Past Programs
Click on the title to watch the recorded video.
2012
February 19 - MATTHEW JAMES, Ph.D. - "Collecting Evolution: The Unintended Vindication of Charles Darwin by the 1905-06 Galapagos Expedition of the California Academy of Sciences."
February 12 - PROF. SALLY HEATH- "The World's Largest Machine: What's it all about and is it proving Einstein wrong?"
February 5 - STEVEN NEWTON- The National Center for Science Education - "Creationism versus Evolution - The meaning to our schools and society"
January 29 - MARK RANDOL - "Homeland Security: Enough Already?"
January 22 - GARY WYSOCKY - "Current Topics of Interest in Santa Rosa City Government"
January 15 - DAVID McCUAN - "2012 Election Preview: Challenging Elections in a Time of Challenging Governance"
January 8 - BART SIMMONS - "Poisons, Toxics, Toxins, and Green Chemistry"
2011
December 18 - "Sunday Symposium's Annual Winter Solstice Party"
December 11 - PETER RUMBLE AND ROD STROUD - "Health Services in Sonoma County: Challenges and the Opportunities Ahead"
December 4 - JEANE SLONE - "The Women WASPs, Welders, and Riveters Who Helped Win World War II on the Home Front"
November 20 - PAUL GULLIXSON - "THE PENSION PROBLEM IN LOCAL, STATE, AND FEDERAL GOVERNMENTS. HOW DO WE FUND THE CITY, COUNTY AND STATE PLANS?"
November 13 - BOB KIRK - "PLAYING GOD: EUGENICS IN THE 20TH CENTURY"
November 6 - LILLIAN JUDD and DENNIS JUDD - " FROM NIGHTMARE TO FREEDOM – HEALING AFTER THE HOLOCAUST"
October 30 - ROCKY ROHWEDDER, Ph.D. - "A Voyage of Discovery: Around the World with Semester at Sea"
October 23 - THE LAS GALLINAS VALLEY SANITARY DISTRICT NON-MARCHING BAND (THE SEWER BAND) - "The Oakmont Oktoberfest Concert"
October 23 - PROF. IAN MORRIS - "Why The West Rules...For Now"
October 18 - OVA BOARD - "The Elnoka presentation to the OVA Board"
October 16 - BRUNO FERRANDIS and ALAN SILOW - "Santa Rosa Symphony Current Season Program and Future Vision at the Green Music Center"
October 9 - CHERYL WAGNER - "Taking Laughter Seriously"
October 2 - ERIC THOMPSON, Ph.D. - "Myth Matters, or, Eve: Original Sinner, Original Seducer, Original Scholar"
September 18 - Oakmont Talent Show - THE OAKMONT TALENT SHOW VIDEO -
September 11 - BRIG. GEN. KEITH KERR "Afghanistan Revisited"
June 12 - ELAINE STANLEY "Having Fun With Stories"
June 5 - DAN FLAMSON "Juvenile Crime in Sonoma County"
May 22 - STEVE FABIAN - "History of the ACLU and It’s Impact on American Freedoms"
May 15 - ROGER AND COLLEEN VINCENT as "ABE AND MARY LINCOLN"
May 1 - JEANNE WOODFORD - "The State of Corrections in California"
April 17 - CATHRYN FAIRLEE- "A Conversation with Kateryn Parr, Last Wife of Henry VIII"
March 27 - BRUCE ELLIOTT, Ph.D. - "The Invisible Middle Kingdom: Pivot of Europe"
March 20 - JEANNE WIRKA of the Bouverie Preserve - "Habitat Restoration: What it means to the Sonoma Valley"
March 13 - JILL RAVITCH, "Being District Attorney of Sonoma County"
March 6 - NEIL MEYERS - "Zen Buddhism"(No video)
March 2 - OVA BOARD "CANDIDATES FORUM at Berger Center"
February 27 - KY BOYD, Former Owner of the Rialto Theater - "The Oscars Come to the Symposium" (No video)
February 20, 2011 - ANDREW MERRIFIELD, Ph.D. - "Barack Obama at Halfway: Part LBJ, Part Nixon, Part Carter?"
February 13, 2011 - GREG HAYES, "Annadel State Park: The First 40 Years"
January 23, 2011 JEFF TOBES and LEE TORLIATT - "Fred Wiseman's Historic 1911 First Airmail Flight, From Petaluma to Santa Rosa"
January 16, 2011 - KAREN WIGEN, Ph.D. - "Japanese Maps of the Ocean" (No Video)
January 9, 2011 - CHRIS SMITH - "Short Stories Can Be Great Too" (Audio & Video)
2010
December 19, 2010 - The Annual Symposium Winter Solstice Party-Photos
December 12, 2010 LYNN COMINSKY "What Do We Know About the Universe?" (V,A)
December 5, 2010 EFREN CARRILLO - Sonoma County Supervisor (V)
November 21, 2010 RICK ASHBURN: "A Skeptics Guide to Rational Investing" (V)
November 14, 2010: JUD GOODRICH: "Free Thinking Today" (V)
November 7, 2010: JOSHUA ROBKE: "Abstraction and Expressionism"(No video)
October 31, 2010: RICK LAWS: "Sonoma County Real Estate 2010" (V)
October 24, 2010:
MITCHO THOMPSON: "Cannabis as Medicine" (V)
October 17, 2010: THE VIKINGS OF BJORNSTAD: "The Viking: A Place in History"
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October 10, 2010: HERB K. SCHULTZ, and ELLEN SHAFFER, PH.D: "The Truth About Health Reform: What it Means for Seniors, Women and Public Health"
October 3, 2010: JANE BENDER, Councilwoman: "Changes on the Santa Rosa City Council"
September 26, 2010: DOROTHY PIERCE, Ph.D: "What Is Art?"
September 19, 2010:GENE BOUDREAU: "Mexico's Tarahumara Indians"
September 12, 2010: ERIC THOMPSON, Ph.D: "The Semi-Conscious Dialectic Art of Religion Making"