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Chautauqua Schedule and Archives
The follwing is the schedule of any future (that have been planned) and all previous Chautauqua meetings. Along with the date and topic discussed, a link to the reading(s) for that meeting is included. If, for some reason, you can't make a printout of the link or read it online, copies of the reading(s) for the next Chautauqua will be available at the honors office.
If you have any suggestions for future Chautauquas, please email me. I can always use your ideas!
| Date | Topic | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| Tuesday, April 17 | Ideas Have Consequences - A Critique of Modernism? | Ideas Have Consequences, by Richard M. Weaver |
| Tuesday, March 6 | The Importance of Perspective | The Film Rashomon |
| Tuesday, February 13 | Sun Tzu'sThe Art of War | The Art of War - See also a nicely annotated version with an introduction and notes. |
| Tuesday, January 30 | The Film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | Local Showtimes |
| Monday, November 13 | "So Much Water So Close To Home" | "So Much Water So Close To Home" - by Raymond Carver |
| Monday, October 30 | On Worldly Liberation | "The Bet" - by Anton Chekov |
| Monday, October 16 | Vandalism: Protest of Property? | Vandalism as Art |
| Monday, October 2 | Kafka's "A Hunger Artist" | "A Hunger Artist," by Franz Kafka |
| Monday, September 18 | The Legalization of Drugs | Drug Legalization Propaganda |
| Wednesday, September 6 | Napster (and Other Supposed Copyright Infringements) | Napster Article |
| Date | Topic | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| Wednesday, April 12 | Medical Ethics | Guest Speaker - Prof. Richard Blanke |
| Wednesday, March 29 | Gay Marriage | A Few Articles |
| Wednesday, February 2 | A New Theory on Rape | How "Natural" is Rape? |
| Wednesday, January 19 | The Best Play from the 1900s | Six Characters in Search of an Author, by Luigi Pirandello |
| Wednesday, November 17 | Some Intriguing Letters | Letters to a Young Poet, by Ranier Maria Rilke |
| Wednesday, November 10 | Short Story | "A Perfect Day for Bananafish," by J.D. Salinger |
| Wednesday, October 27 | Drugs, Transcending Perception, Etc. | The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley, available at Amazon.com and at The Bookstop |
| Wednesday, October 13 | Is the dream possible? | "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man," by Fyoder Dostoevsky |
| Wednesday, September 29 | Intellectual Freedom and Scepticism | "Pigs is Pigs," by Christopher Derrick |
| Wednesday, September 15 | Intellectual Freedom | "What is freedom?" by Rollo May |
| Wednesday, September 1 | Apologies Across Cultures and Histories | "Should We Apologize?" |
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