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December 07, 2024
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Breakfast with a Scholar
Breakfast with a Scholar
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2022 Kay Redfield Jamison, M.A., PhD
An Unquiet Mind: Professional and Personal Insights About Living with Depression and Bipolar Illness
1
2021 Dr. BJ Miller
What Really Matters at End of Life
46
2019 Alan Hobson, Author and Adventurer
Climb Back From Cancer!
50
2018 Molly McCully Brown, Poet
Something's Wrong With Me: How Shifting Language(s) of Disability Shape Selfhood.
61
2017 Phil Hansen, Artist
Embrace the Shake: Transforming Limitations into Opportunities.
51
2016 Lisa Genova, PhD, Neuroscientist and Author
Still Alice: Understanding Alzheimer's.
59
2015 Florence Clark, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA and Carolyn Baum, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA
Mod: Glen Gillen, EdD, OTR, FAOTA. A Conversation about the Future of OT.
24
2014 Kenneth Feinberg, Esq. Lawyer and Mediator
How much is a life worth? A conversation about valuing life quality.
81
2013 Rear Admiral Marty Evans, U.S. Navy (Retired)
How Will the Future Be Different?
14
2012 Lex Frieden, MA, LLD Disability rights advocate and developer of the ADA.
Evaluating the Americans with Disabilities Act: An Accounting of Progress.
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Previous Breakfast with a Scholar Speakers
2011 Ruth Purtilo
, medical ethicist.
A Conversation About Moral Courage
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2010 Brian R. Little
, psychologist, pioneer of Personal Projects Analysis as an approach to the study of human personality.
2009 Jan Epton Seale
, poet, author of
Airlift: The Nuts-and-Bolts Guide to Writing Your Life Story
.
Lives in Words: the Poetry of Making Meaning.
2008 Suzanne Farrell
, ballerina, founder and artistic director of the Suzanne Farrell Ballet company.
Amazing Grace
.
2007 Brenda Smith Myles
, authority on behavior, learning, and autism spectrum disorders.
Wisdom for Life From a Passionate Educator.
2006 Rae Linda Brown
, music scholar specializing in the lives and works of African-American women composers.
Music as Voice for Occupation
.
2005 Elizabeth Yerxa,
occupational therapist, scientist, Professor Emerita at the University of Southern California.
The Infinite Distance Between the "I" and the "It".
2004 Uffe Ulle Jensen
, scholar in philosophy and medical ethics.
Justice for all.
2003 Steve Zeitlin
, folklorist, Director of City Lore in New York City, studies rituals and symbols in dealing with stressful situations.
The Meaning Makers: Folk Art, Storytelling, and the Construction of the Self Through Time.
2002 William Least-Heat Moon
, professor of English, author of
Blue Highways
.
2001 Juliet Schor
, Harvard economist, author of
The Overspent American
. How a lack of leisure time can affect our occupations.
2000 Graham Rowles
, social geographer, studies aging in place in Appalachia. How our geographical environment affects our occupations throughout our lifetime.
1999 Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
, psychologist, architect of the “flow” theory; examines the importance of joy and happiness in our lives.
1998 Mary Catherine Bateson
, sociologist, author of
Composing a Life; The cultural concepts of what constitutes a successful life
.
1997 John Hockenberry
, Peabody Award winner for journalistic excellence, correspondent for NPR and ABC News. NBC war correspondent. First wheelchair-mobile reporter in network TV history.
1996 J. Seward Johnson
, bronze sculptor.
The Significance of Everyday Activities Through his Life-size Portrayals of People Engaged in Familiar Occupations.
1995 Jane Goodall
, primatologist.
So Like Us: My Life with the Chimpanzees
.