SUMMER 2010 LUNCH 'N  LEARN

6 THURSDAYS  *** July 8 - August 12

Temple Kehillat Chaim

1145 Green Street

Roswell, GA  30075

 

CLASS TIME - 10:00 to 11:00 (1 HR.)

L1- CURRENT EVENTS - John Rittenburg will host a discussion of events from the front pages of today's newspapers.  Class participation is encouraged.

 

L2 - ART HISTORY - Dr. Carlyn Romeyn, Emory University, will explore "realism" as it is portrayed by a variety of American painters including John Singleton Copley, Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, John Singer Sargent, Edward Hopper and Andrew Wyeth.

 

L3 - EUROPEAN MODERNISM:  1860 - 1920 - Dr. Theresa Ast, Professor of History, Reinhardt University will discuss the major developments and changes in literature, art, architecture, philosophy, religion and science (new physics).  

 

L4 - LINDBERGH - America's first and longest enduring super star celebrity from his solo flight to Paris in 1927, his marriage to Anne Morrow and their child's kidnapping, to inventor, adventurer, politician and post mortem scandals.  Dick Higgins will instruct.

 

CLASS TIME - 10:00 TO 12:00 (2 HR.)

L5 - OPEN BRIDGE - BEGINNERS TO PROS) - Open to bridge players of all levels.  Players will be paired with those of equal ability.  Lora Reed will coordinate play and group instruction.  

 

L6 - PAINTING - WATERCOLOR & OIL - For all styles and level of painters.  Jan Buckley will coordinate. 

 

L7 - WOODCARVING AND WOODBURNING with Don Cramer.  Come, let's whittle and burn together!!

 

CLASS TIME - 11:15 - 12:15 (1 HR)

L8 - ISLAM AND THE WEST:  Conflict, Dialogue and the Moral Imagination - Many see a global "clash of civilizations" between the Islamic world and the West as an inevitability.  But is it?  Join theologian Tom Buchanan as we explore the difficulties and possibility for dialogue and peaceful co-existence with emphasis on interreligious understanding and the capacity of each civilization for bold leaps of moral imagination.

 

L9 - SLAVERY IN AMERICA:  1619 -1865 - Historian Father Philip Scott, Ph. D. will explore the historical, economic, religious, racial and political aspects of slavery in America beginning with Jamestown in 1619. 

 

L10 - "HOT TOPICS" each week an informed SEL-er or guest speaker will present a discussion on national and international issues about which most Americans are or should be concerned   Ben Klein coordinates.

 

 

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