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Casual Conversation: October 20 with Professor Hirsch admin

Please join us for a Casual Conversation with Professor Francine Hirsch on Monday, October 20 at 6 pm Eastern.  We will be speaking with her about her beautifully written and vitally informative book: So

Casual Conversation with Prof Kelley about Moby Dick September 28th

On Sunday, September 28 at 3 pm ET on Zoom we will have the opportunity to have a conversation about Moby Dick with Wyn Kelley, Senior Lecturer Emerita, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She comes to us through the good offices of classmate Bruce Alpert.  Lecturer Kelley’s MIT faculty listing, with drop down lists of courses taught, and publications as well as a link to her cv, may be found here:  https://lit.mit.edu/wkelley/ .

Thomas Dwight Sloane (7/10/2025)

Thomas Dwight Sloan III, 77, of Huntsville passed away Thursday, July 10, 2025. Dwight was born in Manhattan, NY and moved to Huntsville with his family following high school. 

He met Susan Pullen while attending Dartmouth College. He graduated in 1969, and they married the same year. Dwight was stationed in Viet Nam while serving in the US Army from 1969-1972. When he returned from active duty, he attended law school at the University of Alabama, where he finished third in his class. 

Casual Conversation with Prof. Wohlforth on August 4 about subversion

This coming Monday, August 4 at 5 pm Eastern Time we will be joined for a Casual Conversation with Dartmouth Professor William C. Wohlforth who will discuss the new book he co-authored with independent scholar Professor Jill Kastner (whose PhD is from Harvard University):  A Measure Short of War: A Brief History of Great Power Subversion (Oxford University Press 2025).

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