Ohlone College World Forum
Perspectives on California Indians and Cultural Revival
 Speaker: Malcolm Margolin , author of The Ohlone Way- Wednesday, April 2, 2008 (NOTE: Date change!)
- 12:00pm - 1:00pm Presentation, 1:00pm - 2:00pm Q&A
- Jackson Theatre, Smith Center
We are delighted to announce that Malcolm Margolin, author of The Ohlone Way, will be our honored speaker. Selected by the San Francisco Chronicle as one of the top 100 western nonfiction books of the twentieth century, The Ohlone Way vividly recreates the lost world of the Indian people who lived in the San Francisco Bay Area such a short time ago.
Speaker Bio
 Malcolm Margolin is the founder and publisher of Heyday Books, a project of Heyday Institute, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. He is also the publisher of News from Native California, a quarterly magazine devoted to the history and culture of California Indians. He has written a number of books on California history, natural history, and Indian life, including The Ohlone Way: Indian Life in the San Francisco-Monterey Bay Area.
 He has received the Fred Cody Award for Lifetime Achievement from the San Francisco Bay Area Book Reviewers Association, as well as other awards from the Before Columbus Foundation, Society for California Archaeology, the California Council for the Promotion of History, the California Indian Health Services, California Horticultural Society and the California Arts Council. He was given the Gerbode Fellowship, and has been awarded residencies at the Headland Center for the Arts and the Djerassi Foundation. Margolin also serves on the boards of the Yosemite Association, Alliance for California Traditional Arts, and is a member of the Bancroft Library’s Publication Advisory Board.
For additional background information, please reference these websites:
2007-2008 World Forum Topics
We are pleased to announce World Forum schedule for the academic year 2007-2008. Location details will be confirmed in advance of each event.
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The Changing Global Profile of India and Dynamics of USA-India Relationships
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
12:00pm- 1:00pm Presentation (no Q&A)
(see archives)
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Deaf Culture: An International Perspective
Monday, December 3, 2007 (NOTE: Date change!)
12:00pm - 1:00pm Presentation, 1:00pm - 2:00pm Q&A
(see archives)
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Global Climate Crisis / National Teach-In *
Wednesday, January 30 and Thursday, January 31, 2008
(see archives)
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Perspectives on California Indians and Cultural Revival
Wednesday, April 2, 2008 (NOTE: Date change!)
12:00pm - 1:00pm Presentation, 1:00pm - 2:00pm Q&A
* Background: "Focus the Nation" is coordinating teams of faculty and students at over a thousand colleges, universities and K-12 schools in the United States, to collaboratively engage in a nationwide, interdisciplinary discussion about “Global Warming Solutions for America”. Focus the Nation will culminate January 31, 2008 in the form of national symposia held simultaneously at over a thousand campuses, businesses, and other venues across the country. On that day, each Focus the Nation team (including Ohlone College) will invite local, state, and federal political leaders and candidates for office to come to campus and participate in a non-partisan, round-table discussion of global warming solutions. Details will follow, but for more information in the meantime, please visit http://www.focusthenation.org/theproject.php.
Dates and times are subject to change and advance information will be announced as soon as it becomes available.
About the Ohlone College World Forum
Inaugurated in Spring 2005, the Ohlone College World Forum brings speakers to our community twice a semester to engage in dialog about important global issues that affect our community.
The World Forum is free to the community. World Forums are most often held in the Epler Gymnasium, Building 9. Refer to the Fremont Campus Map for locations of parking lots. There is a $2.00 fee (8 quarters recommended, although the Intella-pay machines will accept exact change in dollar bills, nickels, dimes, quarters) for a one-day parking permit, which can be purchased from the machines in the parking lots.
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