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Shift: Managing Your Emotions so They Don't Manage You
Tension is high this time of year, personally and politically, and award-winning University of Michigan Professor Ethan Kross is in town for a specia…
1 year, 1 month ago
Humanities West Presents Hannibal’s Carthage
The Phoenicians were the most civilized people of the Near East and the greatest businessmen and conduits of culture of the ancient world (e.g., they…
1 year, 1 month ago
Solar Power to the People
At this moment, the cheapest way to create electricity is by pointing a solar panel at the sun. That’s good news for the climate. It’s also good news…
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Joan Baez - Legendary Artist & Activist
Joan Baez returns to Commonwealth Club World Affairs nearly 45 years after she came here to discuss “Human Rights in the Eighties.” She's coming back…
1 year, 1 month ago
Juan Williams: The Rise of America's Second Rights Movement
More than a century of civil rights activism reached a mountaintop with the arrival of a Black man in the Oval Office. But hopes for a unified, post-…
1 year, 1 month ago
Reid Hoffman: Superagency and Our AI Future
The advent of artificial intelligence has spawned numerous nightmare scenarios of a runaway technology negatively affecting everything from jobs to n…
1 year, 1 month ago
‘Porcelain War’ Film Screening & Discussion
“Ukraine is like porcelain, easy to break yet impossible to destroy.”
—Slava Leontyev
Join us for a Q&A with the co-director and the producer.
Under roa…
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A Revolution in Medicine: The Science Fueling a New Age of Cures
Join us to learn about scientific achievements that might give you and your loved ones access to transformational treatment options today or in the n…
1 year, 1 month ago
Drag Queen Pattie Gonia: Bringing Joy to Climate Action
When individuals want to take action on climate, it’s often in the form of electrifying a home, voting, or maybe even traditional activism. Those are…
1 year, 1 month ago
The Economy 2025: The Impacts of Tariffs, Tax Cuts and Trump
The Walter E. Hoadley Annual Economic Forecast, presented by Bank of America.
Major changes are coming to tax, tariff, and regulatory policy in the wa…
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