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Chronological List of Programs

Fall Literary Series Benefiting
826 Valencia Scholarship Program

On Art & Politics

Social Studies 2007-08

Talking Music

Special Events

California Academy of
Science Series


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SEPT | OCT | NOV | DEC | JAN | FEB | MAR | APR | MAY | JUN | JUL | AUG

thursday
January
 
 
03

Michael Pollan

In conversation with Patricia Unterman

Journalist
In Defense of Food • The Omnivore's Dilemma
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wednesday
January
 
 
09

Jared Diamond & Susan Diamond

In conversation with Roy Eisenhardt

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed • Guns, Germs, and Steel

What Goes Around

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wednesday
January
16

Randall Kennedy

In conversation with Christopher Edley, Jr.

Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word • Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal
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thursday
January
17

Cathie Black

In conversation with Arianna Huffington

Basic Black

On Becoming Fearless • Fanatics and Fools •
Pigs at the Trough
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SPECIAL EVENT

 

monday
January
28

CANCELLED
Bernhard Schlink

In conversation with Roy Eisenhardt

Homecoming • Flights of Love • The Reader
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wednesday
january
 
 
30

Steve Martin

In conversation with Steven Winn

Born Standing Up • The Jerk • Shopgirl
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tuesday
february
12

An Evening with Amy Sedaris

"Strangers With Candy"• I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence
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SPECIAL EVENT

 

tuesday
february
19

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

The Annual Claire Matzger Lilienthal Distinguished Lecturer
In conversation with Ryan Wyatt

Director, Hyden Planetarium
Host, NOVA scienceNOW
Death by Blackhole The Sky Is Not the Limit
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thursday
february
21

Adam Gopnik

In conversation with Paul Lancour

Through the Children's Gate • Paris to the Moon • The King in the WindowThrough the Children's Gate
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wednesday
february
27

Karen Armstrong

In conversation with Alan Jones

The Bible: A Biography • Muhammad • A History of God, Buddha • The Battle for God The Great Transformation
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thursday
march
06

Amory Lovins

In conversation with Kevin Welch

Co-founder, Rocky Mountain Institute
Winning the Oil Endgame • Factor Four • Natural Capitalism
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sunday
march
 
 
09

Stephen Sondheim

In conversation with Frank Rich

Composer"Gypsy" "Follies" "Sweeney Todd" "Into the Woods" "Assassins" "Passion."
Herbst Theatre at 7pm
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monday
march
24

Bill McKibben

In conversation with Mark Hertsgaard

Environmentalist
Deep Economy • The Bill McKibben Reader • The End of Nature
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tuesday
april
01

Tobias Wolff

In conversation with Vendela Vida

Back in the World • In the Garden of the North American Martyrs • The Night in Question Our Story Begins • The Barracks Thief
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monday
april
07

Billy Collins

The Trouble With Poetry and Other Poems • Nine Horses • Sailing Alone Around the Room Picnic, Lightening
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tuesday
april
08

Amy Richards & Dan Savage

In conversation with Steven Winn

Opting In: Having a Child Without Losing Yourself

"Savage Love" • The Kid • The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage, and My Family
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wednesday
april
09

Ani Difranco

In conversation with Michael Azerrad

Righteous Babe Records
Living in Clip • Reprieve • Canon •
Ani DiFranco: Verses

Place of Fine Arts, 8pm
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SPECIAL EVENT

 

wednesday
april
09

Jeffrey Sachs

In conversation with Kevin Welch

Director, Earth Institute at Columbia University Common Wealth • The End of Poverty
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SPECIAL EVENT

 

wednesday
april
16

Linda Carroll & Ann Fessler
"On Adoption"

In conversation with Michael Krasny

Her Mother's Daughter: A Memoir of the Mother I Never Knew and of My Daughter, Courtney Love.

The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade.
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monday
april
28

Vandana Shiva

In conversation with Carol Tang

Director, Research Foundation on Science, Technology & Ecology
Water Wars • Viopiracy • Staying Alive
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thursday
May
 
15

Barbara Walters

In conversation with Marcia Brandwynne

Pioneering broadcast journalist
co-host of ABC’s 20/20 and The View
Audition: A Memoir

Masonic Auditorium 8pm
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wednesday
may
21

Witold Rybczynski

In conversation with Roy Eisenhardt

Home • A Clearing in the Distance • The Look of Architecture Last Harvest: How a Cornfield Became New Daleville
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monday
june
09

Thomas Lovejoy

In conversation with Kevin Welch

Conservation Biologist President, Heinz Center for Science
Economics & the Environment
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wednesday
June
 
18

Salman Rushdie

In conversation

Midnight’s Children • The Satanic Verses •
The Enchantress of Florence
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Tuesday
September
 
 
16

Paul Auster

In conversation with Michelle Richmond

Man in the Dark • Oracle Night • The New York Trilogy
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Thursday
september
18

Junot Díaz

In conversation with Paul Lancour

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao • Drown
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monday
october
06

George Saunders

MacArthur Fellow   In conversation with Charles Bock

The Braindead Megaphone • CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
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teusday
october
14

Andre Dubus III

In conversation with Mark Hertsgaard

The Garden of Last Days, House of Sand and Fog • Bluesman
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monday
october
27

Marilynne Robinson

In conversation with Steven Winn

Home • Gilead • Housekeeping
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monday
november
10

John Hodgman

In conversation with Dave Eggers

More Information Than You Require • The Areas of My Expertise • "The Daily Show"
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wednesday
december
03

Mary Oliver

In conversation

Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet
The Truro Bear and Other Adventures • Red Bird • Our World
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monday
december
15

Andrew Sean Greer

In conversation with Michael Chabon

The Story of a Marriage • The Confessions of Max Tivoli
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tuesday
march
10

Richard Price

In conversation with Michael Chabon

Lush Life • Clockers • "The Wire"
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