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Virtual Book Clubs

Unable to offer face-to-face H4E community classes due to the pandemic, we provided some support (purchased books) to the 51¸£ÀûÉç Center for the Study of Ethics in Society, to support the following Virtual Book Clubs. These book clubs had, on average, between 10-15 adult participants. 

Spring 2021 Virtual Book Clubs 

• Frances Rosenbluth and Ian Shapiro's Responsible Parties: Saving Democracy from Itself facilitated by Dr. Norman Hawker, professor of Finance. Feb. 9, 16, & 23 
• Alex Vitale's The End of Policing facilitated by Dr. William Santiago-Valles, associate professor of Africana Studies. March 1,8,15, 22 & 29. 
• John Scalzi's sci-fi novel Lock In facilitated by Dr. Tyler Gibb, co-chief of the Program in Medical Ethics, Humanities & Law 51¸£ÀûÉç Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine. March 2, 16 & 30 
• Isabel Wilkerson's Caste: The Origins of our Discontents facilitated by Dr. Kathy Purnell, immigration attorney and part-time instructor in in the School of Public Affairs and Administration.  April 7, 14, & 21

Fall 2021 Virtual Book Clubs  

• Michael Sandel’s Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good? facilitated by Charlie Kurth, associate professor of philosophy. Online discussions on WebEx at 5:30 p.m. Mondays, Sept. 20, Sept. 27, Oct. 4 and Oct. 11.  
• Joseph Caren’s The Ethics of Immigration facilitated by Kathy Purnell, immigration attorney and part-time instructor in in the School of Public Affairs and Administration. 6 p.m. Wednesdays, Oct. 13, 20 and 27.  
• Harriet Washington’s Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present facilitated by Tyler Gibb, co-chief of the Program in Medical Ethics, Humanities & Law 51¸£ÀûÉç Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine. 5:30 p.m. Wednesdays, Nov. 3 and Nov. 17.  

Digital Humanities Workshop  
This last summer we partnered with Amy Bock, 51¸£ÀûÉç’s digital projects librarian, to create community outreach: Capturing Community: Digital Storytelling & Community-Driven Archives