2022 Fall Preview

2022 Fall Preview and Handouts

The Fall 2022 Preview will be held as a Zoom meeting on Sunday, May 1, 2:15-4:30 p.m. The meeting is open to all members and to the general public. All attendees, including moderators and others on the formal agenda, must REGISTER to receive the meeting link.

During the first part of the meeting, LIR Past President Nancy Denig, together with Ellen Kosmer, will interview the moderators of the eighteen seminars and workshops lined up for the spring semester. Following that, there will be Zoom  “breakout rooms” where you can talk further with the moderators. There will also be breakout rooms where you can get more information about winter programs or LIR committees, or just chat with a handful of friends.

Please DOWNLOAD THE AGENDA for a list of seminar titles, breakout rooms, and a note about how to use the breakout rooms.

Seminar Listing – Click on Title for the Course Description and the Course Number for the Handout

Moderator Title Course Number
Ellen Kosmer, Betsy Siersma Will you walk into my parlor? 22F-WWP
Kip Fonsh Bob Dylan 22F-BDL
Bobbie Reitt, Joan McKelvey Friendship 22F-FRD
Jay Russell 2022 Midterm Election 22F-MID
Nancy Coiner, Helen Regan Exploring Middlemarch 22F-EMM
Henia Lewin, Carol Jolly Writing to Remember (Blue) 22F-WTRB
Jessie Tropp Idiomatic 22F-IDI
Mirian Whitney, Margaret Russell Indigenous Peoples Today 22F-IPT
Jeanne Ballantine, Catharine Porter What I Wish I’d Asked – and Shared 22F-WAS
Linda Honan Rationalism in American Religion 22F-RAR
Rachel Borson Taboos and Moral Foundations 22F-TMF
Jane McMurrich Great Inventions in History 22F-GIH
Jim Harvey The Golden Age of the Persians 22F-GAP
Niel Novik, Tyll van Geel Are you now or have you ever been.. 22F-ARE
Larry Ambs, Kathy Campbell Development of Early Cities 22F-DEC
Kay Klausewitz, Jim Harvey Life Along the Connecticut River 22F-LAC
Gerald Goldman Two Norwegian Detective Novels 22F-NDN
Finnegan Alford-Cooper Writing to Remember (Purple) 22F-WTRP
Michael Miller, Robert Cohen Somewhere Over the Rainbow 22F-SOR
Chuck Aulino Short Stories to Share 22F-SSS
Rutherford Platt, Gene Fisher Jane Addams and Hull House 22F-JAH
Catharine Porter, Trish Callard Writing to Remember (Red) 22F-WTRR

Registration will open at Noon on May 2, 2022 – if you registered for the Preview you will receive an email when the Form is open.