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Announcing the Fall 2015 Great Books Series!

The fall session of the Great Books Discussion Group is scheduled to begin on Tuesday, September 8, 2015 at the Brown County Central Library, 515 Pine Street, downtown Green Bay.  The group meets on the second Tuesday of the month at 6:30 p.m. in the library’s Board Room.  Staff from the University of Wisconsin – Green Bay Department of Humanistic Studies leads the discussions.

 

Date Title & Author Presenter:
September 8 Flatland
Edwin A. Abbott 
Rebecca Nesvet
October 13 Notes from the Underground
F. Dostoevsky
Kevin Kain
November 10 My Name is Red
Orhan Pamuk
David Coury
December 8 La pedagogia del oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed)
Paulo Freire
Hernan Fernandez-Meardi

 

The library offers many of these titles in a variety of formats. Copies can be reserved or downloaded from the library’s online catalog – visit www.browncountylibrary.org  and click on the library card. These discussions are free and open to anyone interested in participating.  Parking is free downtown after 6:00 p.m.

Great Books Discussions schedule Fall 2014!

Please come to the Brown County Central Library on the second Tuesday of the month at 6:30 p.m. The Great Book Discussions are held in the Board Room (2nd Floor).

September 9

Apocryphal New Testament

 

Professor Brian Sutton

October 14

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Professor Kevin Kain

November 11

Letters to a Young Poet and Selected Poems

Rainer Maria Rilke

Professor David Coury

December 9

Beloved

Toni Morrison

Professor Rebecca Meacham

Great Books Fall 2010

The Department of Humanistic Studies and the Brown County Library invite you to participate in the spring semester’s Great Books Discussion series.  On the second Tuesday of each month, a member of UW-Green Bay’s Humanitistc Studies faculty will lead a discussion on one of the “great books” of western and world culture.  The schedule for the fall semester 2010 is…

September 14, TOPIC: NATURAL LAW/RELIGION, Leviathan, Hobbe Chapters 6, 12 and 14, Presented by Professor Derek Jeffreys

October 12, TOPIC: UTOPIANISM, Utopia, Thomas More, Presented by Professor Kevin Kain

November 9, TOPIC: LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY, Open Veins of Latin America Presented by Professor Gabriel Saxton-Ruiz

December 14, TOPIC: RUSSIAN DRAMA, The Cherry Orchard, Chekov Presented by Professor Heidi Sherman

The discussions are free and open to the public.  Faculty, students, and community members are encouraged to attend.  Of course, we encourage you to read the “great book” before attending the discussion, but even if you cannot finish the work, you may find the session enlightening.

The Great Books Discussion series is held on the Lower Level of the Brown County Library (Central Branch – 515 Pine St., Downtown Green Bay).  Discussions begin at 6:30 p.m.

See you there!

One Day on the Life of Ivan Denisovich

The third Great Books Discussion will be held Tuesday, November 11 at 6:30 p.m. on the lower level of the Brown Count Library (Central Branch – 515 Pine St., Downtown Green Bay).

Professor Kevin Kain will lead a discussion of Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s One Day on the Life of Ivan Denisovich.

Solzhenitsyn’s novel depicts a typical day in a soviet gulag, one of Stalin’s labor camps, where Solzhenitsyn himself had served for eight years. Having escaped a Nazi Prisoner of War camp, Ivan Denisovich Shukov, returns to Russia only to be delcared a spy and sentenced to ten years in a labor camp. The book explores the oppression and dehumanization of Soviet labor camps and the means by which one survives such an ordeal.

The discussions are free and open to the public.  Faculty, students, and community members are encouraged to attend.  Of course, we encourage you to read the “great book” before attending the discussion, but even if you cannot finish the work, you may find the session enlightening.

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