Casual Conversations

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/ .

On August 18, 2025, at 3 pm Eastern Time, Princeton University Professor Rhodri Lewis will be our guest for a Casual Conversation on King Lear by William Shakespeare.

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).

On Sunday, July 20 at 3 pm Eastern Time, Dr. Gregory Makoff will spend time with us for a Casual Conversation.  Dr.

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

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.

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.

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,

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,

On Sunday, March 2 at 3 pm Eastern Time, Thomas H. Cox and Gregory R.