12 September: The Creation Myth, Remembering Where We Came From, Remember You Are Dust: the Book of Genesis, Introduction and Chapter One of The Shattering of Loneliness: On Christian Remembrance by Erik Varden

 

19 September: How Memory Works (or doesn't),Technology & Memory:

• Chapter 9 of Nicholas Carr's The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains; you can listen to the audio for free here: The Shallows, by Nicholas Carr - Chapter 09: Search, Memory [Audiobook] (Memory research) (youtube.com) (45 min)

• the Myth of Theuth (excerpt from Plato's Phaedrus) plato-myth-of-theuth.pdf (ucsb.edu)

 

3 October: Remember You Were a Slave in Egypt, Ancient Memory Techniques: Chapter 2 of The Shattering of Loneliness: On Christian Remembrance by Erik Varden;  Joshua Foer: Feats of memory anyone can do | TED Talk

 

8 pm, Thursday, 7 November: Remember the Dead: 

- Chapter 3 of The Shattering of Loneliness: On Christian Remembrance by Erik Varden

- Antigone

 

8 pm, Thursday, 14 November: Repercussions of Remembering Differently, The Malleability of Memory: 

- Til We Have Faces – C.S. Lewis

-  Elizabeth Loftus: How reliable is your memory? | TED Talk 

 

8 pm, Thursday, 5 December: Being Remembered with Honor

- Beowulf (we love Tolkien’s translation)

 

8 pm, Thursday, 12 December: Rising Christendom Remembering the Pagan

- A discussion of Norse Mythology – suggested reading: any or all of the following: The Poetic Edda (we are using Jackson Crawford’s translation), The Prose Edda, The Vinland Sagas, The Legend of Sigurd & Gudrun, J.R.R. Tolkien

  

Christmas Break – no meetings in January

 

8 pm, Thursday, 6 February: Remember Thy Father & Mother: 

- Hamlet & Henry V

 

8 pm, Thursday, 13 February: Remember Virtue:  

• Sir Gawain & the Green Night (we love Tolkien’s translation)

 

8 pm, Thursday, 6 March: Do This in Memory of Me, The Re-Presentation in Liturgical Memory: 

- Chapter 4 of The Shattering of Loneliness: On Christian Remembrance by Erik Varden; 

- Read aloud together and discuss pp 80-85 (ch.4, part 5) in Great Lent by Alexander Schmemann,

 

8 pm, Thursday, 13 March: The Counsellor Will Call Everything to Mind:  

- Chapter 5 of The Shattering of Loneliness: On Christian Remembrance by Erik Varden

 

8 pm, Thursday, 3 April: The Dangers & Repercussions of Forgetting 

- Read aloud and discuss excerpts from A Primer for Forgetting by Lewis Hyde

 

8 pm, Thursday, 10 April: Beware Lest You Forget the Lord:  

- Chapter 6 of The Shattering of Loneliness: On Christian Remembrance by Erik Varden

 

7 pm, Thursday, 1 May: Remember, I Am an Ass: 

- Midsummer Night's Dream

 

8 pm, Thursday, 8 May: The Role of Remembering in Our Identitiy

- The Buried Giant – Kazuo Ishiguro