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I am pleased to provide this information about our 2010 Spring Season of the Salisbury Forum and to alert you that our first program will be at 7:30 PM on Friday, April 9th at the Seifert Theater at Salisbury School. Yale professor Akhil Reed Amar and Todd Brewster, President of The Connecticut Project for The Constitution, will return to discuss the first 444 days of the Obama presidency within the context of their 2008 Forum when they put forward examples from the Constitution and from U.S. history on what constitutes the 'perfect presidency.' This will be Akhil Amar's fourth Forum and promises to be as stimulating and informative as always.
At this website you can find information about each of our Forum events, including links to related news and resources about the topics covered. We hope you will find this helpful. As always, we welcome your comments and suggestions.
We hope you will plan to attend as many of these gatherings as you can and encourage others to join you.
On behalf of the Forum Board,
Walter DeMelle, Jr.
President
Salisbury Forum
February 2010
Events
April 9, 2010: The Presidency in the Age of Obama
7:30 p.m. at Salisbury School on Friday, April 9, 2010 Returning speakers, Todd Brewster and Akhil Reed Amar present a review of the first 444 days of the Obama Presidency from the perspective of their 2008 Forum, “The Perfect President.” Akhil Reed Amar, Southmayd Professor of Constitutional Law,... Read more
May 14, 2010: The Constitution In Our Midst
7:30 p.m. at Housatonic Valley Regional High School on Friday, May 14, 2010 Housatonic Valley Regional High School students show documentaries they created as part of a program with Global Village Media in a joint project with the The Connecticut Project for the Constitution, an organization dedicated... Read more
June 4, 2010: Good Books, Quality News: Publishing and Journalism in the Digital Age
7:30 p.m. at The Hotchkiss School on Friday, June 4, 2010: Good Books, Quality News: Publishing and Journalism in the Digital Age Peter Osnos, Founder, PublicAffairs Books; Vice-Chairman, Columbia Journalism Review, draws on decades of experience as a correspondent, editor, publisher and entrepreneur... Read more
News
Oct 22, 2009: The Lakeville Journal: Salisbury Forum: Planet’s Prognosis Not Good
By Patrick L. Sullivan, October, 22, 2009 Reprinted with permission, The Lakeville Journal, © Copyright 2009. SALISBURY — Jeffrey Sachs, an economist, and Bill Blakemore of ABC News delivered a rather gloomy assessment of the state of the planet at the opening of this season’s lectures sponsored... Read more
October 13, 2009: Frontline: Obama’s War | PBS
Recent Salisbury Forum speaker and FRONTLINE producer, Martin Smith, has a documentary airing on Tuesday, October 13, 2009, at 9P.M. ET on PBS: Obama’s War. Tens of thousands of fresh American troops are now on the move in Afghanistan, led by a new commander and armed with a counter-insurgency... Read more