The Spring 2024 Program

The Spring 2024 Program

Download our spring 2024 program and join us in our twenty-fifth year for lectures on topics ranging from the rise of Taiwan, Islam and politics in America, and the dollar’s global dominance, to America’s 1930s Federal Theater, Ukrainian history with Timothy Snyder, and nonfiction readings with writer Heidi Julavits, among much more. We look forward to welcoming you at the Hans Arnhold Center this spring!

Download the spring 2024 program.

Image: Haley Mellin, Apple, 2014, oil, airbrush and ink on canvas, 50.8 x 40.6 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Dittrich & Schlechtriem

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