Casual Conversations

On Sunday, June 11 at 3 pm Eastern Time, my good friend John Bainbridge, Jr. will discuss with us his new book, Gun Barons: The Weapons that Transformed America and the Men Who Invented Them (St. Martin’s Press 2022).
 

On Monday, Jun 5 at 5 pm Eastern we will be joined by John Avlon of CNN (and much more) for a Casual Conversation prompted by his bookLincoln and the Fight for Peace (Simon & Schuster 2022).   Here is the first paragraph of the bio he has posted on his website,

On Tuesday, May 16 at 5 pm Eastern Time, Thayer Professor Emeritus Alexander Hartov will join us for a Casual Conversation sponsored by the Jewish Culture Group.  Professor Hartov is the co-founder the Dartmouth Jewish Sound Archive.
 
Bruce Alpert, chair of the Jewish Culture Group found out about the Dartmouth Jewish Sound Archive when he received the Dartmouth News email on April 7: 

https://home.dartmouth.edu/news/2023/04/dartmouth-jewish-sound-archive-mark-150000-tracks 

Please join us for a Casual Conversation on Sunday, May 14 at 3 pm with the distinguished psychiatrist, addiction specialist, and scholar Sally Satel, M.D.   
 

Always looking to innovate, and reflecting a desire to enter into subjects in depth, the Casual Conversation team, i.e, me, is offering you two occasions to explore the works of Austrian author Stefan Zweig, a Jewish refugee from Hitler’s Austria.  The first is on Sunday, May 7, at 1 pm Eastern Time for a

On Tuesday, May 2 at 4:30 pm Eastern Time, Professor Jim O’Connell, Dartmouth ’71, will be our guest for a Casual Conversation.  Jim is an active member of our Traveling Troupe which reads plays on Zoom on roughly a monthly basis.  Jim was a Drama and Government major at the College, and he remains a superb actor.
 

On Sunday, April 30 at 3 pm Eastern longtime New Yorker staff writer Margaret Talbot will be our guest for a casual conversation that you will not want to miss.  Why?  Because she will be speaking of the history of performing arts in 20th century America through the lens of her father’s life and career.   And she is chronicling the life of a parent.  How will we be seen by those who come after us, how will be judged?  And how will we judge ourselves?
 
This is how Ms. Talbot puts it in the book she wrote about this subject:

With apologies to Paul Revere devotees:

On the 18th of April '23, no '69 will want to miss
The 5pm Eastern talk of Rabbi Seth
One if by land(line), two if by Zoom
We want all of you in the virtual room!

You are invited to join classmate Phil Bush in a lunchtime concert on Zoom on Wednesday, April 12 at 1 pm Eastern Time.   This is the second lunchtime concert, the first being with pianist Sue Leavitt, who played a classical program.  She was terrific and she started what is now officially A TRADITION, one that Phil will now carry forward with guitar held high!
 
Here is Phil’s intro to his event: