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 Available |
| 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 Available |
| 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