Monday, July 1, 2013, 7:30 – 9:00pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $5.
The second event in this new ongoing series features nationally known labor and economic experts Ken Jacobs, Director of the U.C. Berkeley Labor Center, and Chris Benner, Chair of the Community Development Graduate Group at U.C. Davis, who discuss part-time and temporary employment as they work to identify innovative solutions that build stability and security for workers in today’s economy.
Saturday, July 13, 2013, 7:30 – 9:00pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $5.
Tyler, the co-host of The Talk, recurring guest star on Friends, creator of the podcast Girl on Guy, and author of Self-Inflicted Wounds, serves up a spectacular collection of her own epic humiliations—and the personal insights and authentic wisdom she gathered along the way.
Wednesday, June 19, 2013, 6:00 – 7:30pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $5.
Seattle attorney Wolfe, author of the e-book Urbanism Without Effort, argues that to create vibrant, sustainable cities, we must understand what happens naturally when people congregate in cities before applying government policies or initiatives.
Wednesday, May 15, 2013, 12:01am – 11:59pm
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Sunday, May 19, 2013, 5:30 – 7:00pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $5.
In the context of widespread resistance movements in India today, internationally known feminist scholar, human-rights activist, and author Ilina Sen analyzes the articulation of women’s voices within the movements and helps clarify the issues, debates, and relationships between these voices and other social movements.
Wednesday, June 26, 2013, 7:30 – 9:00pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $5.
Government policy becomes a matter of life and death during financial crises, says Sanjay Basu, so the co-author of The Body Economic offers “Recession medicine” that could help improve economies and protect public health at the same time.
Monday, June 10, 2013, 7:30 – 9:00pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $5.
Field biologist Christopher Wills, author of Green Equilibrium, explains the idea behind nature’s delicate balancing acts with vignettes of ecological processes in action in many different ecosystems, from coral reefs to the high Himalayas.
Thursday, July 11, 2013, 7:30 – 9:00pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $5.
Taking an “interacting systems” approach, Susan Schneider, author of The Science of Consequences, describes this science and its role in the larger realm of nature-and-nurture, and explains how something so deceptively simple can help make sense of so much.
Thursday, June 27, 2013, 7:30 – 9:00pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $5.
Telling the story of America’s coming-of-age through Benjamin Franklin’s American Philosophical Society, historian Jonathan Lyons, author of The Society for Useful Knowledge, illustrates how the movement for useful knowledge is key to understanding the flow of American society and culture, from colonial times to our digital present.
Reclaiming Prosperity: Manuel Pastor
Thursday, July 25, 2013, 7:30 – 9:00pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $5.
The third event in an ongoing series focused on rebuilding economic security and prosperity for working people features Manuel Pastor, professor of Sociology and American Studies & Ethnicity at the University of Southern California.