Community of Reason KC

Program for April 20, 2014
1:00 pm till 3:00 pm, at UMKC, Haag Hall, Room 301

Judy and Bill Claus, Judy is a retired teacher and member of a teacher’s union. Bill is with KKFI , a labor activist and Past member of the Kansas City Labor Council.
Diana and Bob Suckiel. Diana is a Retired Union Plummer, Local 8. Bob worked 40 years with 4 railroads as Engineer, Conductor, Brakeman, Switchman and laid tracks. He is a retired member of the Teamsters Union. The couple performed labor shows from Bar Harbor, Vermont to a folk festival in Vancouver, Canada
A commemoration of the struggle for the 8-hour Day, the Hay Market Massacre and the coming of industrial unionism in spoken word and songs from 1868 to the present, featuring Eugene V. Debs, Mother Jones, IWW, and the struggle for the dignity of work.

Program for April 13, 2014
1:00 pm till 3:00 pm, at UMKC, Haag Hall, Room 301

Russell Swerdlow, M..D., Director, University of Kansas Alzheimer’s Center, Professor of Neurology, Molecular and Integrative Physiology, and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

After a short overview, Dr. Swerdlow will lead a question-and-answer session on anti-aging intervention.

Program for April 6, 2014
1:00 pm till 3:00 pm, at UMKC, Haag Hall, Room 301

Eric Dollard, Religious Scholar

Here is the power point used by Eric in his presentation.
BBL-SESSION 1

Program for March 30, 2014
1:00 pm till 3:00 pm, at UMKC, Haag Hall, Room 301

Carole McArthur, B.S. Zoology, Ph.D., Immunology, M.D., Pathology

How do you bring technology from the United States into pristine, undeveloped SubSaharan Africa

Program for March 23, 2014
1:00 pm till 3:00 pm, at UMKC, Haag Hall, Room 301

Jejung Lee, Ph. D., UMKC Professor of Geosciences, visiting scientist at NASA

Program for March 16, 2014
1:00 pm till 3:00 pm, at UMKC, Haag Hall, Room 301

Geof Newman, Doctoral candidate at University of Kansas, Department of History

When two white high school girls banged on their neighbor’s door at 2 am crying and hysterical, it plunged a small city in Kansas into a week of riot, lynching and occupation by the National Guard. This incident had an outcome very different from what one would expect.

Program for March 9, 2014
1:00 pm till 3:00 pm, at UMKC, Haag Hall, Room 301

Nancy Elizabeth Johnson Berman, Professor of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Kansas Medical Center

Program for March 2, 2014
1:00 pm till 3:00 pm, at UMKC, Haag Hall, Room 301

Eric Dollard, Religious Scholar

Program for February 23, 2014
1:00 pm till 3:00 pm, at UMKC, Haag Hall, Room 301

Sandy Maddux Jackson, MTBC

Program for February 16, 2014
1:00 pm till 3:00 pm, at UMKC, Haag Hall, Room 301

Eliseo Fernandez, Scientific Consultant at Linda Hall Library

The role of analogy in Darwin’s thought and in later developments in evolutionary thought.

View the Power point used  Tree of Life Kelso