Quest Courses – Fall 2023 / Old Courses / SYMPOSIUM
Coordinators: Sheryl Harawitz, Mary Ann Donnelly, Donna Ramer
Each day, we have between 50,000 and 70,000 thoughts, many of which drive our daily routines and needs.But there are those moments when a seemingly random thought sparks an idea that fuels the synapses and becomes a link in a chain of ideas that ignites significant change.
In this course, we will uncover the genesis and stages of social, philosophical, industrial, and cultural ideas that changed the world.
B WEEK / TUESDAY / 10:30 to 12:00 PM
Symposium, Spring 2023 | ||
Date | Presenter | Title |
Feb 14 | Sheryl Harawitz | Symposium: Inspiration of Love |
Feb 28 | Andrea Irvine | Joan of Arc |
Mar 14 | Judy Hampson | The Misrepresentation of Women |
Mar 28 | Sheryl Harawitz | Logic or not |
Apr 18 | Andrew Epstein | Weapons as Peace Keeping |
May 02 | Donna Ramer | The Salon: Gertrude Stein |
May 16 | Susan Keohane | Legal today, illegal yesterday |
Other Classes:
- THEATER TALKBACK
- FOOD: BEYOND JUST CALORIES
- INVISIBLE MAN BY RALPH ELLISON
- ELIZABETH GASKELL
- WEEK IN PARIS
- CREATIVE WORKSHOP
- EMILY DICKINSON CIRCLE
- RUSSIAN GEOGRAPHY
- CONTEMPORARY BRITISH CULTURE
- AUSTRALIA – THE LAND DOWN UNDER
- HUCKLEBERRY FINN
- AGING
- FASCINATING ISLANDS
- BLACK WOMEN’S VOICES
- THE NOBEL PRIZES
- READING EDITH WHARTON
- WOMEN IN GREEK DRAMA
- THE NEAR EAST
- HISTORY OF GERMANY
- A PASSAGE TO INDIA
- INDIE FILMS
- INDIE FILMS
- SLAVERY’S ROLE IN U.S. CAPITALISTIST DEVELOPMENT
- RISE AND FALL OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE
- READING THE RABBIS
- RACE RELATIONS IN AMERICAN POLITICAL THOUGHT
- MYTHOLOGY
- LITERARY HEROINES
- HOWARDS END
- HOUSE OF MIRTH
- FABULOUS FIFTIES
- READING BLACK LIVES
- BORDERS AND BOUNDARIES
- MOZART’S WOMEN
- ANTISEMITISM: PAST, PRESENT, FACTS, MYTHS
- AFRICAN CONTINENT
- PRESENTER’S SHOWCASE
- INVENTIONS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD
- ACTING CLASS
- LAW & ORDER
- POINT OF VIEW
- MODERN OPERA
- MOVERS & SHAKERS
- SOCRATES AND THE PROBLEM OF PHILOSOPHY
- GREAT CONVERSATIONS
- ORAL INTERPRETATION OF POETRY