September Salons

Reservations required for all salons.

Spaces for some salons are limited and reservations will be
accepted in order of receipt. If you cannot honor
a reservation please call to cancel.

Bring chair to salon when noted (chair).

 

1st Wednesday 7:15PM The Salon
How Life Began

Jack Farmer, PhD, an astrobiologist at ASU and NASA, will discuss the origins of life on Earth and what we know of what life is in the universe.

http://jfarmer.asu.edu/

2nd Thursday 7PM The Salon
Energy Security and the Environment

Rick Van Schoik, PhD, director of Transborder Studies at ASU, will discuss North American energy security and environmental issues.

http://nacts.asu.edu/partners/bios/nacts-staff/mr-d-rick-van-schoik

3rd Friday 11AM The Salon
The Decision Theater

George Basile, PhD, director of ASU’s Decision Theater, will discuss sustainability and the marketplace and the use of The Decision Theater.

http://schoolofsustainability.asu.edu/faculty/persbio.php?pid=7444

9th Thursday 7PM The Salon
Gorilla Encounters

The experience of being and living with gorillas in the wild of Rwanda, and what was learned about gorilla behavior, will be discussed by Dieter and Netzin Steklis, who have served for twenty years as directors and scientists for the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International.

http://www.wild-minds.org/About_Us.html

11th Saturday 7PM The Salon
Color Does Not Exist

Richard Nilsen, arts critic for The Arizona Republic, will discuss how everything we have learned about color is wrong.

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/

13th Monday 7PM The Salon (chair)
PSA, Prostate Cancer, and the
Evolution of a Medical Paradigm

Murray Feldstein, MD, a physician at The Mayo Clinic, will discuss ethics and philosophy of the controversies of PSA screening for prostate cancer, with a personal historical perspective as well as the usual research data.

http://www.mayoclinic.org/bio/13596314.html

15th Wednesday 7PM The Salon (chair)
To See Ourselves as Others See Us:
Americans, Canadians and the Border

Susan Gray, PhD, an ASU history professor, will discuss the stereotypes and historical basis of how Americans and Canadians see each other.

https://webapp4.asu.edu/directory/person/90238

18th Saturday 7PM The Salon (chair)
Music for Guitar

Guitarist Ricardo Paz will perform music of composers: Alonso Mudarra, Luis de Narváez,Manuel M. Ponce, Agustín Barrios Mangoré and Tomás Marco.

Renowned Mexican guitarist Ricardo Paz began his guitar studies at an early age with Professor Luis Robert and the concert guitarist Manuel Lopez Ramos. He continued his studies at the National School of Music of the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico where he graduated in guitar performance with Professor Juan Carlos Laguna. He got his Masters degree with professor Frank Koonce at ASU and he is currently studying the DMA in guitar performance at the same University.

21st Tuesday 7PM The Salon
Preventive Medicine
Tips for Living a Long and Healthy Life

Robert Orford, MD, a physician at The Mayo Clinic, will discuss preventive medicine, the measures taken to prevent diseases rather than treating symptoms.

http://www.mayoclinic.org/bio/10401997.html

http://www.thebarrow.org/index.htm

22nd Wednesday 7PM The Salon (chair)
The Calendar

Author David Ewing Duncan will discuss his book ‘Calendar: Humanity’s Epic Struggle to Determine a True and Accurate Year’, that traces the development of our modern-day calendar and describes how people's experiences are shaped by their conception of time.

http://www.davidewingduncan.com/

24th Friday 7PM The Salon (chair)
Music and Art of Anna Vivette

Anna Vivette Condren, a soprano and mixed media artist, will sing music of Puccini and show her art.

http://www.annavivette.com/annavivette/Welcome.html

27th Monday 7PM The Salon (chair)
Politics

Bruce Merrill, PhD, long time political pollster and consultant, will discuss the current national and state political issues, controversies and fall elections.

http://cronkite.asu.edu/beyond/merrillbio

28th Tuesday 7PM The Salon (chair)
Saving Tania’s Privates

After touring her play in Seattle , Edinburgh, and elsewhere, breast cancer survivor, writer / performer Tania Katan will discuss her witty, honest and courageous One-Woman Show ‘Saving Tania’s Privates’ that will be performed at The Little Theatre at the Phoenix Theatre, September 16 – October 10 . The play explores her relationships with girlfriends, family and survival.

http://www.taniakatan.com/

30th Thursday 7:15PM The Salon
Antimicrobial Products

Rolf U. Halden, PhD, Assistant Director of the Center for Environmental Biotechnology at ASU’s Biodesign Institute, will discuss if antimicrobial personal care products, such as hand sanitizers, are good for us. Dr. Halden will provide an overview of the current state of knowledge and environmental and health concerns.

http://faculty.jhsph.edu/default.cfm?faculty_id=1020