Upcoming Events
Date / Time
- April 25, 2024
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm - May 2, 2024
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm - May 9, 2024
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm - May 16, 2024
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm - May 23, 2024
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm - May 30, 2024
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm - June 6, 2024
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm - June 13, 2024
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
This immersive weekly course will help readers explore (and enjoy) the intricacies, enigmas and hilarities of Ulysses. First time readers of the novel will find many resources for understanding this challenging work. For those returning to the novel, this will be a great way to delve even deeper into a book whose depths never seem to end.
Date / Time
- April 30, 2024
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm - May 14, 2024
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm - May 28, 2024
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Barbara Kingsolver’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Demon Copperhead takes inspiration from Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield in order to tell the gripping story of a boy growing up in Appalachia who is deeply affected by the opioid epidemic. Kingsolver has emphasized in interviews that you don’t need to read David Copperfield in order to understand Demon Copperhead. You’ll appreciate Kingsolver’s artistry even more, however, if you first acquaint yourself with, or refresh your memory of, Dickens’s beloved Bildungsroman (a novel that focuses on its main character’s education and development).
Date / Time
- May 1, 2024
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm - May 8, 2024
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm - May 15, 2024
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm - May 22, 2024
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm - May 29, 2024
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
In this course, we delve into the profound impact of One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), authored by the Colombian Nobel Prize-winning writer Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014), widely hailed by Yale literary scholar Harold Bloom as “the new Don Quixote.”
Date / Time
- May 2, 2024
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm - May 16, 2024
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
This course is designed for people who have never read Plato or for people who “did Plato” in college and came away thinking once was enough. Besides being the world’s most famous philosopher, Plato is worth reading because he is shrewd about human nature and because he shows an artistic sense of the structure of a story.
Date / Time
- May 5, 2024
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Transport yourself to the scriptoria of Ethiopia to explore the vibrant and sophisticated calligraphy and manuscript traditions among some of the world’s oldest Christian communities.
Date / Time
- May 5, 2024
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
American Jewish women have always been involved in a variety of social and political causes. Come learn more about their long history of involvement in making change in the world around them.
Date / Time
- May 19, 2024
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm - June 9, 2024
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
You’ve read James Joyce’s Ulysses. Now take the adventure of a reading lifetime with Joyce’s final masterpiece, Finnegans Wake, with renowned Joyce scholar Vicki Mahaffey. Meeting once per month at the Rosenbach, home of one of the great Joyce collections in the world, you will explore this most unique creation with a group of readers in an person course over nine months, ending just in time for Bloomsday. This is your opportunity to conquer one of the most challenging novels of the English language in a friendly, accessible setting, alongside other readers who will take this most joy(ce)ful journey with you.
Date / Time
- June 23, 2024
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Transport yourself to the monasteries of early medieval Ireland by means of the remarkable, centuries-old tradition of calligraphy, closely associated with the Emerald Isle through such artifacts as the Book of Kells.