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SUMMARY:History Study Group
DESCRIPTION:For this meeting we will be beginning a new book\, Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes (2010) by Tamim Ansary. This book can be had new in paperback for $15 – $19\, and as an ebook for around $12. For the 5th\, we’ll read through chapter 7. \nTo most people in the West\, the world is properly marching toward a universal state of democratic capitalism. If you feel this way\, this book is one you should read. Written by someone who was brought up in a Muslim society\, but who has spent most of his life in the U.S.\, this book will not tell us which way to go\, but illuminate how a whole significant other part of the world sees and values things differently than the West. (Actually\, there’s also quite a few people in the West who think that we’re marching toward hell in a handbasket. And my guess is that’s probably matched by a proportional number of people in the Muslim world.) \n 
URL:https://dev.mnindependentscholars.org/event/history-study-group-32/
LOCATION:via Zoom
CATEGORIES:History
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SUMMARY:Philosophy Study Group
DESCRIPTION:We will be discussing a book by Victor Frankl\, a Holocaust survivor and author of the noted book\, Man’s Search for Meaning. This new book\, Say Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything (2020)\, is based on a series of lectures that Frankl gave less than a year after being liberated from a German concentration camp. \nHe then condensed the lectures into a book in 1946\, but it was not published in English until recently. Still\, it is easy to find and not expensive\, costing around $12 in paperback and $10 as an ebook. Since it is short and easy to read\, we will cover the entire book for our meeting on the 12th. If you do attend you can also say Yes to the MISF Philosophy Study Group\, in spite of everything we do in trying to tell you your ideas are dead wrong and ours are right.
URL:https://dev.mnindependentscholars.org/event/philosophy-study-group-36/
LOCATION:via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Philosophy
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SUMMARY:Ginny Hanson Poetry Day: The Poetry of  Philip Bryant
DESCRIPTION:Ellingtonia\, The Great Migration and The Promised Land \nThis presentation will focus around two poems in my book\, “The Promised Land.” I will start with a short reading of the title poem of the book\, “The Promised Land” and also read the poem\, “Ellingtonia.” I will then briefly discuss how I think the poems interface and converse with each other in terms of how they address the issue of race\, culture\, and citizenship in the United States. \nI will offer the idea of a migratory sense of American identity\, an identity that is constantly on the move and migrating toward that ideal place where it could feel most like itself in all it’s colors\, shades\, and hues. I would like to pose the question that in a so-called plural\, representative democracy as ours is there still a “Promised Land” left in our democracy for a multiracial and multiethnic American identity to migrate to?  Can we still find an Ellingtonia anywhere in the America landscape today? \nPhilip Bryant is Professor of English at Gustavus Adolphus College and past radio-essayist for Minnesota Public Radio\, a prize winning poet\, who has been published in various publications\, is author of four collections of poetry\, the last titled The Promised Land\, treating African American themes\, receiving the Benjamin Franklin Award\, Silver Winner from IBPA in 2019.This presentation will focus around two poems in my book\, “The Promised Land.” \n 
URL:https://dev.mnindependentscholars.org/event/ginny-hanson-poetry-day-the-poetry-of-philip-bryant/
LOCATION:via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Monthly Forum
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