Jefferson Book Club
The Jefferson Book Club, open to all interested University of Texas undergraduates, graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and faculty, is a forum for informal discussions of the great books.
For more information, to offer additional suggestions, or to join the book club, please contact Matthew Levinton at mlevinton@aol.com, join our facebook group, or visit http://thejeffersonbookclub.blogspot.com/ . New members are welcome to join at any time.
Spring 2012 Events
Jan. 26: Movie Night: Pleasantville, 7 p.m., BAT 5.108
Discussion led by Lindsey Smith
Feb. 9: What is happiness? (Selections from the Stoics and Montaigne), 3:30 p.m., WAG 304B
Discussion led by Carly Baruh and Laura Rabinowitz
Feb. 22: Midsummer Night's Dream, American Shakespeare Center performance followed by discussion, 7 pm, Student Activity Center, Black Box Theater
Tickets: www.shakespeare-winedale.org
March 1: Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past (selections), 3:30 p.m., WAG 116 (Classics Department Lounge)
Discussion led by Ariel Helfer
March 22: Francis Bacon, Great Instauration, 3:30 p.m., WAG 116 (Classics Department Lounge)
Discussion led by Tom Van Malssen
April 12: Edward Gibbon, History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (selections), 3:30 p.m., WAG 403B
Discussion led by Ryan Haecker
For details on times and places of these events, please see http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/coretexts/events/upcoming.php
Past Events
Euclid, Elements (Selections)Dostoyevski, The Brothers Karamazov (The Grand Inquisitor and other selections)
Shakespeare, Tempest (following Actors from the London Stage performances)
Thomas Jefferson (Selections)
Movie Night: Casablanca
Thomas Jefferson (Selections)
Shakespeare, Tempest (following Actors from the London Stage performances)
Dostoyevski, The Brothers Karamazov (The Grand Inquisitor and other selections)
Abraham Lincoln (Selections)
Ibn Tufayl, Hayy Ibn Yacqzan
Movie Night: The Seventh Seal
Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
Nietzsche, Birth of Tragedy
Movie Night: Tristan and Isolde
Ayn Rand, Anthem
Movie Night: All the King's Men
Movie Night: The Counterfeit Traitor
Jane Austin, Sense and Sensibility
Cervantes, Don Quixote
Leo Strauss, What is Liberal Education
Franklin's Autobiography, parts 1 and 2
Rousseau's Preface to Narcisse
Movie Night: Spartacus
Shakespeare, Coriolanus
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, A World Split Apart
Kurt Vonnegut, Harrison Bergeron
Movie Night: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1001 Nights, selections
Adam Smith, Theory of Moral Sentiments, selections
Voltaire, Candide
Rousseau, Letter to D'Alembert
Movie Night: Bernardo Bertolucci's Il Conformista
