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Lecture
Great Lives Lecture: Jimmy Carter
VirtualJonathan Alter tells the epic story of an enigmatic man of faith and his improbable journey from barefoot boy to global icon. Alter paints an intimate and surprising portrait of […]
Great Lives Lecture: Mother Teresa
VirtualOn November 17, 2021, in 213-0 vote, the U.S. Catholic bishops assigned September 5 as the feast date to St. Teresa of Kolkata, the founder of the Missionaries of Charity. […]
Great Lives Lecture: Pioneer Female Aviators
Dodd Auditorium - George Washington Hall, Fredericksburg, VA 22401, USA 1301 College Ave, Fredericksburg, VA, United StatesEveryone knows the name Amelia Earhart. But the other four women in O’Brien’s story were, in some cases, better pilots and their stories are no less compelling. O’Brien recounts for […]
Great Lives Lecture: Homer
Dodd Auditorium 1301 College Avenue, Fredericksburg, VA, Select a Country:Mark Twain had a school-boy declare: ‘Homer was not written by Homer, but by another man of that name’ – which suggests that the myth of the author endures, despite […]
Great Lives Lecture: Emmett Till
Dodd Auditorium 1301 College Avenue, Fredericksburg, VA, Select a Country:Sixty-six years after his lynching, the story of Emmett Till is more prominent than ever. Beginning with the murder in 1955, Dave Tell will chart the long after-life of Emmett […]
Great Lives Lecture: Ida B. Wells
Dodd Auditorium 1301 College Avenue, Fredericksburg, VA, Select a Country:Born in Holly Springs, Mississippi, to enslaved parents during the tumult of the Civil War, Ida B. Wells (1862-1931) joined a generation of young Black men and women who aspired […]
Great Lives Lecture: Indira Gandhi
Dodd Auditorium 1301 College Avenue, Fredericksburg, VA, Select a Country:One of first female Prime Ministers in the world and the first and only in India, Indira Gandhi was born in 1917 to a prominent political family at the height […]
Great Lives Lecture: America’s Pirates
Dodd Auditorium 1301 College Avenue, Fredericksburg, VA, Select a Country:Set against the backdrop of the Age of Exploration, Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates reveals the dramatic and surprising history of American piracy’s “Golden Age”—spanning […]
Great Lives Lecture: Sandra Day O’Connor
Dodd Auditorium 1301 College Avenue, Fredericksburg, VA, Select a Country:Sandra Day O’Connor was born in 1930 in El Paso and grew up on a cattle ranch in Arizona. At a time when women were expected to be homemakers, she […]
Great Lives Lecture: Dolly Parton
Dodd Auditorium 1301 College Avenue, Fredericksburg, VA, Select a Country:Dolly Parton is having a moment in popular culture, from lifetime achievement awards to adulation from much younger generations. Reduced to jokes about her figure over decades of her impressive […]
Great Lives Lecture: Sylvia Plath
Dodd Auditorium 1301 College Avenue, Fredericksburg, VA, Select a Country:In this talk, Heather Clark will discuss her award-winning biography of Sylvia Plath, an iconic poet who holds a mythic place in the public imagination. Clark will discuss her reasons […]
Great Lives Lecture: C.S. Lewis
Dodd Auditorium 1301 College Avenue, Fredericksburg, VA, Select a Country:Although Clive Staples Lewis died over a half-century ago, his works live on in the hearts and minds of countless readers, young and old, all over the world. From the […]
Global Leadership Summit
The 2022 Global Leadership Summit brings world-class leadership training back to Ebenezer Church in Stafford Thursday-Friday, August 4-5. Whether at home, at work, or in the community, your leadership matters, […]
Global Leadership Summit
Ebenezer United Methodist Church 161 Embrey Mill Road, Stafford, VA, United StatesThe 2022 Global Leadership Summit brings world-class leadership training back to Ebenezer Church in Stafford Thursday-Friday, August 4-5. Whether at home, at work, or in the community, your leadership matters, […]
Great Lives: Gladys West
Dodd Auditorium 1301 College Avenue, Fredericksburg, VA, Select a Country:Gladys West, Technology Pioneer Lecture Date: February 2, 2023 The Irene and Curry Roberts Lecture Would you imagine that a young Black girl growing up in rural Virginia during the […]
Great Lives: Fannie Lou Hamer
Dodd Auditorium 1301 College Avenue, Fredericksburg, VA, Select a Country:Fannie Lou Hamer, Civil Rights Activist Lecture Date: February 7, 2023 The Bill and Terrie Crawley Lecture Fannie Lou Hamer, a poor Mississippi sharecropper with a sixth-grade education, faced down […]
Great Lives: Ted Kennedy
Dodd Auditorium 1301 College Avenue, Fredericksburg, VA, Select a Country:Ted Kennedy Lecture Date: February 14, 2023 The Yuh Prosthodontics Lecture As the fourth son of his famous clan, Ted Kennedy was the runt of the litter. Expelled from Harvard […]
Great Lives: J. Edgar Hoover
Dodd Auditorium 1301 College Avenue, Fredericksburg, VA, Select a Country:J. Edgar Hoover Lecture Date: February 16, 2023 The John and Linda Coker Lecture We remember J. Edgar Hoover as a bulldog–squat frame, bulging wide-set eyes, fearsome jowls. But in […]
Great Lives: Rembrandt
Dodd Auditorium 1301 College Avenue, Fredericksburg, VA, Select a Country:Rembrandt Lecture Date: February 23, 2023 The Joe and Mary Wilson Lecture How does one tell a story with images? This was a question Rembrandt posed to himself throughout his […]
Great Lives: Magellen
Dodd Auditorium 1301 College Avenue, Fredericksburg, VA, Select a Country:Magellan Lecture Date: March 2, 2023 The Coldwell Banker Elite Lecture Magellan was the first person to think globally, to see the world as we see it today. To research […]
