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Russia and the U.S.

The World Affairs Council of San Antonio — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 13:47:35 +0000

The Man Who Built The Stieren

McNay Art Museum — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 22:18:06 +0000

Jean-Paul Viguier, architect for the Jane & Arthur Stieren Center for Exhibitions, returns for a special collaboration between the museum and UTSA’s College of Architecture.

Viguier’s talk marks the fifth anniversary of the opening of the Stieren Center.

Women Governing San Antonio Past And Present

St. Mary's University — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 14:11:52 +0000

Women were the topic of this Community Conversation at St. Mary’s University as well as a majority of the attendees. The event hosted four females who have significantly impacted San Antonio in past and present:

Isabelle Dervaux On American Surrealism

McNay Art Museum — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 19:54:40 +0000

American Surrealism differed from the movement that originated in France in the 1920s as artists reinterpreted Dalí's dreamlike imagery in the context of the Great Depression and under the influence of the American realist tradition.

NPR Commentator E.J. Dionne At St. Mary's

St. Mary's University — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 18:09:34 +0000

Longtime Washington Post columnist and NPR political analyst E.J. Dionne Jr. spoke about his book, "Our Divided Political Heart," at 7 p.m. on March 19 at St. Mary’s University as part of the Lin Great Speakers Series.

Dionne spent 14 years at The New York Times covering local, state and national politics; he also served as a foreign correspondent in Paris, Rome and Beirut before joining The Washington Post in 1990. He has written his twice-weekly column for the Post since 1993.

The Role Of Forgiveness In Medicine

The Center for Medical Humanities & Ethics — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 20:19:51 +0000

Do we think of doctors as gods? Do they think it? If so, what does it mean when doctors fail or have an unexpected outcome? How do these expectations impact our ability as patients and their ability as doctors to deal with human error? What is the role of forgiveness in medicine for doctors and patients?

Where The Water Comes From

Texas Water Symposium — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 14:22:23 +0000

Removing one Cedar tree from your property can keep 40 gallons of water in the ground per day; that's 14,600 gallons per year of a resource that is becoming less and less available as much of the state continues to be in drought conditions. This statistic was read off by Dr. Tom Arsuffi at the March 8th meeting of the Texas Water Symposium entitled Texas Springs: Making Connections between Groundwater, Surface Water, Science and Stewardship at the Llano Field Campus of Texas Tech University in Junction, Texas.

How To Get The U.S. Economy Moving

The World Affairs Council of San Antonio — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 22:45:00 +0000

Richard Fisher, head of the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank, heaped praise on his friend and former colleague Dick Evans at the World Affairs Council International Citizen of the Year Award Dinner.

When he wasn't cracking jokes about the lack of leadership in Washington D.C., he was suggesting some guiding principles for how to get the U.S. economy to pick up speed.

CEO of Frost Bank, Dick Evans, is honored by the World Affairs Council of San Antonio as the International Citizen of the Year. You can hear that presentation below.

Contemporary Art Crash Course

McNay Art Museum — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 17:19:56 +0000

Contemporary Art is both a maligned and lauded movement. For the average person, it is taxing to try and meet an artist halfway in a piece of art that is designed to be as much a dialogue as an expression.

Journey To The Underworld With Laura Rios And Jane Madrigal

Bihl Haus Arts — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 19:25:52 +0000

Laura Rios performs a traditional Matachin song at the closing of Jane Madrigal's exhibit, Journey to the Underworld and Other Forbidden Places before the End of Time, which was on display at Bihl Haus Arts from November 2012 through January 2013.

The installation featured a temple to Coyolxauhqui, goddess of the moon, and artworks dedicated to other indigenous feminine deities revered before the conquest. These works honor the ancient belief that held sacred the feminine principle and equated it with spiritual power and reverence.