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• February 25: The Art of Discussing Art, Houston, TX​

  • Theme: Art and the Ultimate: Turtles or Telos?​

• April 13-16: New England Great Books Spring Retreat (Zoom) 

  • Theme: The Highs and Lows of a Silver Age: Germany Between the Wars (continued)

  • Readings: Benjamin Carter Hett, The Death of Democracy: Hitler's Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic; Erich Kastner, Going to the Dogs: The Story of a Moralist; Alfred Doblin, Berlin Alexanderplatz; Berthold Brecht, The Threepenny Opera (book and 1931 film adaptation)

• April 28-30: Barbara McConnell Weekend at Asilomar, Pacific Grove, CA

  • Readings: Ayn Rand, short essays; Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things; Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Nathan the Wise; selected poetry

• April 29-30: Philadelphia Great Books Spring Institute (Zoom)

  • Theme: Cultures in Collision​

  • Readings: N. Scott Momaday, House Made of Dawn; James Welch, Winter in the Blood

• May 20: Gold Country Mini-Retreat, Auburn, CA

  • Reading: The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War, followed by a screening of The Quiet American.​

• July 8: Northern California Great Books Annual Meeting and Book Discussion (Zoom)

  • Reading: Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun​

• July 15: Northern California Great Books Leader-Reader Workshop (Zoom)​

• July 16-22: Great Books at Colby College, Waterville, ME

  • Theme: The Journey​

  • Readings: Joseph Campbell, The Hero With a Thousand Faces; Gilgamesh; Homer, The Odyssey; Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out; William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying; Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Ulysses & Selected Poems

• October 7-8: Northern California Great Books Long Novel Weekend (Zoom)

  • Reading: Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

• November 10-12: Philadelphia Great Books Fall Institute (New Brunswick, NJ)

  • Theme: Writers as Characters​

  • Readings: Alice Munro, Meneseteung; Sigrid Nunez, The Friend: A Novel; Thomas Mann, Death in Venice; Michael Chabon, The Wonder Boys