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The Making of Modern China in Four Acts: Empire, Republic, Party-State, Superpower
A Distinguished Scholar Seminar featuring Michelle King, Associate Professor of History. The twenty-first century may be China’s century. With the world’s largest population and the second largest, most rapidly growing economy of the major nations, China is positioned to play … Read more
War Movies and the Public
War Movies and the Public • May 23 • 5-6 PM (EST) via Zoom Using the iconic 2002 film "We Were Soldiers" as a jumping-off point, this event will focus on how movies represent war to the civilian public. Two … Read more
The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio (select stories)
Flyleaf Booksfeaturing Maggie Fritz-Morkin, Assistant Professor of Italian Winner of the 2014 PEN USA Literary Award for Translation —A towering monument of European literature and a masterpiece of imaginative narrative. —Penguin Classics —The Decameron is a joyously comic book that … Read more
The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio (select stories)
Flyleaf Booksfeaturing Maggie Fritz-Morkin, Assistant Professor of Italian Winner of the 2014 PEN USA Literary Award for Translation —A towering monument of European literature and a masterpiece of imaginative narrative. —Penguin Classics —The Decameron is a joyously comic book that … Read more
A Morning with Liszt
A Distinguished Performer Half-Day seminar featuring Robert Buxton, Lecturer (Piano) This event will focus on the music and life of Franz Liszt, composer and pianist extraordinaire of the 19th century, through interspersed performance and discussion of his works with pianist … Read more
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
Flyleaf Booksfeaturing Geovani Ramirez, Teaching Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature Winner of the 2019 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature —Sandra Cisneros is one of the most brilliant of today’s young writers. Her work is sensitive, alert, … Read more
Stoicism and Its Legacies
A Distinguished Scholar Half-Day Seminar featuring Michael Vazquez, Teaching Assistant Professor and Director of Outreach, Philosophy Department The philosophical and ethical themes of ancient Stoic thinkers have attracted renewed attention in recent decades as people struggle to cope with public … Read more
Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Human Rights Legacy of Emancipation
A Special Juneteenth Seminar The long campaigns to protect and abolish the slave system in the American South were the main cause of the American Civil War, so the Emancipation Proclamation and the abolition of slavery became the most important … Read more
Arturo’s Island by Elsa Morante
Zoom**This Great Books class will be held virtually over Zoom** featuring Henry Veggian, Teaching Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature Winner of the Strega Prize, Italy's most prestigious literary award —A deeply affecting tale of childhood disenchantment, Arturo's Island is … Read more