http://salisburyforum.org Where Ideas Come Together Mon, 06 Sep 2010 20:25:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Salisbury Forum opens its 2010 – 2011th season with “Conflict and Peace – Why Should Women Be at the Table?” The first forum will be held on Friday, September 24 at 7:30 pm,  at The Salisbury School, Seifert Theater. The featured speaker is Maryam Elahi, Human Rights lawyer and Director ... http://salisburyforum.org/sept-24-2010-conflict-and-peace-why-should-women-be-at-the-table/ The Salisbury Forum continues the fall 2010 season with a fascinating and timely subject, “The U.S. and China – A Question of Our Common Interests”. Orville Shell, Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society will speak on Friday, October 15th, 7:30 pm at the Katherine ... http://salisburyforum.org/oct-15-2010-the-us-and-china-a-question-of-our-common-interests/ From TCExtra.com Opinion/Viewpoint No news is not good news Editorial 06/10/2010 Peter Osnos gave hope to those of us who want to continue to maintain their connections to all kinds of news, whether local, national or international, at the last Salisbury Forum presentation for the season on Friday evening, June 4, at ... http://salisburyforum.org/no-news-is-not-good-news/ By JANET MANKO Reprinted with permission, The Lakeville Journal, © Copyright 2010. FALLS VILLAGE — The amphitheater in Room 133 at Housatonic Valley Regional High School overflowed with adults and students on Friday evening, May 14, as the Salisbury Forum explored freedom of speech in an event called, “The Constitution in Our ... http://salisburyforum.org/may-20-2010-the-lakeville-journal-students-explore-issues-of-public-speech-through-documentaries/ By Bruce T. Paddock April, 15, 2010 Reprinted with permission, The Lakeville Journal, © Copyright 2010. SALISBURY — The Salisbury Forum brought two favorite guests back for an appearance last Friday, April 9, at Salisbury School. For journalist and best-selling author Todd Brewster, it was a second appearance in Salisbury, while Yale Law School ... http://salisburyforum.org/at-salisbury-forum-journalist-scholar-analyze-obama-presidency/ 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 to survey the ways the internet ... http://salisburyforum.org/june-4-2010-good-books-quality-news-publishing-and-journalism-in-the-digital-age/ 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 to improving the quality of ... http://salisburyforum.org/may-14-2010-the-constitution-in-our-midst/ 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, Yale Law School Todd ... http://salisburyforum.org/april-9-2010-the-presidency-in-the-age-of-obama/ 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 by the Salisbury Forum Friday, ... http://salisburyforum.org/oct-22-2009-lakeville-journal-salisbury-forum-planets-prognosis-not-good/ 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 plan that ... http://salisburyforum.org/coming-soon-frontline-obamas-war-pbs/