Bryan Series 2010-11

2010-11 Bryan Series: Sustaining Community

The 2010-11 Bryan Series, presented by Guilford College, will explore economic, environmental and social aspects of sustainability in a five-program series with a theme of "Sustaining Community."

Subscriptions for the upcoming season for lectures by Majora Carter, David Brooks, President Bill Clinton, Jeannette Walls and Jean-Michel Cousteau are sold out. 

Please note that President Clinton's talk has been rescheduled for Tuesday, Nov. 30, at 6:30 pm at the Greensboro Coliseum (the original date was Thursday, Nov. 18). Single-event tickets for President Clinton's talk are on sale now at Ticketmaster by phone at 1-800-745-3000 or at the Greensboro Coliseum Advance Box Office.

Majora Carter, Tuesday, Sept. 28, War Memorial Auditorium

Majora Carter believes residents shouldn’t have to move out of their neighborhood to live in a better one. In 2001, she founded the nonprofit, environmental-justice solutions corporation, Sustainable South Bronx. She is now president of the green-collar economic consulting company, The Majora Carter Group, LLC. Carter promotes the idea that local environmental solutions rest on poverty alleviation through green economic development. A resident of the South Bronx, Carter received the MacArthur “genius award” in 2005.

David Brooks, Tuesday, Oct.26, War Memorial Auditoirum

David Brooks is one of America’s most prominent political and social commentators. He writes a bi-weekly op-ed column for The New York Times and is a regular analyst on PBS NewsHour and on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered. He’s authored two books, including The New York Times best-seller Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There. Brooks has written for The Weekly Standard and The Wall Street Journal and been a contributing editor at Newsweek and The Atlantic Monthly.

President Bill Clinton, Tuesday, Nov. 30 (REVISED DATE), Greensboro Coliseum Arena

President Clinton was the first Democrat elected to two terms as U.S. president in six decades – first in 1992 and then in 1996. Under his leadership, the country enjoyed the strongest economy in a generation and the longest economic expansion in U.S. history, including the creation of more than 22 million jobs. After leaving the White House, he established the William J. Clinton Foundation with the mission to strengthen the capacity of people in the U.S. and throughout the world to meet the challenges of global interdependence.

Jeannette Walls, Thursday, Feb. 10, War Memorial Auditorium

Jeannette Walls is the author of the powerful memoir, The Glass Castle, which was on The New York Times best-seller list for more than three years and was named one of the Top 10 Books of the Decade by Amazon. Her latest book is Half Broke Horses: A True Life Novel. A major motion picture about her life is currently being developed. Walls is a journalist whose work has appeared in New York Magazine, Esquire and USA Today. She has written for MSNBC.com, and is a resident of Virginia.

Jean-Michel Cousteau, Tuesday, April 12, War Memorial Auditorium

Jean-Michel Cousteau is a world-renown explorer, environmentalist, educator, oceanographer and filmmaker. He founded the Ocean Futures Society, a marine conservation and education organization that serves as a voice for the ocean. Cousteau has produced more than 70 films, and his work has yielded him an Emmy Award, the Peabody Award and the Cable ACE Award. His next book, to be released in May 2010, is a biography of his father entitled My Father, The Captain: My Life with Jacques Cousteau.

For more information, visit www.guilford.edu/bryanseries.