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		<title>December 8, 2011 The Lakeville Journal: &#8220;Seeking Salvation at The Salisbury Forum&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SALISBURY — Anthony Kronman began his talk on “The Humanities in the Age of Disenchantment” by quoting Max Weber talking about “disenchantment” in 1917. He wound his way around to poet Walt Whitman and the Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza in the course of an unusual talk at the Salisbury School Friday, Dec. 2, as part [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Human Terrain: War Becomes Academic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sunday, February 26, 2012, Film Screening @ 11:30AM The Moviehouse, Millerton, NY ‘Human Terrain’ is an expose of the U.S. effort to enlist America’s best and the brightest in a global struggle for the hearts and minds of its enemies. After winning the short battle of ’shock and awe’ in Iraq, but losing the long [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://salisburyforum.org/human-terrain-war-becomes-academic/</link>
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		<title>The Humanities In The Age of Disenchantment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Anthony Kronman, Ph.D., Sterling Professor of Law, Yale University, presented a stimulating lecture December, 2, 2011, on disenchantment as defined by Max Weber, the German philospher where scientific understanding is more highly prized than belief. Dr. Kronman pointed out that during the first two hundred years of university education in America students were taught knowledge that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday, December 2, 2011: The Humanities In The Age of Disenchantment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[7:30PM, Seifert Theater, Salisbury School, Salisbury, CT Anthony T. Kronman, J.D., Ph.D., Author, Sterling Professor of Law (Yale Law School) Visiting Global Professor (NYU) Teacher in the Directed Studies Program (Yale) Why are we here? Anthony Kronman says our colleges and universities are ignoring life&#8217;s biggest questions and we all pay the price. Students today [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://salisburyforum.org/november-4-2011-the-humanities-in-the-age-of-disenchantment/</link>
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		<title>September 22, 2011: The Lakeville Journal &#8220;Amazing Amazon&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Patrick L. Sullivan LAKEVILLE — Flesh-eating bacteria, vampire bats, hallucinogenic brews served up by shamans. Sounds like an exploitation movie.These were just a few of the gaudier elements of a talk by ethnobotanist Mark J. Plotkin Friday night, Sept. 16, at The Hotchkiss School, as part of the Salisbury Forum series. Plotkin, who co-founded [...]]]></description>
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		<title>September 16, 2011 Rainforest Conservation &amp; The Search for New Jungle Medicines</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; 7:30PM,  The Hotchkiss School, Walker Auditorium, Lakeville, CT. Mark J. Plotkin, Ph.D. Ethnobotanist, Author and President of the Amazon Conservation Team. . Profile writers compare Mark Plotkin to Indiana Jones and some colleagues call him the Carl Sagan of the rain forest. Plotkin has followed tribal medicine men or shamans into the deep forests [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://salisburyforum.org/september-16-2011-rainforest-conservation-the-search-for-new-jungle-medicines/</link>
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		<title>March 31, 2011, The Lakeville Journal: Photo historian speaks at Salisbury Forum</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Leon Graham leong@lakevillejournal.com ROBIN KELSEY Photo Submitted SALISBURY — The Salisbury Forum turns away from its usual sessions on global and national issues into the world of photography on Friday, April 8, at 7:30 p.m. when Harvard’s Robin Kelsey presents “How Photography Has Changed Our Lives — Performing for the Camera” at the Salisbury [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://salisburyforum.org/march-31-2011-the-lakeville-journal-photo-historian-speaks-at-salisbury-forum/</link>
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		<title>May 13, 2011: U.S. Healthcare: Why Not The Best?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why reform healthcare? What reforms were passed? How will it help me? To help us better answer these questions, The Salisbury Forum in collaboration with the Foundation for Community Health is excited to announce that Karen Davis, President and CEO of The Commonwealth Fund will be speaking on Friday, May 13th at 7:30 in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://salisburyforum.org/may-13-2011-u-s-healthcare-why-not-the-best/</link>
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		<title>March 3, 2011, The Lakeville Journal: Call to action to stop overfishing of the oceans</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Call to action to stop overfishing of the oceans By Janet Manko March, 03, 2011 MILLERTON — It takes something special to get hundreds of people out on a snowy Sunday morning in February. The Salisbury Forum and Moviehouse FilmWorks Forum presentation of “The End of the Line,” hosted by actor Sam Waterston at The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://salisburyforum.org/march-3-2011-the-lakeville-journal-call-to-action-to-stop-overfishing-of-the-oceans/</link>
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		<title>April 8, 2011: How Photography Has Changed Our Lives &#8211; Performing for the Camera, from Daguerreotype to Facebook</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Salisbury Forum April 8, 2011 at Salisbury School, Seifert Theater at 7:30 pm “Smile for the camera,” the saying goes. But why does the camera need our smiles? On the evening of April 8th, Robin Kelsey, Burden Professor of Photography at Harvard University, will discuss the ways in which photography and its demands have infiltrated [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://salisburyforum.org/april-8-2011-how-photography-has-changed-our-lives-performing-for-the-camera-from-daguerreotype-to-facebook/</link>
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