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Fall
’06 Lecture Series
The
Institute for the Humanities focuses its Fall 2006 lecture
series on the search for meaning in our lives and work. The
series features lectures from or about those who are committed
to making a difference in the world.
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Schedule
of Events
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Bernard
Rapoport
will speak
Saturday, September, 30, with a presentation at 4:00 at
Mill Creek. Lecture title: “Let’s Save Capitalism!”
Optional dinner to follow.
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Dr.
Gregory Pence will
speak on Sunday, Oct. 22, at 4 p.m. at the Celebration Center;
Lecture title: “Adventures in Bioethics.” Optional dinner to
follow.
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Dr.
Thomas Moore
will speak on Sunday, Nov. 5, at 4 p.m. at the Celebration
Center. Lecture
title: “The Way of the Holy Fool." Optional dinner to follow.
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Turk
Pipkin,
actor, writer, filmmaker, comedian, will screen his film, “Nobelity,”
and discuss its production. 4 pm at the Salado Silver Spur
Theatre, Sunday, Nov. 12. Lecture
title: One Peace at a Time.”
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Fall
’06 Lecture Series Presenters Biographical Information:
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Bernard Rapoport has lived the American Dream. Born to Russian-Jewish
immigrant parents in San Antonio, Texas, in 1917, he grew up in
modest circumstances and worked his way through the University
of Texas during the Great Depression.
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In
1951, he and a partner founded the American Income Life
Insurance Company, which he developed into a multi-million
dollar business. Using his wealth to support a host of local,
national, and international organizations, Rapoport was named by
Fortune magazine as one of America's forty most generous
philanthropists, unstinting in his support for education, social
justice, and liberal political causes.
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In
his memoir, Rapoport recalls a life of hard work and a
philosophy of giving back to the community that made him a
successful entrepreneur and philanthropist. He explains how his
early experience of poverty and his youthful acquaintance with
Marxists and New Deal economists shaped him into a capitalist
with a conscience.
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He
lives in Waco, where he is head of the Bernard and Audre
Rapoport Foundation. Among his many public commitments, he is a
past member of the Board of Regents of his beloved University of
Texas at Austin.
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Dr.
Gregory Pence
is one of the pioneering and most prominent bioethicists in
America. He has taught medical ethics to medical students for 30
years. He is internationally famous for defending cloning,
genetically modified food and stem cell research.
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He
is the director of the medical ethics program at the School of
Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. For nearly
30 years he has taught medical ethics to first year medical
students and philosophy to undergraduates at the University of
Alabama. In 1994 he received that school’s highest teaching
award.
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Dr.
Pence is a prolific writer who is not afraid to address
controversial subjects head-on. His Classic
Cases in Medical Ethics: Accounts of the Cases that Shaped
Medical Ethics, is one of the standard textbooks of
bioethics. And his Designer
Food: Mutant Harvest or Breadbasket of the World? won a
Choice Outstanding Academic Title in 2003.
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His
newest work, Brave New
Bioethics, gathers 35 essays into one broad-ranging volume
on controversial issues such as cloning, AIDS, dignified death
and stem cell research. Dr. Pence received his undergraduate
degree in philosophy from William and Mary, and his doctorate
from New York University.
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Dr.
Thomas Moore
is a best-selling author, psychotherapist, musician and
religious philosopher. He is a leading lecturer and writer in
the areas of archetypal psychology, mythology, spiritual ecology
and the arts. His eclectic career has included stints as
professor of religion at SMU, sixteen years in private
psychotherapy practice, and twenty years as a writer, lecturer
and seminar leader around the world.
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At
13 he entered a preparatory seminary for the Servite religious
order, but left shortly before being ordained as a priest twelve
years later. He then spent several years studying music,
religion and philosophy, eventually earning a BA in music and
philosophy from DePaul University, an MA in musicology from the
University of Michigan, master’s degree in theology from the
University of Windsor and PhD in religion from Syracuse
University.
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Hi
best-selling book, Care of
the Soul, was published in1992. Some
of his other books include The
Planets Within, Rituals of the Imagination, Dark Eros, Soul
Mates and Meditations, and Dark
Night of the Soul.
Moore is married to artist Joan Hanley, and divides his time
between New Hampshire and Ireland.
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SPECIAL
PUBLIC EVENT
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In
keeping with that theme of making a difference, the Institute is
pleased to present a special public lecture by
writer/actor/filmmaker Turk Pipkin and the screening of his new film “Nobelity --
A Look at the Future Through the Eyes of Nine Nobel
Laureates.”
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Pipkin,
who directed the film, will discuss the insights and inspiration
he received from the nine Nobel laureates featured in the film,
and how we can work - individually and collectively - toward a
better future for all children.
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The
film follows his personal journey to find enlightening answers
about that future. It was filmed across the U.S., and in France,
England, India, and Africa, and combines the insights of nine
distinguished Nobelists with a first-person view of world
problems and the children who are most challenged by them.
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This
film, and the sequel he is currently filming, are his most
ambitious projects to date,
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but
he has had a career like no other. A former stand-up comedian
who gave up performing after a long run on the road with Rodney
Dangerfield and many others, he's since published eight books,
and written a hundred hours of primetime television. He's also
traveled around the world for thirty years, writing as he
journeyed for a dozen national magazines. One of his latest
incarnations is as a recurring character in the HBO's hit
series, "The Sopranos."
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After
writing and producing network television for a decade, he
reinvented himself with the publication of his first novel, Fast
Greens, currently nearing production as a major motion
picture. His books
have sold more than a quarter million copies.
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