William Shakespeare Henry VI, Part 1 (ca. 1591) No expertise or prerequisites are required. We only ask that you read the selected text. INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE ZOOM SESSION If you think you will be attending the session, please send Max …
E.T.A. Hoffmann "The Automata" (1814) "The Sandman" (1817) For the month of June we will be reading two stories by E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776-1822), a German Romantic author mainly of fantasy and gothic horror. Hoffmann was also a composer, music critic, …
Arthur C. Clarke “Transience” (1949) “The Sentinel” (1951) “The Nine Billion Names of God” (1952) “The Star” (1954) For the month of July, we will be reading four short stories by British science fiction writer, futurist, and inventor Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008). …
Ovid Book 1 and Book 2 from Metamorphoses (8 CE; translated by Ian Johnston, 2011) No expertise or prerequisites are required. We only ask that you read the selected texts. INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE ZOOM SESSION If you think you will be attending the session, please …
Rachel Carson Selections from Silent Spring (1962) Chapters 1-3 Chapters 16-17 No expertise or prerequisites are required. We only ask that you read the selected texts. INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE ZOOM SESSION If you think you will be attending the session, please send …
Nan Kim, UWM associate professor of history and co-chair of the public history program, presents the 55th Morris Fromkin Memorial Lecture at 4 p.m. on Thursday, October 17, 2024 in the fourth floor Conference Center of the UWM Golda Meir …
J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur Selected Letters from an American Farmer (1782) Letters I, III, IX, XII No expertise or prerequisites are required. We only ask that you read the selected texts. INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE ZOOM SESSION If you think you …
Marcel Proust “Seascape, with Frieze of Girls” Part II, from Within a Budding Grove, volume 2 of Proust’s In Search of Lost Time (Remembrance of Things Past) (1919) No expertise or prerequisites are required. We only ask that you read the selected text. …
Naguib Mahfouz “Zaabalawi” (1962) “The Conjurer Made Off with the Dish”(1967) “The Time and the Place” (1982) “Half a Day” (1989) No expertise or prerequisites are required. We only ask that you read the selected texts. INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE ZOOM …
Guy de Maupassant “Boule de Suif” (1880) “The Necklace” (1884) “The Wreck” (1886) No expertise or prerequisites are required. We only ask that you read the selected texts. INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE ZOOM SESSION If you think you will be attending …