Previously Held Discussion Meetings (2001)
Date Location Topic
December 8, 2001
10:00AM - 11:30AM
Portland Central Library A Book Review
The Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia / Ahmed Rashid
November 10, 2001
10:00AM - 11:30AM
Portland Central Library CULTURE AND VIOLENCE
It's a violent world after all ... why?
An open discussion on the psychology of aggression.
October 13, 2001
10:00AM - 11:30AM
Portland Central Library Work in the Dot Com Era
September 8, 2001 N/A Meeting was rescheduled to October 13, 2001.
August 11, 2001
10:00AM - 11:30AM
Portland Central Library America's Nobel Laureates in literature, Sinclair Lewis, Pearl S. Buck, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, and others were spied upon and the subject of extensive dossiers by the FBI. Did they inspire the Peter Sellers movies?
July 14, 2001
10:00AM - 11:30AM
Portland Central Library The Russian Revolution, 1917-1921
Where did it go wrong?
And why?
June 30, 2001
10:00AM - 11:30AM
Portland Central Library Where on Earth Are We Going? An Object Analysis by Some of the Most Influential Figures of Our Time on the Conflicting Worlds of Business and the Environment.
May 12, 2001
10:00AM - 11:30AM
Portland Central Library Merchants of Death. An Inside Look at the Military-Industrial Complex.
April 7, 2001
10:00AM - 11:30AM
Portland Central Library Education for What?
March 3, 2001
10:00AM - 11:30AM
Portland Central Library Global Capitalism: A New Game? New Rules? New Strategy?
February 3, 2001
10:00AM - 11:30AM
Portland Central Library The Case Against Competition
January 13, 2001
10:00AM - 11:30AM
Portland Central Library Albert Einstein's Essay "Why Socialism?"