The Joy of Personal Writing - Winter Semester
Monday, March 15
6:30 – 8:30 PM
Room 508
Socrates Café
Tuesday, March 16
6:00 - 8:00 PM
Room 508
Join Ken Gans for a stimulating philosophical discussion on humanism and basic philosophical questions. If you are interested, contact Ken Gans at 212-787-7000 ext. 1039. No charge and no reservations needed.
Great Books: Great Conversations II
Wednesday, March 17
7:30 - 9:00 PM
Adler Study, Room 514
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein. List for the season
Leader Lunch Discussion
Thursday, March 18
12:00 PM
Elliott Library, Room 507
Bring your lunch and join Dr. Anne Klaeysen.
Mar. 18 – “Cracks in the Jihad,” by Thomas Rid, The Wilson Quarterly, January 2010. For more…
The Joy of Personal Writing - Winter Semester
Thursday, March 18
7:00 - 9:00 PM
Room 508
Game Café
Friday, March 19
6:30 PM
Ceremonial Hall
The Joy of Personal Writing - Winter Semester
Monday, March 22
6:30 – 8:30 PM
Room 508
Leader Lunch Discussion
Thursday, March 25
12:00 PM
Elliott Library, Room 507
Bring your lunch and join Dr. Anne Klaeysen.
Mar. 25 – “How America Can Rise Again,” by James Fallows, The Atlantic, March 2010. For more…
The Joy of Personal Writing - Winter Semester
Thursday, March 25
7:00 - 9:00 PM
Room 508
Spring Hike
Saturday, March 27
8:30 AM (Meet at the information booth in Grand Central Station)
Our traditional five-hour hike to Mt. Taurus in Cold Spring, NY will take you to a summit over the Hudson River. The ride on the Metro North Hudson line takes an hour and ten minutes and offers spectacular views of the river.
A one-way ticket is $11.25; please buy your own tickets. We will meet at the information booth in Grand Central Station at 8:30 am. If you arrive later, you can find us on the train that leaves at 8:47 am. Bring a water bottle, a light lunch and/or snack for the trail, and money for a coffee stop at a local café. Wear hiking or sturdy walking shoes, and dress in layers. Rain cancels.
Social Networks and Personality: What Relationships Tell Us About Ourselves
Saturday, March 27
4:00 PM
Ceremonial Hall
FREE
For any branch science, there are numerous methods by which one may gather and look at data; psychology is no different. Dr. Allan Clifton, clinical psychologist and Assistant Professor at Vassar College, proposes a fresh perspective on clinical psychology and how we think about personalities. Join us as Dr. Clifton provides an overview and critique of current psychological methodologies, and shares with us what he believes social relationships can tell us about ourselves. Following his lecture, Dr. Clifton will be interviewed by the Executive Director of the Center for Inquiry in New York City, Michael De Dora Jr.
This event is co-sponsored by New York Society for Ethical Culture and CFI NYC.
Great Books
Wednesday, April 7
7:30 - 9:00 PM
Elliott Library, Room 507
David Hume, Of Justice and Injustice
Sophocles, Antigone (complete work)
Charles Darwin, The Moral Sense of Man and the Lower Animals
ECRDG: Ethical Culture Reading Discussion Group
Wednesday, April 14
3:00 - 5:00 PM
Elliott Library, Room 507
Alice Hoffman, The Third Angel. List for the season
Great Books: Great Conversations II
Wednesday, April 21
7:30 - 9:00 PM
Adler Study, Room 514
Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem.
ECRDG: Ethical Culture Reading Discussion Group
Wednesday, May 12
3:00 - 5:00 PM
Elliott Library, Room 507
Anne Enright, The Gathering (2007 Man Booker prize).
