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Book Groups
Book groups offer an opportunity for participants to engage with diverse perspectives in the humanities through literature to build understanding, empathy, and to support a culture of reading in the Granite State. New Hampshire Humanities provides expert facilitators; host organizations must provide the books.

Presenter: Mohamed Defaa
Mohamed facilitates fiction and non-fiction books related to the Middle East.

Presenter: Damian Costello
Damian facilitates discussions on books relating to Indigenous culture/tradition, philosophy, and religion and spirituality.
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Lectures

Presenter: Mary Adams
New Hampshire often gets overlooked in the narrative of the American Revolution, overshadowed by its noisy neighbor to the south. Learn more in this presentation by New Hampshire Historical Society.

Presenter: Glenn Knoblock
One of the most interesting aspects of the American Revolution is the role played by African Americans in the fight for independence. Prohibited from serving in military units and largely considered "undesirable elements," how is it that these African-American soldiers came to fight for the cause of liberty, even when their own personal liberty was not guaranteed?

Presenter: Inez McDermott
This program explores American portraits painted and sculpted during the years leading up to, and the decades after, the Revolution. The ideals, values and virtues expressly stated in our founding documents are easily identifiable in these portraits once we know how to “read” them.
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Facilitated Conversations

Presenter: Kiki Berk
Death Cafés offer opportunities for people who don’t know each other to come together, share tea and cake, and talk openly about death.

Presenter: Joshua Tepley
Open Questions is a series of thought-provoking community conversations presented by New Hampshire Humanities. This series explores essential questions about meaning and life that are important to Granite Staters. Each program is facilitated by philosophy professors who will explore essential questions about meaning and life.
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Something a little different!

Presenter: Megan Hurley
Explore the history of telecommunications with The New Hampshire Telephone Museum! This program is adaptable for both youth and adult audiences. Participants of all ages will be able to handle vintage telephones.

Presenter: Alexandria Peary
Are you your own worst critic when it comes to your writing? Do you lug around criticism that you received maybe years ago—or even last week? We’ll discuss how to notice and manage negative self-talk and distance ourselves from tricky audiences-in-the-head. This session provides an overview of mindful writing as well as hands-on practice with techniques easily replicated later at home.

Presenter: Jordan Tirrell-Wysocki
Through traditional music Jordan Tirrell-Wysocki relays some of the adventures, misadventures, and emotions experienced by Irish emigrants. The presenter discusses the historical context of these songs, interspersing their stories with tunes from Ireland that made their way into New England's musical repertoire, played on his fiddle or guitar.
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