Casual Conversation June 29th with Prof Deresiewicz
William Deresiewicz is an independent scholar who will be with us on Sunday, June 29 at 3 pm Eastern Time for a Casual Conversation focusing on the essays in his collection The End of So
Early in the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, Arthur Fergenson (our mini-Reunion Chair) initiated a series of Casual Conversations among classmates. These 2-hour conversations occur roughly monthly using Zoom and are on Sunday afternoons at 3:00 pm ET unless otherwise specified. About 3 weeks before each event, an announcement is posted here on the web site and sent to all classmates for whom we have valid email addresses. If you wish to suggest a topic, suggest a classmate, or lead a discussion yourself - you should contact Arthur Fergenson.
Here is a list of classmates who have participated in our Casual Conversations, and here is a (quick and dirty) list of the 100 Casual Conversation events since we started in June of 2020, as of October 2024.
Here is the Save the Date list of coming attractions.
Casual Conversation: May 26th with Jonathan Eig
Jonathan Eig won the Pulitzer Prize for King: A Life (Picador 2023), and he will be with us for a Casual Conversation on Monday, May 26 at 5 pm Eastern Time.
Casual Conversation May 11 with Professor Bernard Avishi
On Sunday, May 11 at 10 am Eastern Time, Bernard Avishai will be speaking with us for a Casual Conversation. (The earlier time is necessitated by our guest speaking with us from Jerusalem.
Casual Conversation April 27 with Professor Mendelsohn
On Sunday, April 27 at 2 pm Eastern Time, Professor Adam D. Mendelsohn will join us for a Casual Conversation. Professor Mendelsohn is the author of Jewish Soldiers in the Civil War; The Union Army (New York University Press 2022).
Professor Mendelsohn is associated with several institutions. At the University of Cape Town,Casual Conversation: March 24 with Professor DeSilva
One foot, other foot,
One foot, other foot,
Now you can do
Whatever you want,
Whatever you want to do.
Here you are in a wonderful world,- Casual Conversation March 2nd, about the Dartmouth College Case
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On Sunday, March 2 at 3 pm Eastern Time, Thomas H. Cox and Gregory R.
- Casual Conversation with Prof Fulbrook February 16th
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Professor Mary Fulbrook will be joining us from the UK this Sunday, February 16 at 1 pm Eastern for a Casual Conversation about her extraordinary book Reckonings: Legaci
- Casual Conversation: February 2, 2025 with Harry Freedman
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This Sunday, February 2 at 1 pm Eastern Time, prolific author Harry Freedman will join us from his native UK (the reason for the early time for us) in a Casual Conversation about his newest
- Casual Conversation Jan 12, 2025: Ehud Eilam, PhD
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On Sunday, January 12, 2025, at 3 pm Eastern Time, Ehud Eilam, Ph.D., will be our guest for a Casual Conversation, sponsored by the Jewish Culture Group, which classmate Bruce Alpert chairs.
- Casual Conversation December 22nd: Estate Planning
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A Casual Conversation on estate planning and administration will be held at 3 pm Eastern on Sunday, December 22. Our conversants will be classmate and attorney Doug Reynolds as well as Kevin Cox, a law firm colleague of classmate Bruce Alpert’s son Jeremy. Doug was recruited by classmate Clint Harris. This session was suggested