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• February 11: San Francisco Mini-Retreat (Zoom)

  • ​Readings: J.M. Coetzee, Age of Iron; two poems: Antije Krog, Country of Grief and Grace and Maya Angelou, His Day is Done

• February 11-12: New England Great Books Winter Weekend (Zoom)

  • Theme: ​The Highs and Lows of a Silver Age: Germany Between the Wars

  • Reading: Joseph Roth, What I Saw: Reports from Berlin 1920-1933; Joseph Roth, The Wandering Jews; Hans Fallada, Wolf Among Wolves

• 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

• 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)​

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

  • Reading: Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights