Other Great Books Programs​

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Events Around the Country​

This is a rundown of upcoming Great Books events in the United States and Canada. Most of these are organized by Great Books Regional Councils; some are organized by related organizations. Click the links for further details and to register for the events.

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• October 3/10/17, 2020: San Francisco Great Books Long Novel Weekend, online

  • Reading: Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children

  • This event will take place online via Zoom​ teleconferences

• October 24, 2020: Tampa Great Books Fall 2020 Contemporary Issues discussion, online

  • Readings: ​Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye; John Lewis, Across That Bridge: A Vision for Change and the Future of America

  • This event will take place online via Zoom​ teleconferences​

• November ​14-15, 2020: San Francisco Great Books Poetry Weekend, online

  • This event will take place online via Zoom​ teleconferences

• November 20-22, 2020: Philadelphia Great Books Virtual Fall Institute, online​​

  • Theme: Children & Adults

  • Readings: Saul Bellow, The Silver Dish; Poems on Children & Adults; Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart

  • ​This event will take place online via Zoom​ teleconferences

• April 30 - May 2, 2021: New England Great Books Spring Retreat​, Litchfield, CT​

  • ​This event was postponed to 2021 due to the Coronavirus pandemic​​

• May 15, 2021: Gold Country Mini-Retreat, Auburn, CA

  • Book discussion and film viewing: Heinrich Harrer​, Seven Years in Tibet.

• 2021: Long Island Great Books Spring Discussion​, Commack, NY

  • Theme: ​​Voices from the Harlem Renaissance

  • Readings: Alain Locke, "The New Negro"; Tobi Haslett, "The Man Who Led the Harlem Renaissance - And His Hidden Hungers"; Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon and Dust Tracks on a Road; Nella Larsen, Passing

  • ​This event was postponed to 2021 due to the Coronavirus pandemic

• 2021: Great Books Chicago​

  • Theme: Exploring Beauty

  • Readings: Thomas Mann, Death in Venice; Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye; Anton Chekhov, "The Beauties"; Roger Fry, "An Essay in Aesthetics"; selected poems

  • This event was postponed to 2021 due to the Coronavirus pandemic

• May 15, 2021: Philadelphia Great Books Spring Institute, ​Bristol, PA​

  • Theme: Orwell on the Demise of Truth

  • Readings: George Orwell, “Shooting an Elephant”, “Why I Write”, and “Politics and the English Language”

  • This event was postponed to 2021 due to the Coronavirus pandemic

• 2021: Long Island Great Books Council Fall Discussion, ​Commack, NY​

  • Theme: Outsiders and Insiders

  • Readings: E. M. Forster, A Passage to India; W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk

  • This event was postponed to 2021 due to the Coronavirus pandemic​​

• November 12-14, 2021: Philadelphia Great Books Fall Institute, Galloway, NJ​​

  • Theme: Children and Adults

  • Readings: A.B. Yehoshua, The Continuing Silence of a Poet; Philip Roth, The Conversion of the Jews; George Eliot, Silas Marner; Henry James, What Maisie Knew; Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

  • This event was postponed to 2021 due to the Coronavirus pandemic​​

Universities and Colleges that Offer a Great Books Curriculum