|
| |
Sara Speaks, Winter 2007
Spring ‘07 Lecture Series Starts Early, Feb. 24 !!
The Institute’s spring program series begins early again this season, so don’t let the first lecture slip up on you. You don’t want to miss it.
The 2007 spring program series, entitled “Privacy Lost: At What Cost?” is a slight departure from our past programs as we focus on a more topical subject than has been our usual fare.
Privacy is a subject that is of critical importance to us all. It is being eroded in the name of security, convenience and the increasingly pervasive “need to know” of governments, business and citizens themselves. It is important that we recognize what is happening and take steps to protect ourselves from the effects of that
loss.
The series will feature lectures by four speakers who will give us their insights and advice about privacy issues that relate to medical privacy, identity theft, privacy and national security issues, and privacy as it relates to all things digital – data bases, the internet, and financial transactions.
Go to Spring Program 2007 for details and to sign up. Go to
Program Brochures to access the Spring brochure.
|
|
Update on Institute Activities:
New Guest Ticket Program To Continue
The Guest Ticket
Program that began last fall proved to be so popular that we are
continuing it for the spring series. It is an expanded opportunity for
our members to bring guests to our lectures.
Here’s how the guest policy will work:
Each member who signs up for an
individual lecture(s) by Feb. 10th (postmarked by that date) will
receive one ticket good for bringing one guest to any spring series
lecture for free. Each member who signs up for the entire lecture series by
Feb. 10th will receive a second free guest ticket.
This means that a couple who registers by Feb. 10th for the
entire series would receive four free tickets to use to bring guests to
any spring program in the lecture series. Payment for the dinners for
your guests would be extra. We will mail these tickets to you with your
registration receipt.
If you discover that you want to bring additional guests during the
spring series, they will be welcome to come by paying full price. This
new guest ticket program replaces our previous half price guest policy.
|
|
The
Inaugural Wilmer Memorial
Lecture and 25th Anniversary Held Same Day:
Wilmer Memorial
Lecture and 25th Anniversary Held Same Day:
The first,
annual Wilmer Memorial Lecture was held on June 4, 2006 The Harry Wilmer
Lectureship, formerly held in January, was combined with the Hank Wilmer
Memorial Lecture, that is
always held in June, to create the Wilmer Memorial Lectureship to honor
both Harry and Hank Wilmer. As with the other two lectures, it will
continue to be free and open to the public.
Author, businesswoman, and philanthropist, Marilyn Tam spoke. She is the
founder of the Us Foundation whose purpose is to raise the awareness of
and to promote and create action to support the highest common good, and
the interconnectedness of all.
That same day, the attendees at the Wilmer lecture got a bonus event
with the celebration of the Institute’s 25th anniversary.
Twenty-five years ago in April, Liz Carpenter gave the first lecture to
the Institute for the Humanities, launching a tradition of excellent
speakers for the Institute that continues today.
Charter members who attended the June event were recognized and Stew
Smith, a founding member, and one of the people intimately involved with
the creation of the Institute, spoke briefly about Harry’s vision for
the Institute in the beginning, and recounted some of the history of the
organization. A reception was held afterwards for all attending.
|
2007 Wilmer Lecture Set
The guest lecturer for the 2007 Wilmer Lecture has followed Harry Wilmer’s path. Fellow Jungian, and internationally known speaker, Dr. James Hollis, will speak on “Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life,” the title of his most recent book.
Dr. Hollis is the Executive Director of the Jung Educational Center of Houston and is a licensed Jungian analyst in private practice also in Houston.
He was born in Springfield, Illinois and graduated with an A.B. from Manchester College in 1962 and with a Ph.D. from Drew University in 1967. He taught the Humanities 26 years in various colleges and universities before retraining as a Jungian analyst at the Jung Institute of Zurich, Switzerland (1977-82).
He lives with his wife Jill, an artist and therapist, and together they have four adult children. He is a Senior Training Analyst for the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts, was the first Director of Training of the Philadelphia Jung Institute, and is vice-president of the Philemon Foundation, which is dedicated to the publication of the complete works of Jung.
He has published eleven books with total sales well over 100,000 copies, the most recent being Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life.
The Wilmer Memorial Lecture is always held the first weekend in June in Salado and is free and open to the public. This memorial lecture honors Dr. Harry Wilmer, the founder of the Institute for the Humanities who died in 2005, and his son, Hank Wilmer, who was killed in a car accident in 1997. Both men have been instrumental in the success of this organization.
2007 Observatory Dedication
The Central Texas Astronomical Society will be dedicating their
Observatory, Saturday, June 9th at the Bosque Conservatory in Clifton,
Texas. Seth Shostak, who has spoken at the Institute , will be the
main speaker. A limited number of tickets will be available to
Institute Members at discounted prices. More on this later.
Institute Fall Programs a Success:
The fall series entitled Let
Your Life Speak was a critical and popular success. We had a
record number of attendees at the fall lectures. Four outstanding
presenters spoke about finding meaning in their lives and
work.
Waco philanthropist and businessman, Bernard Rapoport, led off the
series with a talk about his efforts to make a difference in the social
fabric of the world by using the money he made in the private
sector. The text of his speech is available on this website by clicking
on Let's Save Capitalism!
He was followed by bioethicist Dr. Gregory Pence, author Dr. Thomas
Moore, and writer/actor/filmmaker, Turk Pipkin, who screened his film,
"Nobelity."
Recordings
of Speakers Available
CD's of the lectures by these most recent speakers and others are
available for purchase through the Institute. Audio tapes or CD's
are available for almost all of the speakers who have presented to
the Institute during the last 26 years. Audio tapes are
$11.00 and CD's are $15.00 each. To order, please contact Erin at the
Institute at ifh@vvm.com or at
254/947-5729.
|
|
|
|
|
|
