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THEME 2023

 

 


 


 

 

 

 

Conference Room in Concord House

The life of man is a self-evolving circle, which, from a ring imperceptibly small, rushes on all sides outwards to new and larger circles, and that without end.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Program for 2023
 
JANUARY 14 THIS FORUM HAS BEEN POSTPONED TO FEBRUARY 18TH

JANUARY 21 FORUM: SYMBOLISM OF THE PERSIAN CARPET
FEBRUARY 4 FORUM: KNOWLEDGE AND KNOWING IN NEO-CONFUCIANISM
FEBRUARY 18 FORUM: INTERNATIONAL POLITICS, TRANSNATIONALISM, GLOBAL ECONOMICS, ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS:
ETHICAL AND SUSTAINABLE CHOICES

MARCH 4

FORUM: THE CHARACTER AND TEACHINGS OF THE UKRAINIAN PHILOSOPHER GRYHORIY SKOVORODA
APRIL 8 FORUM: HEALING GROUNDS: THE DEEP ROOTS OF REGENERATIVE FARMING
APRIL 24 FORUM: WHAT ABOUT WATER?
MAY 20 FORUM: DESIGN AS DISCOVERY: JONY IVE AND FRANK GEHRY
JUNE 10 FILM: LINCOLN
JUlY 1 FOUNDERS' DAY PRESENTATION / ENACTMENT: ABRAHAM LINCOLN ON THE PROMISE OF AMERICA
JULY 8 IWC JULY FILM SERIES: PRAJNA EARTH (2006)
JULY 1 IWC JULY FILM SERIES: LIVING (2002)
JULY 22 IWC JULY FILM SERIES: GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK
AUGUST 19 FILM: SPIRITED AWAY
SEPETEMBER 16 FORUM: POST-DEMOCRACY:TOWARDS A MORE SELF-GOVERNING SOCIETY
OCTOBER 7 FILM: KASTURBA GANDHI: ACCIDENTAL ACTIVIST
OCTOBER 21 FORUM: MYSTICISM, IMAGINATION AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY:
THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL
NOVEMBER 4 FORUM: THE ANCIENT MAYA AND THEIR FOREST: A CO-CREATIVE LANDSCAPE
NOVEMBER 18 LIVE PERFORMANCE: DREW TRETICK: A CLASSICAL VIOLINIST'S ODYSSEY
DECEMBER 16 ANNUAL HOLIDAY MEMBERS' RECEPTION