From Shared Learning Fall 2024 Calendar:
Cultural Wars: Past and Present (10 weeks beginning on Sept. 18) 11:30-1:00
From IND Winter 2023 Calendar:
#132 Egalitarianism vs. Meritocracy: Social Tension in American Society
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm (U.S. Eastern Time) 1/24 & 1/31
From IND Fall 2022 Calendar:
#431 Are There Realistic Solutions to Major National and World Problems?
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm (U.S. Eastern Time) 9/8, 9/22, 10/6, 10/20, 11/3, 11/17, 12/1
Schedule
Session 1 – Effect of population increase and the problem of sustainability
Session 2 – Specific population related problems: urbanization, water, et al.
Session 3 – Income and wealth disparity
Session 4 – Effect of rapid technological change
Session 5 – Social stability versus material progress
Session 6 – Individualism versus collective interests
Session 7 – Existential threats
More recent courses by Alan S. Ziegler:
What Can We Know About the Future : Assessing the Reliability of Technoligical Forecasting
Assessing the Efficacy of Violence for Positive Polticial Change
Designer Babies: Freedom and Responsibility
What Does it Mean to be Human (from an Anthropological Point of View)
What If Aging Were Considered As a Disease
Science in the News: The Social, Political, and Legal Implications of Technological Change
Older Examples:
Fall Term 2015 - World Changers - at Shared Learning of Chapel Hill
Fall Term 2015 - Shapers of the Future - at Peer Learning of Chapel Hill
April 1, 2014 - The Scientific Promise of an Unlimited Lifespan -Public Lecture in Chapel Hill NC
Fall Term 2013 - World Changers: Developments That Will Dramatically Alter Our Grandchildren's Lives - Institute Of New Dimensions N.J.
2013 - Gun Control Legislation from a Constitutional Law Perspective at Ridgewood Unitarian Society, Ridgewood, N.J.
2013 - The Rise, Fall and Rebirth of Eugenics at the Central Unitarian Church, Paramus, N.J
2013 - Should Government Control Scientific Research ?
2012 First Freedoms: The Controversial First Amendment Rights We Take for Granted
2011 The Roberts Supreme Court: "Reactionary", "Revisionist" or "Radical “?
[Miscellaneous courses and lectures from 1999 to 2010 related to the Supreme Court and the Constitution or to the future impact of technology on society]