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THE POESY OF KEY WEST
“The sweetest doing nothing contrived”
Key West, Florida
January 10-15, (5 nights)
Selected poetry of Elizabeth Bishop, Wallace Stevens and Mark Strand

ROUGH LOVE IN A RUGGED LAND
Wuthering Heights in Cornwall
May 15-23 (8 nights)
Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

GET REAL; GET RURAL
Canadian Theatre Blyth Festival
August 11-16 (5 nights)
(NOTE CHANGE OF DATES)
Scripts from current productions and classic plays

THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST
The power of place
September 24 – October 1 (7 nights)
Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose, and the New Mexico landscapes of Georgia O’Keeffe

ROCKING THE CRADLE OF CIVILIZATION
Egypt, then and now
October 21 – November 2 (12 nights)
Palace Walk by Haquib Mahfouz
The Yacoubian Building by Alaa al Aswany
The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World (excerpts) by Nawal El Saadawi

1 HOMER'S ODYSSEY

2 THE MUDDLE AND MYSTERY OF INDIA
Rohinton Mistry, Swimming Lessons and Other Stories from Firozsha Baag and Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger

3 STRANGE EPISODES AND AWAKENINGS
Melville, Kafka, and Conrad

4 THE PLAY’S THE THING
Shakespeare, Macbeth and Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

5 THE PLAYFUL PURITANS
Emily Dickinson and Wallace Stevens

6 ALICE’S WONDERLAND
Alice Munro, Carried Away
           
7 THE POWER OF METAPHOR
Encounters with the work of Joseph Campbell

8 RICHARD STRAUSS AND MODERNISM
Salome and Elektra as Enduring Expressions of an Era

9 GUSTAV MAHLER
Musical Mastermind, Mystical Myth or Misguided Misfit?

And, new this year, daily afternoon art excursions may be selected in addition to or instead of a morning seminar

THINKING ANIMALS
Animals and the Development of Human Intelligence