May 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.

(chair) = please bring small folding chair
that has padded tips on chair legs.

 

 

9th Thursday 7PM The Salon (chair)
Cyber Security

Brad Allenby, PhD, distinguished sustainability professor and a Lincoln professor of engineering and ethics at ASU, will discuss issues of international cyber security.

http://sustainability.asu.edu/people/persbio.php?pid=4360

10th Friday 6:30PM The Salon
The Bats

Outside at sunset, Angela McIntire, a bat specialist at the Arizona Fish and Game Department and President, Western Bat Working Group, will lead members to visit a major bat home in Phoenix to see the flight of the bats, followed by an indoor conversation about bats.

http://www.wbwg.org/aboutus/biosketches/president.html

http://www.azgfd.gov/

11th Saturday 10AM The Salon
Aerial Photography
$15 non-museum member admission fee

Rebecca Sent, of Center for Creative Photography, UofA, and photography curator of the Phoenix Art Museum, will discuss the exhibition ‘From Above: Aerial Photography from the Center of Creative Photography’.

http://www.creativephotography.org/contact-us/rebecca-becky-senf

http://www.phxart.org/

14th Tuesday 7PM The Salon (chair)
Music for Violin and Guitar

Violinist Alan Ames and guitarist Maryanne Kremer-Ames of Lyra, will perform original compositions and a mix of musical styles including classical and jazz.

http://earthsongonline.com/lyra/

15th Wednesday 7PM The Salon (chair)
Embodied Cognition

Arthur Glenberg, PhD, a psychology professor at ASU, will discuss how words, objects, and events become meaningful, understood through an embodied theory of cognition based on neural processes of perception, action, and emotion.

http://psychology.clas.asu.edu/glenberg

17th Friday 7PM The Salon
Echos of the Big Bang

Philip Mauskopf, PhD and astrophysicist and professor at the ASU School of Earth and Space Exploration, will discuss images of the primordial universe and cosmic microwave background that shows what the universe looked like billions of years ago before there were any stars or galaxies, and will discuss the recent images taken from the PLANCK satellite of the European Space Agency and NASA.

https://webapp4.asu.edu/directory/person/1863516

19th Sunday 11AM The Salon
Art of Turner G. Davis

Turner G. Davis will host members at his studios to discuss his drawings and paintings. He has been inspired by Surrealist painters and the Existentialist writers.

http://www.turnergdavis.com/

21st Tuesday 7:15PM The Salon
Science and Justice

Bruce Rittmann, PhD, a Regents Professor, and director Swette Center for environmental biotechnology, The Biodesign Institute, ASU will join Judge Sally Duncan, a criminal court judge in the Maricopa County Superior Court, and Judge Peter Swann, an appellate court judge on the Arizona Court of Appeals to discuss the impact of recent advances in science on decisions of the Court.

http://www.biodesign.asu.edu/people/bruce-rittmann

http://www.superiorcourt.maricopa.gov/JudicialBiographies/Judges/judicialBio.asp?jdgID=172&jdgUSID=3220

http://www.superiorcourt.maricopa.gov/JudicialBiographies/Judges/judicialBio.asp?jdgID=160&jdgUSID=1566

29th Wednesday 7PM The Salon (chair)
Arizona Allergies and Asthma

Michael Manning, MD, of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology Associates, will discuss Arizona allergies and asthma.

http://www.allergyasthmaaz.com/providers.html

30th Thursday 7PM The Salon (chair)
Income Inequality

Daniel Silverman, Rondthaler professor of economics, W.P. Carey School of Business, ASU, will discuss income inequality.

http://wpcarey.asu.edu/directory/people/profile.cfm?person=2246110

31st Friday 7PM The Salon (chair)
World Architecture

Jeff Stein AIA, President, Cosanti Foundation, and board member of the World Ecocities Congress, will discuss world architecture.

http://www.arcosanti.org/node/10032

Paolo Soleri, founder of the Cosanti Foundation, a friend and inspiration for Spirit of the Senses for almost 30 years passed away this Spring at age 93.