LECTURE TRANSCRIPTS AND DISCUSSIONS


Comedy and the City - The City of Imagination Lecture Series

The Comic Life of Cities, Robert S. Dupree - 10/31/07

Loosening the Snarl, Glenn C. Arbery - 11/14/07

What's Up History's Inner Sleeve: Myth and the Fabric of Culture, Dennis Patrick Slattery

Confronting Global Problems of Environment - The City of Imagination Lecture Series

Lame Hephaistos: Technology at the World's EndGlenn Arbery - 10/11/06

Utopia - The City of Imagination Lecture Series

The Constitution of Bliss Glenn Arbery - 3/5/03

The Humane City - The City of Imagination Lecture Series

Learning from New York Gail Thomas - 10/2/02

Loneliness and the City Virginia Arbery - 10/16/02

Unintended Consequences Rena Pederson - 10/23/02

Beyond Humane--Developing a Higher Vision for "Fort Dallas", Rich Morgan, AIA - 10/30/02

Teachers Academy - Metaphors of Measure: Tests, Contests and Who We Are

Why the Metaphors Matter Glenn Arbery - 09/27/02

Funeral Games and RBI's Larry Allums - 09/27/02

God and Culture - The City of Imagination Lecture Series

Fathers and Son: The Genealogy of the Cosmos Glenn Arbery - 03/20/02

The Style of God Frederick Turner - 03/13/02

The Secular City: A Discussion Larry Allums - 03/06/02

The Promethean Paradox Joanne Stroud - 03/06/02

Political Liberty and The Duty to Worship:  Honoring Queequeq,  Virginia Arbery - 02/27/02

The City and Elemental Nature - The City of Imagination Lecture Series

The Imaginal Energy of Earth, Joanne Stroud - 10/31/01

A Civil Breathing, Glenn Arbery - 10/24/01

The Promethean Gift and the Elemental Context of Nature, Larry Allums - 10/17/01

The Mysteries of Water: "In Every Drop of Water Dwells a Deity," Gail Thomas - 10/03/01


Power - The City of Imagination Lecture Series 

Ancient to Modern: the Changing Face of Power, Larry Allums - 03/21/01

The Future of Power, Bainard Cowan - 03/14/01

Power Awaits Direction: Consciousness and Obedience, Virginia Arbery - 03/07/01

The Power Discussion Forum


What Does the River Want To Be?

 A Conference Presented by The Dallas Institute - 01/26/01


The Future of Beauty - The City of Imagination Lecture Series 

The Paradox of Democratic Beauty, Virginia Arbery - 11/01/00

Gaston Bachelard as Guide, Joanne Stroud - 10/25/00

Beauty as Theft, Mary Vernon - 10/18/00

How Beauty Evolves, Frederick Turner - 10/11/00

The Frail Strength of Beauty, Louise Cowan - 10/04/00

Selling Beauty: The Future of a Sacrifice, Glenn Arbery  - 9/27/00

The Future of Beauty Discussion Forum

Globalization and Consciousness - The City of Imagination Lecture Series 

The Noosphere: Our Call to Globalization of the Spirit, Louise Cowan - 4/19/00

Babel: the Fear of Humanity and the Illusion of Divinity, Dan Russ - 3/29/00

Thinking in Spheres: Divine Consciousness and Globalization, Gail Thomas  - 3/22/00

Here and Everywhere: the Icons of Global Consciousness, Glenn Arbery  - 3/15/00

Seven Blind Men and an Elephant: the Future of World Religions, Frederick Turner  - 3/08/00

From Fragments to the Whole: the Difficult Passage, Bainard Cowan - 3/01/00

Violence and the City - The City of Imagination Lecture Series 

The Voice of Violence—Its Afflicted Utterance, Dennis Slattery - 12/01/99

The Tradition of Violence in American Literature, Bainard Cowan - 11/17/99

Hamlet and the Grief Counselors, Larry Allums - 10/20/99

Misfits, Complacencies, and the Gods of Violence, Glenn Arbery - 10/13/99
 

Fellows Conference: Education and its Metaphors

Fairy Tale Education: Natural Classicism and Creativity, Frederick Turner - 3/27/99

Visible and Invisible Forms - The City of Imagination Lecture Series 

Opposing Selves—Roles and Masks, Joanne Stroud - 3/10/99

Ecological Turbulence and the Hadean Arcadia, Frederick Turner - 3/3/99

The Why and Wherefore of Farms and Banks, Larry Allums - 2/24/99
 

Fellows Conference: Friendship and the Soul of the City

The Virtuous Have Neighbors, Mary Vernon - 11/21/98

Talk by Robert Tramell, Robert Trammell - 11/21/98
 

Work and Play in the City - The City of Imagination Lecture Series 

Spiritual Psychology of Work, Robert Sardello - 11/18/98

Gaston Bachelard: The Hand of Work and Play, Joanne Stroud - 11/11/98

Against the Rules: Poetry, Form and Play, Glenn Arbery - 10/28/98

The Divine at Play with Itself: Feng Shui with Feeling, Gail Thomas - 10/21/98

Corporatism, Efficiency, and the Work of Imagination, Larry Allums - 10/7/98