Summer Sessions

Another outstanding season of weekly lectures is behind us, and there were many memorable speakers. Thanks to our Program Committee for once again pulling together an excellent line-up of talks.

We’ll continue to meet informally this summer at the Humanist Hub, beginning on July 13, 2014, and continuing for six Sundays, ending on August 17. Details after the jump.

All sessions will run from 10 AM to noon.

July 13th and July 20th

We will discuss the book “American Soul” by Jacob Needleman. Margo Woods, facilitator. The first session will cover chapters 1, 3,4,5 and the second session will cover chapters 6, 7, 11 and 12.

 July 27th

The session will be facilitated by Andrea Perrault. The book will be “Man from Beijing” by Henning Mankell. There are 19 copies of it in the Boston library and its branches. It’s available on Amazon, too — used hard copies are about $4.00.

August 3rd

Brian King will facilitate a discussion of “The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better” by Richard G. Wilkinson and Kate Pickett.

August 10th

This will be an open discussion on the topic chosen by the group. No reading prior to session.

August 17th

Fred Hewett facilitates a discussion of Thomas Piketty’s  “Capitalism in the 21st Century”.