Open Questions: Should We Fear Death?
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.
"Should We Fear Death?" is facilitated by Dr. Kiki Berk.
Join us as we celebrate 50 years of bringing the humanities to your community!
Perspectives Book Group - The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
As part of New Hampshire Humanities' Perspectives Book Groups, we're reading The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein.
In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading authority on housing policy, explodes the myth that America's cities came to be racially divided through de facto segregation--that is, through individual prejudices, income differences, or the actions of private institutions like banks and real estate agencies. Rather, The Color of Law incontrovertibly makes clear that it was de jure segregation--the laws and policy decisions passed by local, state, and federal governments--that actually promoted the discriminatory patterns that continue to this day.
PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED TO RECEIVE THE BOOK PRIOR TO DISCUSSION.
Join us as we celebrate 50 years of bringing the humanities to your community!
Perspectives Book Group - The Nickel Boys
As part of New Hampshire Humanities' Perspectives Book Groups, we're reading The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead.
Author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead, brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in 1960s Florida. Based on the history of a real reform school in Florida that operated for one hundred and eleven years and warped and destroyed the lives of thousands of children, The Nickel Boys is a devastating, driven narrative by a great American novelist whose work is essential to understanding the current reality of the United States.
Pre-registration is required to receive the book prior to the discussion.
Join us as we celebrate 50 years of bringing the humanities to your community!
Perspectives Book Group - The Sparrow
As part of New Hampshire Humanities' Perspectives Book Groups, we're reading The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell. The story of a charismatic Jesuit priest and linguist, Emilio Sandoz, who leads a twenty-first- century scientific mission to a newly discovered extraterrestrial culture.
A visionary work that combines speculative fiction with deep philosophical inquiry, The Sparrow tells the story of a charismatic Jesuit priest and linguist, Emilio Sandoz, who leads a scientific mission entrusted with a profound task: to make first contact with intelligent extraterrestrial life. The mission begins in faith, hope, and beauty, but a series of small misunderstandings brings it to a catastrophic end.
PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED TO RECEIVE THE BOOK PRIOR TO DISCUSSION.
Join us as we celebrate 50 years of bringing the humanities to your community!
