Sena Havasy

11 a.m., January 27, 2019

Longtime Humanist Community member Sena Havasy will give a brief history of the Industrial Workers of the World, and introduce some of the dedicated activists of the movement, some of the major strikes, and gains won and horrific reactions. She will finish with the decline in its numbers, and its later history, up until the present day.

After the Forum, please join us for a lunch at 12:30pm. The lunch is complimentary for first-time visitors and students.

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Barby Ulmer

11 a.m., January 20, 2019

Hear stories about the lives of incredible, courageous women from around the world, who, despite severe obstacles, found their way to Ghana for the Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom ( 103 years old) Triennial Congress in Ghana. We don’t really have a clue as to what these women face daily!

Barby Ulmer, a lifetime teacher at all levels from pre-school to university, with her late husband Vic, co-founded the now 50 years old, all volunteer non-profit Our Developing World, designed to bring realities of “developing countries” to North Americans through programs, teacher training and a lending resource library (Reality Tours), and handcraft sales to tell the stories of the artisans’lives. We believe that we’re all developing and can do better if we work together & learn from each other.

After the Forum, please join us for a lunch at 12:30pm. The lunch is complimentary for first-time visitors and students.

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Ron Garret

11 a.m., January 6, 2019

This is the second in a series of talks on the history of science and how we came to our present understanding of how our world works. This installment focuses on astronomy and cosmology, tracing the history of these fields from the ancient Greeks through to the recent discoveries of dark matter, dark energy, and gravitational waves.

Ron Garret is a software engineer by trade. He is currently working on easy-to-use-cryptography software. He was a co-founder and CTO of Virgin Charter, and an early hire at Google. He was previously a rocket scientist. He also made a feature-length documentary about homelessness. His blog can be found here.

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