The 69th annual Morning Forum of Los Altos lecture series is set to get underway Sept. 18.
Founded in Los Altos in 1950, the Morning Forum boasts 450 local members. The series features 16 speakers who appear 10 a.m. every other Tuesday from September through the beginning of June at Los Altos United Methodist Church, 655 Magdalena Ave.
Speakers and their topics for the fall and winter:
- • Sept. 18: Janine Zacharia, Carlos Kelly McClatchy Lecturer at Stanford University and former Jerusalem bureau chief for The Washington Post, “The Era of Noise: From Fake News to the Future of Journalism”
- • Oct. 2: Chris Bliss, comedian, commentator and satirist, “Comedy Is Translation”
- • Oct. 16: Allyson Hobbs, associate professor of history and director of African and African-American studies at Stanford University, “A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life”
- • Nov. 6: Joseph Luzzi, author and professor of comparative literature at Bard College, “The Presidential Library: Books That Shaped Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Roosevelt and Other Commanders-in-Chief”
- • Nov. 20: Author and journalist Thomas Sanger, “The Athenia Story: The Forgotten Tale of a Passenger Ship Torpedoed on the First Day of WW II”
- • Dec. 4: Gregory Boyle, founder of Homeboy Industries, the largest gang-intervention, rehabilitation and re-entry program in the world, “Lessons from the Field: Kinship as an Intervention”
- • Jan. 15: Laura Ling, award-winning journalist and co-author of “Somewhere Inside: One Sister’s Captivity in North Korea and the Other’s Fight to Bring Her Home,” “Journey of Hope”
Membership is open to all.
For a series subscription and more information, visit morningforum.org.
