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- Mark Edmunson
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- Dana Gioia
- Robert Pinsky
- Victor Davis Hanson
- Zachary Mason
- Mark Bauerlein
- Donald Hall
- Derek Walcott
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The MPC Great Books Program Presents
Elliot Ruchowitz-Roberts
on
"Great Books, Cultural Bias, Robinson Jeffers, and a Kid From Brooklyn"
Elliot Ruchowitz-Roberts is author of White Fire, a collection of poems published last year by The Ping Pong Free Press of the Henry Miller Memorial Library. He is the author of two chapbooks of poetry, To Mary (after eight and The Sweet Taste; co-editor of the college text Bridges; co-editor/co-translator of two works from the Telugu, Sudha (Nectar) by Chalam and The Selected Verses of Vemana, both of which have been accepted into UNESCO’s Collection of Representative works: Indian Series; and co-author of Bowing to Receive the Mountain: Essays by Lin Jensen and Poetry by Elliot Roberts. His poetry has also appeared in various journals and anthologies.
Ruchowitz-Roberts coordinates the Tor House Foundation’s annual Prize for Poetry and its annual reading series, and coordinated the National Endowment for the Arts “The Big Read: The Poetry of Robinson Jeffers,” during which he read and performed Jeffers’s poetry at venues throughout Monterey County. Poet-in-the-Schools for the Carl Cherry Center for the Arts, Ruchowitz-Roberts presents poetry writing workshops in high schools throughout Monterey County and coordinates the annual Monterey County High School Poetry Awards.
He is also Professor Emeritus at Monterey Peninsula College where he taught composition, literature, public speaking and humanities for 32 years.
The MPC Great Books Program Presents
Dr. John Berteaux
on
"The Great Books as Food for Thought"
John Berteaux received a doctorate in Philosophy from the University of California at San Diego in 1999. He is a retired Professor of Philosophy at California State University Monterey Bay. He has taught in the Dimensions of Culture Program at the University of California at San Diego, the Department of Philosophy at San Diego State University, and The School of Humanities and Communication at California State University Monterey Bay. His research specializations are ethics and political philosophy, with a focus on race and the liberal tradition. John's most recent publication is "Black France, Black America: Engaging Historical Narratives," an article for the interdisciplinary journal Cosmopolitan Civil Societies.
Monterey Peninsula College Campus
Wednesday, May 9, 2018 • 7:00pm
Sam Karas Room, Library & Technology Building
This event is free.
For more information, contact Paola Gilbert at pgilbert@mpc.edu or at 831-646-4101
The MPC Great Books Program Presents:
Robert Hass
Reading from his Selected Works
Recognized as one of America’s finest poets, Robert Hass has been awarded the MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship, the National Book Critics’ Circle Award twice, the Yale Series of Younger Poets, and the 2014 Wallace Stevens Award. He is a professor of English at UC Berkeley, his collection of poems entitled Time and Materials won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize in 1997.
Monterey Peninsula College Campus
Monday, April 3, 2017 • 7:00pm
Sam Karas Room, Library & Technology Building
Admission free but limited seating.
Book sales and signing to follow!
Catherine Sevcenko
Speaking on:
"No Books Are More Equal Than Others:
Opposing the New Campus Censorship"
Monterey Peninsula College Campus
Tuesday, September 27, 2016 • 7:00pm
Sam Karas Room, Library and Technology Building
Admission free but limited seating.
Recent events:
The MPC Great Books Program Presents:
William Deresiewicz
Speaking on:
What Is College For?
Fore more information contact David Clemens at (831) 646-4267
David Steiner on
"The Humanities at Risk: why we should champion Great Art, Great Music and Great Books"
Matt Kish on
"The Marriage of Great Books and Visual Art"
Matt Kish
Matt Kish illustrated all 527 pages of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick into his own art-picture-book called Moby-Dick in Pictures: One Picture for Every Page.
MPC Great Books Program Presents:
a Colloquium on Great Books and Democracy
United States Poet Laureate
Classicist, Historian, Author,Nationally syndicated columnist
Former Director, The National Endowment for the Arts
MPC Great Books Program Visiting Scholar:
Mark Edmundson
Mark Edmundson
University Professor at University of Virginia, author of Why Read?
“Can Rock and Roll Save Your Life?”
“Why Does Love Have to be So Sad?”
“Football: The Lure of the Game”
http://c-spanvideo.org/program/WhyRea
David Shields
Author of Reality Hunger and How Literature Saved My Life
The novel has been a cornerstone of Western thought and culture, a monumental medium, a fixture in the firmament of how we interpret life. But it's also been deconstructed and even attacked in its current form. Author Shields, one of the new re-thinkers of the novel, has waged an assault on what the traditional novel which he calls "no longer germane" to our lives today. He's done it in a vein of a series of books that break apart the mold and re-arranges it in fashion that he says is more aligned with real modern lives. As part of MPC's heralded Great Books Program, he comes to talk about his experiments with the book formerly known as the novel.
United States Poet Laureate, National Book Award, Pulitzer Prize
Robert Mezey
Poet and translator of the poetry of Jorge Luis Borges
Robert Pinsky
United States Poet Laureate
United States Poet Laureate
Donald Hall received his Bachelors Degree from Harvard and a B.Litt. from Oxford. He served as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, commonly known as the United States Poet Laureate in 2006. He gives a vibrant and dramatic reading of his work in this timeless video from the MPC Great Books Collection.
MPC Great Books Program Presents:
a Colloquium on Imaginative Freedom and Political Freedom
University Professor at University of Virginia, author of Why Read?
Mark Edmundson appears courtesy of the Monterey Peninsula College Great Books Program Colloquium with an articulate discussion on Freedom. A must see for students of literature, political science, philosophy and culture.
National Book Critics Circle Award for Lyric Poetry and Modern Politics
Another exploration into Freedom of the Imagination and Political Freedom presented by the Monterey Peninsula College Great Books Program Colloquium.
Mark Bauerlein
Author of The Dumbest Generation
Author of The Lost Books of the Odyssey
Great Books and Democracy presented by the Monterey Peninsula College Great Books Program Colloquium
Nobel Laureate, author of Omeros
"Why do Great Books Matter?"
Jane Shaw joins Andy Nash for a frank conversation about the "Great Books," and how these legacy texts of our culture are taught -- and not taught -- in the classroom today. Ms. Shaw is president of The John William Pope Center for Higher Education Reform in North Carolina.
Victor Davis Hanson
Classicist, Historian, Author, Nationally syndicated columnist
David Denby http://c-spanvideo.org/program/GreatBoo
Interview with David Clemens on YouTube
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