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Start: 12:00 pm
End: 2:00 pm
A book club for prisoners at the maximum security prison of Stateville who are serving actual or de facto life sentences. According to the proposal, prisoners at Stateville that are serving this type of sentence do not have access to any educational or job training programs and in essence are permanently "warehoused". Start: 12:30 pm
End: 1:30 pm
But emails aren't our only distraction. Our attention has been eroded to an alarming degree by the fact that we live in a hypermobile, hyperconnected society, says Maggie Jackson author of Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age. She writes: "We can tap into 50 million Web sites. 1.8 million books in print, 75 million blogs, and other snowstorms of information, but we increasingly seek knowledge in Google searches and Yahoo! Headlines that we gulp on the run while juggling other tasks." Start: 1:30 pm
The Meaning of Service (MoS) is a reading and discussion program for Americorps volunteers featuring discussions that use short philosophical and literary texts on the nature of justice, service, and related themes. Meaning of Service presents participants with the opportunity to examine, refine, and regenerate the beliefs underlying their work.
Start: 6:00 pm
Discussion of "Letters to a Young Poet," by Rainer Maria Rilke
Literature & Medicine: Humanities at the Heart of Healthcare is a discussion-based program that brings hospital staff together monthly to reflect on the larger mission of medicine through facilitated conversations about literature. | ||
