The closing event for the Spring 2010 Civic Discourse Series: Literacy and Democracy will feature Nicholas Negroponte, “A Mission Not a Market: One Laptop per Child.” The event will take place on Tuesday, April 27 @ 6pm at the Boston Athenaeum (10 1/2 Beacon Street, Boston). Reservations are being accepted now – at 617-720-7600. Please… Continue reading A Mission, Not a Market: One Laptop per Child
story by Andrew Clark According to four local educators, there seems to be one sure-fire way to help lower the number of former inmates returning to prison. The solution? Promoting literacy behind bars. On April 8, Suffolk University and the Boston Athenæum hosted a panel discussion, “Prison Literacy,” at the Athenæum as the fourth installment… Continue reading Literacy Behind Bars
Join us, Thursday, April 8 @ 6:00pm, at the Boston Athenaeum (10 1/2 Beacon Street) for a panel discussion on the importance of “Prison LIteracy.” The panel will feature Jill McDonough, poet; Steven Spitzer, professor of Sociology, Suffolk University; Robert Waxler, professor of English, UMass Dartmouth; moderated by Jack Gantos, author. JILL MCDONOUGH’s first book of… Continue reading Prison Literacy
Tonight (March 22) at 6:00pm in the C. Walsh Theatre Distinguished Visiting Scholar Viola Vaughn discusses her work in Kaolack, Senegal with the Women’s Health Education and Prevention Strategies Alliance (WHEPSA). VIOLA VAUGHN is the founder and Executive Director of the Women’s Health Education and Prevention Strategies Alliance (WHEPSA) and 10,000 Girls in Kaolack, Senegal,… Continue reading Teaching Literacy in Senegal
Thursday, March 11, 2010, the Boston Athenaeum together with the College of Arts and Sciences, Suffolk University present the second event in the 2010 Civic Discourse Series: Literacy and Democracy – Adult Literacy in the Digital Age. The panel features Joanne Appleton Arnarud, Executive Director, First Literacy; Linda Nathan, founding Headmaster of the Boston Arts Academy; and Wick… Continue reading Adult Literacy in the Digital Age
Inaugural Lecture to 2010 Literacy & Democracy Series, Tuesday, February 23, 2010, 6:00 p.m., Suffolk University C. Walsh Theatre, 55 Temple Street Jonathan Kozol’s first book, Death at an Early Age: The Destruction of the Hearts and Minds of Negro Children in the Boston Public Schools, won the National Book Award, and has sold over… Continue reading Joy and Justice: A Challenge to the Young to Serve the Children of the Poor on Feb. 23
Wednesday, April 29, 6:00 p.m. Boston Athenæum, 10½ Beacon Street The media these days speak in so many forked and foreign tongues — film, book, video game, broadcast, blog — that without a dictionary or a concordance it’s hard to know who is saying what to whom. Over the last fifty years it has come to… Continue reading Mixed Media: A Lecture with Lewis Lapham on April 29th
A lecture by Josh Silver, Free Press: 6:00pm, Tuesday, March 31, 2009 @ The Boston Athenæum, 10 1/2 Beacon Street Josh Silver argues that the media policies made in Washington, D.C. are the cause of corporate programming on radio and TV, fake news that fails to inform, slow, overpriced Internet service, and struggling public media. His organization, Free… Continue reading Take Back the Media: Policy, Protest, and Protecting American Democracy, March 31st
David Gergen, Inaugural Lecture: Wednesday, Feb. 11th, 2009 6:00pm C. Walsh Theatre Television and the Internet have become indispensable tools for presidential leadership. In fact, the media are a primary institutional force an effective president must manage by cooperation, charm, and persuasion. The Obama administration’s future success will be partly measured by its ability to manage the… Continue reading The Press: Turning Foe into Friend, Inaugural Lecture, Feb 11th