Great Books Virtual Roundtable Discussion

Mencius The Works of Mencius, Books 1 & 2, translated by James Legge. (ca. 300 BCE) No expertise or prerequisites are required. We only ask that you read the selected texts. INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE ZOOM SESSION If you think you …

Great Books Virtual Roundtable Discussion

Marcel Proust “Seascape, with Frieze of Girls” Part I, 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. INSTRUCTIONS …

Great Books Virtual Roundtable Discussion

Cormac McCarthy “Wake for Susan” (1959) “A Drowning Incident” (1960) “The Dark Waters” (1965) 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 …

Great Books Virtual Roundtable Discussion

Italo Calvino “Lightness” and “Quickness” from Six Memos for the New Millennium (1985). 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 …

Great Books Virtual Roundtable Discussion

Aeschylus The Eumenidies (458 BCE) Verse translation (2018) by David Mulroy 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, …

Great Books Virtual Roundtable Discussion

A. A. Milne Winnie the Pooh (1926) Chapters 1-5 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 …

Exhibit: The Book as Quilt

Materials in this exhibit, curated by graduate intern Teddy Lepley, have been drawn from Special Collections’ Book Arts Collection.

Artist Talk with Pat Northrup and Sam Zimmerman

Please join us for a conversation in Special Collections at UWM’s Golda Meir Library on Tuesday, April 11 at  4:30 p.m. to learn about Indigenous art, culture, and stories with artist and knowledge bearer, Pat Northrup (Dakota), and American Indian …