Boston Area Public Lectures and Forums, 2007-2008


Since the founding of Harvard College in 1636, 16 years after the arrival of the first Pilgrims at Plymouth, Boston has been a hub of scholarship, education, and the life of the mind. 100 years ago the intellectually curious Bostonian could have witnessed public addresses by William James, Theodore Roosevelt, W. E. B. DuBois, Jane Addams, or Charles and Mary Beard.  Indeed, little has changed.  Today one can hear talks by any number of scholars and public figures— ranging from Clifford Geertz, bell hooks, John Lukacs, Bill Clinton, or John Milbank—at the dozens of colleges, universities, libraries, and other venues in the area.  Every day there are wonderful opportunities to attend public lectures in the Boston area.  Many of these lectures are free, delivered by the most renown thinkers and leaders of our day.  The events listed below are a sampling of some of the hundreds presented in the Boston vicinity in 2006-07.  ENC history majors are strongly encouraged to attend some of these provocative and enriching lectures and public forums.


FALL 2007 CALENDAR OF EVENTS IN THE BOSTON AREA
* credit for United States from Reconstruction to World War I (HI225); # credit for Religion and American Culture (HI410)

SEPTEMBER

Wed, Sept 5, 12:00-1:00 PM,  Brown-Bag with Hobson Woodward, "Caliban and the Sea Turtle: Chronicles of the Bermuda wreck of the Sea Venture as a source for Shakespeare's The Tempest." Massachusetts Historical Society, call 617-646-0513 to RSVP.

Thur, Sept 6, 6:30 PM, "Treasures of the Massachusetts Bay Colony: Documents, Arts, and Architecture." Panelists will explore the legacy of the 17th century founders of Boston and the Massachusetts Bay Colony as represented by treasures in local historical and cultural collections today. The panelists will include Peter Drummey, Stephen T. Riley Librarian of the Massachusetts Historical Society and Jonathan L. Fairbanks, The Katherine L. Weems Curator of American Decorative and Fine Arts, Emeritus, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The moderator will be John Winthrop Sears, Former Boston City Councilor and M.D.C. Commissioner. Boston Public Library, Rabb Lecture Hall.

Thur, Sept 6, 6:00 PM, "Back ON THE ROAD: A Fifty-Year Retrospective on Kerouac's Beat Classic with John Leland and Joyce Johnson." In honor of the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Jack Kerouac's On the Road, Harvard Book Store presents John Leland, author of Why Kerouac Matters, and Joyce Johnson, author of the award-winning Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir (and Kerouac's former girlfriend) in a conversation about the mid-century Beat classic. Tickets for this event are $5 and may be purchased at Harvard Book Store or over the phone with a credit card at 617-661-1515.

Fri, Sept 7, 7:00 PM,  Michael Palin discusses, Diaries 1969-1979: The Python Years. Michael Palin has kept a diary since newly married in the late 1960s, when he was beginning to make a name for himself as a TV scriptwriter. And now we get to take a peek inside... This volume reveals how Python emerged and triumphed, how Palin, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, the two Terrys -- Jones and Gilliam -- and Eric Idle came together and, well, changed the face of British comedy. The birth and childhood of Palin's three children, his father’s growing disability, learning to cope as a young man with celebrity, his friendship with George Harrison, and all the trials of a peripatetic life are also covered. First Parish Church Meetinghouse, on the corner of Mass. Ave. and Church St., Cambridge. Tickets for this event are $5 and may be purchased at Harvard Book Store or over the phone with a credit card at 617-661-1515.

*Wed, Sept 12, 4:00 PM, Daniel Kanstroom (Associate Director of the Center for Human Rights and International Justice at Boston College), "Nation of Immigrants or Deportation Nation?" Boston College Law School, Room 115A.

Thur, Sept 13, 6:00 PM, Stephen Fox will speak on his new book, Wolf of the Deep, an account of the naval side of the Civil War. Books will be available for sale and signing. Boston Public Library, Rabb Lecture Hall.

Thur, Sept 13, 6:30-8:00 PM, John Dean, "Broken Government: How Republican Rule Destroyed the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches."  Ford Hall Forum, Old South Meeting House, Boston MA. Free and open to the public.

#Mon, Sept 17, 7:00 PM, “Let’s Talk About It: Jewish Literature – Identity and Imagination.” Explore Jewish literature and culture in a free five-part reading and discussion series at the Thomas Crane Public Library, Quincy.  Discussions will be led by Dr. Jeslyn Medoff, Adjunct Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.  For more information or to register for some or all of the sessions, call 617-376-1305 or e-mail letstalkseries@gmail.com.  Copies of each book will be available at the library for all registered participants.  Discussions are co-sponsored by the ENC Library.

Tues, Sept 18, 7:30 PM, Lynn Parsons (Professor Emeritus from S.U.N.Y. at Brockport), "John Quincy Adams in Russia." Public program at the American Antiquarian Society, Antiquarian Hall, 185 Salisbury Street, Worcester, MA. Contact: James David Moran   508-755-5221; jmoran@mwa.org.

*Tues, Sept 18, 5:15 PM,  David R. Foster and Harvard Forest, "Nature Past, Present and Future: The Role of Henry Thoreau, Bob Marshall, Bud Heinselman and Margaret Davis in Bringing History to Ecology and Conservation." The Boston Environmental History Seminar is an academic forum for scholars as well as interested members of the public to discuss aspects of American environmental history. Most seminar meetings revolve around the discussion of a precirculated paper. Sessions open with remarks from the essayist and an assigned commentator, after which the discussion is opened to the floor. After each session, the Society serves a light buffet supper. We request that those wishing to stay for supper make reservations in advance.  Massachusetts Historical Society, call 617-646-0513 to RSVP.

Wed, Sept 19, 7:30 PM, Jonathan Kozol discusses his latest book, Letters To A Young Teacher, inspired by his letters to Francesca, a first grade teacher at an inner-city school in Boston. The Cambridge Forum, Memorial Church, Harvard Square.

Thur, Sept 20, 4:00 PM, Colloquium on the History of Psychiatry and Medicine. "Living in the Shadow of the Freud Family." Sophie Freud (emerita, Simmons Graduate School of Social Work). Open to students of history and those valuing a historical perspective on their professions. Room L-007, Medical Education Center, Harvard Medical School, 260 Longwood Ave., 4 p.m. (617) 332-0032, david_satin@hms.harvard.edu.

#Thur, Sept 20, 5:15 PM, Nazli Kibria (Boston University), "Becoming Muslim American: Identity Struggles of Bangladeshis in the U.S." Comment: Rajini Srikanth, University of Massachusetts-Boston. The Boston Immigration and Urban History Seminar is an academic forum for local scholars as well as members of the general public to discuss all aspects of American immigration and urban history and culture. Programs are not confined to Massachusetts topics. Most seminar meetings revolve around the discussion of a precirculated paper. Sessions open with remarks from the essayist and an assigned commentator, after which the discussion is opened to the floor. After each session, the Society serves a light buffet supper. We request that those wishing to stay for supper make reservations in advance. Massachusetts Historical Society, call 617-646-0513.

Tues, Sept 25, 4:30 PM, Jeannine DeLombard (AAS-NEH Fellow and University of Toronto) "Reading in the Shadow of the Gallows." Academic Seminar sponsored by AAS in association with the history departments of Clark University and the University of Connecticut. Elmarion Room, Goddard-Daniels House, 190 Salisbury Street, Worcester, MA
 
*Wed, Sept 26, 3:00 PM - 5:30 PM, Exhibit Opening: "'Moments of Destiny': Two Centuries of Russian-American Diplomatic Relations from the Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society." Remarks by: The Honorable Yury V. Ushakov, Russian Ambassador to the United States; The Honorable William J. Burns, U.S. Ambassador to the Russian Federation; C. James Taylor, Editor in Chief of the Adams Papers; and Peter Drummey, Stephen T. Riley Librarian Due to security concerns, it is required that all persons wishing to attend notify the MHS in advance. Massachusetts Historical Society, call 617-646-0513.

#Wed, Sept 26, Timothy Shah "Evangelical Intelligentsia: How the Evangelical Mind is Opening and Why it Matters." Boston University. The 10 Lenox Street Conversations are held once a month, on Wednesdays in the first floor conference room at 10 Lenox Street from 10:00 am to 12:00 noon. If you have any questions, please call our main number at CURA (617-353-9050) or email us at isec@bu.edu.

Wed, Sept 26, 7:30 PM, Dana Gioia, (Director of the National Endowment for the Arts), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow at 200. Cambridge Forum.  For more information, see: http://www.cambridgeforum.org/cfweb/cfschedule.html

Thur, Sept 27, Tess Gerristen reads from and signs copies of her new book, The Bone Garden. The backdrop of this book is the Harvard Medical School in 1830's Boston. Location: Harvard Coop, 3rd floor.


OCTOBER

#Mon, Oct 1, 4:15-6:00 PM, A talk on Buddhist studies by Charles Hallisey (Senior Lecturer on Buddhist Studies at Harvard Divinity School). For more information, contact the Humanities Center at Harvard at 617.495.0738. Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA.

Tues, Oct 2, 4:30 PM, Itamar Rabinovich (former president of Tel Aviv University, Israeli Ambassador to the United States and Chief Negotiator with Syria), "The US, Israel and Syria: On the Path to Settlement orto a New Conflict." Boston College, McGuinn 121.

Wed, Oct 3, 7:30 PM, Paul Starr, "A Liberal Speaks." Pulitzer Prize-winning author and co-founder of The American Prospect, Paul Starr discusses Freedom’s Power: The True Force of Liberalism. Delving into the history of liberal philosophy, Starr asks what traditional liberalism has to offer modern America. Cambridge Forum.  For more information, see: http://www.cambridgeforum.org/cfweb/cfschedule.html

*Wed, Oct 3, 6:30 PM, Panel Discussion with David Blight (Yale), W. Fitzhugh Brundage (University of North Carolina), Nina Silber (Boston University), and  John McCardell (Middlebury College), "The Civil War Remembered: Union, Confederate and African American Perspectives."  This event, which will take place at the Boston Public Library, was organized by the American Civil War Center at Historic Tredegar (Richmond, Virginia) , and is co-hosted by the Massachusetts Historical Society, the Boston Public Library, and the Boston Athenaeum. Free and open to the public.

Thur, Oct 4, 6:30-8:00 PM, Charlie Savage, "Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy." Ford Hall Forum, Old South Meeting House, Boston MA. Free and open to the public.

Thur, Oct 4, 5:15 PM, Richard D. Brown (University of Connecticut) and Doron Ben-Atar (Fordham University), "Darkness in New Light New England: Punishing Bestial Acts in the 1790s." Comment: Mary Sarah Bilder, Boston College Law School. Massachusetts Historical Society.  More information: http://www.masshist.org/events/.

Thur, Oct 4, 4:30 PM, Clare Asquith, "Shakespeare and the Cause of English Catholicism." Boston College, location: TBA.

#Thur, Oct 4, 7:00PM, Marco Impagliazzo (International President of the Community of Sant’Egidio) "A Church of All Especially a Church of the Poor"; response by Cardinal Sean O’Malley (Archbishop of Boston). Boston College, Gasson Hall 100.
 
Tues, Oct 9, 4:15-6:00 PM, William Niven (Professor of Contemporary German History in the History, Heritage and Geography Department, Nottingham Trent University, England) "Rescued From the Holocaust, Exploited After 1945: Telling the Story of the 'Buchenwald Child' in East, West, and United Germany." Cabot Room, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, 27 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA. Co-sponsored by the German Study Group. For more information, contact Phyllis Albert: phyllisalbert@comcast.net.

Wed, Oct 10, 6:00-7:30 PM, A conversation with Klaus Scharioth Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to the United States; and Jean-David Levitte, Ambassador of France to the United States. Moderated by Alan Berger, Senior Editorial Page Editor, The Boston Globe. Photonics Center, 8 St. Mary's Street (PHO Colloquium Room), Boston University. Open to general public, admission is free: http://www.iwm.at/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=551&Itemid=500.

Wed, Oct 10, 7:30 PM, Niall Ferguson, "The West And China: Divergence And Convergence."  Economic historian Niall Ferguson (Harvard) examines the impact of China’s economic strength on the international economy. How has China made its presence felt through manufacturing, its trade surplus, monetary policy, and acquisition of Western corporations? Cambridge Forum.  For more information, see: http://www.cambridgeforum.org/cfweb/cfschedule.html

#Mon, Oct 15, 7:00 PM, "Red Cavalry by Isaac Babel." Explore Jewish literature and culture in a free five-part reading and discussion series at the Thomas Crane Public Library, Quincy.  Discussions will be led by Dr. Jeslyn Medoff, Adjunct Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.  For more information or to register for some or all of the sessions, call 617-376-1305 or e-mail letstalkseries@gmail.com.  Copies of each book will be available at the library for all registered participants.  Discussions are co-sponsored by the ENC Library.

Wed, Oct 17, 7:30 PM, Philip Winslow, "In the West Bank With Palestinians and the Israelis." Veteran journalist Philip Winslow worked on the West Bank with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency during the second intifada, driving up to 600 miles a week between almost every Palestinian town, village, and refugee camp and every Israeli checkpoint in the occupied territory. His latest book presents a rare firsthand account of people’s lives in this dangerous and contested region. What conditions would be necessary to stop the ongoing violence? What conditions would allow real progress toward peace? Cambridge Forum.  For more information, see: http://www.cambridgeforum.org/cfweb/cfschedule.html

Thur, Oct 18, 5:15 PM, Susan Ware, "A Sporting Chance: Billie Jean King, Title IX, and the Revolution in Women's Sports." Comment: Eileen McDonagh (Northeastern University and Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University). Location: Schlesinger Library, Harvard University. Massachusetts Historical Society.  More information: http://www.masshist.org/events/.

*Thur, Oct 18, 2007, 7:30 PM, William S. McFeeley, "Taking a Look at Grant Twenty-five Years Later." The fourth annual Robert C. Baron Lecture.  Public program. American Antiquarian Society, Antiquarian Hall, 185 Salisbury Street, Worcester, MA. Contact James David Moran: 508-755-5221; jmoran@mwa.org.

#Mon, Oct 22, 7:00 PM, Elie Wiesel, "In History: the Jewishness of Jesus: a Personal Interpretation." Doors open at 6 p.m. Seating on a first-come, first-served basis. GSU Metcalf Hall, 775 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston University. Free and open to the public.

Wed, Oct 24, 7:30 PM,  Larry Bergreen, "Marco Polo." Author Larry Bergreen traces Marco Polo’s journey to China along the silk road. As the West continues to discover China today, this look back at Europe’s earlier encounter calls for a re-examination of our traditional expectations. Cambridge Forum. For more information, see: http://www.cambridgeforum.org/cfweb/cfschedule.html

Wed, Oct 24, 7:30 PM, John Prendergast, Leading Human Rights Activist to Speak about Darfur Crisis. Boston College, Robsham Theater.

*Thur, Oct 25, 5:15 PM, Paul Schmitz (Boston University), "'Only in New York': Italian Immigration, Urban Culture, and the Currency of the Ethnic Movement." Comment: Walter A. Friedman (Harvard Business School). Boston Immigration and Urban History Seminar. Massachusetts Historical Society.  More information: http://www.masshist.org/events/.

Mon, Oct 29,  6:30-9:00 PM, Film Premier: The Three Dumas. Written and directed by Esther Anderson & Gian Godoy. Offered in honor of the bicentennial of the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade, The Three Dumas is a documentary that explores the life and career of Alexandre Dumas. The grandson of a slave, he overcame all the obstacles of prejudice to become a role model of contemporary literature. The film's producers will be on hand to discuss the making of the film and Dumas' historical significance. Massachusetts Historical Society. To register for this event, please call 617-646-0560 or email rsvp@masshist.org.

Mon, Oct 29, 7:00 PM, Elie Wiesel, "In Hasidism: Rebbe Leib Soreh's and his Mysterious Powers." Doors open at 6 p.m. Seating on a first-come, first-served basis. GSU Metcalf Hall, Boston University, 775 Commonwealth Avenue.  Free and open to the public.


NOVEMBER

Thur, Nov 1, 4:15-6:00 PM, Joanna Michlic (Associate Professor of History and the Helene and Allen Apter Chair in Holocaust Studies and Ethical Values at Lehigh University), "Jewish Children in Nazi-Occupied Poland: Early Post-war Recollections." Cabot Room, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, 27 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA.  For more information, contact Phyllis Albert: phyllisalbert@comcast.net.

Thur, Nov 1, 7:30 PM, Joseph Ellis, "American Creation." Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Joseph Ellis tells six stories from the early years of the American Republic. How did the decisions made by the founders affect the shape of the young nation? What were their creative achievements? And their failures? Despite the injustices and brutalities that resulted from the continuation of slavery and the repression of Native Americans, Ellis argues that founders’ strategy rose from a profoundly realistic insight about how enduring social change best happens. Cambridge Forum. For more information, see: http://www.cambridgeforum.org/cfweb/cfschedule.html

Mon, Nov 5, 6:00-7:30 PM, A conversation with: Eva Nowotny (Ambassador of Austria to the United States) moderated by Alan Berger (Senior Editorial Page Editor, The Boston Globe). Photonics Building, Boston University, 8 St. Mary's Street.  Free and open to the public.

#Wed, Nov 7 12:00-1:00 PM, Loren A. Broc (University of Rochester), "Religion and Insanity in the United States, 1820-1880." Massachusetts Historical Society. Call 617-646-0513 to RSPV. Free and open to the public.

#Thur, Nov 8, 7:00 PM, Stephen Prothero (Chair of the Department of Religion at Boston University) "Religious Literacy in the United States." A historian of American religions, Professor Prothero has written five books. His newest is the New York Times bestseller Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know-and Doesn't (HarperOne, 2007), which was also nominated for a 2007 Quill Book Award. His first, The White Buddhist: The Asian Odyssey of Henry Steel Olcott (Indian University Press, 1996) won the "Best First Book" award of the American Academy of Religion in 1997. American Jesus: How the Son of God Became a National Icon (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2003) was named one of the top religion books for 2003 by Publishers Weekly.

In addition to his scholarly work, which includes peer-reviewed articles in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Prothero has written for a variety of popular magazines and newspapers, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Slate, Salon, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and Boston Globe. He has commented on religion on such television programs as The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Oprah Winfrey Show, The O'Reilly Factor, and The Today Show. He is also a panelist for the Washington Post/Newsweek online conversation "On Faith." Visit his personal web site at http://www.stephenprothero.com. 

Prothero's lecture will be in 15 Shrader, Eastern Nazarene College.  It will be free and open to the public.

Thur, Nov 8, 7:30 PM, Karen Ordahl Kupperman (Silver Professor of History at New York University) and Walter W. Woodward (Connecticut State Historian and assistant professor of history at the University of Connecticut), "Captain John Smith and the Invention of English America." Public program. American Antiquarian Society, Antiquarian Hall, 185 Salisbury Street, Worcester, MA. Contact James David Moran: 508-755-5221; jmoran@mwa.org.

Tues, Nov 13, 6:00-7:30 PM, A conversation with Joao de Vallera (Ambassador of Portugal to the United States) and Carlos Westendorp (Ambassador of Spain to the United States) moderated by Alan Berger (Senior Editorial Page Editor, The Boston Globe). Photonics Center, Boston University, 8 St. Mary's Street (PHO Colloquium Room).  Free and open to the public.

#Wed, Nov 14, 5:15 PM, Philip F. Gura, William S. Newman Distinguished Professor of American Literature and Culture at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, "American Transcendentalism." Sperry Room, Andover Hall, HDS, Cambridge, MA. This public discussion is sponsored by Harvard Divinity Bulletin. For more information, contact Christine Bower in the Office of Communications at 617.496.1813.

#Thur, Nov 15, 7:30 PM, Philip F. Gura, "Why Transcendentalism Still Matters: Emerson and His Circle in Our Time." Public program. American Antiquarian Society, Antiquarian Hall, 185 Salisbury Street, Worcester, MA. Contact James David Moran: 508-755-5221; jmoran@mwa.org.

#*Thur, Nov 15, 6:30 PM, A converstation with Steve Nissenbaum (Professor Emeritus of History, University of Massachusetts-Amherst) on "The Battle for Christmas." Facilitated by Steve Marini, Wellesley College. This program is part of the Massachusetts Historical Society's History and Memory series, 1154 Boylston. To register for this event, please call 617-646-0560 or email rsvp@masshist.org.

Thur, Nov 15, 6:30-8:00 PM, Rami Khouri, "Baghdad, Tehran, Beirut and Jerusalem – A Critical Arab View of America's Middle East Policies." Ford Hall Forum, Raytheon Amphitheater, Egan Research Center, Northeastern University. Free and open to the public.

Thur, Nov 15, 7:30 PM, David Rieff (Senior Fellow at the World Policy Institute at the New School for Social Research, a Fellow at the New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations) reads from his work.  Boston College, Devlin Hall 101.

Fri, Nov 16, 4:00 PM, Charles M. Falco, "Perceiving Images: The Separate Realities of Scientists and Art Historians." Boston College; Location: TBA.

#Mon, Nov 19, 7:00 PM, "Neighbors by Jan T. Gross." Explore Jewish literature and culture in a free five-part reading and discussion series at the Thomas Crane Public Library, Quincy.  Discussions will be led by Dr. Jeslyn Medoff, Adjunct Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.  For more information or to register for some or all of the sessions, call 617-376-1305 or e-mail letstalkseries@gmail.com.  Copies of each book will be available at the library for all registered participants.  Discussions are co-sponsored by the ENC Library.

Tues, Nov 27, 6:30 PM, Massachusetts Historical Society's Annual Dinner: Michael Beschloss, "Presidential Courage." Registration required: call 617-646-0560 or email rsvp@masshist.org.

*Thur, Nov 29, 5:15 PM, Mae Ngai (Columbia University), "'He Talk Lie': Chinese Interpreters in Nineteenth and Early-twentieth-century America." Comment: Robert Lee, Brown University. Boston Immigration and Urban History Seminar at the Massachusetts Historical Society.  Free and open to the public.  For more information, see http://www.masshist.org/events/.

#Thur, Nov 29, David N. Hempton, Alonzo L. McDonald Professorship Inaugural Lecture, Title TBA.  Sperry Room, Andover Hall, Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, MA. A reception will follow, hosted by the Office of Development and External Relations. Free and open to the public. Contact Rita Filopowitz at 617.495.0349 for more information.


DECEMBER

Wed, Dec 5, 4:15-6:00 PM, Mitchell Hart (Associate Professor of History, University of Florida), "Discovering the Secrets of Jewish Survival: Darwinism and the Reinterpretation of Jewish History in Europe and America, 1880-1940." Cabot Room, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, 27 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA. Jews in Modern Europe Study Group Lecture. Co-sponsored by the Intellectual History Study Group. For more information, contact Alex Sagan.

Thur, Dec 6, 5:00-7:00 PM, Jocelyne Cesari (director of the Islam in the West Program at Harvard University), "Encyclopedia of Islam in the United States." Garden Room, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, 27 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA.
Islam in the West Seminar. This discussion is the book launch event for the Encyclopedia, which Cesari edited. More information will be posted on the Islam in the West website as it becomes available, or contact Gwen Speeth at 617.384.7606.

Thur, Dec 6, 5:15 PM, C. Dallett Hemphill (Ursinus College), "Founding Brothers and Sisters: Sibling Relations in the Era of the American Revolution." Comment: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Harvard University. Boston Early American History Seminar at the Massachusetts Historical Society: http://www.masshist.org/events/.
   
Thur, Dec 13, 5:15 PM, Robert Self, Brown University, "Prelude to the Culture Wars: The Politics of Gender in the Vietnam Era." Comment: Dayo F. Gore (University of Massachusetts-Amherst). Boston Seminar on the History of Women and Gender at the Massachusetts Historical Society: http://www.masshist.org/events/.

Mon, Dec 17, 7:00 PM, "The Assistant by Bernard Malamud." Explore Jewish literature and culture in a free five-part reading and discussion series at the Thomas Crane Public Library, Quincy.  Discussions will be led by Dr. Jeslyn Medoff, Adjunct Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.  For more information or to register for some or all of the sessions, call 617-376-1305 or e-mail letstalkseries@gmail.com.  Copies of each book will be available at the library for all registered participants.  Discussions are co-sponsored by the ENC Library.
           

JANUARY

Mon, Jan 14, 7:00 PM, "Mona in the Promised Land by Gish Jen." Explore Jewish literature and culture in a free five-part reading and discussion series at the Thomas Crane Public Library, Quincy.  Discussions will be led by Dr. Jeslyn Medoff, Adjunct Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.  For more information or to register for some or all of the sessions, call 617-376-1305 or e-mail letstalkseries@gmail.com.  Copies of each book will be available at the library for all registered participants.  Discussions are co-sponsored by the ENC Library.
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