Great Books Roundtable Discussions Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Two tales from Exemplary Stories (1613): "The Deceitful Marriage" and "The Colloquy of the Dogs."

* * * * Curtin Hall * * * *
Room 839
Wednesday, June 26, 2013
7:00 - 9:00 p.m.

Great Books Roundtable Discussions Thucydides From History of the Peloponnesian War (early 4th century BCE): "The Melian Dialogue."

* * * * Curtin Hall * * * *
Room 839
Wednesday, July 31, 2013
7:00 - 9:00 p.m.

Revisting Our Past Local History Lecture Presentation by Mark Speltz, co-author of "Bottoms Up: A Toast to Wisconsin's Historic Bars & Breweries.” Sponsored by the UWM Libraries' Archives Department.

American Geographical Society Library
Third Floor, East Wing
Thursday, August 8, 2013
7:00 p.m.

Great Books Roundtable Discussions Alvin Goldman "A Causal Theory of Knowing" (1967) and Thomas Nagel "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?" (1974).

* * * * Curtin Hall * * * *
Room 839
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
7:00 - 9:00 p.m.

Friends of the Golda Meir Library Used Book Sale
Mon. Sept. 23, noon - 6 pm. Open to UWM students, faculty and staff only.
Tue. Sept. 24, 10 am - 6 pm. Open to the public.
Wed. Sept. 25, 10 am - 4 pm. Open to the public.

Conference Center
Fourth Floor
Mon. - Wed. Sept. 23 - 25, 2013

Great Books Roundtable Discussions Sophocles Antigone (ca. 440 BCE; translation by David Mulroy, 2013).

Special Collections
Fourth Floor
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
7:00 - 9:00 p.m.

Great Books Roundtable Discussions Marcel Proust "Combray," part two of Swann's Way (1913).

Special Collections
Fourth Floor
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
7:00 - 9:00 p.m.

Great Books Roundtable Discussions Christopher Hampton Les liaisons dangereuses [Dangerous Liaisons] (1985 stage adaptation of the 1782 epistolary novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos).

Special Collections
Fourth Floor
Wednesday, December 4, 2013
7:00 - 9:00 p.m.

Great Books Roundtable Discussions Ryūnosuke Akutagawa "Rashōmon" (1915) and "In a Grove" (1922).

Special Collections
Fourth Floor
Wednesday, January 29, 2014
7:00 - 9:00 p.m.

Great Books Roundtable Discussions Voltaire Candide (1759), the first 12 chapters, from the beginning at Westphalia to just before their arrival in South America.

Special Collections
Fourth Floor
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
7:00 - 9:00 p.m.

Great Books Roundtable Discussions Doris Lessing "Through the Tunnel" (1955 ), "The Day Stalin Died" (1957), and "Our Friend Judith" (1963).

Special Collections
Fourth Floor
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
7:00 - 9:00 p.m.

Great Books Roundtable Discussions Vladimir Nabokov "Colette" ["First Love"] (1948), "Signs and Symbols" (1946) and "The Vane Sisters" (1951).

Special Collections
Fourth Floor
Wednesday, April 30, 2014
7:00 - 9:00 p.m.

Great Books Roundtable Discussions William Shakespeare The Taming of the Shrew (between 1590 and 1592).

Special Collections
Fourth Floor
Wednesday, May 28, 2014
7:00 - 9:00 p.m.

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