Monbiot's other work for the charities included lectures, teaching, advice and introductions.
Berkeley's season has also included lectures and films about Ms. Tharp.
The week, late last month, included lectures on musicianship, the science of hearing, practice methods, how to blend and performance anxiety.
On Nov. 19, the Bureau of Reclamation, which oversees the dam, started offering "top of the dam" tours, which included lectures by guides, and on Wednesday reinstituted its tours of the power plant below.
Each teacher-training workshop included lectures by experts in toxicology, DNA and blood spatter analysis, hair and fiber identification, engineering, document examination and the other eclectic disciplines that fall under the rubric of forensics.
The two-day meeting included "lectures" on Taiwan from Chinese officials, administration officials recounted, although the tone was not significantly different from past discussions of the subject, which Beijing considers as its most vital.
Events in the near term included lectures on yacht design, Italian fashion, the art market and the links between food safety and architecture; jazz and Indian music concerts; a film series on contemporary architects; and a yoga class.
The schedule has included lectures by prominent figures like Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. and the singer and activist Harry Belafonte, movie screenings, panel discussions and a "walk of reconciliation and redemption".
Art TLV, started by a cadre of art dealers and curators, including Ms. Sommer, Rivka Saker, Yehudit Shapira Haviv and Shifra Shalit-Intrator, was a rigorous five-day marathon that included lectures, openings, dinners, museum and home tours, private screenings and hourlong jaunts to Jerusalem.
Under the patronage of Charles, Prince of Wales, Raine founded in 1990 Temenos Academy, a teaching institution that rejected the "secular materialism" of the current age; the Temenos Academy Review was created in 1999 and included lectures given at the academy.
The Food Book Fair, which ran from Friday to Sunday in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, included lectures by eminent foodologists like Ms. Thacker Jones's professor, the nutritionist Marion Nestle; a marketplace; parties; and panels on food and art, technology, history and culture.
