Searching for Answers and Wisdom in a Post 9/11 World

Searching for Answers and Wisdom in a Post 9/11 World:
Emmy Award Winner, Arthur Miller, in a public dialogue with the Wisdom Thinkers Network

Thursday, September 8, 2011
8:15 pm – 9:30 pm
Buttenwieser Hall at the 92nd Street Y, Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street, Manhattan

EVENT PROGRAM

For the month following 9/11, people’s behavior changed and a true sense of community and concern flourished. Then we returned to “normal”. Today we are still locked in ideological gridlock, buried under fear, and unable to have a civil conversation. What can we learn by reweaving our wisdom stories into a new narrative, and what role can each of us play? How do we nurture our children to become active citizens committed to creating a more compassionate, pluralistic, civil society?

Moderator:
Arthur Miller, Emmy Award winning moderator of the Fred Friendly Seminars, and currently University Professor, NYU Law School

Convener: Ralph Singh, Chair Wisdom Thinkers Network

Panelists:

  • Karolyn Buys, international youth leader and conflict mediator
  • James R. Doty, M.D, Founding Director, Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education at Stanford University
  • Richard (Dick) Ehst, President and COO, Customers Bank, ranked 4th in the nation
  • Dr. Noor Gillani, Chairman, Pyar Foundation and ret’d NASA scientist
  • Rabbi Brad Hirschfield, Co-President Clal, popular Washington Post Commentator
  • Dr. Stuart A. Kauffman, complexity theory pioneer, author of “Reinventing the Sacred”
  • Rabbi Irwin Kula, Co-President Clal, Walter Cronkite Award Winner
  • Dr. Nina Lynn Meyerhof, Ed.D., Founder, Children of the Earth
  • R. Gustav Niebuhr, Professor and Noted Journalist
  • Iya Amibelle Olatunji, African American Matriarch
  • Carlos Portes, distinguished Latino representative and liaison at Ground Zero
  • Diane Schenandoah, Native American artist and Wolf Clan Faith Keeper
  • Dr. Naresh Singh, one of world’s leading experts in poverty reduction and advocates for sustainable livelihoods
  • Asma Uddin, lawyer, and founder and editor-in-chief, altmuslimah.org

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