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EVENT CLASS GROUP FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR 2020 THE SUBJUNCTIVE— AND HOPEFUL—YEAR

In the catalog for the Spring just past, I wrote that 2020 promised to be a “milestone year” for the Institute—the 40th anniversary of its founding in 1980. The Dallas Institute is a The milestone has turned out to be of a different sort: a year of pandemic distress nonprofit organization whose and racial turmoil. fundamental aim is to bring There was a time when grammar was studied in every school, when students the wisdom and imagination learned such things as the fact that languages have different moods. English of the humanities—literature, has three: indicative (statements and opinions), imperative (commands), and history, psychology, subjunctive (wishes). Living in a pandemic is like existing in a continually philosophy, political science, subjunctive mood, which expresses uncertainties and doubts as desires, and other human-focused possibilities, or imaginings—as in, “Tomorrow, perhaps, the library will reopen” disciplines—to bear on or “let’s act as though we were in each other’s presence.” It is an especially the currents of culture. difficult time to plan public programs, as my colleagues in Dallas arts and cultural It is devoted to creating organizations will attest. communities within which learning can occur through Nevertheless the planning continues, since our strongest conviction is that whereas the pandemic and demands for racial justice understandably and rightly civil discourse. dominate our attention, the arts and humanities function as before: to give our lives depth and meaning. In 1963 Dr. King spoke about “the fierce urgency of now” to describe the racial temper of those times in the American South. We feel it again today world-wide—the immediacy of the moment that we cannot afford to let pass. And yet we also strongly believe that it is in such times, when seizing the day seems most imperative, that we need to revisit our deepest wells of wisdom in all their different voices so as to ensure that our most pressing actions are informed by those timeless sources.

I’m hoping our programs this Fall will address the tension between the demands of the moment and the need for wisdom in tumultuous times. We will spend considerable time with Toni Morrison and also William Faulkner and Flannery O’Connor, two white American authors whose work explicitly addresses racial injustice. We will hear from Dallas’ Brittany Barnett, whose work in criminal justice reform has led to her just-published A Knock at Midnight. And as part of this year’s Centennial Celebration of the 19th amendment, we will explore Dr. Helen LaKelly Hunt’s remarkable discovery of the common origin of the struggle to abolish slavery and the 80-year fight for women’s right to vote.

So during this year of dangers and desires, we will strive to find the right balance between “the fierce urgency of now” and the need for communal reflection and conversation about the things that matter most to us. J. LARRY ALLUMS, Ph.D. is Executive Director of the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture. He earned his M.A. in Literature and his Ph.D. in Literature and Political Philosophy from the University of Dallas’ Institute of Philosophic Studies. He came INSTITUTE to the Dallas Institute in 1998 from the University of Mobile, where he was Professor of English and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. He has edited a volume of LEADERSHIP essays on epic poetry, The Epic Cosmos, and published articles on ancient Greek and Roman literature, Dante, and writers of the American Southern renascence, including William Faulkner, Allen Tate, Robert Penn Warren, and Caroline Gordon. Under his leadership, the Dallas Institute continues to emphasize its commitment to urban issues and its longstanding work with pre-K through 12th grade elementary and secondary school teachers, principals, and superintendents. J. Larry Allums, Ph.D Executive Director

5 FROM THE DIRECTOR OF THE DALLAS INSTITUTE’S COWAN CENTER

Recently, I had the privilege to write about the work of the Cowan Academy in the Humanities work in the Fort Worth Independent School District. It was a difficult task, as you might imagine, but it made me feel grounded in this moment in which we all feel, at times, as if we are trying to stand up on ocean waves.

One of the things that this task reaffirmed is the ageless timeliness of great works of imagination in every discipline. And it reminded me that in periods of great change, the deep wisdom of unchanging things can provide the only stable foundation. If you are a teacher or administrator serving primary At the end of that article, I attempted to gather up the most salient features of the or secondary students, see Cowans’ deep wisdom. Theirs is the most authentic human truth that I have ever the Cowan Center™ page encountered, and I repeat my comments here with the hopes that they may provide you, too, with a moment of calm and remind you that the things that are best about on the Dallas Institute’s us are never gone if we keep them close in our hearts. website to register or for more information about the I said: “I could go on in great detail about the Cowans’ philosophy of liberal learning. programs in the 2020-2021 They were profound intellectuals and thinkers, and their vision is what I am privileged school year. to consider and apply every day. But in closing, I would simply like to point out what I believe to be most essential to their vision—what they contributed to the tradition of liberal learning. Their most concrete contributions are Donald Cowan’s—a physicist— emphasis on the purpose of a liberal education as being the cultivation of a “poetic imagination,” first through the proper study of literature. The other indispensable feature of their mark on the tradition is the loose yet sturdy frame of Louise Cowan’s literary genre theory in which she teaches how to read for understanding, for broadening one’s views and ideas about life. But just as important as their rigorous academic theories are their insights into the impact of what Donald Cowan calls the “spirit of liberal learning.” They believed that the effect of liberal learning is to help enable a person to achieve the true form of his or her life. They taught the unpopular reality that the deepest understanding almost always comes from the greatest struggle. They taught that true learning always begins with submission. They believed in the power of the well-educated imagination, in society and in one’s individual life. And they believed that wisdom is as connected to mystery and beauty as it is with the search for meaning and truth.

Most importantly, to me, what distinguishes the Cowans’ vision of education from the cynical educational and social theories of our day is that they believed that an education better fits a person to be in the world, particularly to be in a democracy where a liberally educated citizenry is critical. And even though they were constantly elevating their sights to transcendent ideals—such as myth and meaning—in order to couch their understanding, I have never known people so deeply in love with people, in love with the frail and glorious human condition. It was this that motivated them, this love that guided their educational dreams and ambitions, and because of this great gift, love and hope motivate and fuel every aspect of the Cowan Center™ work. Because although the Cowans believed that there was something beyond this world, beyond this life, they also believed that until we “shuffle off this mortal coil,” to quote Hamlet, “earth’s the right place for love,” as Frost’s narrator claims. An education, DR. CLAUDIA MACMILLAN, Ph.D. is a Fellow of the Dallas Institute and Founding they taught us, should not only prepare us to make our way through the world in Director of the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture’s Louise and Donald work and society. At its foundation, an education—like the one that we strive daily Cowan Center for Education. She is editor of and contributor to What is a Teacher? to provide our precious Cowan Academy® students—should prepare our hearts and COWAN CENTER Remembering the Soul of Education Through Classic Literature and has published minds not only to see and judge clearly, it should prepare us to live open to wonder, on such topics as William Faulkner’s comic novels and the poetry of the Harlem and ultimately, to love this world.” Renaissance. She began teaching in 1981 and has served in the high school LEADERSHIP classroom and administrative offices—as a teacher, department chair, and Dean of Curriculum and Instruction—and also in the university—as a Visiting Assistant Professor of English, and Associate Dean of both the Braniff Graduate School and the Constantin Undergraduate College at the University of Dallas. She holds the Ph.D. in Literature from the University of Dallas and is an alumna of the 1989-1990 Dallas Institute’s Sue Rose Summer Institutes. Dr. Claudia MacMillan, Ph.D Director of The Dallas Institute’s Cowan Center

7 INSTITUTE FELLOWS AND GUEST SPEAKERS | FALL 2020

BRITTANY BARNETT is an DR. SCOTT CHURCHILL DR. PETER KUPKER is Associate DR. DONNA McBRIDE has award-winning attorney is an Institute Fellow, Professor and Chair of the taught history for almost forty dedicated to transforming the Professor of Psychology at Department of Musicology years at both the secondary and criminal justice system and has the University of Dallas, and at SMU. His Ph.D. is in music university levels and science won freedom for numerous a Fellow of the American history and theory from the fiction at the university level. clients serving life sentences Psychological Association. University of Chicago. for federal drug offenses. He also teaches film at UD.

MS. JANETTE MONEAR MS. ALMAS MUSCATWALLA is President/CEO of the is a member of the Board of Texas Trees Foundation, Directors of the Thanks-Giving devoted to creating resilient Foundation in Dallas and a DR. WILLIAM DERESIEWICZ DR. DARRYL DICKSON-CARR communities through the use member of Faith Forward Dallas is an award-winning essayist is Professor and Department of trees, green infrastructure, at Thanks-Giving Square. and critic, frequent speaker Chair of English at SMU. He and sustainable design. at colleges, and former Yale teaches 20th-century American professor of English. He won the literature, African American Institute’s Hiett Prize in 2013. literature, and satire.

MS. ONYEMA NWEZE is a public DR. RENÉ PRIETO is Professor school educator and holds a of Arts and Humanities at UT Masters in Humanities from Dallas and a Guggenheim Fellow. the University of Dallas. Her Fluent in five languages, he is a scholarly focus is in 20th century specialist in 19th and 20th century African-American writers. literature and humanities.

DR. AMBER DYER holds the Ph.D. DR. SANDERIA FAYE is a prize- in Literature from the University winning novelist and serves of Dallas. She is a Cowan Center on the faculty of SMU. She is consultant and faculty member in co-founder of and a fellow at the Sue Rose Summer Institutes. Kimbilio Center for Fiction.

MR. BEN SANDIFER is an author, DR. JAINA SANGA writes fiction photographer, environmental and has published a novel, advocate for the Great Trinity two novellas, and a volume Forest and White Rock Lake, of her selected short stories. and an Honorary Lifetime North She is an Institute Fellow and Texas Master Naturalist. an Institute Board member.

DR. RANDY GORDON is a DR. HELEN LAKELLY HUNT is Founding Partner of Barnes a Dallas native and author of & Thornburg LLP’s Dallas Faith and Feminism and And office and Executive the Spirit Moved Them. She DR. GAIL THOMAS is a DR. JESSICA HOOTEN Professor of Law and History was inducted into the National Founding Fellow of the Dallas WILSON is Associate Professor at Texas A&M University. Women’s Hall of Fame in 2001. Institute, its Founding Executive of Literature at John Brown He is a prolific writer and Director, and author of Healing University, an Institute Fellow, frequent lecturer. Pandora: the Restoration of and the recipient of the 2019 Hope and Abundance. Hiett Prize in the Humanities.

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11 PRESENTED BY DR. WILLIAM DERESIEWICZ

THE DEATH OF THE ARTIST: How Creators Are Struggling To Survive In The Age Of Billionaires And Big Tech

The tech industry says that there’s never been a better time to be an artist. Artists say that it’s hardly ever been FALL 2020 EVENTS worse. So which account is true? Since people are still making a living as artists today, how are they managing to do it? William Deresiewicz, a leading critic of the arts and of contemporary culture, set out to answer those questions. Based on interviews with artists of all kinds, The Death of the Artist argues that we are in the midst of an epochal transformation. If artists were artisans in the Renaissance, bohemians in the nineteenth century, and professionals in the twentieth, a new paradigm is emerging in the digital age, one that is changing our fundamental ideas about the nature of art and the role of the artist in society. Join 2013 Hiett Prize winner William Deresiewicz for a presentation and discussion of his latest book.

Tuesday, August 11: 6:30-8:00pm — Online

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13 PRESENTED BY DR. JESSICA HOOTEN WILSON FAITHS IN CONVERSATION WHY DO THE Presented by The Interfaith Council of Thanks-Giving Foundation, Perkins School of Theology, and the HEATHEN RAGE? Dallas Institute

Religion is almost always a community affair, not merely FLANNERY O’CONNOR’S a private practice. And religious communities always exist in some relationship with the wider society of which they and their members are a part. Yet religions vary in UNFINISHED NOVEL their understanding of what role their communities and members should play in the larger society, and why. They have different understandings of the nature of that During the final years of her life, Flannery O’Connor larger society, its needs, and whether and how their began writing a third novel entitled Why Do the Heathen members and community should address those needs. Rage? Because of the deleterious effects of lupus, from We could say that they have different theologies of social which she suffered for fourteen years, O’Connor would engagement, or different ideas about how faith is put never complete her story. Full of wit and O’Connor’s into practice in a social setting. The 2020-21 Faiths in characteristic depth of insight, the start of the story Conversation Series will explore what different religions will delight readers. Even the briefest of encounters teach as the guiding principles and goals for their with her protagonists, Walter Tilman and Oona Gibbs, is participation in social life beyond the religious community. worthwhile, in spite of the manuscript’s unfinished nature. Session 1 To publish an unfinished novel of one of the most beloved Monday, September 14: 4:00-5:30pm American writers of the twentieth century invites a host of questions: Should the “novel” be published at all? If Session 2 so, in what form? In a coherent reordering and editing Monday, October 5: 4:00-5:30pm of the material? Or as a finished work with a ghost writer filling in the blanks? Who is the audience for the new publication: the populace at large, the literati, the Session 3 professors? What would the author herself have wanted? Monday, November 2: 4:00-5:30pm These are the questions Dr. Hooten Wilson faced in preparing O’Connor’s Why Do the Heathen Rage? for Session 4 publication. Join her for a presentation and discussion of Monday, December 7: 4:00-5:30pm this momentous event in American letters.

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14 15 DR. AMBER DYER, DR. DARRYL DICKSON-CARR, DR. SANDERIA FAYE, AND MS. ONYEMA NWEZE

TONI MORRISON: A TRIBUTE AND A CELEBRATION

When Toni Morrison passed away in August 2019, she was the undisputed doyenne of American letters, having received the Pulitzer and Nobel Prizes and many of the other top awards for her fiction.

Titles such as The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon, Beloved, Jazz, and Paradise, among others, are still widely read and taught, and her literary criticism and cultural commentary have become key sources in current national discussions of race, class, and the relationship of art to culture. The Institute’s Cowan Center for EducationTM adopted Beloved upon its publication in 1987 as a permanent text in the curriculum of the Sue Rose Summer Institutes for Educators. Our four guest speakers will make brief presentations before opening a conversation with each other and the audience during this tribute to and celebration of a towering literary figure.

Tuesday, September 22: 6:30 – 8:00pm – Online

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16 JANETTE MONEAR, BEN SANDIFER, DR. JAINA SANGA, AND DR. GAIL THOMAS; DISCUSSION PRESENTED BY DR. RANDY GORDON, FACILITATED BY DR. J. LARRY ALLUMS WITH INSTITUTE FELLOWS RICHARD POWERS’ THE CAMUS’ OVERSTORY: THE PLAGUE

Published in 1947, Albert Camus’ A DISCUSSION classic novel is arguably the most powerful literary treatment of “the CONTINUED plague” of all time. Early on, the narrator says, “Everybody knows that In the twenty-year history of the Dallas Institute’s pestilences have a way of recurring in the world, yet venerable Breakfast and Lunch Book Groups, no single somehow we find it hard to believe in ones that crash book has generated the intense, sustained interest of down on our heads from a blue sky. There have been as Richard Powers’ 2019 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The many plagues as wars in history, yet always plagues and Overstory, a majestic, 500-page narrative about trees in wars take people equally by surprise…. How should they America. Members of the Book Groups have shared their have given a thought to anything like plague, which rules copies, purchased new ones for friends and family, and out any future, cancels journeys, silences the exchange continued the conversation in small, informal groups here of views? They fancied themselves free, and no one will and there. It is indeed a compelling “overstory,” along ever be free so long as there are pestilences.” Camus’ with just as compelling an “understory,” depicting the presentation of the plague and the ways his characters beauty, irreplaceable value (unsuspected by humans), confront it will be uncannily familiar to us in the Covid and brilliance (yes, brilliance) of trees. The continued era—absurd, perhaps, but existentially very real. Read discussion of this important novel is open to everyone, the novel with us and join Dr. Gordon as he takes us with a few special guests possessing uncommon inside Camus’ powerful imagination. knowledge of trees joining us on the stage. If you’ve read The Overstory ten times or are about to start it for the first Tuesday, October 20: 6:30 – 8:00pm time, you’ll enjoy this conversation. – Online

Thursday, October 8: 6:30 – 8:00pm — Online

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18 19 PRESENTED BY BRITTANY BARNETT

A KNOCK AT THE 16TH ANNUAL MIDNIGHT: HIETT PRIZE IN A STORY OF HOPE, THE HUMANITIES

“Celebrating minds of JUSTICE, AND extraordinary promise”

The Hiett Prize in the Humanities is an annual award aimed FREEDOM at identifying candidates who are in the early stages of careers devoted to the humanities and whose work shows extraordinary promise. The opposite of a lifetime As part of its 2019 MLK achievement award, the Hiett Prize seeks to encourage future leaders in the humanities by recognizing their early Symposium, the Institute featured accomplishment and their potential and assisting their ongoing work through a cash award of $50,000. The Hiett attorney and social justice advocate Prize was endowed by Kim Hiett Jordan, a Lifetime Board Brittany Barnett, along with Member of the Dallas Institute, to honor her parents, who inspired in her a lifelong love of learning. Sharanda Jones, freed from prison in 2015 after nearly seventeen years Because of the pandemic, this year’s prize will be awarded during on online “gala” that will feature the 2020 winner behind bars, thanks to Brittany’s in conversation with past Hiett winners that will touch on tireless efforts. their work since receiving the award and will also highlight the crucial role of humanities in culture today.

Sharanda’s case was only the beginning of what has Wednesday, November 11: 6:30 – 8:00pm become Brittany’s life’s work, at this moment marked – Online by another achievement: the publication of A Knock at Midnight, a powerful memoir that has been called “an essential book for our time.” Brittany will read from and speak about her book and issues of justice and injustice that it raises, following which she will engage in conversation with audience members. Copies of A Knock at Midnight will be available for purchase online. Monday, October 26: 6:30 – 8:00pm DETAILS TO – Online FOLLOW

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20 21 PRESENTED BY HELEN LAKELLY HUNT, PH.D., AND GUESTS THE LOST EARLY HISTORY OF THE ORIGIN OF AMERICAN FEMINISM

2020 marks the Centennial celebration of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The history of the origins of the women’s suffrage movement is being revisited, just as many other historical moments are being reexamined from fresh perspectives.

Join author and scholar Dr. Helen LaKelly Hunt as she shares the lost early history of the suffrage movement that most people don’t know about. The origin of American Feminism actually began more than a decade before the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848. Dr. Hunt’s research shows that the movement arose in tandem with the fierce abolitionist movement catalyzed by the spread of Women’s Anti-Slavery Societies. Dr. Hunt, along with friends and colleagues, will present this fascinating story and bring these female leaders out of the shadows of history and into the light.

These 18th century women activists began a march on the streets toward racial and gender justice that is still ongoing today.

Thursday, November 19: 6:30-8:00pm – Online

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Sponsored by The 19th Amendment Centennial Fund of Communities Foundation of Texas.

22 PRESENTED BY DR. J. LARRY ALLUMS PRESENTED BY MS. ONYEMA NWEZE

FAULKNER’S GO TONI MORRISON’S: DOWN, MOSES THE BLUEST EYE

Largely neglected by academic In the Afterword of The Bluest Eye, scholars and hardly taught in Morrison writes, “beauty was not secondary schools because of their simply something to behold; it was racial content, William Faulkner’s something one could do.” nineteen novels, the last published in 1962, nonetheless have much to say 50 years ago, Morrison’s first novel challenged audiences FALL 2020 CLASSES to witness Pecola Breedlove, whom Hilton Als describes about America today. as “a manifestation of a sick society, the ailing body of America, whose racial malaise” is responsible for producing Pecolas. Now one does not have to look far Faulkner was a consummate storyteller possessed of a to see beauty being done in the embracing of natural prophetic imagination, through which he glimpsed the hair and darker skin tones. However, is America still future of not only his native South but the entire nation as struggling with a “racial malaise” that continues to foster well. The most powerful expression of his prophetic sense Pecola productions? Join Onyema Nweze in a deep is Go Down, Moses, the 1942 epic novel depicting America reading and discussion of Nobel Prize-winning author as the new Promised Land, the derailing of its high ideals, Toni Morrison’s first novel. and the unlikely source of its true strengths for the future. It paints with an indelible brush the disastrous stain of Wednesdays ownership—of both land and people—that marked our September 30, October 7-21: 6:30-8:30pm founding and still haunts us today. – Online

Six Thursdays August 20-27, September 3-24: 6:30-8:30pm — Online

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24 25 CLASS WITH PROF. PETER KUPFER PRESENTED BY DR. RENÉ PRIETO

BEETHOVEN AT GRIMM’S 250: CLASS FAIRY TALES

The stories of the Grimm Brothers first collected are AND CONCERT brusque, blunt, absurd, comical, and tragic, and are not, strictly speaking, “fairy tales.” In fact, the Grimms never intended the tales to be read by children. The tales The Dallas Chamber Music Society in are about children and families and how they reacted to the difficult conditions under which they lived. Jacob partnership with the Dallas Institute and Wilhelm Grimm thought the stories and their morals emanated naturally from the German people in an oral tradition, and they wanted to preserve them before the “For nearly two centuries, a single style of a single tales were lost forever. In gathering the tales, the Grimms composer has epitomized musical vitality, becoming the made a unique contribution to folklore, one that is even paradigm of Western compositional logic and of all the listed by UNESCO in its Memory of the World Registry. positive virtues that music can embody for humanity. It was in large part their first edition, published in two This conviction has proved so strong that it no longer volumes in 1812 and 1815, that inspired folklorists in acts as an overt part of our musical consciousness; it is Europe and Great Britain to gather tales from their oral now simply a condition of the way we tend to engage the traditions and that we will be studying in this class. Our musical experience. The values of Beethoven’s heroic aim will be to look closely at the language and message style have become the values of music.” In this class we of seven of these stories to see how they teach moral and will study several chamber music works of Ludwig van ethical lessons that have become essential elements of Beethoven in an effort to understand whether and how, in the Western canon. the 250th anniversary year of his birth, these words by the music theorist Scott Burnham continue to ring true. What Wednesdays was so different about Beethoven’s music? Why did he November 18, December 2-16: 6:30-8:30pm become so prominent? Does he still matter today? These – Online and other questions will guide us through a consideration of Beethoven’s music and his legacy.

Thursdays October 29, November 5 & 12: 6:30 - 8:30pm SUGGESTED TUITION Venue: The Dallas Institute and online Concert by ATOS Trio $75 / SEMESTER Monday, November 16 Venue: Caruth Auditorium at SMU and live-streamed $25 / SESSION

For Class $90 and Concert

26 27 PRESENTED BY DR. DONNA MCBRIDE

THE HISTORIANS

The Historians reading group meets monthly to discuss books from all areas of history. Do you want to learn more about political history? Social history? Military history? This is your chance to read and discuss history books recognized by historians as the best in their discipline. Under the expert guidance of Dr. Donna McBride, who has taught history for almost forty years at both the secondary and university levels. The Historians will be reading and discussing one book per month. If history is your passion, your interest, or the discipline you want to know better, this group is designed for you.

TUESDAYS FALL 2020 GROUPS

Session 1 September 8: 6:30 - 8:00pm Bolívar: American Liberator, by Marie Arana

Session 2 October 13: 6:30 - 8:00pm The Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943, by Rick Atkinson

Session 3 November 10: 6:30 - 8:00pm Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom, by David Blight

Session 4 December 8: 6:30 - 8:00pm The Map of Knowledge: A Thousand Year History of How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found, by Violet Moller

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29 PRESENTED BY DR. SCOTT MODERATED BY DR. J. LARRY ALLUMS CHURCHILL & GUEST CRITICS BREAKFAST AND LUNCH SPEAKING OF BOOK GROUPS MOVIES…

For the first year since 1998, the Dallas Institute’s book groups will not break bread together before partaking of Institute film lovers have thus far the sumptuous literary repast to which we have become proven a hardy group in the face of accustomed. Alas. But the alterations that Covid-19 has forced upon us have enabled many to read more than the pandemic. they would during normal times. So as we cope and wait for a change, we’ll dine alone and order our own books, We’ve had good experiences with a couple of Zoom but meet for our customary rich discussions of a new sessions since the lockdown, and we’ll get even better novel each month. at importing excerpts from screenings and utilizing other more sophisticated elements through digital Please note: access. Looking into the future, however, we must • If you’d prefer that we order your books for you, just doubt the feasibility of meeting onsite for our popular let us know. “Dinner and a Classic Movie” in December. If that prospect changes for the better, we’ll let you know, of • We plan to invite authors to join us for 15 minutes course. In the meantime, we will be imagining ways at the start of our sessions. Whenever we get a to capture the spirit of the event and would welcome commitment, we’ll invite Breakfast Group members your suggestions. I’m pleased to say that our resident to join the Lunch Group, or vice versa. film critic and Institute Fellow Dr. Scott Churchill will be with back with us in the Fall. September 8 (Breakfast), September 16 (Lunch) The Parisian, Isabella Hammad Mondays October 13 (Breakfast), October 21 (Lunch) September 21, October 19, November 9, December 14: 6:30 - 8:00pm Homeland Elegies, Ayad Akhtar – Online November 10 (Breakfast), November 18 (Lunch) Transcendent Kingdom, Yaa Gyasi

December 8 (Breakfast), December 16 (Lunch)

The Vanishing Half, Brit Bennett SUGGESTED TUITION

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34 35 2020 has been a wild ride so far, but don’t unbuckle that seat belt yet. Election season is upon us and we’re here to help you get ready. The Dallas Morning News editorial board is presenting a multi-part series focusing on the key issues for North Texans to consider as they make decisions about who to vote for this November.

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