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Falmouth Forum Presentations Since 1989
Current Falmouth Forum Presentations
2007-2008
October 12, 2007
"Among the Stars: The Life of Maria Mitchell, Astronomer, Educator, Women's Rights Activist" - Margaret Booker, Freelance writer and museum professional
December 7, 2007
"Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder" - David Weinberger, Author, consultant and Fellow at the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet & Society
January 4, 2008
"Susan B. Anthony, the Invincible!" - Sally Matson, Actor/educator brings the life of the famous women’s suffrage activist to the stage
January 25, 2008
Herman Epstein Endowed Lecture - "Making Fiction from Fact: The Writing of People of the Book" - Geraldine Brooks, Winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel March
February 8, 2008
"An Overview of the First Year & Looking Ahead" - Ian Bowles, Secretary, Executive Office of Energy & Environmental Affairs, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
March 7, 2008
"The Media and the Presidential Campaign" - Lance Morrow, Award-winning essayist for TIME magazine and author of eight books
2006-2007
October 13, 2006
"Hurricane Katrina: Wake-up Call and Lessons for Cape Cod" - Arthur Adelberg, senior counsel for special investigation, Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
October 17, 2006
" 'This I Believe' and the Power of Shared Story" - Jay Allison, award-winning independent radio producer, founder of WCAI and WNAN public radios on the Cape and Vineyard
December 1, 2006
"Health Information: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" - Donald Lindberg, M.D., Director, National Library of Medicine
January 19, 2007
"Arab Women’s Dilemmas with Democratic Reform" - Andrea Rugh, Adjunct Scholar with the Middle East Institute in Washington, D.C.
February 9, 2007
"The Pathos of Bubonic Plague in Italy (1500-1800) Depicted Through Art" - James Welu, Director, Worcester Art Museum and Richard Glew, M.D., Professor of Medicine, Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, UMass Medical School
March 15, 2007
"From Ragtime to Riches: the Life of George Gershwin" - Robert Wyatt, Smithsonian lecturer and pianist - NOTE: Thursday Lecture
2005-2006
November 4, 2005
"The US and The UN: Can This Marriage Be Saved?" - Gillian Sorensen, Senior Adviser, United Nations Foundation
December 2, 2005
"The Meaning of Birds in Art" - Peter Stettenheim, Author, Ornithologist, Zoologist and Editor
January 13, 2006
"The Historical Evolution of Jazz Music" - Charles Cassara, Professor, Berklee College of Music
March 3, 2006
"Coastal Lands Through Time: Historical Insights to the Conservation of Natural and Cultural Landscapes" - David Foster, author, ecologist and Director of the Harvard Forest
March 17, 2006
"Four Ways to Tell the Story of the Buddha" - David Eckel, Associate Professor of Religion, Boston University
April 7, 2006
"Corruption in Our Governments: What Can and Should We Do?" - Prof. Clyde McKee, Trinity College, Hartford, CT
2004-2005
October 29, 2004
"Making Democracy: What We Can Learn from Mexico" - Julia Preston Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The New York Times and co-author, with Samuel Dillon, of OPENING MEXICO: The Making of a Democracy
January 7, 2005
"U.S.-Arab Relations and the al Jazeera Factor" - William Rugh, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates and Yemen
January 28, 2005
"Shipwrecks and Seamonsters - An Underwater Photojournalist's World" - Brian Skerry, contributing photographer for National Geographic Magazine specializing in the marine environment
February 11, 2005
"Khrushchev: The Man and His Era" - William Taubman, 2004 Pulitzer Prize winner for a distinguished biography or autobiography by an American author
March 4, 2005
"America in a Dangerous World" - H.D.S. Greenway, Columnist, Boston Globe
March 25, 2005
"Visiting the Family: Rare Primates of the World" - Connie Rogers, author and book editor; frequently writes about travel and primates for The New York Times
2003-2004
October 10, 2003
"Emma's War: A True Story of Love and Death" - Deborah Scroggins, Award-winning journalist and author
December 5, 2003
"Challenges for the United States in the Middle East" - Robert Pelletreau, Asst. Sec. of State for Near Eastern Affairs (1994-1997)
January 16, 2004
"The Unknown History of Bohemia" - Mary Gluck, Brown Univeristy
The talk will explore the cultural origins of the well-known images of Bohemia as a distinct social and cultural space and will ask why modern artists have tended to see themselves as antagonists of bourgeois life and conventions.
February 6, 2004
"The Heights of Absurdity, or the Quixotic Life of an Artist in Troubled Times" - Pat Oleszko, Performance Artist. Guggenheim Fellow, Rome Prize Fellow, American Academy.
April 16, 2004
"Covering All My Basses: How I became a Professional Musician" - Benjamin Levy, Double-Bassist, Boston Symphony Orchestra
April 30, 2004
"When Smoke Ran Like Water" - Devra Lee Davis, Author Devra Lee Davis will discuss her book (a National Book Award nominee, 2003), When Smoke Ran Like Water: Tales of Environmental Deception and the Battle Against Pollution.
2002-2003
September 20, 2002
“Improvising Mozart”
Robert Levin, Dwight P. Robinson, Jr. Professor of Humanities, Harvard University
November 8, 2002
“Presidential Leadership in a Time of Crisis”
Theodore C. Sorensen, Former Special Counsel and Advisor to President John F. Kennedy
November 22, 2002
“The Muslim World Beyond Arabia”
Ambassador Walter C. Carrington, Former U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria, and the Republic of Senegal
January 10, 2003
“Experiences of an American Ambassador to Iceland”
Ambassador Day O. Mount, Former U.S. Ambassador to Iceland
February 14, 2003
“European Views of U.S. Foreign Policy”
Ambassador Jürgen Kleiner, Former German Ambassador to the Republic of Korea, the Federal Republic of Nigeria, and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan; Professor of International Relations, Boston University
March 7, 2003
“Understanding Genes”
Nancy Hopkins, Ph.D., Amgen, Inc. Professor of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
April 11, 2003
“Dear Author...Dear Actress: The Love Letters of Anton Chekhov and Olga Knipper”
Anne Scurria, Trinity Repertory Company actress, and her husband, actor Barry Press, present an original readers theatre piece of their own creation.
2001-2002
October 5, 2001
"Why I Sing in the Shower"
Keith Lockhart, Conductor, Boston Pops Orchestra
October 19, 2001
“Memoirs of a Geisha—The Making of a Novel”
Arthur Golden, Author
December 7, 2001
“An Evening with Norm Abram”
Master Carpenter and host of The New Yankee Workshop
January 18, 2002
“The Great Powers and the East Mediterranean World”
Erik Goldstein, Ph.D., Chairman and Professor, Department of International Relations, Boston University
February 1, 2002
“Around the Other Round Stone Barn—The History, Restoration, and Relevance of the Hancock Shaker Community”
Mary Rentz, Past-President, Board of Trustees, Hancock Shaker Village
March 1, 2002
“Osteoporosis: The Research Frontier - Hopes for a Cure”
Bjorn R. Olsen, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Cell Biology and Oral Biology;
Chairman, Harvard-Forsyth Department of Oral Biology, Harvard University
2000-2001
December 18, 2000
"A Family’s Adoption of Eight Children of Three Different Races"
Aaron Lazare, M.D.
January 26, 2001
"The Sulzbergers: Owners of the New York Times and America’s Most Powerful Family"
Alex Jones, Director of the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, JFK School of Government, Harvard University
April 13, 2001
"It’s All About Music: Presenting It, Performing It, and Listening To It"
Walter Pierce, Boston Impresario and Music Director and Margaret Ulmer, pianist
June 4, 2001
"Eyewitness to Power"
David Gergen, Author, Commentator, Presidential Advisor, Professor JFK School of Government, Harvard University
July 24, 2001
"An Afternoon with David McCullough"
David McCullough, author
1999-2000
November 5, 1999
"The Role of the Cinematographer in Making Films"
David Quaid, Asc, Director of Photography (feature films, documentaries, tv commercials)
December 3, 1999
"Money Laundering: or how to be taken for a bath in Russia"
Marshall Goldman, Associate Director of the Davis Center for Russian Studies, Harvard Davis Professor Emeritus of Russian Economics, Wellesley College
March 23, 2000
"In Search of King Arthur"
Bernard Cornwell, Author
April 7, 2000
"Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II"
John Dower, Professor of History at MIT and author of Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II, winner of the National Book Award for Nonfiction.
May 12, 2000
"An Evening with John Silber"
John Silber, Chancellor of Boston University, former chair of the Massachusetts Board of Education and 1990 democratic nominee for Governor of Massachusetts
1998-1999
October 30, 1998
"The Biology, the Beauty and the Fun of Orchids"
Maurice Sussman, retired Professor of Molecular Biology, owner of some 600 orchids.
December 11, 1998
"Different Guitars, Different Music— a lecture and performance"
John Damian, Professor, Berklee College of Music
January 15, 1999
"Portraits: East and West"
Miriam Braverman, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
February 12, 1999
"How to Make an Opera"
Alice Goodman, Librettist
March 19, 1999
"The Bible and the Constitution: Original Intent vs. Development of Doctrine"
Jaroslav Pelikan, Sterling Professor Emeritus of History, Yale University
April 21, 1999
"Film as an Art Form"
Vlada Petric, Professor of Cinema & First Curator, Harvard Film Archives, Harvard University
1997-1998
October 3, 1997
"Truthfulness and Deceit in Public Life"
Sissela Bok, philosopher and author
November 21, 1997
"The Role of a Child's Temperament in its Development"
Jerome Kagen, Psychology Department, Harvard University
January 9, 1998
"A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Situation Comedy"
Marty Nadler
February 27, 1998
"Your Privacy: What Is It and What Difference Does It Make to You?"
Janna Malamud Smith , Author, Private Matters
March 6, 1998
"Ezra Laderman and the Yale Opera"
Ezra Laderman, Composer and Dean, Yale University School of Music (along with his Yale students)
April 2, 1998
"How to Save a Dying City"
Diana Balmori, Landscape Architect, Balmori Associates
1996-1997
November 22, 1996
"A World of Artists: A Collector's Adventures"
Sinclair Hitchings, Keeper of Prints, Boston Public Library
December 20, 1996
"The Care and Feeding of An Audience"
Songs and Conversation with singer/songwriter, Livingston Taylor
January 17, 1997
"Emerson: The Mind on Fire"
Robert Richardson, Jr., author
February 7, 1997
"What's Your Opinion"
Majorie Pritchard, Boston Globe Op Ed Editor
March 7, 1997
"Architecture: An Art of Response"
Cesar Pelli. Architect
1995-1996
November 17, 1995
"The Generalist in Cyberspace, or New Media and Old Humanity"
Christopher Lydon, WBUR's host of "The Connection"
December 1, 1995
"What is Life?"
Lynn Margulis, University of Massachusetts Biologist and Author
January 26, 1996
"Déjà vu All Over Again"
An evening of songs and stories by Waldo Fielding and Sue Bennett Fielding, featured singer, Hit Parade
March 1, 1996
"Winslow Homer and Me"
Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., John Moors Cabot Curator of American Paintings, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
April 26, 1996
"The Return of Ezra Laderman and Friends"
Ezra Laderman, Composer and Dean, Yale University School of Music (along with his Yale students)
1994-1995
November 11, 1994
"Battle of the Bulge—The Brave Rifles"
A Presentation and showing of the Academy Award Feature Film Documentary written and produced by Laurence Mascott
November 18, 1994
"Writing in the First Person: The Education of a Writer"
Tracy Kidder, author
December 9, 1994
"The Private Lives of Our Public Figures: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt"
Doris Kearns Goodwin, Author
January 20, 1995
"The Ghost of Woodrow Wilson"
Gaddis Smith, Director, Yale Center for International Studies, Yale University
February 3, 1995
"Only A Game"
Bill Littlefield, Commentator, Author, and host of WBUR's "Only a Game"
April 28, 1995
"A Musical Encore, Ezra Laderman and Friends"
Ezra Laderman, Composer and Dean, Yale University School of Music (along with his Yale students)
1993-1994
November 12, 1993
"Free Speech: Only for the Powerful?"
Anthony Lewis, Pulitzer Prize Winner and New York Times Columnist
December 10, 1993
"Managing Ospreys and Barn Owls on Martha's Vineyard"
Gus Ben David, Director Massachusetts Audubon Society's Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary
January 21, 1994
"An Evening of Jazz: Female Vocalists on the American Scene"
Jan Shapiro, Vocals and Narration and Steven Sussman, Piano, Berklee School of Music
February 25, 1994
"How to Tell a Proton from a Crouton or, If U Cn Rd Ths, U Undrstnd Scne"
Judith Stone, Contributing Editor, Discover and Glamour Magazines
March 11, 1994
"Thinking about Self Esteem"
Peter Kramer, Author, Listening to Prozac
April 1, 1994
"Adventures in Understanding the Oceans Aboard a Tall Ship"
Rafe Parker, Executive Director, Sea Education Association
1992-1993
October 2, 1992
"The Effects of Science and Politics on the Temperature of the Earth"
George M. Woodwell, President and Director, Woods Hole Research Center
November 20, 1992
"My Life in the Art World"
Olga Hirshhorn, Art Collector and donator of the Hirshhorm Museum and Sculpture Garden a the Smithsonian Museum
January 15, 1993
"Why Your TV Set Has Turned into a Night Light and Other Hollywood Tales"
Marty Nadler, Hollywood Comedy Writer
February 12, 1993
"Gorbachev is Gone: Will Yeltsin be Next?"
Marshall Goldman, Associate Director of the Russian Research Center at Harvard University
March 12, 1993
"Society and the Economy in New England: Where are They Going and What Can We Do About It?"
Ira A. Jackson, Senior Vice President and Executive Director of External Affairs and Marketing for the Bank of Boston Corporation
April 9, 1993
"Encore! A Musical Evening with Ezra Laderman and Friends"
Ezra Laderman, Composer and Dean, Yale University School of Music (along with his Yale students)
1991-1992
November 15, 1991
"Stresses and Supports for Parents in the '90s"
T. Berry Brazelton, Pediatrician
December 6, 1991
"Tales about Heads"
A demonstration and lecture by Woods Hole Sculptor, Elaine Pear Cohen
January 17, 1992
"The Museum of Science: Its Role in Addressing Science Literacy"
David W. Ellis, Director, Boston's Museum of Science
February 28, 1992
"Everything I Need to Know is on Fire"
Colin McEnroe, Humorist and Columnist for The Hartford Courant
March 6, 1992
"The Great Presidential Campaign of 1948: The Incredible Truman Upset"
David McCullough, Narrator, Author and Historian
April 10, 1992
"Another Musical Evening with Ezra Laderman and Friends"
Ezra Laderman, Composer and Dean, Yale University School of Music (along with his Yale students)
1990-1991
November 30, 1990
"What Went Wrong with Perestroika"
Marshall Goldman, Associate Director of the Russian Research Center at Harvard University
December 7, 1990
Reading from Lucifer's Child
Julie Harris, Actress
January 18, 1991
"The Adventures of Alvin, WHOI's Submersible"
Victoria Kaharl, Science Writer
February 15, 1991
"The Legacy of Buckminster Fuller"
Gregory Watson, Commissioner of MA Dept. of Food and Agriculture & Executive Director, New Alchemy Institute
March 8, 1991
A Reading from Annie Dilliard, Author Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
March 22, 1991
"Ezra Laderman and Friends"
Ezra Laderman, Composer and Dean, Yale University School of Music (along with his Yale students)
1989-1990
November 17, 1989
"A Writers Search for the Soul of Science"
Chet Raymo, Boston Globe
December 1, 1989
"Is America Ready for a Humane and Affordable Health Care System?"
A Panel Discussion featuring:
Horace P. Deets, AARP Executive Director; John Collins, former Boston mayor; Dr. Leonard Laster, University of Massachusetts Medical School Chancellor; Dr. Langdon Burwell, retired Falmouth physician
January 26, 1990
"Themes from an American Life: Harry S. Truman and His Times in Words and Music"
Author David McCullough with pianist Ed Wise
February 9, 1990
"The North Pole Legacy: Black, White, and Eskimo"
Dr. Allen Counter, Director of the Harvard Foundation and Explorer
March 9, 1990
"The U.S. Government as Patron: Can the Arts Endure Public Support?"
Anne Hawley, Director of the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum
April 27, 1990
"Energy and the Environment in the Twenty-First Century"
Marvin Miller, MIT Nuclear Engineer
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