2010 Program Listing and Availability

Arts, Literature, and Culture | Business and Community | Education | Leisure and Lifestyles | Politics and History | Religion | Science, Social Science, and Technology


ARTS, LITERATURE, AND CULTURE



1. Wise Women Just Want To Have Fun!
Sandra Cisneros, Author
11 seats
Available
2. For the Love of Jazz
Matthew Dunne, DMA, Department of Music
11 seats
Available
3. Building Green: What Does it Mean for San Antonio?
Ted Flato, Lake/Flato Architects
11 seats
Available
4. Art of Glass
Gini Garcia, Artist
11 seats
Available
6. Handicapping the Oscars
Steven Kellman, Ph.D., Department of English
11 seats
Available
7. The Art of Writing a Good Column
Robert Rivard (BA ’96), Editor and Senior Vice President, San Antonio Express-News
11 seats
Available


BUSINESS AND COMMUNITY



8. Raising the Profile of San Antonio: The Economy of Growth
Julian Castro, J.D., Mayor of San Antonio
11 seats
Available
9. World Expo 2010 Shanghai: How Can San Antonians Benefit from our Participation?
Elisa Chan (M.S. ’93), City Council, District 9
11 seats
Available
10. TBD
Henry Cisneros, Ph.D., Chairman, City View
11 seats
Available
11. FUNd-Raising 101
Maria-Eugenia Cossio-Ameduri, Former Executive Director, UNAM-SA and SA Public Library
11 seats
Available
12. A Visioning Process: What Kind of San Antonio Do We Want to Be?
Robbie Greenblum, J.D., Chief of Staff, Office of the Mayor
sold out
13. If You Can't Take the Heat: Being Successful in the Food Business
Rosemary Kowalski, Chairman Emeritus, RK Group
11 seats
Available
14. Networking for Fun and Profit
Deborah Menger, Department of Communication
11 seats
Available
15. The Leadership Dance: Leading Through Partnership
Gage Paine, Ph.D., Vice President for Student Affairs
11 seats
Available
16. Transforming the North East Side of San Antonio
Graham Weston, Chairperson, Rackspace Hosting
11 seats
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17. Weathering the Storm: Managing Your Finances in Tough Times
Jeanie Wyatt (M.B.A. '86), CEO and Chief Investment Officer, South Texas Money Management
11 seats
Available


EDUCATION



18. What Are the Characteristics of Effective Teachers and Principals?
Harriett Romo, Ph.D., Department of Sociology & Director, Mexico Center
sold out
19. The Function of Community Colleges in a Changing World
Raymund T. Paredes, Ph.D., Commissioner of Higher Education, The Higher Education Coordinating Board
11 seats
Available
20. The Role of Government in Early Childhood Education
The Honorable Leticia Van De Putte, Texas State Senator
11 seats
Available
21. Finding a Place for the Humanities in Medical Education?
Jerold Winakur M.D., Physician & Author, and Lee Robinson J.D., Attorney &: Poet
10 seats
Available


LEISURE AND LIFESTYLES



22. First and Goal: Building a Football Program from the Ground Up
Larry Coker, UTSA Head Football Coach
11 seats
Available
23. Buon Appetito! Eating and Cooking Italian Food
Julius Gribou, Executive Vice Provost and Roland K. Blumberg Endowed Professorship in Architecture
0 seats
Available
24. New Directions for Nuevo Latino Cuisine
Melissa Guerra, Owner, Tienda de Cocina
11 seats
Available
25. In Vino Veritas: Developing a Wine Collection
John T. Montford, J.D., Senior Vice President, AT&T
11 seats
Available
26. What Can Linear Parks Do for San Antonio?
Howard Peak (M.A. '75), Executive Director, State & Local Affairs, AT&T, Inc.
sold out
27. Small Town, Texas: What’s Happening?
Ricardo Romo, Ph.D., President, UTSA
11 seats
Available
28. The Science of Poker: How to Win 'Em and Hold 'Em
The Honorable Nelson Wolff, Bexar County Judge
11 seats
Available


POLITICS AND HISTORY



29. The 1910 Mexican Revolution: Its Lasting Impact on San Antonio and the Southwest
Felix D. Almaraz, Jr., Ph.D., Department of History
11 seats
Available
30. The West's Infatuation with Middle East Dictators
Mansour El-Kikhia, Ph.D., Chair, Department of Political Science and Geography
11 seats
Available
31. Primary Watch: The 2010 Political Year
Richard Gambitta, Ph.D., Director, Institute for Law and Public Affairs
11 seats
Available
32. Global Poverty: What is our Role?
Father David Garcia, Director, Old Spanish Missions
11 seats
Available
33. Obama: Evaluating the First Year
Amy Jasperson, Ph.D., Department of Political Science and Geography
11 seats
Available
34. The Evils of Unregulated Capitalism
David Liss, Author of Historical Novels
11 seats
Available
35. Does Race Still Matter in America?
Joycelyn Moody, Ph.D., Sue E. Denman Distinguished Chair in American Literature
and Kirsten Gardner, Ph.D., Department of History
10 seats
Available
36. Twin Trouble Spots: Afghanistan and Pakistan
Susan Oppenheimer, Instructor, Adult Learning in Retirement
11 seats
Available
37. Mexico: Why Immigration, Drugs, and Crime Are So Hard to Solve
Lionel Sosa, Marketing Consultant
11 seats
Available


RELIGION



38. Religion and Public Life
Rabbi Barry Block, Rabbi, Temple Beth-El
11 seats
Available
39. How Religious Were the Framers of the Constitution?
Steven D. Boyd, Ph.D., Department of History
11 seats
Available


SCIENCE, SOCIAL SCIENCE, AND TECHNOLOGY



40. He Said/She Said: Do Men and Women Really Talk Differently?
Bridget Drinka, Ph.D., Department of English
11 seats
Available
41. The Flight of the Butterflies: The Monarch's Migration
Monika Maeckle, Monarch Tagger, Citizen Scientist Program
11 seats
Available
42. Why is Modern Life So Stressful?
Mary McNaughton-Cassill, Ph.D., Department of Psychology
11 seats
Available
43. Learning How to Ski: How the Brain Navigates the Slope of Motor Learning
Donald Robin, Ph.D., Honors College and the Research Imaging Center
11 seats
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44. Is there Life on Other Planets?
Eric Schlegel, Ph.D., Vaughan Family Professor, Department of Physics & Astronomy
11 seats
Available
45. The Evolving Dynamics of Marriage and Family in Today's America
Xiaohe Xu, Ph.D., Department of Sociology
11 seats
Available

Last Update: 02 November 2009