Frank Gohlke, Grain elevator and lightning flash, Lamesa, Texas, 1975, gelatin silver print, Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas ©1975 Frank Gohlke. Courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
DCist’s guide to lectures and discussions in the D.C. area
D.C.’s lectures are back in full swing this week with a bit of everything: Abe, landscape photography, capitalism, Iran, and of course, Obama.
Monday:
>> Tonight at 8 p.m., Sixth and I holds a panel of Jewish entrepeneurs and politicians titled Dollars & Sense: How Business Can Change the World. They’ll “tell their stories of their rise to the top as well as their outlook on social and environmental justice.” $6.
Tuesday:
>> For $15 at the Spy Museum, you can catch the CIA-affiliated Airborne Infantry Officer Rufus Phillips as he tells his Saigon Stories. The author of Why Vietnam Matters: An Eyewitness Account of Lessons Not Learned will discuss his “experiences in Vietnam, how the SMM operated, the renowned Lansdale, the extraordinary North Vietnamese spy Pham Xuan An, and the real lessons of Vietnam and their applicability today.” 6:30 p.m.
>> Or, at 6:45 p.m., head to the S. Dillon Ripley Center for an evening with astrophysicist Mario Livio titled Understanding the Mysteries of Our Physical World. $25.
>> The 14th Street Busboys hosts Plunder and Blunder: The Rise and Fall of The Bubble Economy author Dean Baker at 6:30 p.m.
>> At 7 p.m., Politics and Prose has a book signing with Michael Kinsley and his book, Creative Capitalism: A Conversation with Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, and Other Economic Leaders.
