Renaissance Weekend
Sample Program
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7:15 PM |
BREAKFAST BUFFET (TILL 9:15) |
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7:30 AM |
Healthy Starts (Fun Run/Vigorous Walk through Points of Local Interest ... Pilates & Yoga) |
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8:00 AM |
ACADEMIES: (3-hour in-depth presentations & discussion) Not In-the-bag Yet?!! (What's Going Right, and Could Still Go Wrong, with the Economy) What in the World?!! (Identifying & Addressing Altogether Global Issues) The Post-PC, Post-Internet World (What's Computing's Future? Time to Retire Laptops? The Web's Balkanization — Net Neutrality, Firewalls, Fragmentation, Proprietary Islands of & the War for Control) How to Change the World! (Self-organized Future Trends Chatroom, Addressing Issues Chosen by Participants) |
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8:00 AM |
PARTICIPANTS PANEL DISCUSSIONS: What Drives Healthcare Costs? (What'll Be the Reform Legislation's Impact?) Going, Going . . . (What's the Marketplace Telling Us about Fashion & Design?) Ecomagination & the Green Life (Little-noted Advances in Environmental Sustainability) Renaissance Passport (Flights of Fancy & Exotic Expeditions) Issues of the Heart . . . and Mind (Coping with Depression, Grief, Loss & Life's Bum Raps) Everything You Wanted to Know about ______, but Were Afraid to Ask The (Continuing) War for Talent Revolutionaries & Game-changers (Where We Made a Difference) The George Burns Scenario (Planning Retirement When It's Only the Beginning, till the Last Cigar Burns Out) |
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9:00 AM |
SEMINARS: The Personal Genome (New Discoveries) First Monday (What Today's Supreme Court is Facing & Thinking) Tools for Being (or Becoming) Creative Battleground FCC (Making Sense of Communications Policy Controversies) Autism & Cognitive Neuroscience Public Health Tests & Triumphs Retiresense (How Will the Grey Tsunami Change Everything? How to Achieve Extra-ordinary Lifespans?) The Barnes Foundation (The Real Story Behind the Notorious Battle & the Film, "The Art of the Steal") Taxing Thoughts (Personal Tax & Estate Planning in These Times of Uncertainty) |
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10:00 AM |
CORNERSTONE PRESENTATIONS: Why We Do the Things We Do (What Highly Rational Folks Should Understand about Irrationality) The Famous Greeks & Romans (Classics Come Alive, with Lessons for Today) Advice to the President (Strictly Non-partisan, 2-minute Policy Proposals) |
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11:00 AM |
PARTICIPANTS PANEL DISCUSSIONS: The Real Greek Tragedy, The Pain in Spain, When Irish Eyes Are Crying (Has the Eurozone Become as Samuel Johnson Said about Second Marriages, The Triumph of Hope Over Experience) A New Day!!? (Where's the GOP Now Heading?) Turning Vision into Value (Outwitting Competitors, Reversing Defeats & Downward Spirals, & Calming Turmoil) The Year in Sports (Highlights & Low-points) "Diversity" (A Need for New Definitions, New Objectives, New Measures?) War Trauma (Resilience, Reengagement, and Veterans' Futures) Does the Catholic Church Have a Prayer? (Is Pope Benedict Turning Over a New Leaf?) Legacies (My Family's Lessons for Life) YOUTH SEMINARS & WORKSHOPS: A Perilous Landscape |
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12:00 PM |
LECTURES: Talibanistan (Is Afghanistan Worth It? What Should America's Role Be?) Books That Change Lives (A Classicist’s Review of the Major Influences on Western Thought) Far, FAR Away (The World's Most Powerful Microscopes) Hollywood Reinvents Itself (The Transitions from Silent Films to "Avatar") Revelation (A Renowned Scholar's Examination of the Bible's Most Puzzling Book) Why Not? (How to Use Everyday Ingenuity to Solve Problems Big & Small) |
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1:00 PM |
LUNCHEON BUFFET (Round-table Discussions with Designated Leaders) |
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1:45 PM |
ALTERNATIVE PLENARY LECTURES & PANELS: A History of Freedom (A Distinguished Historian's Analysis of Its Meaning & Evaluation) Sex & the Seasoned Woman Blood, Sweat and . . . Brains, Bandwidth & Algorithms (Where's the Web Going?) |
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3:00 PM |
ACADEMIES: (3-hour in-depth presentations & discussion) Mixed Greens (Sustainable Business Models, Gov't Roles, Successes & Flops, Opportunities & Hazards) The Smarter Planet (What Devices, Platforms & Apps Will Shape the Coming Decade?) "The Well-furnished Mind" (What Can Be the Respite from the Deluge of Vapid Social Media Chatter, Media Nonsense & Partisan Bickering?) 2020 Vision (Early Achievers' & Adrenaline-Junkies' Insights on the Future) |
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3:00 PM |
PARTICIPANTS FREE-FOR-ALL DISCUSSIONS: Truths, Myths or Follies? The Debates Over "Universalism," "Appeasement," & "Containment" Business War Stories — Hitting Out of the Rough ("You get bad breaks from good shots: you get good breaks from bad shots: but you have to play the ball where it lies." - Bobby Jones) Eat, Sleep, Exercise, Balance (Reducing the Odds of a Heart Attack) Learning to Lead in a Crisis (Executive Coaches' Tips & Tattles) Scaling Social Change (How the Web is Fueling Innovative Social Ventures) Jewels in the Crown (College & University Presidents & Trustees Consider American Higher Education) "Post-Partisanship"? (How'd the National Goodwill Evaporate? Where's the "Hope & Change"?) Curtain Call (Performers', Writers', Directors' & Producers' Counsel & Confessions) Faithweaving (Practicing the Presence of God in Everyday Life, Making Sense from a Spiritual Perspective) Medicine's (Silver) Bullets & Buckshots (Innovations Across the Heathcare Industry) TEENS SEMINARS: Wasn't Kennedy an Airport? |
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3:15 PM |
OUT-&-ABOUT ALTERNATIVES: Historic Scavenger Hunt (A Fun Way to Learn about Local Landmarks) |
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4:15 PM |
CORNERSTONE PRESENTATIONS: Mad as Hell — Rage, Exhaustion & "Anyone But . . ." (How Can Trust in Government Be Restored?) Unintended Adventures (Breakthroughs in Science & Technology) Behind the Curtain (Revealing Perspectives of Truly Remarkable Folks) |
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5:15 PM |
RENAISSANCE FILM FESTIVAL: Documentaries Preview Screening (With Producers' & Directors' Commentaries) |
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5:15 PM |
LECTURES & WORKSHOPS: To the Heavens (A Brief History of Manned Space Flight) Hamilton's Blessing (History of America's National Debt & Its Relevance to US Indebtedness) Planet of the Apps (Must-haves, Fun-ones & Worthless Wonders) Shakespeare — Who Was He, and Why Does That Matter? (New Findings, Old Humor, Great Lines) Needled! (Learning to Knit, Crochet, Quilt & Needlepoint) Get Cooking (Out-of-the-box Recipes & Designs to Enhance Home Life) Sink-a-shaft or Job-hop to the Top? (What Are the Best Professional-advancement Strategies?) |
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6:15 PM |
Stellar Cellars (Wine- & Scotch-tastings) |
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7:00 PM |
DINNER-ON-YOUR-OWN (Recommendations Available from Concierge) |
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10:30 PM |
LATE-NIGHT ENTERTAINMENT: |
