join Dr. Anne Klaeysen.
Mar. 25 – “How America Can Rise Again,” by James Fallows, The Atlantic, March 2010. For more…
The Joy of Personal Writing
Thursday, March 25
7:00 - 9:00 PM
Room 508
Spring Hike
Saturday, March 27
8:30 AM (Meet at the information booth in Grand Central Station)
Our traditional five-hour hike to Mt. Taurus in Cold Spring, NY will take you to a summit over the Hudson River. The ride on the Metro North Hudson line takes an hour and ten minutes and offers spectacular views of the river.
A one-way ticket is $11.25; please buy your own tickets. We will meet at the information booth in Grand Central Station at 8:30 am. If you arrive later, you can find us on the train that leaves at 8:47 am. Bring a water bottle, a light lunch and/or snack for the trail, and money for a coffee stop at a local café. Wear hiking or sturdy walking shoes, and dress in layers. Rain cancels.
Social Networks and Personality: What Relationships Tell Us About Ourselves
Saturday, March 27
4:00 PM
Ceremonial Hall
FREE
For any branch science, there are numerous methods by which one may gather and look at data; psychology is no different. Dr. Allan Clifton, clinical psychologist and Assistant Professor at Vassar College, proposes a fresh perspective on clinical psychology and how we think about personalities. Join us as Dr. Clifton provides an overview and critique of current psychological methodologies, and shares with us what he believes social relationships can tell us about ourselves. Following his lecture, Dr. Clifton will be interviewed by the Executive Director of the Center for Inquiry in New York City, Michael De Dora Jr.
This event is co-sponsored by New York Society for Ethical Culture and CFI NYC.
Leader Lunch Discussion
Thursday, April 1
12:00 PM
Elliott Library, Room 507
Bring your lunch and join Dr. Anne Klaeysen.
Apr. 1 – Excerpts from Jill Bolte Taylor’s book, My Stroke of Insight. For more…
Drumming Circle
Thursday, April 1
6:30 - 8:00 PM
Adler Study, Room 514
Ethics in Film - "Sci Fi" Seconds
Friday, April 2
7:00 PM (doors open 6:30)
Ceremonial Hall
If your life was in the dumps, would you go for a second chance? A whole new life? A better face and body, a different location and all new friends? And what if that didn’t work out for you? Would you like a third?
Note: This 1966 thriller is not for the faint-of-heart, but is for those ready to consider the ethical choices of our protagonist, played, in the main, by Rock Hudson. Chris Everett will lead the discussion afterwards.
Socrates Café
Tuesday, April 6
6:00 - 8:00 PM
Room 508
Join Ken Gans for a stimulating philosophical discussion on humanism and basic philosophical questions. If you are interested, contact Ken Gans at 212-787-7000 ext. 1039. No charge and no reservations needed.
Craft Circle
Tuesday, April 6
6:30 PM
(Off site)
International Black Film Festival
Wednesday, April 7
7:00 PM
Ceremonial Hall, 4th floor
The Last Supper - a film by Tomas Gutierrez Alea. For more…
Great Books
Wednesday, April 7
7:30 - 9:00 PM
Elliott Library, Room 507
David Hume, Of Justice and Injustice
Sophocles, Antigone (complete work)
Charles Darwin, The Moral Sense of Man and the Lower Animals
Leader Lunch Discussion
Thursday, April 8
12:00 PM
Elliott Library, Room 507
Bring your lunch and join Dr. Anne Klaeysen.
Apr. 8 – “The Science of Success,” by David Dobbs, The Atlantic, 12/09. For more…
Drumming Circle
Thursday, April 8
6:30 - 8:00 PM
Adler Study, Room 514
A World Without Nuclear Weapons
Thursday, April 8
7:00 PM (Doors open at 6:30 pm)
Auditorium
Free
A World Without Nuclear Weapons Obama’s Vision, Our Mission
with
- Jonathan Schell, bestselling author of Fate of the Earth and The Unconquerable World;
- Kennette Benedict, Publisher of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists.
Other panelists to be announced. Moderated by Phil Donahue.
Join leading experts in a wide-ranging and incisive conversation on the ongoing international struggle for the containment and eventual reduction of the nuclear threat, and how Obama can be pushed to fulfill his promise of a world with out nuclear weapons. This important public conversation is occurring in the run-up to the UN’s regular review of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty that will take place on May 1, 2010.
Audience questions will be taken. This event is part of The Doris Shaffer Memorial Lecture Series.
Cosponsored by The New Society for Ethical Culture, Public Concern Foundation, Democrats.com , Haymarket Books, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, NY and Peace Action Education Fund.
For more information please go to www.nationinstitute.org.
