Renaissance Weekend

• BREAKFAST BUFFET BEGIN

• "On Your Left (or Right)" - Brisk & Fun Lowcountry Run

• Healthy Start (A Vigorous Walk in the Historic District)

• Introduction to Pilates

• Renaissance Academy:  In the Name of God
(How Politicians, Scientists, Scholars, Managers, Physicians & Entertainers Are Talking about Their Faith)

• Renaissance Academy:  Explosions of Scientific Knowledge
(Life Sciences & Genetics, Geoscience & Chemistry, Neuroscience, Robotics, Nanotechnology & More)

• Renaissance Seminar:  Forecast, 2011
(Weather, Hurricanes & Climate Change)

• Renaissance Seminar:  New Year's Resolution -
Overcoming Procrastination (How to Get More Done & Put Your Life In Order)

• What the Wall Street Journal Didn't Report About ...

• At the Border (Any Way Out? What Ways In?
The Politics of Immigration Reform)

• What Makes a Great Workplace?

• "Attention-Getters"
(Words, Conversations, Lectures & Sermons that Made All the Difference!)

• Giving Parents the Schools They Want

• You Are What You Don't Eat!
(Diets, Exercise, Drugs, & Lifestyle Changes Which Have Proved Successful)

• Renaissance Lecture:  The Physiology of Cognitive Processes

• Renaissance Lecture:
What Machiavelli Would Advise the Candidates for President

• Renaissance Lecture: A History of Freedom

• The Gulf War
(How Liberals Can Find their Inner Conservatism & Conservatives Find Their Inner Liberalism)

• Business "War Stories"

• Women's Health Checkup

• Legacies (My Family's Lessons for Life)

• Making the Grade - Early Childhood Education

• Renaissance Lecture:  The Political Brain

• Renaissance Lecture:  The Shakespeare You Never Knew

• Renaissance Seminar:
Irving Berlin, Louis Armstrong & the Giants of American Music

• Renaissance Seminar:  Open Source
(How It Came to Be, Where It's Going . . . From One of the Principal Guys Who Started It All)

• Renaissance Seminar:  How Fit Is the Panda? (Insights into China)

• When Algorithms Were King
(Have Deals Turned Ugly for Private Equity? What Hedge Funds Got, and Are Getting, Wrong, and Right? Are There Too Many Gluttons at the Gate? Who's Financing the Next Deals?)

• Ladies Who Launch
(Lessons Learned by Women Trail-blazers, Entrepreneur &, Pioneers)

• Public Health Priorities
(How Communities & Nations Are Dealing With, or Preparing for, HIV-AIDS, Avian Flu, & Other Scourges)

• Can You Trust a Journalist?

• Smarter, Greener, Faster
(Environment-friendly Innovations in Materials, Design, Software & Technology)

• Renaissance Pixels Workshop: Click!
(Photography Award-winners & Enthusiasts' Round-table)

• LUNCHEON BUFFET

• An Immodest Proposal - If I Could . . .
(Serious & humorous proposals on policy, work, religion, marriage, or whatever)

• What Politics Has Become

• Space Sagas (Astronauts' Reflections on Their Missions)

• Unlocking Intelligence & Ability
(Education Authorities Look Closely at How Schools Best Stimulate Creativity, Leadership & Risk-taking)

• Renaissance Lecture:  Is ANYbody Really 'Normal'?

• Renaissance Lecture:  The Famous Greeks & Romans -
Classics Come Alive, with Lessons for Today

• Renaissance Seminar:  Computer Security & Information Privacy
(History, Challenges & Future)

• The Age of Carbon Capitalism
(The Science & New Economy of Combating Global Climate Change)

• BAFFLING!
(Roadblocks to Advances in Treatments of the Most Devastating Diseases)

• Big Brands
(Creating Buzz, Capturing Sales, Strengthening Loyalties . . .
From Check- out Counters to Polling Booths & Professional Identities)

• Financial Sleuths
(The Best Stocks, Bonds & Financial Instruments You've Never Heard Of)

• Roberts' Nine (How 'So Few Have So Quickly Changed So Much')

• Stars, Stripes & Web Strategies
(How New Media Is Changing Political Campaigns)

• What I Wish My Parents Had Told Me

• How Does Your Garden Grow?
(Landscape Design, Gardening & Flower Arrangements)

• Renaissance Academy:  COURAGE, humility & What Makes Us Follow
(Characteristics of Leadership that Works in These Times)

• Renaissance Academy:  Even Closer to the Brink? -
The Prospects for War(s)
(Taking Aim Beyond Iraq, At Iran, Korea, Pakistan, Sudan & Other Hot-spots)

• Renaissance Lecture:  Meet Mr. Super Number-cruncher
(Why Data-mining & Statistical Analysis Have Suddenly Become Cool . . . and Ubiquitous)

• Renaissance Lecture:  The Brain, Consciousness, Society & Religion - How Images & Beliefs Arise in the Brain

• Renaissance Seminar:  The Weird, Wild World of Astro-physics
(Dark Energy, Fusion Energy, Brown Dwarfs & Other Stuff)

• Renaissance Seminar:  Treatable Scourges of the Immune System
(Medical Science Advances on HIV-AIDS & Other Infectious Diseases)

• The 'Wow-Factor' (How People, Places & Products Are Being Transformed by Arts & Design)

• The Elephant & the Dragon (What China's & India's Rise Will Mean to Us)

• Walking on Eggshells
(How Can Issues of Diversity Be Addressed with Full Expression of Opinion & Fact?)

• iTales (Sagas from Silicon Valley, Dotcoms & the Web)

• Accelerators of Philanthropy
(Innovative, & Effective, Initiatives that Motivate Transformational Giving)

• Did Jesus Die for Our Second Homes?
(What Scriptures Really Say about Abundance, Wealth & the Purpose of Life)

• Does l'Amour Have Anything to Do with l'Etat?
(Where's the Appropriate Line Between Officials' Public and Private Lives?)

• Tap, Tap - I Think with My Fingers 'cause I Outsourced My Brain
(Humorous Reflections on How Wikipedia & Yahoo Made Memory Obsolete, Why Only My iPod Understands Me, and the Joys & Discontents of Our Always-'On," Turbo-charged Workaday World)
(Or, Monologues on How My Blackberry Is the WindowXp to My Soul)

• How Old Is Jughead Now? (The Story of Archie Comics, Told by Its Owner)

• Renaissance College-Apps Seminar:  Admissions on Admissions
(Or, How You Can Compete with that Tuba-playing College Applicant's Essay on Reversing Mid- West Climate Change While Setting the North Dakota Pole-vault Record & Discovering a New Galaxy with His Bedroom Telescope)

• CPR (What EVERY Teen, &College Student, Should Know to Save Lives!)

• Art Galleries - Walk &-Talk

• Checkmates (Chess Coaching for Kids & Competitors)

• Renaissance Seminar:  What's Happenin' to Your Neurons Today?
(How the Brain Works, Stores & Retrieves Information)

• Renaissance Seminar:  Self-destructive Behavior -
What We've Learned, How We've Treated It, When It Can be Undone

• Renaissance Seminar:  Elvis, the Beatles & the History of Rock-and-roll

• The Odyssey Years (The New Phenomenon Twixt Adolescence & Adulthood)

• Are the 'Laboratories of Democracy' Lagging?
(The State of Innovation in America's States)

• Determination!!
(How to Ensure that Bends in the Road Will Not Be the End of the Road?)

• Reigns of Error - Marking to Market? To Model? To Myth?
(How Business Plans CompletelyMisjudged Risk)

• The New Digital Culture
(File-sharing, Podcasting, Social Networking Software, Net Security & New Media Technologies)

• Cracking the Code of the Sixties
(What Was Truly Unique? Have We Ever Gotten Beyond Its Symbolic Battles? Why 60 IS 'the New 40'!, How Baby Boomers, at This Age, Really Are Different?)

• Knit-in (Learning How to Knit, Quilt & Needlepoint)

• Renaissance Writers Workshop:  What It Takes
(Plot-or-Subject Development, Story-lines, Dialogue, Editing, Editing, Editing)

• RECEPTION

• DINNER BUFFET

• Musical Welcome

• Where's the Beef? - Is Contemporary Politics More than Boring Rhetoric, Brutal Partisanship, Symbolic Battles & Ferocious Fund- raising?

• Not So Fast!
(What Remarkable Early Achievers Wish They'd Savored More, Suffered Through, or Simply Not Skipped)

• Dueling Guitars (12-string, Soul, Blues & Rock Guitars Mix It Up)

• Who Has Suffered for My Strawberries?
(Considerations of the Direct & Indirect Costs of What Teens Might Take for Granted)

• How Has 'the Bad Stuff" Become 'Normal'?
(College Students? Insights into Contemporary Music, Language & Behavior)

• Party Time (Swing, Salsa, Tango & Hip-hop Dancing Lessons)

• High Stakes (Improving Your Poker)