Open Questions: Can Machines Think?
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.
"Can Machines Think?" is facilitated by Dr. Joshua Tepley
Join us as we celebrate 50 years of bringing the humanities to your community!
Open Questions: Does Truth Matter?
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.
"Does Truth Matter?" is facilitated by Dr. Joshua Tepley
Join us as we celebrate 50 years of bringing the humanities to your community!
Perspectives Book Group - Fahrenheit 451
Nearly seventy years after its original publication, Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 stands as a classic of world literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Today its message has grown more relevant than ever before.
Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television “family.” But when he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn’t live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known.
Pre-registration is required to receive the book prior to the discussion. Please use the contact information in the event details below to pre-register.
Perspectives Book Group - How Long 'Til Black Future Month?
As part of New Hampshire Humanities' Perspectives Book Groups, we're reading How Long 'Til Black Future Month? by N.K. Jemisin. These science fiction short stories challenge and delight readers with thought-provoking narratives of destruction, rebirth, and redemption that sharply examine modern society.
Spirits haunt the flooded streets of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. In a parallel universe, a utopian society watches our world, trying to learn from our mistakes. A black mother in the Jim Crow South must save her daughter from a fey offering impossible promises. And in the Hugo award-nominated short story “The City Born Great,” a young street kid fights to give birth to an old metropolis’s soul.
Pre-registration is required to receive the book prior to the discussion. Please use the contact information in the event details below to pre-register.
Perspectives Book Group - Parable of the Sower
As part of New Hampshire Humanities' Perspectives Book Groups, we're reading Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler.
A post-apocalyptic novel of hope and terror by the first great Black woman science fiction writer.
Pre-registration is required to receive the book prior to the discussion. Please use the contact information in the event details below to pre-register.
Join us as we celebrate 50 years of bringing the humanities to your community!
Perspectives Book Group - The Martian Chronicles
As part of New Hampshire Humanities' Perspectives Book Groups, we're reading The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury. A beautiful and haunting collection of short stories about the colonization of Mars.
In The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury, America’s preeminent storyteller, imagines a place of hope, dreams, and metaphor— of crystal pillars and fossil seas—where a fine dust settles on the great empty cities of a vanished, devastated civilization. Earthmen conquer Mars and then are conquered by it, lulled by dangerous lies of comfort and familiarity, and enchanted by the lingering glamour of an ancient, mysterious native race. In this classic work of fiction, Bradbury exposes our ambitions, weaknesses, and ignorance in a strange and breathtaking world where man does not belong.
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!
