Archive for August, 2007

September 20 — Ann Cummins brings her brooding stories to Butler

Saturday, August 18th, 2007

With a dark, offbeat style and a pointed ability to make the reader uncomfortable, Ann Cummins has acquired a devoted following of readers. Hear if unique style works in person. (more…)

September 20 — Retired spy discusses the decline and fall of the CIA

Saturday, August 18th, 2007

When spooks speak, it’s worth listening. Especially when their speeches are entitled “THE FAILURE OF INTELLIGENCE: THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE CIA” (more…)

September 22 — An opportunity to participate in a pathbreaking “citizens’ foreign policy summit”

Saturday, August 18th, 2007

Right now there may be a rare window of opportunity for citizens “outside the beltway” to shape US foreign policy. Citizens for Global Solutions thinks so, and is setting up a summit for experts and non-experts to discuss the country’s main challenges, and top priorities for the next President. (more…)

November 30 — Global Petro-Politics and Chinese & US Policies

Saturday, August 18th, 2007

The biggest single factor in 21st century international politics? It might not be radical Islam, or proliferation of WMDs, or continued crises in Africa. It just might be China’s unquenchable thirst for oil. South Korean Ministry of Commerce, Industry, and Energy official Keonki Roh and Sagamore Institute’s John Clark explore the implications of Chinese petro-politics for Northeast Asia, the US, and Indiana. (more…)

September 26 — Lee Hamilton shares his “Thoughts on American Foreign Policy”

Saturday, August 18th, 2007

The US seems in deperate need of a balanbced, responsible, grown-up foreign policy. No one articulates this sort of policy better than America’s greatest living former Congressman, Lee Hamilton. (more…)

September 27 — Development and Desire: A Talk by Witold Rybczynski

Saturday, August 18th, 2007

Witold Rybczynski may be the profound and influential thinker about the implications urban life and suburbia in American intellectual history. Who would be better for providing a context for the IMA’s challenging exhibition SuburbanNation? (more…)

September 27-30 — Head to Bloomington for the Lotus Music (and more!) Festival

Saturday, August 18th, 2007

One of the best world music festivals on the planet takes place in Indiana — The Lotus World Music and Arts Festival, in Bloomington. It’s worth making at least one drive south to soak up the spirit and song … and sample the foods. (more…)

September 29 — Rumi and the Circle of Divine Love

Thursday, August 16th, 2007

If the mystic poet Mawlana Jalaluddin Rumi were alive today, he’d be celebrating his 800th birthday, feted by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), which has declared 2007 the “Year of Rumi.” He’d probably spend part of his year at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, and so should you. (more…)

October 1: Poet Galway Kinnell, a certified (MacArthur) genius

Thursday, August 16th, 2007

Over a career in poetry that spans five decades and twelve collections, Galway Kinnell has received the Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Award, the Frost Medal, and a MacArthur Fellowship. In the nomination for the 2003 National Book Award, the judges called Kinnell “America’s preeminent visionary” whose work “greets each new age with rapture and abundance [and] sets him at the table with his mentors: Rilke, Whitman, Frost.” Wow. (more…)

October 2 — “The Making of the Fittest” … molecular biology and evolution

Thursday, August 16th, 2007

Butler University’s 2007-08 J. James Woods Lectures in the Sciences and Mathematics series begins Oct. 2 with “The Making of the Fittest,” a discussion of Darwin and molecular biology by Sean Carroll, professor of molecular biology and genetics at the University of Wisconsin. (more…)