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School of Athens Port Townsend Extension
Passionate Minds
Fall/Winter Lecture Series

School of AthensThe 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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