Over Winter 2025, I’ll be offering three private online courses. Two are devoted to ancient classics, one featuring Aristophanes’s comedies and one featuring selections from Ovid’s Metamorphoses. The third juxtaposes a modern classic (Twain’s Huckleberry Finn) with an even more modern reply (Percival Everett’s James). The courses can be taken individually or as a series. Continue reading
This autumn I’ll be offering three private online courses on works by some of the intellectual giants of the mid-twentieth century: George Orwell, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Albert Camus. The courses can be taken individually or as a series. Continue reading
On Monday, 3 September 2024, 6:00–7:30p CT, I will be teaching a free private online course about “close reading” that is suitable for novices and veterans alike. Continue reading
2024 is the 50th anniversary (#ZMM50 #ZMM50th) of the publication of Robert Pirsig’s modern classic Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values. As part of the nationwide commemoration of this milestone, this summer I will be teaching two related online courses that can be taken independently or together. Continue reading
On Friday, 2 December 2022 12:15–1:15 pm, I will be giving the Basic Program First Friday Lecture online. My topic will be:
Great Books and Big Lies
(“Theirs” and “Ours”)
The lecture is free and open to the public.
On Friday, 2 July 2021 12:15–1:15 pm, I will be giving the Basic Program First Friday Lecture online. My topic will be:
Home Front, War Front:
“Mrs. Miniver” and “Scarlett O’Hara” as the Interpretive Keys to Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun
The lecture is free and open to the public.
On Friday, 7 August 2020 12:15–1:15 pm, I will be giving the Basic Program First Friday Lecture online. My topic will be:
“Impeachment”
in the Constitutional Sense
The lecture is free and open to the public.
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On Friday, 10 January 2020 12:15–1:15 pm, I will be giving the Basic Program First Friday Lecture at the Chicago Cultural Center (Michigan Avenue between Randolph and Washington Streets). My topic will be:
Getting Comfortable with Death;
Or, Better Dying Through Better Thinking
The lecture is free and open to the public.
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On Friday, 2 August 2018 12:15–1:15 pm, I will be giving the Basic Program First Friday Lecture at the Chicago Cultural Center (Michigan Avenue between Randolph and Washington Streets). My topic will be:
The White Man’s Peril:
Heart of Darkness as
Conrad’s Reply to Kipling
The lecture is free and open to the public. Continue reading
On Friday, 7 September 2018 12:15–1:15 pm, I will be giving the Basic Program First Friday Lecture at the Chicago Cultural Center (Michigan Avenue between Randolph and Washington Streets). My topic will be:
The Use and Abuse of Gustavus Vassa; Or, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano on Its Own Terms
The lecture is free and open to the public.
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