WHAT DO WE OFFER?
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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
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The Thomas Jefferson Memorial Lecture Series featuring noteworthy speakers, usually held on the Southern Oregon University campus in the spring and the fall
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Our website — www.thejeffcenter.org — |
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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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