Great Books Roundtable Discussion Schedule

Fall 2009 - Spring 2010

Great Books Roundtable Discussions are held Wednesdays, from 7:00 - 9:00 pm, in Special Collections, Fourth Floor, Golda Meir Library (unless otherwise noted).

October 28
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Selections from Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1921) and Philosophical Investigations (1953)

December 2
William Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night's Dream (mid-1590s)
OPTIONAL: See the UWM Mainstage production of  A Midsummer Night's Dream, directed by Jim Tasse, December 8-13

January 27, 2010
Selected stories from the Chinese classic Water Margin (14th/15th century C.E.)

February 24
Thornton Wilder
Our Town (1937)
OPTIONAL: See the UWM Mainstage production of Our Town, directed by Bill Watson, March 9-15

March 31
Flannery O'Conner
Selected short stories

April 28
Noël Coward
Hay Fever (1924)
OPTIONAL: See the UWM Mainstage production of Hay Fever, directed by Rebecca Holderness, May 4-9

May 26
Émile Zola
"J'accuse" (1898) and "The Attack on the Mill" (1880)