Renaissance Weekend

Content

All Renaissance Weekend participants tailor-make their own daily schedules from hundreds of lectures, Academies, seminars, workshops and discussions, as well as music, adventure, sports and cultural activities.

Sessions are scheduled from dawn till midnight; dozens of programs run simultaneously; plenaries are held over meals and occasionally through each day. Participants come and go as they like.

Lively discussion is encouraged. The tone is decidedly relaxed.

Illustrative Topics include:

How the Future Works
Is There a "Selfless Gene"?
Stepping Beyond Identity Politics
A Smarter Planet’s Algorithms & Apps
The New Pistons Driving Global Growth
Technologies and $$$ Transforming the Arts
Lessons “The Apprentice” Doesn’t Teach
“When I'm 64...": Can We Buy Youth?
What Is "A Life Beautifully Spent"?
Restoring the American Dream
Reinventing Leadership

Brainteasers
New Energy Frontiers
How Beliefs Arise in Our Brains
Invasion of the Policy Snatchers
How We Die (On Life’s Final Chapter)
What the Tea Party Says About America
Must There Always Be a Bottom Billion?
The Coarsening of American Culture
The “Dark Side” of Astrophysics
Is Estrogen the New Ritalin?
The Future of Faith

Lectures:

Fortune Cookies: The Full Story about Chinese Food
Hamilton’s Blessing: The History of America’s National Debt
”Text Me”: How Teens’ Use of Media Is Affecting Their Relationships
Quantum Computers: The Startling New Way to Process Information
Play: How It Shapes Brains, Opens Imaginations & Invigorates Souls
Why Not?: Using Everyday Ingenuity to Solve Problems Big and Small
Bridging the Gap: Christians’, Jews’ & Muslims’ Misconceptions of the Faiths

Camp Renaissance's Youth Panels:

What I'd Tell the President
Why Youth Is Not Wasted on Kids
Why I'm Cleaning Up the Environment (But NOT My Room)
How Grade "A" Professionals Can Avoid "F's" as Parents