Annapolis Homecoming 2016 – Seminars
MORNING SEMINARS (10:30 a.m.)
Reunion Class Seminars:
Class of 1956 and the Beyond Golden Reunion Classes (All classes before 1966):
Richard Scofield’s “1956 Commencement Address”, led by Joe Cohen (A56)
Class of 1966: Plato’s Apology, led by Sam Kutler (A54)
Class of 1971: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, "A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings", "The
Handsomest Drowned Man in the World", led by Nicholas Maistrellis (H15)
Class of 1976: Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse, led by Joan Silver (A76) and John
White (A64)
Class of 1980: Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice
Class of 1981: William Shakespeare’s The Tempest, led by Peter Kalkavage
Class of 1986: James Joyce's The Dead, led by Henry Higuera and Jon Lenkowski
Class of 1991: Homer’s Odyssey, Books XIX – XXIV, led by Chester Burke (A74)
Class of 1996: 1st half of Plato’s Phaedrus, led by Eva Brann (H89) and Matt Caswell (A96)
Class of 2001: Herman Melville’s Benito Cereno, led by Jim Beall
Class of 2006: Aristotle's "On Memory and Recollection," included in Joe Sachs's
translation On the Soul and On Memory and Recollection," published by the Green Lion
Press, led by Judith Seeger & William Braithewaite
Class of 2011: Flannery O’Connor’s The Enduring Chill, led by John Verdi
GI Seminar: James Baldwin’s Sonny’s Blues, led by Emily Langston
Open Seminars:
Matthew B. Crawford’s The World Beyond Your Head, led by George Doskow (H03)
Montaigne’s Essais III.8, "Of the art of discussion", led by Jonathan Tuck (H14)
ibn Tufayl, Hayy ibn Yaqzan, led by Joe Macfarland (A87)
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Rappacini’s Daughter, led by Chris Nelson (SF70)
Hermann Melville’s Billy Budd, led by Greg Recco
Children’s Seminars:
Ages 12-15 - The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, led by Hayley Dunn (A17)
Ages 8-11 - The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks
AFTERNOON SEMINARS (3 p.m.):
Elizabeth Bishop, "The Moose", "In the Waiting Room", "One Art", led by David Townsend
Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice, led by Eric Salem, A77
Jacob Klein’s “On Liberal Education” pp. 261-8, followed by pp. 165-170, led by Michael
Dink, A75
THE SPIRIT OF PLACE: On the Meaningfulness of Form in Architecture
A three-part program led by Travis Price (FAIA, SF71), including a guided architectural
tour, followed by a lecture and slide show, and an afternoon seminar.
• 10-10:45 a.m. - During the morning session, we will briefly visit three different
buildings on the Annapolis Campus: A Classic, a Bauhaus Modern and a PostModernist Library. The buildings, while from very different times and with different
functions, derive their form and material designs from changes embedded by their
historical periods. In common they share a similar theme – metaphors that matter.
• 11 a.m.-12:15 p.m. - The key Photographic LECTURE (will explore how global
culture, philosophy, and metaphor drove the shaping of architecture around the
world ending with a quest for enduring 21st Century architecture. To paraphrase
Winston Churchill, first we shape our buildings and thereafter they shape us.
Shaping the shapers is at the heart and art of architectural dialectic.
• 3:15-4:45 p.m. - The afternoon seminar will focus on the "meaningfulness of form" in
architecture.