2008 PROGRAM
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2008
6:30 – 9:00 p.m.
INSTITUTE FOR TEXAN CULTURES
Check Back in Late October for The 2009 Program
ARTS, LITERATURE, AND CULTURE
1. Museums: Keepers of Treasure or Learning Laboratories?
William J. Chiego, Ph.D., Director, Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum
2. Respecting the Historic Context: What’s Fabulous About
San Antonio and How Do We Retain It?
William Dupont, AIA, San Antonio Conservation Society Professor
3. How Visual Art Impacts our Lives and Communicates
our Values
Alice Carrington Foultz, Owner, Carrington Gallery, LTD
4. African American Art: Inclusion into the Mainstream
Harriett Kelly, President, The Harmon and Harriet Kelley Foundation
5. Who’s Afraid of the Oscars?: The History and Influence of the
Academy Awards
Steven Kellman, Ph.D., Department of English
6. “I Don’t Have an Accent” and Other Language Myths
Sonja Lanehart, Ph.D., Department of English
7. Our Favorite Novels and Why We Love Them
Bonnie Lyons, Ph.D., Department of English
8. The Importance of the Arts: How Do We Build an Arts
Community?
Debbie Montford, Chair, San Antonio Symphony Board
9. Art and Culture in Public Education: How and Why a
Community MustFill the Void
Guillermo Nicolas, President, 3 N Management Development
BUSINESS AND COMMUNITY
11. Active Philanthropy: What Can Be Done to Serve a
Community?
J. Bruce Bugg, Jr., Chairman & Trustee, Tobin Endowment
12. Preserving San Antonio’s Uniqueness: Is Tourism Really Good
for San Antonio?
David Bojanic, Ph.D., Anheuser-Busch Foundation Professor of
Tourism,
Department of Marketing
13. How Technology Drives Global Change: The Good, the Bad,
and the Ugly
William Flannery, Ph.D., Department of Information Systems
14. The 10 Commandments of Marketing Yourself
Mary E. Rauch, CEO, Mary E. Rauch Communications
15. Buying, Growing, Developing, and Selling Food Companies
Rodney J. Sands, CEO & Chairman, P.J. Madison Organic Ice Cream
16. Lessons Learned from My Entrepreneurial Experience…
G.P. Singh, Ph.D., Karta Technologies, Inc.
17. Reinventing Loteria: How Latino Culture is Impacting the
Marketplace
Cristina Sosa-Noriega, Artist
18. Building a Successful Business: What Does it Take?
Fernando C. Reyes, President, Reyes Industries and Chairman,
SanAntonio Hispanic
Chamber of Commerce
19. Investing in Your Community: What is the San Antonio
Area Foundation and What Can It Do?
Clarence R. Williams, Col., USAF (Ret.), Executive Director, San
Antonio Area Foundation
20. Keeping San Antonio a World-Class City
The Honorable Nelson Wolff, Bexar County Judge
EDUCATION
22. Scientists in the Classroom: What Should our Students
Be Learning?
Carmen Fies, Ph.D. Department of Interdisciplinary Learning
and Teaching
23. Transformative Leadership:Enhancing the Relationship
between University and Community
Dennis Haynes, Ph.D., Chair, Department of Social Work
24. Collateral Damage: How High-Stakes Testing Corrupts
our Schools
Sharon Nichols, Ph.D., Department of Counseling, Educational
Psychology, & Adult & Higher Education
25. Making Texas Economically Competitive Through Education
Raymund A. Paredes, Ph.D., Higher Education Coordinating Board
Commissioner of Higher Education, Texas
26. Public School Accountability: How Do We Improve the
Current System? [SOLD]
Harriett Romo, Ph.D., Director, Mexico Center and Department of
Sociology
LEISURE AND LIFESTYLES
27. Extreme Make-over: Therapeutic Amusement or Moral
Dilemma?
Gary S. Branfman, M.D. (‘79), Medical Director, Victoria Plastic
Surgery Center
28. Eating Your Way through Italy: Where are the Great Foods
and Wines?
Julius Gribou, AIA, Interim Provost
29. Parenting Athletes: Is There Too Much Pressure on Kids in
Sports
Lynn Hickey, Director of Intercollegiate Athletics]
30. So You Want to Go on Safari: Getting the Most Out of Africa
Cardo Kleberg, Investment Advisor, South Texas Money
Management
31. How to Talk with Anybody about Almost Anything
Debbie Menger, Ph.D., Department of Communication
32. The Ten Most Exciting Decorating Ideas that Cost Next to
Nothing
POLITICS AND HISTORY
33. Civil Liberties in War Time: The Constitutional Conundrum
Dr. Steven R. Boyd, Ph.D., Department of History
34. Glacier Girl: The Recovery and Restoration of a World War II
Fighter Aircraft
Bob Cardin, Lewis Energy Group
35. Al-Jazeerah and Satellite Media in US-Arab Relations:
Constructive or Destructive?
Mansour El-Kikhia, Ph.D., Chair, Department of Political Science and
Geography
36. Discover America's True Swing Voters: Women and Hispanics
Leslie Sanchez, political strategist and CEO, Impacto Group, LLC
37. Presidential Politics: She Says, He Says, and the People
Speak
Richard Gambitta, Ph.D., Director, Institute for Law and Public
Affairs
38. Place Names of San Antonio
David P. Green, M.D., Orthopedic Surgeon
39. All History is Family History: Why You Need to Capture Your
Family History Now
Kolleen Guy, Ph.D., Department of History
40. Oh, Canada: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about the
Country and Were Afraid to Ask
Cory Hallam, Ph.D., Director, Center for Technology Innovation and
Entrepreneurship
41. Will Hillary Win?
Amy Jasperson, Ph.D., Department of Political Science and
Geography
42. 35 Years After Roe v. Wade: Where Do We Stand?
Craig Jordan, Ph.D., Department of Biology
43. Life in the White House: West and East Wing
Sonya Medina, AT&T Foundation
44. The Fine Art of Lobbying
John T. Montford, Senior Vice President, AT&T
45. The Role of Local Government: Do We Need It?
Leilah Powell, Government Relations Manager, Bexar County
46. Only in San Antonio...
Susan D. Reed, J.D., Bexar County District Attorney
47. Israel Today: Challenges and Opportunities
Ricardo Romo, Ph.D., President
48. No Greater Love: The Lives and Times of Hispanic Soldiers
Alfred A. Valenzuela, United States Army Major General (Ret.)
49. Cyber-Security: Does it Need to Be So Difficult?
Ravi Sandhu, Ph.D., Institute for Cyber Security Research
50.
How Immigration Reform is Dividing America
Lionel Sosa, CEO, MATT
Foundation
RELIGION
51. Faith and Public Life
Reverend Martin J. Leopold, Moderator of the Curia, Archdiocese of
San Antonio
52. How Our Religious Beliefs Help Us in Our Rapidly Changing
Society
Richard Lewis, Ph.D., Department of Sociology
SCIENCE, SOCIAL SCIENCE, AND TECHNOLOGY
53. Apprehension or Cooperation: Race Relations between
African Americans and Hispanics in San Antonio
Gabriel Acevedo, Ph.D., Department of Sociology
54. What Can We Learn From Studying Polar Sea Ice?
Stephen Ackley, PhD., Department of Earth and
Environmental Sciences & Jacqueline Longbotham Ackley, M.D.,
Pathologist
55. Global Warming: Too Little, Too Late?
Stuart Birnbaum, Ph.D. Department of Earth and Environmental
Sciences
56. Boy Talk – Girl Talk: Is There a Difference?
Bridget Drinka, Ph.D., Chair, Department of English
57. What You Need to Know About Cancer
Dr. Tyler Curiel, Director, Cancer Therapy and Research Center at
UTHSC-SA
58. One Billion Americans in 2100: Can We Survive?
Jerome Keating, Ph.D., Chair, Department of Demography and
Organization Studies
59. Going Native: Using South Texas Native Plants to Restore
Habitats
Paula Maywald, Coordinator South Texas Natives, Caesar Kleberg
Wildlife Institute
60. Alzheimer’s in Our Society: Origin, Effects, and Potential
Treatments
George Perry, Ph.D., Dean, College of Sciences
61. Is Going to the Moon or Mars Worth It?
Eric Schlegel, Ph.D., Chair, Department of Physics and Astronomy
62. Adolescent Risk-Taking: Moving from ‘Just Say No’ to ‘Just
Say Know’
Tammy Wyatt, Ph.D., Department of Health and Kinesiology
