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Friday, June 10, 2022, 11:30 a.m.
Elder Care: Connecting through Imagination, Joy, and Wonder
Our elders, especially those experiencing dementia and Alzheimer’s are often isolated in nursing homes or segregated in elder-care settings, making the final years of life feel lonely and devoid of meaning. But what if we could radically change how we...
Friday, May 20, 2022, 11:30 a.m.
Undelivered: The Never-Heard Speeches That Would Have Rewritten History
Speeches have the power to educate, incite, and inspire. But for almost every delivered speech, there exists an undelivered opposite. These “second speeches” provide a tantalizing, sometimes terrifying window into what could have been if not for changes of heart...
Friday, May 13, 2022, 11:30 a.m.
Laboratories of Autocracy: A Wake-Up Call from Behind the Lines
The greatest threat to American democracy, says David Pepper isn't the high-profile antics of national politicians. In his new book, Laboratories of Autocracy, he posits that the greatest danger to democracy is in our own statehouses, and the dismantling of...
Friday, April 29, 2022, 11:30 a.m.
The 2022 Charles R. See Annual Forum on Reentry featuring Ms. Susan Burton
The story of Ms. Susan Burton is a story of redemption and overcoming the odds. After the loss of her 5-year old son, addiction took hold of Ms. Burton sending her on a decades-long journey of incarceration and recidivism. After six...
Wednesday, March 30, 2022, 12:00 p.m.
Our Team: How Cleveland Changed Baseball…and America
The story of Cleveland's 1948 baseball season is America's story. A year that happened to include a World Series victory is also the year when the integration of Major League Baseball took major steps forward, with Cleveland breaking barriers for...
Wednesday, March 09, 2022, 12:00 p.m.
The Coddling of the American Mind
The debate over free speech on college and university campuses has become a dominant issue facing higher education. Reports on the implementation of university speech codes and trigger warning policies, the establishment of free-speech zones and safe spaces, and protests...
Friday, February 04, 2022, 12:00 p.m.
There's a battle over the soul of democracy today, and recently, access to the ballot box has become the site of some of the most important legislative conflicts. Across the country--Georgia, Texas, and here in Ohio--legislators and activists are clashing...
Thursday, January 13, 2022, 12:00 p.m.
Good Medicine: A Conversation with Robin Wall Kimmerer
In her university classroom, Robin Wall Kimmerer begins the semester by surveying her students on their perceptions of human’s interactions with land. She routinely found that nearly all her students believed humans and nature are a bad mix. Furthermore, they...
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