Panelists for this event:
Dr. Trita Parsi

• Acclaimed Author of: Treacherous Alliance - Secret Dealings of Iran, Israel and the U.S.
• President of the National Iranian-American Council

Professor David Menashri

• Director of the Center of Iranian Studies and Dean of Special Programs at Tel Aviv University
• Author of many acclaimed texts on Iranian history, politics & culture.

Forum Moderator:
Jim Wehrle

• Mediated Israeli-Palestinian peace talks in New York, Tel Aviv & Ramallah
• Bi-Lateral training of Middle East diplomats in conflict resolution skills
• US Secretary of State Commendation for contributions to Middle East Peace.

Panelists for this event:
Dr. Trita Parsi

• Acclaimed Author of: Treacherous Alliance - Secret Dealings of Iran, Israel and the U.S.
• President of the National Iranian-American Council

Professor David Menashri

• Director of the Center of Iranian Studies and Dean of Special Programs at Tel Aviv University
• Author of many acclaimed texts on Iranian history, politics & culture.

Forum Moderator:
Jim Wehrle

• Mediated Israeli-Palestinian peace talks in New York, Tel Aviv & Ramallah
• Bi-Lateral training of Middle East diplomats in conflict resolution skills
• US Secretary of State Commendation for contributions to Middle East Peace.

The Fall 2008 Anne and William Axton Series is pleased to feature Brock Clarke on Thursday, September 18th. Clarke is the author of two novels, the critically acclaimed An Arsonist's Guide to Writer's Homes in New England and The Ordinary White Boy, and two story collections, Carrying the Torch and What We Won't Do. Twice a finalist for the National Magazine Award in Fiction, his work has appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review, OneStory, the Believer, the Georgia Review, and the Southern Review, as well as the Pushcart Prize and New Stories from the South anthologies. His fiction has also been read on National Public Radio's series Selected Shorts. He teaches creative writing and English at the University of Cincinnati and is also fiction editor of the Cincinnati Review.

• Sept. 10 - "War as a Mode of Production and Reproduction: A Feminist Analysis," Mary Hawkesworth, Rutgers University women's and gender studies professor. The former UofL professor is editor of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. Kentucky Foundation for Women is co-sponsoring her talk.
• Sept. 29 - "Dressing to Reveal and Conceal in the Middle East," Julie Peteet, UofL anthropology department chair.
• Oct. 8 - "Racializing Homonormativity: The Metaphorical and Lyrical Blackface Performance of Shirley Q. Liquor," Kaila Story, UofL women's and gender studies and Pan-African studies professor. UofL's Office for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Services is co-sponsoring this event in celebration of Pride Week.
• Oct. 29 - "Gender and the 2008 Election," panel discussion by UofL political science professors Anne Caldwell, Dewey Clayton and Jasmine Farrier.
• Nov. 19 - "Title IX and Gender Equity in Sports," panel discussion including Anita Moorman and Mary Hums, UofL health, physical education and sports studies professors.

The program will be given by Chris Morris, a master-distiller for Brown-Forman's Woodford Reserve Bourbon Whiskey. He will speak about the history of the distillery and the national impact of this unique regional product.

Dessert and coffee served at 1:00 p.m. with the lecture immediately following at 1:15 p.m. Admission is $5, $3 for Friends of Historic Locust Grove. Reservations are not required.

Wednesday September 3, 2008
1PM

FORUM 5: WATER
Tuesday, August 12, 6:00 pm
Glassworks, 815 West Market, Louisville, KY

Vital for life on our planet, fresh water supplies in many parts of the world are under increased stress. Shifting weather patterns, population growth, poor environmental regulations, pharmaceuticals, aging infrastructure, and waste among other factors have led to increases in contamination and reduction in our supply of fresh water. Louisville's own combined sewer system is in trouble due to overflow issues leading to unacceptable levels of wastewater discharge. Join us August 12th for an evening of discussion on water and learn what you can do to help make our city, region, and world more sustainable.

This event, as previous forums, is free to the public. Space is limited so please fill out this form to reserve your seat at this free event. You must enter seperate RSVPs (as guests) for every person you wish to reserve a seat for, thank you.

GUEST SPEAKERS:
Bud Schardein, Executive Director, Metroplitan Sewer District (MSD)
Judy Petersen, Executive Director, Kentucky Waterways Alliance
Gill Holland, Producer, The Group Entertainment

On Thursday, July 10, 2008, the World Affairs Council of Kentucky/Southern Indiana will continue its Special Event series with Louisville native Amy Zegart, author of 'Spying Blind: The CIA, the FBI, and 9/11'.

Please note change of location for the event!
Henry Clay Building, 4th Floor
604 S. Third Street, Louisville KY
(parking lot at 3rd and Chestnut)

Reception & brief remarks: 5:15 - 6:15 PM
Book Signing: 6:15 - 6:30 PM
Lecture and Dinner: 6:30 - 7:45 PM Tickets are available by calling (502) 561-5422. Reception only (soft drinks provided, cash bar) $10 per person;
Lecture and dinner: $30 per person;
Reception and dinner: $40 per person.

Amy Zegart is an Associate Professor at UCLA's School of Public Affairs, where she teaches courses in U.S. foreign policy and public management. In 2003 she was awarded Public Policy Professor of the Year for excellence in teaching.

Zegart has been featured by The National Journal as one of the ten most influential experts in intelligence reform. She worked on the Clinton Administration's National Security Council staff in 1993, served as a foreign policy advisor to the Bush-Cheney 2000 presidential campaign, and has testified before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

Her research focuses on the design problems of U.S. national security agencies. She received a Ph.D. in Political Science from Stanford University, where she studied under Condoleezza Rice. Her first book, Flawed By Design: The Evolution of the CIA, JCS and NSC (Stanford University Press, 1999), won the highest national dissertation award in Political Science and has become standard reading for several U.S. military and intelligence training programs. Her most recent book, Spying Blind: The CIA, the FBI, and the Origins of 9/11 (Princeton University Press) examines why U.S. intelligence agencies adapted poorly to the rise of terrorism after the Cold War.

Before pursuing an academic career, Zegart spent three years at McKinsey & Company, where she advised senior management in Fortune 100 companies about strategy and organizational effectiveness.

Zegart has served as a national security analyst for CNN, MSNBC, Fox News Channel, and National Public Radio. A former Fulbright Scholar, she received a B.A. in East Asian Studies from Harvard University. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and lives in Pacific Palisades, California with her husband and three children.

For more information about Amy Zegart, please visit UCLA School of Public Affairs. More information about her book, 'Spying Blind: The CIA, the FBI, and the Origins of 9/11', is available at Princeton University Press.

Tickets for the Reception or Lecture/Dinner ONLY are not available online. For tickets to individual potions of the event, call us at (502) 561-5422. 

On July 10 2008, the World Affairs Council of Kentucky/Southern Indiana will present another in its Special Events Series with guest speaker Dr. Amy Zegart, author of "Spying Blind: The CIA, the FBI, and 9/11". Amy Zegart is an Associate Professor at UCLA's School of Public Affairs, where she teaches U.S. foreign policy and public management. In 2003 she was awarded Public Policy Professor of the Year for excellence in teaching.

A Louisville native, Zegart has been featured by The National Journal as one of the ten most influential experts in intelligence reform. She worked on the Clinton Administration's National Security Council staff in 1993, served as a foreign policy advisor to the Bush-Cheney 2000 presidential campaign, and has testified before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

Thursday, July 10, 2008
Reception: 5:15 - 6:15 p.m.
Book signing with Carmichael's Books: 6:15 - 6:30 p.m.
Lecture and Dinner: 6:30 - 7:45 p.m.

Greenbaum, Doll, & McDonald
National City Tower, 35th Floor
101 South Fifth Street
Louisville, Kentucky 40202

Tickets are $10 per person for the reception
Tickets are $30 per person for the lecture and dinner
Tickets are $40 per person for both events
Buy tickets online (no tickets will be sold at the door)

The Louisville Graphic Design Association (LGDA) will host a lecture by designer Tricia Bateman on Thursday, April 24th at 6pm. The event will be held at the Cressman Center for Visual Arts Gallery at 100 East Main Street, and will include hors d'oeuvres provided by the Wiltshire Pantry. The cost is free for LGDA members, $15 for non-members and $5 for students.

LGDA members attending this event can enter to win a full-conference registration to the annual HOW Design Conference, a four-day conference, created for graphic design professionals, being held May 18-21, 2008 in Boston, MA. The giveaway, valued at over $1,000 is open to current LGDA members, no purchase necessary.

Reservations are encouraged but not required. To RSVP email lgda.rsvp@gmail.com

About Tricia Bateman
Tricia Bateman began her career in design coloring with Pantone markers on Bienfang 100% rag paper on her dad's ad agency office floor. As an adult, Tricia has left her mark on the magazine design industry with more than 10 years experience winning various design awards and inclusion in Folio magazine's Folio:40. Former titles under her guidance include Writer's Digest, Popular Woodworking and HOW. Looking for a new creative challenge, Tricia recently left HOW magazine for Madison Design Group. From the new point of view of a design firm, she's managed a few magazine redesigns and launches as well as branching out into branding, identity and collateral for companies like Procter and Gamble, Cincinnati Children's Hospital and Summerfair Cincinnati.

In 1954, audiences were first treated to what is perhaps the ultimate Alfred Hitchcock movie, Rear Window. The film's unsettling murder mystery was certainly entertaining enough, but Hitchcock achieved more than the usual resonance with audiences, through the use of his mammoth set representing an apartment-house courtyard between West 10th and 11th Streets in New York's Greenwich Village. Hitchcock's apartments in Rear Window are emblematic of many factors common to American life in 1954, from new questions of privacy generated by smaller living spaces, to a need to individualize near-identical housing units, to the anonymity newly available to those who would live outside society's rules. The Architecture of Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window will attempt to demonstrate how the director used commonly encountered architectural elements and used them to manipulate his audiences into acceptance of the tale he wished to tell. Sandy McLendon writes about architecture and design.  His work has appeared in Old House Interiors and Arts & Crafts Homes, as well as Modernism Magazine, where he is a contributing editor. His book about the use of prefabrication in building custom housing, PreFAB Elements, was published in 2005 by HarperCollins. Admission is free. Presented in the auditorium.

The Fort Knox-born writer won her Pulitzer for drama in 2002 for "Topdog/Underdog," the Broadway play that also was presented this year at Actors Theatre of Louisville. "In the Blood," a 2000 Pulitzer finalist, was performed at UofL in 2006.

She co-wrote the screenplay for "The Great Debaters" movie that debuted in December; also in 2007 her project "365 Days/365 Plays" was produced worldwide in more than 700 theaters, including Actors.

Suzan-Lori Parks
March 6, 2008 6 p.m.
Margaret Comstock Concert Hall, School of Music
Admission to the lecture is free and open to the public.
There will be a reception afterward.

Parking is available for $3 in the nearby Speed Art Museum garage, 2035 S. Third St.

Judi Jennings, the author of Gender, Religion and Radicalism in the Long Eighteenth Century, will join The Filson during Women's history month for a lecture on March 6, 2008 at noon. She will focus on the Quaker artist and author, Mary Morris Knowles, a woman of many facets - a radical thinker, a brilliant conversationalist, a respected religious writer, an advocate for the abolition of slavery, a poet and a talented artist of needle painting.

The lecture will highlight Knowles' accomplishments and look at the connections between religion, radicalism, and gender then and now. One will also experience the argument between Knowles and Samuel Johnson come off the written page, as Jennings and guests present the dispute's dialogue.

Free and open to the public at The Filson Historical Society, 1310, South Third Street, Louisville, KY 40208

The Louisville Graphic Design Association (LGDA) is partnering with the Derby City Adobe User Group to host a virtual lecture by Kevin Lynch, Former Macromedia CEO and Adobe's Senior Software Architect on Monday, February 25th at 6:30pm. The event will be held at Captive Indoor Media, 4th floor of Butchertown Market at 1201 Story Ave, and will include hors d'oeuvres and giveaways of $5,000 in Adobe software.

Guests at the event will hear important product news, get their hands on some exclusive swag, and see an exclusive video presentation by Kevin Lynch. The live presentation will be given using a new web-conferencing tool and will connect 60 Adobe User Groups across the country.

The lecture is free and open to the public. Reservations are encouraged but not required. To RSVP email lgda.rsvp@gmail.com

Join us for this exciting and informative lecture/workshop on Chocolate at Gilda's Club Louisville 633 Baxter Avenue! Chefs Dee Gough and Collen Engle will tempt our palates with scrumptious chocolate treats while talking about the health benefits of dark chocolate.  Combine this with a rich presentation and discussion about the sexual implications of living with cancer, facilitated by Mary Helen Davis, MD.  We are in for a wonderful evening.

Be sure to sign up soon.  This event is sure to fill-up quickly! (502) 583-0075

"His many awards include a Friends of Contemporary Ceramics' lifetime achievement award, National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and two New York Council of the Arts fellowships.

Hepburn's work is in private collections worldwide and in public collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Smithsonian Institution's Renwick Gallery in Washington, D.C., and the International Ceramics Museum in Faenza, Italy."

Tea expert Bruce Richardson of the Elmwood Inn in Perryville, Kentucky will speak about "The Great Tea Rooms of Bath." Copies of his beautiful tea books will be available for purchase and signing. We will then adjourn to tea (from the Elmwood Inn, of course) and petite sweets and finger sandwiches. RSVP to Bonny Wise at Historic Locust Grove at 502-897-9845 if you plan to attend. The cost of the tea for non-JASNA members is $5 and should be paid at the door. For more information, email Bonny Wise at wise@locustgrove.org or call LG at 502-897-9845.

As part of its annual lecture series Crane House is presenting China in My Eyes, a panel discussion featuring regional business leaders.

A group of distinguished regional business leaders will present a panel discussion to share their unique experiences from different perspectives about the many aspects of interacting with the Chinese business community.

Asia: Insight and Perspectives

China in My Eyes

Wednesday, November 7, 6:30 pm

Presented in University of Louisville's Elaine Chao Auditorium

Free and open to the public

Please call Crane House for reservations 502.635.2240