President of the Bay Area Travel Writers and award winning travel writer and photojournalist, Diane appeared last spring
on our Odd Mondays series with her fascinating study of Afgani women. She publishes widely and is a Professor emerita of
Multicultural Women's Studies and Humanities, as well as a world traveler, and has been involved in women's rights work all her life.
John is VP of the American Society of Media Photographers, Norcal. more inf at http://www.dianelebow.com
They will include their recent travels in Bhutan, India, Thailand, Croatia, Honduras, and the Yucatan, as well as Afghanistan, Libya, and Venezuela.
Some highlights include: Marawi horses, an ancient breed of warrior horses from the 13th Century: visit to a stud farm near Udaipur, India
Krapina, the largest Neanderthal site in Europe located in northern Croatia. The Warao people, living in almost stone-age conditions in the Oronoko delta of Venezuela.
The Garifuna people whose heritage and culture derive from the mixture of escaped slaves and indigenous Central American people, still living in Honduran coastal areas and islands.
December 15, 2008
The Odd MOndays Series presents
Lois Hoskins: "How Our Family With 8 Kids Made It Thorugh The Great Depression"
Lois, now in her 80s, has traveled the world with her husband Bill and is an active grandma and member of The Noe Valley Senior Center.
Barry Schutz. Phd: “National Security from Bush To Obama”
Prof. Schutz is on the Faculty at Stanford Continuing Studies where he teaches U.S. Intelligence Community Since 9/11; Strategic Africa; and The Politics of Oil. He is also a Visiting Scholar in the Center for African Studies at Stanford and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Government at Mills College. Before coming back to California he was a Senior Analyst for the Office of African Affairs in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research at the State Department and taught African and Third World Studies at the National Defense Intelligence College and in the National Security Studies Program at Georgetown University in Washington D.C. He has also been on the Faculty of the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA. He’s written extensively on political change in Zimbabwe, South Africa, and Mozambique where he has been a Fulbright Lecturer.
