The Jefferson Center 208 Oak Street, Suite 101 Ashland, OR 97520
541.488.9450
 

WHAT DO WE OFFER?

Monthly "Salon" groups with a variety of program subjects, all including a vigorous discussion followed by a social hour AND

Monthly Book Discussion Group on a book of interest to the members; meets on the second Tuesday of the month

The Thomas Jefferson Memorial Lecture Series featuring noteworthy speakers, usually held on the Southern Oregon University campus in the spring and the fall

Our website — www.thejeffcenter.org
Membership in The Jefferson Center, with accompanying newsletter, The Open Mind, for those who support our mission, aims, and objectives

 

 PAST LECTURERS IN THE THOMAS JEFFERSON MEMORIAL LECTURE SERIES:

 Barry Lynn - "Are the Culture Wars Over?  Not By a Long Shot!"

Eugenie Scott - "Why Evolution Is Fact and Intelligent Design Is Fiction"

Eric S. Mallin - "Shakespeare, Godlessness and Perversity"

Paul Zachary (PZ) Myers - Charles Darwin Bicentennial Lecture

Lori Lipman Brown - "On a Voice To Congress for the 16% of Americans Who Are

                                Non-Religious"

Bill Rauch - "OSF's 2008 Season:  A Celebration of the Human"

Steve Benson and Dan Barker - "Tunes and 'Toons"

Carolyn Porco - "On the Cosmos and Life: The Greatest Story Ever Told"

Erik Wielenberg - "Objective Ethical Truth Without God"

Joyce Appleby - "What Is Still Living in Jefferson's Thought?"   [inaugural lecture - October 2006]

                                 

 

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