Smithsonian Associates Presents June Program Highlights

The June issue of the Smithsonian Associates’ program guide features a variety of educational and cultural programs, including seminars, lectures, studio arts classes, performances for adults and children and local and regional study tours. Highlights this month include:

Civility in America: Where Did It Go? An Advice Columnists’ Roundtable with Steven Petrow, Lizzie Post, and Carolyn Hax

Tuesday, June 7; 6:45 p.m. to 8:45 p.m.

Smithsonian’s S. Dillon Ripley Center

Washington Post columnist, Steven Petrow, leads a panel of fellow advice columnists who talk candidly about how people can all get along in a world increasingly beset by seismic shifts, whether technological, social or political. Participants include Carolyn Hax of the Washington Post and Lizzie Post, great-great-grandaughter of Emily Post. The speakers will welcome audience members’ questions.

Inside the Arts and Industries Building

Saturday, June 11; 10 a.m. to noon

Smithsonian’s Arts and Industries Building

The Smithsonian’s historic Arts and Industries Building boasts one of the most stunning Victorian-era interiors in Washington. But because of extended renovations, visitors have not seen it for years. Smithsonian Associates members are invited to step inside this 1881 treasure for a special morning devoted to some of the 19th century’s most influential world’s fairs. The building was built as America’s first national museum in order to provide a permanent home for the exhibits of the 1876 Centennial Exposition.

How Love Won: Jim Obergefell and the Landmark Supreme Court Marriage Equality Decision

Wednesday, June 15; 6:45 p.m. to 8:15 p.m.

Smithsonian’s S. Dillon Ripley Center

In a conversation with NPR’s American Legal Affairs Correspondent, Nina Totenberg, Jim Obergefell, the named plaintiff in the Supreme Court case Obergefell v. Hodges, and Debbie Cenziper, a Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post journalist, discuss their new book, Love Wins: The Lovers and Lawyers Who Fought the Landmark Case for Marriage Equality (William Morrow), and what went on behind the scenes in the groundbreaking battle for marriage equality.

Norman Lear: A Conversation with an American Original

Saturday, June 25; 7 p.m. to 8:15 p.m.

National Museum of American History’s Warner Bros. Theater

Norman Lear, member of the Television Hall of Fame and winner of four Emmys and a Peabody Award, speaks with NPR’s Eric Deggans about his life, career and achievements from his groundbreaking work in sitcoms, like All in the Family, The Jeffersons, Sanford and Son, One Day at a Time and Maude, to his philanthropy.

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