Fall/Winter 2022-2023

September 20 Kike Calvo, Photographer, Author, Bi-Lingual Educator

The Power of Creativity

October 4 Mohan Gurunathan, Engineer, Entrepreneur, Activist

The Earth on Your Plate: How Diet Change Can Transform the Earth and Your Health

October 18 Robert Hartwell, Music Department Head and Professor of Music, Author, Lecturer, Foothill College

Secrets, Rumors, and Lies: The Life and Death of Pyotr Illyich Tchaikovsky

November 1 Dr. Wallace J. Nichols, Marine Biologist, Author, PhD

The Blue Mind: The Many Benefits of Being In, On, or Near Water

November 15 Deanne Fitzmaurice, Pulitzer Prize Winning Photographer, Photojournalist

Luck is a State of Mind

December 6 Katie Antypas, National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center Division Deputy

Supercomputing For Science: Los Altos Native Works on Big Iron

January 17 Heidi Kuhn, CEO and Founder – Roots of Peace

Turning Mines to Vines Worldwide for 25 Years

Winter/Spring 2022

 

February 1 David McLain,  Photographer

The Search for Longevity

February 15 Dr. Sylvia Earle, Underwater Explorer

Creating Hope Spots in the Blue Heart of our Planet

March 1 Tim Farrell, Retired Teacher, Hogarth Collector

Gin, Sin, Sex in the City: William Hogarth’s London

March 15 David Kennedy, Stanford Professor of History, Emeritus; Founder, Bill Lane Center for the American West

How the West Was Won and What It Has to Lose

April 5 Norman Naimark, American Historian, Robert and Florence McDonnel Professor of Eastern European Studies, Stanford University

Putin and Ukraine

April 19 Michael McRay

Storyteller and Conflict Resolution Consultant

Conflict and Emotions: What Are They Trying to Tell Us?

May 3 Dr. Elizabeth Ward, Executive Director, Los Altos History Museum

The Use and Misuse of Medieval History

May 17 Akilah Carter-Francique, PhD, Executive Director – Institute for the Study of Sport, Society, and Social Change, San Jose State University

Sport: A Platform for Social Change

June 7 Dr. Richard Kogan, Concert Pianist and Psychiatrist

Beethoven’s Deafness: Psychological Crisis and Artistic Triumph