What are the legal and medical challenges surrounding end-of-life care? Dr. Timothy Quill, Director of the Palliative Care Program at the University of Rochester Medical Center, will be in town next week to lecture at SMU’s Cary M. Maguire Center for Ethics and Public Responsibility. We’ll get a preview this hour with Dr. Quill and the Center’s Director, Dr. Thomas Mayo.
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We’ve all heard about programs that help people in developing countries around the world – from food and housing relief to micro-lending. This hour we’ll talk about programs that make a difference right here in North Texas with Larry James, President and CEO of Central Dallas Ministries and Anthony Pace, Executive Director of The Plan Fund.
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What happened to the female founders of the early Christian church? What were their roles and what are the implications for Christians today? These questions sparked the interest of award-winning journalist and former Dallas Morning News editor Rena Pederson. We’ll spend this hour with Pederson, whose new book is “The Lost Apostle: Searching for the Truth About Junia” (Jossey-Bass, 2006).
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Southern Methodist University officials are confident that the George W. Bush Presidential Library will have a home on the SMU campus. Some faculty members, however, are concerned about the library and the policy institute that would accompany it. In our first segment we’ll discuss the issue with Professor James F. Hollifield, director of the John Goodwin Tower Center for Political Studies and Professor Kathleen A. Wellman Professor of History at SMU’s Dedman College. D Magazine Food and Travel Editor Nancy Nichols will join us in the Scene segment to discuss current food trends in North Texas.
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Few writers can synthesize the realities of geopolitics and terrorism into fiction like Richard A. Clarke. Clarke has served as an advisor to four presidents, including three years as the counterterrorism czar for Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. Richard A. Clarke will join us this hour to discuss the possible future of terrorism as depicted in his latest novel “Breakpoint” (Putnam, 2007).
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It seems like violence is everywhere today. But what do you do when senseless violence takes the life of someone you love? It happened to Azim Khamisa (kah-MEE-sah). In 1995 his 20-year-old son Tariq was murdered by a 14-year-old gang member while delivering pizzas. Khamisa found a path to forgiveness of his son’s killer and has shared his message with thousands through speeches and workshops ever since. Azim Khamisa will present his Violence Impact Forum to area school children next week. He’ll be our guest this hour.
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When is it appropriate to answer that cell phone and when is it not? What is the proper way to behave in a checkout line or at an ATM? What about eating in public? Thomas Blaikie has literally written the rule book on proper behavior in today’s fast-paced society. We’ll spend this hour with the author of “To the Manner Born” A Most Proper Guide to Modern Civility” (Villard, 2006).
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How do young people view the world through the lens of war? We’ll discuss “Stolen Voices: Young People’s War Diaries From World War I to Iraq” (Penguin, 2006) with the co-editors, best-selling Bosnian war diarist Zlata Filipovic’ (fill-i-POE-vich) and writer and activist Melanie Challenger.
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Everyone understands that post-disaster housing is an issue worth discussing, but the time to have the conversation is before a disaster ever occurs. We’ll discuss the challenges of housing displaced people this hour with Dr. Paul Oliver, Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute and Editor of the “Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World.” Dr. Oliver will deliver the lecture “The Problem with Post-Disaster Housing” this afternoon in the McDermott Suite at The University of Texas at Dallas.
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How do you know you can trust someone? How does your brain know? We’ll discuss the issue of trust and how the brain plays a role with Dr. Richard King Clinical Assistant Professor of Cognition and Neuroscience at UTD’s Center for Brain Health. Dr. King will deliver the first lecture, “The Decision to Trust: Clues from Brain Imaging” in the Center for Brain Health’s series “The Brain: An Owner’s Guide” next week. We’ll get a preview this hour.
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Today we’ll once again turn to professional help for a two-hour special discussion of grammar and usage with language and grammar expert Bryan Garner. Garner is the author of several acclaimed books on the subject, including “Garner’s Modern American Usage,” “The Elements of Legal Style” and “A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage.” He is also editor-in-chief of “Black’s Law Dictionary.”
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Is school segregation worse today than it was 50 years ago? Journalist Susan Eaton thinks it is. Eaton spent four years at an all-minority public school in Hartford Connecticut and maintains that schools are poorer and growing more segregated every year. Susan Eaton will join us this hour to discuss the situation and her new book “The Children in Room E4; American Education on Trial” (Algonquin, 2007).
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