Core Conversations invites you to join fellow alumni and Columbia faculty in an exciting program that encourages critical reading and thought-provoking discussions characteristic of the Core classroom, from wherever you are and at your own pace. In one to two month long sessions, alumni will read and discuss Core or Core-like texts through this private book club.
Upcoming Session
Book Conversation on Scream With Me with Professor Eleanor Johnson
Past Sessions
Painting Time by Maylis de Kerangal with Smith Salfati, Lecturer in Art History and Archaeology
Gilgamesh: A New Translation of the Ancient Epic translated by Sophus Helle, Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton University.
Pat Barker's The Silence of the Girls with Nicole Gervasio GF'12 GF'14 GF'18, Lecturer, Department of English and Comparative Literature
Hamlet, William Shakespeare and Haider, Vishal Bhardwaj with Professor Benjamin VanWagoner
Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric
Boccacio’s Decameron with Associate Dean Martinsen, Maude Meisel, Margo Shohl Rosen and Adjunct Assistant Professor Nancy Workman
To the Lighthouse and Virginia Woolf with Professor Joanna Stalnaker
The Works of James Baldwin with Yujhán Claros, PhD candidate, Department of Classics
The Iliad, Homer with Kate Meng Brassel, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Classical Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Republic, Plato with Associate Professor Marcus Folch
Julius Caesar and Othello, William Shakespeare with Professor Julie Crawford
Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville with Professor Richard John
Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky with Associate Dean Deborah Martinsen