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School of Athens Port Townsend Extension
School of Athens Lecture Series - 2009/2010
Fall/Winter Lecture Series
 Series Pass $50. Individual tickets $10. Elaine Pagels Special Event $15. Passes and tickets available at Quimper Sound, 230 Taylor Street, Port Townsend (cash or checks only). The School of Athens is inspired by the classical Greek gymnasia, or gathering places, as represented by Raphael in his Vatican fresco, The School of Athens. For more information visit http://www.athens-pt.org
All lectures are on Sundays at 1:00 p.m. at the Rose. Doors open at 12:30.
Elaine Pagels Lecture Update - To accommodate the demand for tickets, this lecture has been moved to the Wheeler Theatre at Fort Worden. It will begin at 1:00 p.m., and this event is sold out.
Phil Borges
October 4, 2009
Award-winning Seattle photographer and lecturer Phil Borges, has documented indigenuos and tribal cultures around the world for over twenty-five years. His books and exhibitions include Tibetan Portrait: The Power of Compassion (a deep look into the displacement and marginalization of a spiritual culture), Enduring Spirit (celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights), The Gift (documenting the work of medical teams providing reconstructive surgery to children in the developing world), Women Empowered (focusing on extraordinary women who are breaking through gender barriers and conventions in the developing world).
Tom Joyce
November 8 2009
As an artist, designer, and blacksmith, Tom Joyce has forged sculpture, architectural ironwork, and public art for projects throughout the world for the last thirty years. In both public and private commissions, he encourages community members to participate in the creation process by donating ferrous materials discarded and collected from the landscape or particular objects that hold significance to the owner. He is a teacher of young blacksmiths, a lecturer, and art metals historian. His work is included in numerous museums around the world. Tom was awarded the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 2003.
David Sanborn Scott, Ph.D., D. Sc. (hon.)
January 10, 2010
Author, scholar, and sailor, David Sanborn Scott, is Vice-President for the Americas of International Association for Hydrogen. He chaired the Canadian Advisory Group on Hydrogen Opportunities that produced the seminal report, Hydrogen: National Mission for Canada. He also established The University of Victoria's Institute for Integrated Energy Systems. As an international leader in hydrogen advocacy, David won the Jules Verne awrd in 2006 for "outstanding contributions to hydrogen physics, hydrogen energy, sociology and philosophy." He is the author of Smelling Land: The Hydrogen Defense Against Climate Catastrophe (2007).
Nalini M. Nadkarni, Ph.D.
February 14, 2010
Known as "The Queen of the Forest Canopy," Dr. Nalini M. Nadkarni is a pioneer in temperate rain forest canopy studies as well as in advancing communication about science to diverse audiences. Her research concerns the ecology of temperate forest canopies in Cost Rica and in Washington state. She established the "Research Ambassador Program," which trains scientists and others to do outreach to non-traditional public audiences in prison churches, and rap music clubs. Recent awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellowship, and the National Arbor Day Foundation Award.
John Marzluff, Ph.D.
March 14, 2010
Dr. Marzluff is dedicated to detailing research approaches to conserve avian biodiversity and ecology throughout the world. Dr. Marzluff has written The Piñon Jay, In the Company of Crows and Ravens, and numerous papers blending his interest in biology, conservation, and anthropology. Currently Mr. Marzluff is the leader of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Recovery Team for the critically endangered Mariana Crow, a Fellow of the American Ornithologist's Union, and a member of the Washington Biodiversity Council.
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Ph.D.
April 11, 2010
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, The Bancroft Prize for American History, and the American Historical Association's John S. Dunning Prize, Dr. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich is a scholar and lecturer of Early American History, and the author of A Midwife's Tale and Well-behaved Women Seldom Make History. She holds the 300th Anniversary University Professor of History at Harvard University where she taught for thirty years. Dr. Ulrich has also been awarded a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Harvard Graduate School Mentoring Award and the Harvard College Professor Award in Honor of her skills as a teacher.
SPECIAL EVENT* SOLD OUT
Elaine Pagels, Ph.D.
May 1, 2010
Wheeler Theatre, Fort Worden
Best known for her studies and writings based on the Nag Hammadi manuscripts, Dr. Elaine Pages is Professor of Religion at Princeton University. Her scholoarly investigation The Gnostic Gospels won both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1979. Since then she has also written Adam, Eve and the Serpent, The Origin of Satan, Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas, Reading Judas: The Gospel of Judas and The Shaping of Christianity. In addtion to being honored with the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, Dr. Pagels is also a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship and the Rockefeller Fellowship.
*This Saturday event is not included in the Series Pass. Individual ticket price: $15
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