Performance - Multimedia Lecture - Experience
Reinhard and Cornelia Flatischler

“Rhythm for Evolution” is an evening filled with music and inspiring information. This presentation will show how the TaKeTiNa rhythm process can contribute to raising consciousness and helping to solve some of the complex situations we deal with in our present world. Rhythm has the potential to provide us with needed skills, such as the ability to communicate, to remain flexible when faced with complexity, and develop creativity and intuition.

This multi-media lecture is embedded in an exciting drum performance with the world-renown musical couple, Reinhard and Cornelia Flatischler. You will get a direct, “hands on” experience of the possibilities inherent in the power of rhythm. You will see: you are deeply rhythmical.

Amy Goodman is the host and executive producer of Democracy Now!, a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program airing on 650 radio and television stations in North America. Time Magazine named Democracy Now! in its “Pick of the Podcasts.”

Goodman and her brother, journalist David Goodman, co-authored the NY Times bestseller Static: Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders, and the People Who Fight Back, and the New York Times bestseller The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them. Their book, Standing Up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times, was published in April, 2008. She writes a weekly column (also produced as an audio podcast) syndicated by King Features, for which she was recognized in 2007 with the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Reporting.

Pioneering the largest public media collaboration in the U.S., Democracy Now! is broadcast on Pacifica, NPR stations, low power FM, College and Community Radio stations as well as Public Access TV and PBS stations, and on both TV satellite networks -- DISH Network channel 9415 Free Speech TV, 9410 Link TV, and on Direct TV channel 375. Democracy Now! is also available at democracynow.org.

Integrative Health Leadership presents

TOWARDS A CRITICAL ANTHROPOLGY OF GLOBAL WARMING:
BEYOND CAPITALISM AND TOWARD AN ALTERNATIVE WORLD SYSTEM

Professor Hans Baer

While anthropologists have long examined the impact of environmental factors on human societies, they have only begun to explore the impact of global warming on human societies. This presentation posits the roots of global warming in the treadmill of capitalist production and consumption and examines the impact of global warming on settlement patterns, human subsistence, and health. Given that anthropologists have for long recognised that social systems, whether local, regional, national, or global do not last forever, I argue that the only way to mitigate global warming will be through the transcendence of global capitalism and its replacement by a new global political economy organised around a commitment to social parity, democratic processes and environmental sustainability. An emerging but still disparate climate movement holds the potential to be part of process of mitigation to stop the planet and humanity from frying.

Hans A. Baer is Senior Lecturer in the School of Philosophy , Anthropology, and Social Inquiry and the Centre for Health and Society at the University of Melbourne . He earned a PhD in Anthropology at the University of Utah in 1976. Hans has conducted research on the Hutterites in South Dakota, the Levites (a Mormon sect in Utah), African American Spiritual churches, complementary and alternative medicine in the US, UK, and Australia; sociopolitical and religious life in East Germany, and conventional and alternative HIV clinics in a Western U.S. city. Hans has published fourteen books, co-edited several special journal issues, and published some 140 book chapters and journal articles. Some of his books include Recreating Utopia in the Desert ; African American Religion ; Encounters with Biomedicine: Case Studies in Medical Anthropology ; Critical Medical (with Merrill Singer); Medical Anthropology and the World System: A Critical Perspective (with Merrill Singer and Ida Susser); Biomedicine and Alternative Healing Systems in America: Issues of Class, Race, Ethnicity, and Gender ; and Toward an Integrative Medicine ; and Introducing Medical Anthropology (with Merrill Singer . Hans's most recent book, co-authored with Merrill Singer, is Global Warming and the Political Ecology of Health: Emerging Crises and Systemic Solutions (Left Coast Press, 2008). He presently is investigating complementary medicine and climate politics in Australia . Hans considers himself a scholar-activist and has been involved various movements over the years, including the peace, social justice, anti-apartheid, labour, environmental, and climate justice movements.

Jesus: A Story of Enlightenment

Jesus is a fresh and inspirational re-imagining of a young man’s transformational journey from carpenter’s son to revolutionary leader – the man seen by many as the savior of the world.
Very little is known or recorded about Jesus in his formative years. In the Gospel stories, we witness Jesus’s birth and then see him as a young boy of 12 questioning the Rabbis in the Temple in Jersusalem. Following this he does not reappear until age 30, when he emerges as the potent and stirring rebel baptized by John at the River Jordan. From his unceremonious birth in Bethlehem to his ultimate betrayal in Jerusalem, Jesus is a riveting and soul-stirring account of the most remarkable story of all time.

Deepak Chopra, the founder of The Chopra Center, is the preeminent teacher of Eastern philosophy to the Western World. He has been a bestselling author for decades, his books have appeared on every bestseller list in America, and his writings have sold millions of copies. His New York Times bestsellers include Buddha and The Third Jesus.

Cosponsored by

Coleman Barks Poet Translator of Rumi	Zuleikha Dance and Story	Glen Velez World Percussion	David Darling Cello	Jai Uttal* Instrumentals	Rahim Alhaj** Oud Musician and Composer

*Jai Uttal appears Thursday, December 11 only.
**Rahim Alhaj appears Friday, December 12 only.