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Annual Gathering 2017 – Programs and Bios (As of 6/26/2017) ANNUAL GATHERING 2017 – PROGRAMS AND BIOS (AS OF 6/26/2017) Tuesday, July 4, 2017 12:00 p.m. - Atlantic Ballroom 1 Revolt of the Deplorables: The Inside Story of the Greatest 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. – Lower Lobby Convention Center Political Upset in U.S. History Miami Seaquarium Tour by Steven Allen Enjoy a fun-filled and educational day watching dolphins walk on The 2016 presidential campaign pitted one of the best- water and a killer whale flying through the air. credentialed candidates ever to seek the presidency against a The Dolphin Harbor Miami Seaquarium is a world-class marine- shoot-from-the-lip billionaire whose followers considered life entertainment park with eight different shows daily plus two themselves part of a worldwide populist movement. The outcome different interactive programs with these intelligent, graceful was the greatest upset in U.S. political history. What happened? mammals. In this presentation, based on his forthcoming book Revolt of the Please meet on the Lower Lobby of the Convention Center at least Deplorables, Dr. Steven J. Allen tells the inside story of a 15 minutes prior. These tickets must have been pre-purchased grassroots rebellion that changed the course of America and the and your name will be on the list. world. Allen has been called a “digital revolutionary” (the National Journal) and “the Tea Party’s editor in chief” (The Daily 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. – Lower Lobby Convention Center Beast/Newsweek). He served as press secretary to Sen. Jeremiah Dolphin Odyssey Experience Tour Denton and senior researcher in Newt Gingrich’s presidential Join Dolphin Harbor's Marine Mammal training staff for an campaign. Currently, he is vice president and chief investigative intimate 90-minute journey into dolphin behavior that includes officer of the Capital Research Center in Washington, D.C. A touching, feeding and training a dolphin. Swim into deeper water former Membership Officer of Metropolitan Washington Mensa, for more interactions and have your photo taken. A wetsuit and he coordinated MWM’s Politics SIG for 10 years. towel are provided but participants should bring their own swimsuits. (Minimum height requirement is 52 inches, and 12:00 p.m. - Atlantic Ballroom 3 children under age 18 must be accompanied by a parent or A Prehistory of Music guardian.) Complimentary admission to all Miami Seaquarium by Christopher Kilgore shows and exhibits for the day is included. Using art, historical images, ethnographic films and archeological Please meet on the Lower Lobby of the Convention Center at least materials, Christopher Kilgore will present a compendium of 15 minutes prior- These tickets must have been pre-purchased evidence of early musical performance. Beginning at the dawn of and your name will be on the list. the historical period and working backward, Kilgore will address the cultures of ancient Rome, Greece, China, Egypt, Sumer, Africa and Paleolithic Europe. Topics covered will include the Wednesday, July 5, 2017 development of music theory, vocal performance, the variety of early musical instruments and the origin of dance. Special 8:00 a.m. - Regency Ballroom 1 & 2 attention will be given to the most recent scholarship, including Colloquium 2017 — The Health Care of Catastrophes: Innovation unpublished materials. Driven by Disaster Catastrophes — from hurricanes to mass shootings to epidemics 1:00 p.m. - Great Hall 6 — present the medical community with care challenges as Settlers of Catan Tournament complex and traumatic as the disasters themselves. Sponsored by by Kevin Brawner the Mensa Education & Research Foundation, this Colloquium will Settlers of Catan is a heavy strategy game, where players collect address these health care challenges from the perspective of resources and build towns and cities. We will be using the Settlers emerging technology and innovation, as well as evolving policy of Catan Base Game and will play to 10 Victory Points. questions. 1:30 p.m. - Atlantic Ballroom 1 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. – Lower Lobby Convention Center Conspiracy Theories Are for Losers Everglades Safari Tour by Joseph E. Uscinski Professional guides on a fleet of safe, modern airboats lead and Why do people believe conspiracy theories? Which conspiracy narrate the way for a thrill-a-minute ride through the Everglades theories will resonate in society and when will certain groups be to ancient Seminole Island. It's a photographer's paradise as you targeted with accusations of conspiracy? The speaker draws on meander through foliage and panoramic views of this unique data from the internet, newspapers and surveys to show that ecosystem, flush with hundreds of fish and birds and countless conspiracy theories are tools of the weak used to balance against mammals and reptiles. Walk past dozens of alligators around a power and oncoming threat. Whether conspiracy theorists know hidden lake to your final stop on the trail, Alligator Island. it or not, their theories must conform to the current distribution Please meet on the Lower Lobby of the Convention Center at least of power to resonate. 15 minutes prior- These tickets must have been pre-purchased and your name will be on the list. 1 ANNUAL GATHERING 2017 – PROGRAMS AND BIOS (AS OF 6/26/2017) 1:30 p.m. - Atlantic Ballroom 3 3:00 p.m. - Atlantic Ballroom 3 Ozone Beware: A Science Project and a Floridian Teenager's Understanding Surrealist Art Journey to Effect Melanoma by Christopher Kilgore by Satya Alagarsamy Beginning primarily as a literary phenomenon, surrealism As our ozone continues to catastrophically deplete, reported ultimately became the most influential artistic movement of the cases of melanoma will likely increase. Enter the cancer fighting 20th century. Intimately affecting the development of abstract ablilites of lycopene and its potential to help millions. Using this expressionism, pop art, magic realism and advertising, surrealism research as a stepping stone provides a bigger picture of has achieved a level of integration into the modern collective effectively fighting cancer. It opens the door to encourage consciousness that is historically unprecedented. Utilizing an research of carotenoids as cancer-fighting agents. The extensive slide presentation, Christopher Kilgore will present a applications are immense and help excite a whole new way of survey of surrealist art and illuminate the historical, political, treatment for cancer patients around the world. philosophical and psychological context in which it developed, orienting surrealism within the prevailing Modernist cultural 1:30 p.m. - Regency Ballroom 3 context. Numerous surrealist artworks will be analyzed in terms of Hidden Gems: Historic Sites In Broward County their stylistic precedents, technical approaches, and thematic by Roberto Fernandez, III elements. Kilgore will also discuss many of surrealism’s greatest This presentation will focus on many of the historic sites in artists and the way in which their personalities, relationships, Broward County that include pioneer homes, schools and synergies and conflicts influenced the movement's evolution. A landscapes that are often overlooked by tourist. Scattered syllabus will be provided. throughout the county many of these sites reveal Broward County's contributions to the development of Florida including 3:00 p.m. - Regency Ballroom 3 agriculture, civil rights and military history. Self-Expansiveness: A Transpersonal Construct and Its Supporting Research 3:00 p.m. - Atlantic Ballroom 2 by Harris Friedman, PhD Florida's Big Dig: The History of the Atlantic Intracoastal Self-expansiveness is a construct referring to how a person can Waterway, Jacksonville to Miami, 1881-1935 identify with aspects of the world not usually seen in the West as by William Crawford, Jr., Esq. part of the ordinary self. This construct is accompanied by a Bill Crawford provides a detailed account of the development of scientifically well-validated measure, the Self-Expansiveness Level Florida’s Intracoastal Waterway. As early as 1636, canals began to Form (SELF), which has been used in considerable empirical replace the oxcart as the means of transporting goods in Colonial research. In particular, the SELF’s Transpersonal Scale, which America. But the Constitution granted no power to fund inland focuses on extreme levels of self-expansiveness, such as waterways. In 1825, the completion of the Erie Canal ignited identifying with all of humanity or even all that exists, provides a America's first canal renaissance. In 1881, Florida began building model for understanding a number of phenomena related to the what would be the southernmost section of the Atlantic outer boundaries of human consciousness. This presentation will Intracoastal Waterway. A private company agreed to construct a explore the construct of self-expansiveness and its accompanying small canal in exchange for public land and the right to charge measure, as well as summarize the empirical research supporting tolls. The election of Theodore Roosevelt as president set off a it. The many implications of this approach, in terms of both second national renaissance of waterway construction. More than further research and applications, will also be explored. 30 waterway associations coalesced into national advocacy groups to lobby Congress for funding. Mr. Crawford will also cover 3:30 p.m. - Great Hall 5 how the sale of the private waterway became a federal, toll-free Learning Session — Roll for the Galaxy inland waterway and the source of funds for the first psychiatric by Robert Goldsmith hospital for children in the nation. This game involves rolling worker dice to determine what type of work they want to perform, then assigning them to a variety of 3:00 p.m. - Room 216 tasks that help build your interstellar empire. It’s easy to learn. Atheist Meet-and-Greet Join us in the Games Room if you would like to learn the game or by Ed You the Ambition expansion, or need a refresher before the This atheist, agnostic, humanist, etc.
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