January Program Meeting

Our January speaker will be Sonia Allinson-Penny.  She will cover the topic 'The Female Antidote to Corporate Greed' at this month's AAUPW meeting.

Sonia will take us through important shifts in the business world, where governing bodies have learnt valuable lessons from high profile and widespread corporate failures that, in part, can be attributed to a homogeneous group being in positions of power. She will draw linkages between the move by Stock Exchanges to impose gender quotas for board membership, to the increase in emotional intelligence being applied in the business world, to a shift in our understanding of what drives and motivates us and wider societal changes -- a current and controversial topic that promises to generate good debate.

For more information, please contact aaupw@yahoo.de

When:   Wednesday evening, January 18, at 18:30

January 2012 Book Club

Come join us for the January Book Club where we will be discussing:
In Defence of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan.

His bracing and eloquent manifesto on food shows us how we might start making thoughtful choices that will enrich our lives and our palates and enlarge our sense of what it means to be healthy. Food is the one thing that Americans hate to love and, as it turns out, love to hate. What we want to eat has been ousted by the notion of what we should eat, and it's at this nexus of hunger and hang-up that Michael Pollan poses his most salient question: where is the food in our food? What follows in In Defense of Food is a series of wonderfully clear and thoughtful answers that help us omnivores navigate the nutritional minefield that's come to typify our food culture.

When: Monday, 09. January 2012 at 18:30

Coming Up:
Feb: Weapons of Mass Instruction by John Taylor Gatto (originally from October)

November Program Meeting

Please join us for our November program meeting. Our guest speaker is Courtenay Smith, design expert from the Neumeister Auction House. There is always a lot to discuss and tons of fun to be had.

Be aware that we have a new meeting location near Viktualienmarkt. For more info, please contact aaupw@yahoo.de

When: Wednesday evening, 16 November, 6:30 PM

Girls' Night Out

In November, we are continuing our Around The World in Munich Tour by going to Mexico – at least for an evening. So, if you are up for tacos, burritos, tortas, ensaladas salsas, tamales, fajitas, and margaritas, come join us at a great Mexican restaurant!

When: Friday evening, 11 November, 7:00 PM

November Book Club

In November, we will be discussing The Paris Wife by Paula McLain. This is a fictional account of the 5 year marriage between Ernest Hemingway and his first wife Hadley Richardson. They had a whirlwind romance and wedding then set sail to live in Paris in the glittering 1920's. A heartbreaking portrayal of love and broken loyalty. As we now know, Hemingway once said he wished he had died before loving anyone else other than Hadley. From the Washington Times Review, "That his first wife should have spent her adolescence in a home shadowed by depression and suicide before being married to the famed bad boy who later took his own life is intriguing. It immediately establishes one of the strengths of this book, which is its willingness to grapple with emotional complexity."

When: Monday, 14.November at 6:30 PM.