Renaissance Weekend

• BREAKFAST BUFFET BEGIN

• Renaissance Academy:  What So Proudly We Hailed
(What Must Be Preserved, and What Can Go, in the Essence of "America")

• Renaissance Academy:  Why Not Change the World?
(Examples & Visions of Social Entrepreneurship & Impactful Philanthropy)

• Renaissance Academy:  Strong Medicine
(The Science, Economics & Politics of Miracle Drugs)

• Is There a Future for the Printed Word?

• Will It Be Geeks & Gizmo's Who Save the Earth?

• Climbing Back Up (Thriving After-or-With Grief, Loss & Life's Bum Raps)

• Renaissance Lecture:  Darfur
(Its Lessons on Genocide, International Media Coverage & American Foreign Policy)

• Renaissance Lecture:  The Real Renaissance
(Influence on, & Relevance to, Contemporary Times)

• Renaissance Seminar:  A Sense of Wonder
(Cloning, Immunocellular Therapeutics & Bioetthics Considered)

• Renaissance Seminar:  Once-&-Future Nations
(The Clamoring for Sovereignty, The Consequences of Fragmentation, The Viability of New Nation-States)

• Competitive Edge
(Does America Still Have It? What Must Be Done to Retain or Regain It?)

• Poof Goes the Newspaper, Click Comes the News
(The Future of How We'll Get All the News that's Fit to . . . Digitize, Stream, Archive, Personalize, Broadcast, Feed or Blog)

• Helping Hands (Models of Community Service)

• Films in Focus
(How Do We Explain 'Beowulf,' The Year's Box Office Bombs & Other Hollywood Phenomena)

• Does Warren Buffett Get It Right? (The Estate Tax, Re-Considered)

• Renaissance Lecture:  From Venice to Xanadu -
Marco Polo & His Travels

• Renaissance Debate:  Different Persuasions
(Was 20th-Century America Better Served by Republican or Democratic Policies?)

• Renaissance Seminar:  Web 2020 (The History & Future of the Internet)

• Holding One's Ground (Sustaining Religious Beliefs & Faith Traditions Amidst Globalization, Multi-culturalism & Secularism)

• Promise & Perils of Personalized Medicine

• How Seriously Stretched?
(America's Military, Intell & Defense Industrial Base Capacities)

• Good Night & Good Luck
(Will TV Network News Be Saved? Have the Politics/Comedy Lines Blurred?)

• LUNCH-ON-YOUR-OWN

• Iraq - The Way to Go
(Signs of Stability? Possibilities of Partition? Probability of Power-sharing? Threats of Terrorism?)

• Renaissance Lecture:  The History of Science

• As Another Year Passes (Musings on The Wisdom of History)

• Aspects of Terrorism (What's Obvious, What's Not)

• Reality Check
(What Could Centrist Democrats & Collaborative Conservatives Achieve, If They Truly Put the Country First, with Social Security, Medicare,Immigration, Pensions & Other Government Programs?)

• Dotcom Debutantes
(Who & What Are Filling, or Will Fill, the New Space in the Digital World?)

• The Age of the Genome?

• Do Our Gifts Keep on Giving?
(Getting It Right with Family & Community Foundations)

• Blackboard Bungles (How Might We Best Fix Our Schools?)

• What Is "A Life Beautifully Spent"?
(Past Participants' Personal Thoughts, Prompted by Pavarotti's Observation, "I think a life in music is a life beautifully spent . . . ")

• Renaissance Academy:  Is the Party Over?
(Where Should Your Money Be Now?  Will the Hangover Be Commensurate with the Binge?)

• Remaining Afternoon Free for Fun

• COMEDY CLUB

• An Introduction to Whiskies of the World

• INTERNATIONAL BUFFET

• If Smart Phones (& Every Other Gadget I Use) Are So Smart,
Why Do I Need to Be Smart?
(Thoughts on the iGeneration, Their 'Tools' & Education)

• Mental Air Bags
(How We Teens Insulate Ourselves from the Craziness of the Day)

• Renaissance Family Singers Performance

• Something That's Been Buggin'Me Lately

• CHAMPAGNE & DESSERT

• Sing-along (With the Renaissance Family Singers)