Casual Conversations

On Sunday, November 17 at 3 pm Eastern Time, classmate Paul Pillar will be returning for a Casual Conversation on Zoom to discuss with us the thesis he elaborates in his most recent book, Beyond the Water’s Edge: How Partisanship Corrupts U.S. Foreign Policy (Columbia University Press 2023).

Sue Leavitt, spouse of ’69 classmate John Leavitt, will again grace us with a piano recital, this time at Noon on Wednesday, October 30.  The last time she performed for us on Zoom (Sue having performed for us at Class gatherings in Hanover), I wrote:

On Sunday, October 20 at 3 pm, April Bleske-Rechek, Professor of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin—Eau Claire will be our guest for a Casual Conversation.

                    April does really interesting work.

Dartmouth College President Sian Beilock, email to me (AFF), 07/05/2024.

To say the least.

On Monday, October 14 at 5 pm Eastern Time, we will have a Casual Conversation with Thomas H. Luxon, Dartmouth Professor of English, Emeritus and Cheheyl Professor and Inaugural Director of the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning (DCAL).  His faculty listing may be found here: https://faculty-directory.dartmouth.edu/thomas-h-luxon .  His faculty entry links to his downloadable cv.

Our next Casual Conversation, on Wednesday, October 9 at 5 pm Eastern will be an occasion to spend time with our Dartmouth 1969 classmate, Brian Maracle, who comes to us cou

On Monday, September 30 at 5 pm ET, Professor William (“Will”) Masters will be our guest for a Casual Conversation about food or, more precisely, food economics.  This discussion you should not miss.  Really.  If you want to explore the reasons why you eat what you eat, how much you eat, and what obstacles stand in your way to change your food consumption, this is the time you should join us.

On the Ides of September, i.e., September 15, a Sunday at 3 pm ET, we will be having a Casual Conversation with Foster Hirsch, Professor of Film at Brooklyn College, and board member of the Film Noir Foundation.  He is the author most recently of Hollywood and Movies of the Fifties: The Collapse of the Studio System, the Thrill of Cinerama, and the Invasion of the Ultimate Body Snatcher—Television (Knopf 2023).

Christopher (Chris) Hart will be joining us for a Casual Conversation on Sunday, August 25, at 3 pm Eastern Time on Zoom.  Chris comes to us courtesy of his friend from Denver grade school and our Dartmouth ’69 classmate Jay (“Yogi”) Glaser.

This is Chris’s description of what he would like to speak to us about (lightly edited):

“How Aviation Safety Practices Can Improve Your Safety in the Hospital”