Leader Lunch Discussions
Thursdays, 12:00 Noon
Elliott Library, Room 507
Bring your lunch and join Leader Dr. Anne Klaeysen. Copies of relevant articles are available in the Leaders’ office.
Subjects include:
- Oct. 1 – Human Population Growth: recent United Nations studies.
- Oct. 8 – an excerpt from The World Without Us by Alan Wesiman.
- Oct. 15 – Gender Genocide by Christine Toomey.
- Oct. 22 – Outsmarted: High Finance vs. Human Nature by John Lanchester.
- Oct. 29 – Why Is There Peace? by Steven Pinker.
- Nov. 5 – "Buddha's Savage Peace" by Robert D. Kaplan in The Atlantic, September 2009.
- Nov. 12 – “Will money solve Africa’s development problems?” – A “Big Question” from the John Templeton Foundation.
- Nov. 19 – “Europe’s Shifting Immigration Dynamic” by Esther Ben-David in The Middle East Quarterly, Spring 2009.
- Nov. 26 – Thanksgiving
- Dec. 3 – “The Revenge of Geography” by Robert D. Kaplan, Foreign Policy, May/June 2009.
- Dec. 10 – “Thunder from Tibet” by Robert Barnett, The New York Review of Books, 5/29/08.
- Dec. 17 – “The New Israeli Lobby” by James Traub, The New York Times, 9/13/09.
- Dec. 24 – Christmas Eve.
- Dec. 31 – New Year’s Eve.
- Jan. 7 – Juvenile Justice.
- Jan. 14 – Immigration Ills.
- Jan. 21 – Medical Marijuana.
- Jan. 28 – Health Care Havoc.
- Feb. 4 – Human Brains: How Do We Get Inside? – “Building a Search Engine of the Brain, Slice by Slice,” by Benedict Carey, and “Taking Mental Snapshots to Plumb Our Inner Selves,” by Jascha Hoffman, The New York Times (12/22/09).
- Feb. 11 – “The Genesis 2.0 Project,” by Kurt Anderson, Vanity Fair, 1/10.
- Feb. 18 – “Looking for Life in the Multiverse,” by Alejandro Jenkins and Gilad Perez, Scientific American, 1/10.
- Feb. 25 – “Moral in Tooth and Claw,” by Jessica Pierce and Marc Bekoff, The Chronicle of Higher Education, 10/18/09.
- Mar. 4 – Haiti: Hell on Earth - an update.
- Mar. 11 – "In Defense of Foxhole Atheists" by Christopher Hitchens, Vanity Fair, 12/15/09.
- Mar. 18 – "Cracks in the Jihad" by Thomas Rid in The Wilson Quarterly, January 2010.
- Mar. 25 – "How America Can Rise Again" by James Fallows, The Atlantic, February 2010.
- Apr. 1 – Excerpts from Jill Bolte Taylor’s book, My Stroke of Insight.
- Apr. 8 – “The Science of Success” by David Dobbs, The Atlantic, 12/09.
- Apr. 15 – “A Life of Its Own” by Michael Specter, The New Yorker, 9/28/09.
- Apr. 22 – “Depression’s Upside” by Jonah Lehrer, NY Times Magazine, 2/28/10.
- Apr. 29 – Autism, Temple Grandin.
Folders with relevant articles are available from Sheleigah Grube in the Leaders’ Office. Please come and join the discussion.
