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The Holland Lecture Series
Sponsored by the First Unitarian Church of Omaha
Established by Mary and Richard Holland
Announcing the 10th Speaker in the series
Dr. James Galbraith
"The Great Crisis and the Predator State."
 Are the conservative concepts of "laissez-faire" and a "free market economy" simply enabling myths to empower the powerful and enrich the rich? Are progressives the only ones to embrace “real market solutions”? And why won’t that work? Is it already too late OR is there a way out of our current economic distress?
Find answers when James K. Galbraith, author of The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too, delivers the 10th talk in our Holland Lecture series. Dr. Galbraith is the author of several books and hundreds of scholarly articles. He holds the Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. Chair in Government/Business Relations and Professor of Government in the University of Texas' Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs.
The Holland Lecture Series seeks to bring timely and important views and ideas to the community. The views represented are the sole responsibility of the guest speaker and do not necessarily reflect the views of the First Unitarian Church of Omaha.
For more information:
James K. Galbraith's University of Texas/LBJ School Web Site
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The Holland Lecture Series
The Holland Lectures address a variety of important ethical and global issues by bringing internationally recognized speakers to Omaha. These thought-provoking lectures provide a forum for the open discussion of sometimes controversial, but always provocative, ideas that might not otherwise be given voice in Nebraska. In the end, the lecture series aspires to challenge and broaden the listeners' understanding of ethics, philosophy, religion, and science as they relate to current national and world concerns.
First Unitarian Church has a long history of encouraging free and open discussion of controversial topics. For 10 years, between 1954 and 1964, the church was the home of the Frank R. Hoagland Lectures. As a young man, Dick Holland attended many of those lectures and discussed new ideas and ways of thinking that shaped his world perspective. His current desire to resurrect a speaker series and bring distinguished speakers to Omaha is rooted in his memories of attending those earlier presentations. Dick and Mary Holland believed that the Hoagland Lectures, which also brought well-known national figures to speak in Omaha, was an appropriate model for the new Holland Lecture Series that they established. In June 2006,
First
Unitarian
Church
and the Omaha
community
lost a very good friend with the passing of Mary Holland.
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Previous Holland Lecture speakers:
June 15, 2005 - "The Changing Ethics of Life and Death". Dr. Peter Singer, Professor of Bioethics, Princeton University.
November 10, 2005 - "Stem Cells Meet Politics and Religion". Dr. Irving Weissman, Professor of Pathology and Developmental Biology, Stanford University
May 10, 2006 - "Sexual Morality, Justice and Healing". Rev. Debra Haffner, Director of The Religious Institute on Sexual Morality, Justice, and Healing, Community Minister, The Unitarian Church in Westport Westport, Ct.
October 5, 2006 - "Nuclear Terrorism: A Preventable Catastrophe". Dr. Graham Allison, Douglas Dillon Professor of Government and Director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.
May 3, 2007 - "Earth's Changing Climate: What is in Store for the Future?". Dr. Henry Pollack, Professor Emeritus of the Department of Geological Sciences, University of Michigan.
November 1, 2007 - "Universal Health Coverage: Not If But When!". Henry J. Aaron, Ph.D., Brookings Institution.
June 4, 2008 - "Statecraft: And How to Restore America's Standing in the World". Ambassador Dennis Ross, Author and former Mideast Envoy.
October 2, 2008 - "Political Judges vs Democracy". Dr. Ernest Friesen, former Assistant Attorney General and Founding Dean ofthe
National
Judicial
College
.
March 11, 2009 - "The Purpose of Purpose". Dr. Richard Dawkins, Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science, Oxford University.
Note: We have received many requests to see the video of Dr. Dawkins' talk. We are pleased to announce that it is now available on his web site. The video is a composite of the three lectures that Dawkins gave on his US Midwest tour in Michigan, Oklahoma, and Nebraska.
Updated June 23, 2009 wfr
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