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Seminars 2024-25 by date

October 28 & November 4, 2024. Reading Homer’s Odyssey

October 29, November 1, November 7, 2024. Printmaking Primer

October 29 & November 12, 2024. Math, Voting and a Little Geometry

November 1 & 8. 2024. Life on an Active Planet – Natural Events and Natural Disasters

November 1 & 15, 2024. Window into Data Science

November 8 and 15, 2024. Everyday Life in Ancient Rome

November 12 &  December 3, 2024. Women and the Supreme Court

November 13 & 18, 2024. Climate Change Science – Causes, Consequences, and Solutions (online)

November 14 & 21, 2024. Teaching and Learning with AI

November 19 & Dec 3, 2024. The Rest of the Story: Transforming Trauma to Voice, Agency, and Leadership

November 22, 2024, April 3, 2025, and April 17, 2025. Behind the Scenes at the Huntington Theatre

December 2 & 10, 2024. Collage:  Abstraction and Narrative

December 4 & 9, 2024. Introduction to Thinking Through Art at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

December 6 & December 13, 2024. Race & Protest in Boston: A Civil Rights Case Study

January 9 & 16, 2025. Stones Exiles and the Intertwining Roots of Rock

January 10 & 17, 2025. The Evolution of the Mind

January 28 & February 11, 2025. Sketchbook Journaling: Mixed Media Painting and Drawing Techniques (online)

January 30 and February 6, 2025. Sports Analytics in the Mainstream: What’s Established, What’s Emerging and the Relationship to Legalized Sports Betting

January 31 & February 7, 2024. Teaching American Literature:  Difficult Choices for Challenging Times

February 3 & 10. Games and Fibonacci Numbers as Springboards to Creative Thinking

February 25 & March 3, 2025. Race, Citizenship, and the “Making” of American History

February 27 & March 6, 2025. Teaching & Writing Character-Driven Fiction

February 27 & March 11, 2025. Boston by the Book

February 28 & March 7, 2025. The Graphic Novel (online)

March 7 & 13, 2025. English Etymology through Language and Literature

March 25 & April 9, 2025. Teaching and Learning Outdoors

April 1 & 8, 2025. To Save the City? Urban Renewal in New York and Boston

April 3 & 10, 2025. “That’s No Way to Talk!”: Black Identity and the Inner Life of Slaves in Percival Everett’s James

April 4 & 11, 2025. LGBTQ Experiences: Past and Present

April 4 and 11, 2025. From Correlation to Causation: Do Police Officers Discriminate?

 May 1 & 8. 2025. Representations of Childhood in Global Cinema