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Start: 7:00 pm
Presented by FOUNDATION FOR THE FUTURE. The second speaker in Foundation For the Future's Walter P. Kistler Lecture Series, following Dr. Donald C. Johanson in late September, is acclaimed archaeological author Brian Fagan. Professor emeritus of anthropology from the University of California at Santa Barbara, he is the author of numerous major works. His lecture this evening is "Water: The Elixir of Humanity." Among his most recent books are The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations (Bloomsbury USA) and a just published volume Professor Fagan edited, The Complete Ice Age: How Climate Change Shaped the World (Thames & Hudson). "This is not only World History at its best, sweeping across all of humankind with a coherent vision, but also a feat of imagination and massive research. If Fagan has given the medieval period throughout the globe a new dimension, he has at the same time issued an irrefutable warning about climate change that is deeply troubling." - Theodore Rabb on The Great Warming. Free admission. Town Hall Seattle is at 1119 Eighth Avenue (at Seneca). For more information, please see www.futurefoundation.org.
Start: 7:00 pm
Co-presented with the ARAB CENTER OF WASHINGTON. Jordanian journalist and feminist human rights activist Rana Husseini, whose courageous work documenting violence against women (including brutal crimes in the name of family honor) has earned accolades around the world, including a medal from MD King Abdullah II. She has also served as regional coordinator for the United Nations' Development Fund for Women's campaign to eliminate violence against women in five Arab countries. This evening she talks about grassroots and national campaigns to end this violence, and the women who continue to be killed by it, subjects addressed with urgency in her book, Murder in the Name of Honor: The True Story of One Woman's Heroic Fight Against an Unbelievable Crime (One World). "Disturbing, informative and readable ... Remarkable insight into a horrifying crime and a call to action for everyone who cares about human rights." - Kerry Kennedy.
Start: 7:30 pm
Co-presented with the TOWN HALL CENTER FOR CIVIC LIFE. A senior fellow at Demos—a non-partisan, national think tank—Rich Benjamin between 2007 and 2009 undertook a journey of over 26,000 miles—all within the U.S. His particular intention was to look at enclaves where white people were settled in or moving to, determined to be among their 'own kind.' In Searching for Whitopia: An Improbable Journey to the Heart of White America (Hyperion), he went to Idaho, Georgia, Utah, and elsewhere—this as the U.S. was moving to elect Barack Obama as president. "A journey through the whitest communities of America that is bound to be thought-provoking, especially when the voyager is articulate and observant as Rich Benjamin. A very entertaining read with a message worth pondering." - Robert D. Putnam. "Benjamin goes where no (sane) black man has gone before—into the palest enclaves, like Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, to those places where white Americans have fled to escape the challenges of diversity." - Barbara Ehrenreich. $5 tickets are available at the door starting at 6:30 p.m. or via www.brownpapertickets (and 1-800-838-3006). Preferred seating for Town Hall members. Town Hall Seattle is located at 1119 Eighth Avenue (at Seneca). For more information, please call Elliott Bay at (206) 624-6600, Town Hall Seattle at (206) 652-4255, or see www.townhallseattle.org.
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