HARVARD ALUMNI ASSOCIATION T REMEMBERING THE GREAT WAR E HARVARD STUDY LEADER V 2014 WORLDWIDE TRAVEL PROGRAM 601 D N, AG O. ST TO Belgium, France & Germany ST ID T PA PO SUE WEAVER SCHOPF is Associate Dean for the Master of PRSR U.S. URLING June 6 to 15, 2014 PERMIT N PERMIT Liberal Arts program at the Harvard Extension School and B a lecturer in Extension. She came to Harvard as an Andrew W. Mellon Faculty Fellow after completing a PhD in English at Vanderbilt University. Schopf first taught in Extension in 1982, and has been associated with the ALM program since 1986. In addition to advising graduate students in the humanities on their thesis projects, she teaches literature courses on topics as far ranging as English romantic poetry, modern poetry, literary criticism, western drama, Milton and Paradise Lost, and Orientalism in British literature. As faculty lecturer on more than 30 Harvard Alumni Association travel-study programs, Schopf has spoken on a variety of literary and art historical subjects throughout Europe, and in Turkey and Egypt. On this program she will speak about the poetry of the war by Rupert Brooke, Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, and others; as wells as prose accounts by Erich Maria Remarque All( Quiet on the Western Front) and Ernest Hemingway (A Farewell to Arms) and nonfiction such as Robert Graves’ Good-bye to All That. HIGHLIGHTS • Educational program featuring Harvard study leader Sue Weaver Schopf Champagne vineyards. • Private tour in Brussels of the exquisite Solvay WORLD WAR I, KNOWN AS THE “GREAT WAR” AND “THE WAR TO END ALL WARS,” House, Victor Horta’s Art Nouveau masterpiece BEGAN IN JUNE OF 1914 WITH AN ASSASSIN’S BULLET AND ENDED FOUR YEARS LATER, WITH THREE ROYAL HOUSES RUINED AND MORE THAN NINE MILLION • A visit to the spot where John McCrae wrote SOLDIERS DEAD. Learn their brave and tragic stories as you travel from Brussels to Baden- his famous poem, “In Baden to commemorate the centennial of this event. From the Belgian capital, drive to Ypres Flanders Fields” to tour the recently opened In Flanders Fields Museum and see the spot where the eponymous • An evening at the The poem was written. Visit historic battlefields and cemeteries and attend the Last Post, a Post, a nightly bugle nightly bugle tribute to the dead. “Relive” the wartime events on a private guided tour of the tribute to the fallen Somme before continuing to Reims, France, for a visit and dinner in the cellars of a well-known • Tour of the cellars of a DAY! 6 Champagne house. View the war museum and cemeteries of Verdun, where over 300,000 renowned Champagne house in Reims, France, soldiers died. In Metz, stop at the Centre Pompidou en route to the spa town of Baden-Baden, as well as a tasting Germany. Tour the Richard Meier-designed Museum Frieder Burda and attend a concert at the and dinner REMEMBERING THE GREAT WAR Festspielhaus, Germany’s largest opera house, followed by a private, onstage farewell dinner • Concert at the famous with the artists. Festspielhaus in Baden- Belgium, France & Germany Baden, Germany, followed HAA TRAVELS HAA 6TH FLOOR STREET, AUBURN MOUNT 124 02138 MA CAMBRIDGE, JOURNEY NEXT YOUR BOOK 800.422.163 CALL AT US VISIT OR by a private, onstage TO WITH HAA ALUMNI.HARVARD.EDU/HAA/TRAVEL With Sue Weaver Schopf Marc Chagall windows at Reims Cathedral. Photo © Carmen Escobar Carrio. dinner with the artists Associate Dean for the Master of Liberal Arts Program On the front cover: Exterior of In Flanders Fields Museum, Ypres. Photo © Jackie Clowes. FOR DETAILED ITINERARIES, VISIT ALUMNI.HARVARD.EDU/HAA/TRAVEL June 6 to 15, 2014 TO BOOK A TRIP, CALL 800.422.1636 OR VISIT ALUMNI.HARVARD.EDU/HAA/TRAVEL HARVARD ALUMNI ASSOCIATION T REMEMBERING THE GREAT WAR E HARVARD STUDY LEADER V 2014 WORLDWIDE TRAVEL PROGRAM 601 D N, AG O. ST TO Belgium, France & Germany ST ID T PA PO SUE WEAVER SCHOPF is Associate Dean for the Master of PRSR U.S. URLING June 6 to 15, 2014 PERMIT N PERMIT Liberal Arts program at the Harvard Extension School and B a lecturer in Extension. She came to Harvard as an Andrew W. Mellon Faculty Fellow after completing a PhD in English at Vanderbilt University. Schopf first taught in Extension in 1982, and has been associated with the ALM program since 1986. In addition to advising graduate students in the humanities on their thesis projects, she teaches literature courses on topics as far ranging as English romantic poetry, modern poetry, literary criticism, western drama, Milton and Paradise Lost, and Orientalism in British literature. As faculty lecturer on more than 30 Harvard Alumni Association travel-study programs, Schopf has spoken on a variety of literary and art historical subjects throughout Europe, and in Turkey and Egypt. On this program she will speak about the poetry of the war by Rupert Brooke, Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, and others; as wells as prose accounts by Erich Maria Remarque All( Quiet on the Western Front) and Ernest Hemingway (A Farewell to Arms) and nonfiction such as Robert Graves’ Good-bye to All That. HIGHLIGHTS • Educational program featuring Harvard study leader Sue Weaver Schopf Champagne vineyards. • Private tour in Brussels of the exquisite Solvay WORLD WAR I, KNOWN AS THE “GREAT WAR” AND “THE WAR TO END ALL WARS,” House, Victor Horta’s Art Nouveau masterpiece BEGAN IN JUNE OF 1914 WITH AN ASSASSIN’S BULLET AND ENDED FOUR YEARS LATER, WITH THREE ROYAL HOUSES RUINED AND MORE THAN NINE MILLION • A visit to the spot where John McCrae wrote SOLDIERS DEAD. Learn their brave and tragic stories as you travel from Brussels to Baden- his famous poem, “In Baden to commemorate the centennial of this event. From the Belgian capital, drive to Ypres Flanders Fields” to tour the recently opened In Flanders Fields Museum and see the spot where the eponymous • An evening at the The poem was written. Visit historic battlefields and cemeteries and attend the Last Post, a Post, a nightly bugle nightly bugle tribute to the dead. “Relive” the wartime events on a private guided tour of the tribute to the fallen Somme before continuing to Reims, France, for a visit and dinner in the cellars of a well-known • Tour of the cellars of a DAY! 6 Champagne house. View the war museum and cemeteries of Verdun, where over 300,000 renowned Champagne house in Reims, France, soldiers died. In Metz, stop at the Centre Pompidou en route to the spa town of Baden-Baden, as well as a tasting Germany. Tour the Richard Meier-designed Museum Frieder Burda and attend a concert at the and dinner REMEMBERING THE GREAT WAR Festspielhaus, Germany’s largest opera house, followed by a private, onstage farewell dinner • Concert at the famous with the artists. Festspielhaus in Baden- Belgium, France & Germany Baden, Germany, followed WITH HAA TO WITH HAA by a private, onstage TRAVELS HAA 6TH FLOOR STREET, AUBURN MOUNT 124 02138 MA CAMBRIDGE, JOURNEY NEXT YOUR BOOK 800.422.163 CALL AT US VISIT OR ALUMNI.HARVARD.EDU/HAA/TRAVEL With Sue Weaver Schopf Marc Chagall windows at Reims Cathedral. Photo © Carmen Escobar Carrio. dinner with the artists Associate Dean for the Master of Liberal Arts Program On the front cover: Exterior of In Flanders Fields Museum, Ypres. Photo © Jackie Clowes. FOR DETAILED ITINERARIES, VISIT ALUMNI.HARVARD.EDU/HAA/TRAVEL June 6 to 15, 2014 TO BOOK A TRIP, CALL 800.422.1636 OR VISIT ALUMNI.HARVARD.EDU/HAA/TRAVEL HARVARD ALUMNI ASSOCIATION T REMEMBERING THE GREAT WAR E HARVARD STUDY LEADER V 2014 WORLDWIDE TRAVEL PROGRAM 601 D N, AG O. ST TO Belgium, France & Germany ST ID T PA PO SUE WEAVER SCHOPF is Associate Dean for the Master of PRSR U.S. URLING June 6 to 15, 2014 PERMIT N PERMIT Liberal Arts program at the Harvard Extension School and B a lecturer in Extension. She came to Harvard as an Andrew W. Mellon Faculty Fellow after completing a PhD in English at Vanderbilt University. Schopf first taught in Extension in 1982, and has been associated with the ALM program since 1986. In addition to advising graduate students in the humanities on their thesis projects, she teaches literature courses on topics as far ranging as English romantic poetry, modern poetry, literary criticism, western drama, Milton and Paradise Lost, and Orientalism in British literature. As faculty lecturer on more than 30 Harvard Alumni Association travel-study programs, Schopf has spoken on a variety of literary and art historical subjects throughout Europe, and in Turkey and Egypt. On this program she will speak about the poetry of the war by Rupert Brooke, Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, and others; as wells as prose accounts by Erich Maria Remarque All( Quiet on the Western Front) and Ernest Hemingway (A Farewell to Arms) and nonfiction such as Robert Graves’ Good-bye to All That. HIGHLIGHTS • Educational program featuring Harvard study leader Sue Weaver Schopf Champagne vineyards. • Private tour in Brussels of the exquisite Solvay WORLD WAR I, KNOWN AS THE “GREAT WAR” AND “THE WAR TO END ALL WARS,” House, Victor Horta’s Art Nouveau masterpiece BEGAN IN JUNE OF 1914 WITH AN ASSASSIN’S BULLET AND ENDED FOUR YEARS LATER, WITH THREE ROYAL HOUSES RUINED AND MORE THAN NINE MILLION • A visit to the spot where John McCrae wrote SOLDIERS DEAD. Learn their brave and tragic stories as you travel from Brussels to Baden- his famous poem, “In Baden to commemorate the centennial of this event. From the Belgian capital, drive to Ypres Flanders Fields” to tour the recently opened In Flanders Fields Museum and see the spot where the eponymous • An evening at the The poem was written.