October 3
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Privacy, Fatalism, and Foolishness
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Privacy has been much discussed, and its loss much lamented, in what Americans alternately refer to as “The Digital Age” and “The Post-9/11 World.” Locating privacy in our human capacities for resistance and relating it to issues of social justice, author Garret Keizer challenges several debatable notions, one being that privacy is doomed and there is nothing we can do about it. Sponsor: The Norwich Bookstore |
November 7
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The Brontë Myth
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Much of what we think we know about Charlotte, Emily, and Ann Brontë comes from careful mythmaking by Charlotte Brontë herself and biographers. Dartmouth professor Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina looks at how and why the myths were created. |
December 5 (Rescheduled to June 5)
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American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era
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David Blight, Yale professor and acclaimed author of Race and Reunion, considers how Americans looked on the War’s centennial during the early 1960s and explores the gulf between remembrance and reality. Sponsor: Stave Puzzles |
January 2
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The Meaning of Faith in Christian and Jewish Thought
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Ronald B. Sobel, Senior Rabbi Emeritus of the world’s largest Jewish house of worship, examines the similarities and differences in the idea and reality of faith as understood and lived in both religions. |
February 6
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Horses Like Lightning: A Story of Passage through the Himalayas
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Dartmouth anthropologist Sienna Craig recounts her years spent living in the remote Himalayan kingdom of Mustang, Nepal. |
March 6 (rescheduled from May 1)
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The British Monarchy from Victoria to Elizabeth II
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How has the monarchy survived the last 175 years? What is its political importance today? Middlebury College professor Paul Monod discusses the evolution of the monarchy as an institution.
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April 3
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Rembrandt: Emotion through Pose and Gesture
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Williams College professor Zirka Filipczak examines Rembrandt’s exceptional ability to depict human emotions, how those emotions changed over his career, and the nuanced repertoire of poses and gestures used to convey them. |
May 1 (rescheduled from March 6)
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The Regeneration of an Artist: Frank Lloyd Wright after 1932
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At the age of 65, Frank Lloyd Wright began the most productive decades of his life. H. Nicholas Muller, III, retired executive director of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, explores Wright’s prolific career. Sponsor: TruexCullins Architecture and Interior Design |
This talk is CANCELLED until further notice. June 5 (rescheduled from December 5)
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American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era
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David Blight, Yale professor and acclaimed author of Race and Reunion, considers how Americans looked on the War’s centennial during the early 1960s and explores the gulf between remembrance and reality. Sponsor: Stave Puzzles |
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First Wednesdays is supported in part by the Institute of Museum & Library Services through the Vermont Department of Libraries
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