Contact: Diana Bakkom, WWU assistant director of Summer Programs, at Diana.bakkom@wwu.edu or (360) 650-6821.
BELLINGHAM - This summer, the Pacific Northwest Great Books Institute will celebrate its 50th anniversary at Western Washington University, host of the Institute for the past half-century.
Participants will travel from Washington, Oregon, Idaho and British Columbia to attend the Institute, June 19-21, on the WWU campus in Bellingham.
As part of the celebration, the Institute will hold two special events, which are open to the public free of charge:
- Steve Burdick, President of Northwest Great Books, will lead a 60-90 minute seminar on shared inquiry at 1 p.m. on Friday, June 19, in Bond Hall 106.
- There will be a shared inquiry session and community discussion of the book "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" by Alexander Solzhenitsyn at 7 p.m. on Friday, June 19, in Bond Hall 106.
Participants in the Friday evening session will receive a complimentary copy of Solzhenitsyn's book to read prior to the event. The registration deadline is May 15. While the evening session is free of charge, space is limited and early registration is encouraged; attendees can register through this link: http://www.acadweb.wwu.edu/eesp/great_books.shtml.
The Pacific Northwest Great Book's book selections for this summer include:
- "The Life of Ivan Denisovich," fiction by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
- "Snow," fiction by Orhan Pamuk
- "Saint Joan," drama by GB Shaw
- "The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed," partly nonfiction by John Vaillant
Visit the Pacific Northwest Great Books web site for more information about its organization at http://www.nwgb.org/toc.htm. For more on WWU's other summer programs, go to www.ExtendedEd.wwu.edu or call (360) 650-3308.
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