Noon Forum

 This week's Noon Forum lineup is: 

WEEK OF FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Monday, February 20 – COLLEGE OF SAINT MARY LECTURE – Immaculée Ilibagiza, survivor of the Rwandan genocide, and author of “Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust”, “If Only We Had Listened” and “Led by Faith: Rising from the Ashes of the Rwandan Genocide” “Immaculée’s Story of Faith, Hope and Forgiveness” (CDs and transcripts NOT available)

Tuesday, February 21 – THE STATE WE’RE IN – “It’s Not Me – It’s You!”

Wednesday, February 22 – STATE OF THE RE: UNION – “Oakland – The Self-Made City”

Thursday, February 23 – COMMONWEALTH CLUB OF CALIFORNIA – Margaret Hamburg, the current Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration

Friday, February 24 – CITY ARTS AND LECTURES – Henry Alford

Previous weeks on Noon Forum: 

WEEK OF FEBRUARY 13, 2012

Monday, February 13 – OMAHA PRESS CLUB – Trev Alberts, University of Nebraska Athletic Director “UNO Hockey and The World Junior Championship” (CDs and transcripts NOT available)

Tuesday, February 14 – THE STATE WE’RE IN – “St. Valentine’s Day Special 2012”

Wednesday, February 15 – STATE OF THE RE: UNION – “Utica – City with a Warm Heart”

Thursday, February 16 – COMMONWEALTH CLUB OF CALIFORNIA – Robert Reich, Professor of Economics at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley, and author of “Aftershock: The Next Economy and America’s Future”

Friday, February 17 – CITY ARTS AND LECTURES – Ian Frazier 

WEEK OF FEBRUARY 6, 2012

Monday, February 6 – CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY LECTURE – Tsuneo Akaha, Professor of International Policy Studies and Director of the Center for East Asian Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies in Monterey, California “Old and New Conflicts: Japan and the Great Powers” (CDs and transcripts NOT available)

Tuesday, February 7 – THE STATE WE’RE IN – “The Fight of Your Life”

Wednesday, February 8 – STATE OF THE RE: UNION – “Birmingham – The Long Story Short”

Thursday, February 9 – COMMONWEALTH CLUB OF CALIFORNIA – Cable talk show host Dylan Ratigan, author of “Greedy Bastards”

Friday, February 10 – CITY ARTS AND LECTURE – Miranda July 

WEEK OF JANUARY 30, 2012

Monday, January 30 – CENTER FOR FAITH STUDIES LECTURE – Diana Butler Bass, author of “A People’s History of Christianity: The Other Side of the Story” and “Christianity after Religion: The End of Church and the Birth of a New Spiritual Awakening” “The Great Religious Recession or A Great Spiritual Awakening?” (CDs and transcripts NOT available)

Tuesday, January 31 – THE STATE WE’RE IN – “Freedom’s Road”

Wednesday, February 1 – STATE OF THE RE: UNION – “Las Vegas – Bright Lights, Big City, Small Town”

Thursday, February 2 – COMMONWEALTH CLUB OF CALIFORNIA – Michael Boskin, Professor of Economics and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and Chairman of the President’s Council of Economic Advisors under President George H. W. Bush; Christina Romer, Professor of Economics at the University of California at Berkeley, and former Chairwoman of Obama’s Council of Economic Advisors

Friday, February 3 – CITY ARTS AND LECTURES – Jeffrey Sachs  

WEEK OF JANUARY 23, 2012 

Monday, January 23 – UNO LECTURE: RICHARD DEAN WINCHELL HISTORY LECTURE – Peter Coclanis, Albert R. Newsome Distinguished History Professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill “Would Slavery Have Survived the Civil War?” (CDs and transcripts NOT available)

Tuesday, January 24 – THE STATE WE’RE IN – "Border Crossings” 

Wednesday, January 25 – INTELLIGENCE SQUARED – “Motion: The World Would Be Better Off Without Religion”

Thursday, January 26 – COMMONWEALTH CLUB OF CALIFORNIA – Paul Gilding, Professor with the Cambridge University Program for Sustainability Leadership; and Richard Heinberg, Senior Fellow with the Post Carbon Institute

Friday, January 27 – CITY ARTS AND LECTURES – Diane Keaton

Specific Monday Noon Forum programs can be found below.

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