Please register through Eventbrite to receive the Zoom link for Professor Oberdiek’s Kick-Off Talk. The talk will be held over Zoom on Sunday, October 22, starting at 3:30 pm ET, and you will need to register (for free) to receive the Zoom link and (for phone participants) dial-in information. Register here.
Professor Hans Oberdiek will give a Kick-Off Talk and engage in discussion with book club members about this year’s theme on Sunday, October 22, from 3:30 – 5 pm ET, via Zoom. More information about how to register for the Kick-Off Talk to come. For now, please save the date!
Join Professor Nathalie Anderson at 2 pm ET on Saturday, October 22, for a Kick-Off Talk discussion on this year’s theme of escapist literature. Register on Eventbrite to receive the Zoom link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/swarthmore-alumni-book-club-kick-off-talk-with-prof-nathalie-anderson-tickets-442718632347.
Save the Date! Professor Anderson will give a Kick-Off Talk and engage in Q&A — via Zoom — on Saturday, October 22, from 2-3:30 pm ET. More details to come about how to register for the Kick-Off Talk.
Professor Steve Piker will join Book Club members for the first of two Zoom discussions. His Kick-Off Talk will be on Sunday, September 19, at 3 pm ET. Please register here to receive the Zoom link. Professor Piker will make some remarks about this year’s theme and then move to Q&A. Please use the chat box to note that you’d like to ask a question or make a comment. Professor Piker plans to return for a second Zoom discussion in May or June.
If you were unable to attend Professor Sharpe’s virtual Kick-Off Talk discussion, we missed you! We have a recording of the session available if you would like to watch it. The link has been emailed to the Book Club mailing list, rather than posted. If you did not receive the email and would like the link to the recording, please email julia.judish@alum.swarthmore.edu to request it.
Please register here for Professor Sharpe’s Kick-Off Talk to receive the Zoom link. Professor Sharpe will make some remarks about this year’s theme and then move to Q&A. Please use the chat box to note that you’d like to ask a question or make a comment.
Professor Sharpe will join us via Zoom for a virtual Kick-Off Talk, at 3 p.m. ET on Sunday, October 18, 2020. In keeping with our theme of Reflecting on Narratives Together, he plans to share remarks on the theme and reading selections but also to invite discussion and Q&A. Details about logistics will be circulated to book club members closer to the date.
We are delighted that both Professor Weinberg and Professor Geraci will give our faculty talk on Sunday, October 14th from 3:30 – 5 p.m. The talk will be held at Walter Reed Community Center, Multipurpose Rooms A & B, at 2909 16th St S, Arlington, VA, 22204. Please click here to register so we can plan how many chairs to set up and an appropriate amount of refreshments, although you are welcome to come even if you do not register. Light refreshments will be available at 3:30 p.m., and the talk will begin at 4 p.m.
If you would like to join a small group dinner after the talk with our two professors, please email Julia (Cohen) Judish ’89 at julia.judish@alum.swarthmore.edu. We are tentatively planning to hold the dinner at Rus Uz, a Russian restaurant in Arlington about a 10-minute drive from the talk location.
You can register for Professor Allison Dorsey’s kickoff talk at EventBrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/professor-dorseys-kickoff-talk-tickets-38913616675. The talk will be held in the downstairs Youth Area of the Mount Olivet United Methodist Church, at 1500 N. Glebe Road, Arlington, VA 22207, at 4 p.m. on Saturday, October 28th. Free parking is available in a lot across 16th St. from the church at Glebe & 16th Street North in spaces closer to church, as well as on side streets. The church is a 15-minute walk from the Ballston Metro, on the Orange and Silver lines. Light refreshments will be available at 3:30 p.m; the talk begins at 4 p.m. Please register so we can plan how many chairs to set up and an appropriate amount of refreshments, although you are welcome to come even if you do not register.
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