For decades, ÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥ City University has proudly hosted the lively series, Let's Talk About It, ÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥!, sponsored by ÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥ Humanities. ÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥ Humanities now offers single-book sessions, and the Jeanne Hoffman Smith Center for Film & Literature offers Community Book Conversations. All are free & open to the public. Join us for illuminating presentations and community-building through group discussions. Delve into topics from civil rights, to history, to mystery — and beyond!
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Upcoming book club opportunities at OCU:
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Join us!
Introducing the brand ÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥ Center-sponsored Community Book Conversation Series! This series will supplement the single-book sessions now offered by ÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥ Humanities through Let's Talk About It! Here's what to know:
For Let's Talk About It, books are available at the Dulaney-Browne Library on a first-come, first-served basis. If the program's books run out, participants are welcome to join with their own copies.
For Community Book Conversations, the Center will provide 15 copies of the book, available to participants on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information on reserving your copy, please email [email protected]. Additional participants will be encouraged to borrow from their own public library, purchase a copy, or access an e-book before the discussion on their own.
Sessions will take place at 6:30 p.m. at ÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥ City University
Petree College of Arts & Sciences Walker Center, Room 151
NW 26th and N. Florida
Each session features a short lecture, followed by small-group discussion of the book.
| PROGRAM | DATE | BOOK TITLE | PRESENTER |
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| Community Book Conversation | FEB. 17 | Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard (1974) | Mark Davies, OCU Professor of Philosophy |
| Let's Talk About It | APRIL 14 | A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold (1949) | Dr. Ken Hada, East Central University |
Free parking is available in the lots surrounding the building.
Thanks to our partnership with ÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥ Humanities, we've been given the ability to go back in time! Take a trip down memory lane and scroll through an extensive list of every Let's Talk About It theme from the past.
| YEAR | THEME |
|---|---|
| FALL 2025 | Myths Made Modern |
| SPRING 2025 | Most American: A United We Stand Theme |
| FALL 2024 | Of Shadows and Light: Stories of African American Resilience |
| SPRING 2024 | Where We Come Together |
| FALL 2023 | Native American Identity: From Past to Present |
| SPRING 2023 | Immigration Stories in Contemporary Fiction: Suspended Between Borders |
| FALL 2022 | Speculative Women, Future Bodies |
| SPRING 2022 | Memories, Memorials, & Painful Pasts: A More Perfect Union Theme |
| FALL 2021 | Travel, New Ways of Seeing |
| SPRING 2020 | Working to Survive, Surviving to Work |
| FALL 2019 | Coming and Going in ÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥ Indian Country |
| SPRING 2019 | Wade in the Water |
| FALL 2018 | Living with Limits |
| SPRING 2018 | War, Not War, and Peace: A Pulitzer Prize Centennial Series |
| FALL 2017 | The American Frontier: A Pulitzer Prize Centennial Series |
| SPRING 2017 | Young Adult Crossover Fiction: Crumbling Borders between Adolescents and Adults |
| FALL 2016 | Civil Rights and Equality: A Pulitzer Prize Centennial Series |
| SPRING 2016 | Play Ball |
| FALL 2015 | Hope Amidst Hardships |
| SPRING 2015 | The Dynamics of Dysfunction: To Laugh or Cry or Both |
| FALL 2014 | ÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥ Private Investigations |
| SPRING 2014 | Muslim Journeys: American Stories |
| FALL 2013 | Making Sense of the American Civil War |
| SPRING 2013 | Myth and Literature |
| FALL 2012 | Native American Writers of the Plains |
| SPRING 2012 | The ÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥n Experience: From Wilderness to Metropolis |
| FALL 2011 | Much Depends on Dinner: What We Eat and What It Says About Us |
| SPRING 2011 | What America Reads: Myth Making in Popular Fiction |
| FALL 2010 | Rebirth of a Nation: Nationalism and the Civil War |
| SPRING 2010 | Journey Stories |
| FALL 2009 | The Worst Hard Time Revisited: ÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥ in the Dust Bowl Years |
| SPRING 2009 | Do You See What I See: Growing Up in the Wide World? Contemporary World Literature |
| FALL 2008 | American Icons: The American President |
| SPRING 2008 | Mysterious Fears and Ghastly Longings |
| FALL 2007 | Crime and Comedy: The Lighter Side of Crime and Misdemeanor |
| SPRING 2007 | The ÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥ Experience: The Thirties |
| FALL 2006 | Invisibility and Identity: The Search for Self in African American Fiction |
| SPRING 2006 | The Journey Inward: Women's Autobiography |
| FALL 2005 | Piercing the Quilt, Stirring the Stew: Ethnic American Women's Voices |
| SPRING 2005 | The ÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥ Experience: Re-Vision - Reading and Discussing |
| FALL 2004 | Vietnam |
| SPRING 2004 | Crime and Punishment |
| FALL 2003 | The American Renaissance |
| SPRING 2003 | Friendship in Literature: Reading and Discussing |
| FALL 2002 | The Gilded Age: The Emergence of Modern America |
| SPRING 2002 | Private Investigations: Hard-Boiled and Soft-Hearted Heroes |
| FALL 2001 | Liberty and Violence: The Heritage of the French Revolution |
| SPRING 2001 | Many Trails, Many Tribes: Images of American Indians in Contemporary Fiction |
| FALL 2000 | Individual Rights and Community in America |
| SPRING 2000 | Making a Living, Making a Life: Work and its Rewards in a Changing America |
| FALL 1999 | The Unknown Americans: Contemporary Latin American Literature |
| SPRING 1999 | Generation to Generation: Contemporary Young Adult Fiction |
| FALL 1998 | Being Ethnic, Becoming American: Struggles, Successes, Symbols |
| SPRING 1998 | Writing Worlds: The Art of Seeing in Anthropology, Fiction, and Autobiography |
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