Noon Forum

 This week's Noon Forum lineup is: 

WEEK OF MAY 14, 2012

Monday, May 14 – KANEKO LECTURE SERIES – Henry Henderson, Director of the Natural Resources Defense Council’s Midwest Program “A Conversation with Henry Henderson and Jim Krantz” (CDs and transcripts NOT available)

Tuesday, May 15 – THE STATE WE’RE IN – “It’s All in the Mind”

Wednesday, May 16 – RADIO LAB – “Games”

Thursday, May 17 – COMMONWEALTH CLUB OF CALIFORNIA – John Stossel, Business Correspondent for Fox News

Friday, May 18 – CITY ARTS AND LECTURES – Jonah Lehrer

Previous weeks on Noon Forum:

WEEK OF MAY 7, 2012

Monday, May 7 – OMAHA PRESS CLUB – Second Congressional District Debate Part 1 – Democrat Candidates: Omaha District Nine State Senator Gwen Howard; Douglas County Treasurer John Ewing (CDs and transcripts NOT available)

Tuesday, May 8 – OMAHA PRESS CLUB – Second Congressional District Debate Part 2 – Republican Candidates: Incumbent Lee Terry; Financial Advisor Brett Lindstrom; Chairman of the University of Nebraska at Omaha Department of Mathematics Jack Heidel; President of the Omaha Chapter, Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge Glenn Freeman (CDs and transcripts NOT available)

Wednesday, May 9 – RADIO LAB – “Talking to Machines”

Thursday, May 10 – COMMONWEALTH CLUB OF CALIFORNIA – Secretary of the Treasury, Timothy Geithner “Remarks on the U.S. and Global Economies Ahead of the 2012 U.S. – China Strategic Economic Dialogue”

Friday, May 11 – CITY ARTS AND LECTURES – Kermit Lynch and Randall Grahm

WEEK OF APRIL 30, 2012

Monday, April 30 – CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY LECTURE – Gabriel Bach, Israeli Supreme Court (Ret.), Prosecutor at the war crimes trial of Adolf Eichmann “Fiftieth Anniversary of the Trial of Adolf Eichmann, Part 1” (CDs and transcripts NOT available)

Tuesday, May 1 – CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY LECTURE – Gabriel Bach, Israeli Supreme Court (Ret.), Prosecutor at the war crimes trial of Adolf Eichmann “Fiftieth Anniversary of the Trial of Adolf Eichmann, Part 2” (CDs and transcripts NOT available)

Wednesday, May 2 – ACTION SPEAKS! – “1981 – President Reagan Fires Air Traffic Controllers”

Thursday, May 3 – COMMONWEALTH CLUB OF CALIFORNIA – Former California judge, Vaughn Walker

Friday, May 4 – CITY ARTS AND LECTURES – Adrienne Rich

 WEEK OF APRIL 23, 2012

Monday, April 23 – UNO LECTURE – UNORTHODOX SPEAKER SERIES – Matthew Marx, Composition and Literature Instructor in the University of Nebraska at Omaha Department of English “Quantum Literature: How Poetry Can Help You Understand Physics” (CDs and transcripts NOT available)

Tuesday, April 24 – THE STATE WE’RE IN – “Street Warriors”

Wednesday, April 25 – ACTION SPEAKS! – “1971 – An American Family: Our First Reality TV Show”

Thursday, April 26 – COMMONWEALTH CLUB OF CALIFORNIA – Rachel Maddow, author of “Drift”

Friday, April 27 – CITY ARTS AND LECTURES – Calvin Trillin

WEEK OF APRIL 16, 2012

Monday, April 16 – E. N. THOMPSON FORUM ON WORLD ISSUES – LEWIS E. HARRIS LECTURE ON PUBLIC POLICY – Mogens Bay, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Valmont Industries; E. Robert Meaney, Senior Vice-President of Valmont Industries “Is a Global Water Crisis Avoidable?” (CDs and transcripts NOT available)

Tuesday, April 17 – THE STATE WE’RE IN – “Pranks!”

Wednesday, April 18 – ACTION SPEAKS! – “1972 – The Birth of Pong and the Rise of Video Games”

Thursday, April 19 – COMMONWEALTH CLUB OF CALIFORNIA – Science writer Jonah Lehrer, contributing editor to “Wired”, and author of “How We Decide” and “Imagine”

Friday, April 20 – CITY ARTS AND LECTURES – Sarah Vowell

Specific Monday Noon Forum programs can be found below.

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