by launk | Mar 27, 2025 | Staff
Join the Canisius Adult Lifelong Learners Institute at their Spring 2025 Book Club. This semester we are looking at David Gibbins’ A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks. Gibbins, an experienced scuba diver and archaeologist, creates “a narrative of human history told through the archaeological discoveries of twelve shipwrecks across time.” Bring your lunch and join the conversation. No prior reading of the book is required. No prior knowledge of the subject is required. We will meet in the Library Rm. 103 at 1:00 PM.
Submitted by: Kristina Laun, Book Club Hostess, CALLI
by launk | Mar 6, 2025 | Staff
Join CALLI for Part 2 of our adventure in Celtic medieval literature, this time featuring one of the most important texts from Wales, “The Mabinogian.” This text is from a golden age of Welsh literature that flourished in the late Middle Ages. No prior knowledge of the topic is necessary, and one need not have attended Part 1 of this course.
Led by Prof. Johanna Fisher, this six-week online course begins Tuesday, March 18, at noon.
Learn more about the course on the CALLI blog
Submitted by: Kristina Laun, Website and Social Media Administrator, CALLI
by launk | Feb 21, 2025 | Staff
Canisius Adult Lifelong Learners Institute is pleased to announce our new spring 2025 course “What’s in a Word? Literature about Friendship: Essays, Poems, & Koans.”
Join instructor John Kryder as he explores readings that feature how important friendship has been throughout human history. Past and present voices will converse with us as we contemplate our responses to and understanding about that essential question: What is a friend?
This in-person, six-week course begins Wednesday, March 12, at 1 p.m.
Learn more and register
Submitted by: Kristina Laun, Website & Social Media Administrator, CALLI
by launk | Feb 4, 2025 | Staff
The Canisius Adult Lifelong Learners Institute spring 2025 book club meeting will be Thursday, April 10, at 1 p.m in the Library room 103. This semester, we will look at David Gibbins’ “A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks.” Please note that the meeting location has changed.
Submitted by: Kristina Laun, Information Technology Services, Book Club Hostess, CALLI
by launk | Jan 2, 2025 | Staff
Canisius Adult Lifelong Learners Institute is pleased to announce its new spring 2025 course: Adventure into the Heart of the Celtic World, Pt. 1: Exploring Myth & Culture. Led by Professor Johanna Fisher (English), the course dives deep into the enchanting world of Celtic mythology, a dimension where gods transcend life and death, where an ethereal world coexists with our own, and one inhabited by celestial beings capable of intertwining with our realities. Class participants meet Tuesdays, from January 7 – February 18, at 12:00 noon.
Visit our website for more information and to register: blogs.canisius.edu/icms/lifelong-learners-2021/. See you there!
Submitted by: Kristina Laun, Website & Social Media Administrator, CALLI
