Bridges: Crossing Cultural Divides 2025

TEMPLE GRANDIN

Keynote Address: Thursday, July 31, 2024 — 7 p.m. in Hall Auditorium

Tickets: General Admission – $5 For All

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Also, catch a FREE showing of the film Temple Grandin: Thursday, July 31, 2024 — 1 p.m. in Loud Hall

Temple Grandin’s New York Times bestseller Visual Thinking reveals, celebrates, and advocates for the special minds and contributions of visual thinkers. A quarter century after her memoir forever changed how the world understood autism, she now transforms our awareness of the different ways our brains are wired.
 
About the Speaker: One of the world’s most accomplished and well-known adults with autism, Temple Grandin has a PhD in animal science from the University of Illinois and is a professor at Colorado State University. She has been named one of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people of the year and one of USA Today’s 2025 Women of the Year. The HBO movie based on her life and starring Claire Danes received seven Emmy Awards. She has also been instrumental in implementing animal welfare auditing programs that are used by McDonalds, Wendy’s, Whole Foods, and other corporations. Her books Animals in Translation and Visual Thinking have been on the New York Times Bestseller List.
 

GENERATIONS: The Real Differences between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers and Silents—and What They Mean for the Future

featuring Dr. Jean Twenge

Saturday, July 5, 2025 — 7:30 p.m. in Hall Auditorium

Tickets: General Admission – $30 Non-Member/$20 Member

Dr. Twenge’s talk – spiced with plenty of pop culture references and humor – takes a look at the forces that have shaped the five generations alive in the US today. Understanding the differences in work attitudes, behaviors, mental health, political views, and other factors can help build cohesion in multi-generational communities like Bay View.

Jean M. Twenge, Professor of Psychology at San Diego State University, is the author of more than 180 scientific publications and seven books, including Generations: The Real Differences between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers and Silents—and What They Mean for America’s Future and iGen: Why Today’s Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy–and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood. She holds a BA and MA from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. She writes the Generation Tech substack.

Generously underwritten by Steve and Kathy Olmsted.

Building an Economy for Small and Mid-Size Farmers: A Conversation with the Founders of American Spoon and The Berry Center

featuring Mary Berry, Maggie Keith, Justin Rashid and Noah Marshall-Rashid

Tuesday, August 5, 2025 — 4:30 p.m. in Voorhies Hall

Tickets: General Admission – $15 Non-Member/$10 Member

What does it take to build a thriving small-to-midsize farm economy, and why does it matter to everyone? Join Wendell Berry’s daughter Mary Berry, founder and Executive Director of The Berry Center in New Castle, KY, in conversation with Maggie Keith, fourth generation steward of Foxhollow Farm, and Justin Rashid and Noah Marshall-Rashid of American Spoon to discuss this important and timely topic.