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School of Athens Port Townsend Extension
Passionate Minds
Fall/Winter Lecture Series
 The School of Athens, Port Townsend Extension, is informally-organized by a group of Port Townsend citizens to provide our own gymnasia where we may gather to be better informed by interesting speakers on a wide variety of subjects.
Port Townsend Extension resumes October 14. Individual
and series tickets available at Quimper Sound - 230 Taylor St. - beginning
September 1. Cash and checks only.
Lectures take place at the Rose Theatre
at 1:00 PM. Doors open at 12:30 PM, and
there is no late seating.
The School of Athens, Port Townsend Extension,
is organized as the classical Greek
gymnasia, or gathering places, to hear
speakers on a wide variety of ideas,
as represented by Raphael in his Vatican fresco, The School of Athens.
The painting depicts the ancient philosophers including Aristotle,
Plato, Socrates, and Zeno. For
more information visit http://www.athens-pt.org
Sponsors for the 2007-2008 lecture series include: OlympusNet,
Homer Smith Insurance, Island Blueback, William James Bookseller, Port
Townsend Leader and the Rose Theatre.
October 14, 2007
Deborah Kaufman and Alan Snitow
Thirst: Fighting Corporate
Theft of Our Water
For more than a decade, this Bay Area
filmmaking and journalistic duo have been exploring issues as diverse
as America's love affair with technology, relationships between Blacks
and Jews, and most recently a multifaceted look at water privatization
in Bolivia, India, Japan and the U.S.
November 11, 2007
David Mabberley
The Story of the Apple
Dr. Mabberley is the director of University
of Washington Botanic Gardens and a professor of botany. With a Ph.D.
from Cambridge he has over 200 publications to his name and in 2006
was awarded the Linnean Gold Medal for Botany.
January 13, 2008
Paul Dietrich
Cosmos, Eros, Abyss: Forms of Western Mysticism
Dr. Dietrich is director of Religious Studies
at the University of Montana in Missoula. He holds his M.A. and Ph.D.
from the University of Chicago, and teaches the history of western
religious thought, mysticism, and renaissance intellectual history.
February 10, 2008
Hideo Mabuchi
Quantum Optics and Atomic Physics
An associate professor of physics at
the California Institute of Technology,
Dr. Mabuchi was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 2000 and
was also one of Discover Magazine's "Twenty
Scientists to Watch in the Next Twenty
Years."
March 9, 2008
David Montgomery
Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations
Professor Montgomery teaches in the Department
of Earth and Space Sciences at the University of Washington and is
director of UW's Quaternary Research Center. He is a Fellow of the
American Geophysical Union and author of "Dirt: The Erosion of
Civilizations" and "King of Fish: The Thousand-Year Run of
Salmon."
April 13, 2008
Ellen Dissanayake
The Deep Structure of the Arts
An affiliate Professor in the School
of Music at the University of Washington, Ms. Dissanayake is an independent
scholar, writer, and lecturer whose original "adaptationist" or
Darwinian approach considers the arts to be inherent features of human
nature. She has lived and worked in Sri Lanka, Nigeria, India, Madagascar,
and Papua New Guinea, and is the author of three books: "What
is Art For?," "Homo Aestheticus: Where Art Comes >From
and Why," and "Art & Intimacy: How the Arts Began."
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