Events
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Eight Wednesdays: Feb. 1-Mar. 21This class will continue review work in its textbook Quaderno degli Esercizi. Emphasis is on review of difficult structures (il congiuntivo) but also on mastery of the language through conversation, vocabulary work and reading. Wendy Walsh, Ph.D. in Italian Literature from UCB, has been teaching Italian language, literature, and cooking since 1979. She leads a yearly Language Study Tour Program to Italy.
Start: 6:00 pm
Krys Lee presents her story collection Drifting House ($25.95), an unflinching portrayal of the Korean immigrant experience. Spanning Korea and the United States, from the postwar era to contemporary times, Lee’s fiction debut illuminates a people torn between the traumas of their collective past and the indignities and sorrows of their present.
Start: 7:00 pm
Lysley Tenorio discusses Monstress ($13.99), a collection of heartbreaking, vivid, original stories set amongst the Filipino-American communities of California and the Philippines. Tenorio’s writing is deft and self-assured. He has won a Pushcart Prize and a Whiting Writer’s Award. Tenorio teaches at St. Mary’s College in Moraga.
Start: 7:00 pm
Free event - no tickets requiredRobert N. Bellah presents Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age ($39.95). Bellah’s ambitious book probes our biological past to discover the kinds of lives that human beings have imagined were worth living. Bellah’s theory goes deep into cultural and genetic evolution to identify a range of capacities (communal dancing, storytelling, theorizing) whose emergence made religious development possible in the first millennium BCE.
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