Center for Independent Study
New Haven
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- An affiliation for independent scholars and artists
- An alternative milieu to traditional educational institutions
- A forum for intellectual and creative effort
- A community of colleagues for those whose work is done in solitude
- A link with a nationwide network of similar organizations growing in response to the interests and needs of the independent scholar
FUTURE EVENT!
An excerpt from the book appeared in the Sunday New York Times Magazine on August 8, 2009, and can be read at: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/magazine/23Women-t.html
Interested members and friends are invited to read the book in preparation for a discussion to be held on February 28, 2010, from 3-5 pm at the home of Ellen Brainard (207 Everit Street, New Haven).
This discussion will be moderated by Rhea Hirshman, Adjunct Professor of Women's Studies, Univeristy of CT, Stamford, and Gwen Heuss-Severance, former head of the History Department, Choate Rosemary Hall.
If you plan to attend, please contact Gwen Heuss-Severance (gheuss@sbcglobal.net or 203-288-3731).
Collecting Our Thoughts: A Conversation About Museums. Please join us on Saturday, April 10, 2010 from 4-6 pm at the home of Ruth Schmitt, 707 Orange Street, New Haven, when Constance Sherak will moderate a discussion about visual culture to explore the shifting roles of museums today, installation and exhibition practices, and the relationship between museum architecture and collections. The conversation will center around the question: "how has the museum raised the status of the images as a means of transmitting information and knowledge in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries?"
CIS date change:
[Please note that the original date for "Collecting Our Thoughts: A Conversation about Museums," has been changed from April 11th, as announced in the Newsletter,to SATURDAY, APRIL 10th. The time and place remains the same: 4-6 pm, at the home of Ruth Schmitt, 707 Orange Street, New Haven. We hope you will join us for a discussion, led by Constance Sherak, about visual culture and the changing roles and practices of museums in the 20th and 21st centuries.
This change was made in order to avoid a conflict with the tribute to Mary Weigand to be held at the Neighborhood Music School on Sunday, April 11th.]
SAVE THE DATE
The annual spring luncheon and business meeting will be held on Sunday, May 16, 2010, at noon at the Whitney Humanities Center. We hope you will mark it on your calendars and plan to join us.
READING GROUP
For the past few years, Center members have met in a monthly reading group, devoting each year to a single work or a group of related works: one year, for example, a number of Greek plays; another year, Beowulf; another year, the group explored the writing of three women novelists spanning three centuries: George Eliot (Daniel Deronda), Virginia Woolf (The Waves), and Shirley Hazzard (/The Great Fire ).
This year two novels The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni and The Leopard by Guiseppe di Lampedusa that deal with historical perios in Italy have been selected for discussion.
(Interested in joining? Contact Ruth Schmitt, 203-865-1491, or ruth.hein@snet.net
The group usually meets once a month on Tuesday afternoons.
INTERESTED IN JOINING A HISTORY STUDY GROUP?
A new History Reading/Discussion Group will begin in the Fall of 2009. The readings will focus on the question: "How do societies evolve and cope (or fail to cope) with challenges?"
We welcome your participation.
For information, contact CIS member Richard Yanowitz (ryanowitz@clearwords.net)
