Officers: Sara Cohen, President
Neil Harvey, Vice-President
Patrick DeMarco, Secretary
Jesse Starr, Treasurer
To contact our Council, E-mail Sara Cohen at TampaBayArea2@greatbooksdiscussionprograms.org
or Patrick DeMarco at TampaBayArea1@greatbooksdiscussionprograms.org. Phone: (813) 672-9052.
The Tampa Bay Area Great Books Council plans, organizes, and holds an annual "Great Books Winter Retreat/Conference" in the State of Florida. The first annual event was held in Brooksville, Florida in January 2006. The second annual event was held in January 2007 at the Hilton Longboat Key Beachfront Resort Hotel, just a few miles west of Sarasota. .
The Tampa Bay Great Books Council is pleased to announce its theme and reading selections
for the third annual Tampa Bay/Florida Great Books Conference to be held
in Longboat Key, Florida on January 18-20, 2008.
The conference theme will be
"Nineteenth-Century Russia: Lives in Conflict, Nation in Turmoil".
The three discussions (two on Saturday, January 19, and one on Sunday, January 20) will be:
There are seven Great Books groups currently functioning in the Tampa Bay area:
GROUP I: Located at the Unviersity of South Florida in Tampa, as part of the Department of Contining Education and the Osher Life Long Learning Institute (OLLI). Since January 2003, this group has met on Friday mornings for eight-week sessions, from 10 A.M. to noon. The next session will begin on September 28, 2007 and the text to be used will be SERIES FOUR of the Great Books Reading and Discussion Program. Contact person: Patrick DeMarco, TampaBayArea1@greatbooksdiscussionprograms.org, (813) 672-9052
Group II: Located at the University of South Florida in Tampa, as part of the Department of Continuing Education and the Osher Life-Long Learning Institute (OLLI). Since January 2003, this group has met on Friday afternoons for eight-week sessions, from 1:30 to 3:30 P.M. The next session will begin on September 28, 2007 and the text to be used will be GREAT CONVERSATIONS III. Contact person: Patrick DeMarco, TampaBayArea1@greatbooksdiscussionprograms.org, (813 672-9052
Group III: Located at the Temple Terrace Library, 202 Bullard Parkway, in Tampa (813-989-7160), this group meets on the last Saturday afternoon of each month, from 1 to 2:30 P.M. The group began in October of 2000 and has met continously ever since, but does not hold meetings during the months of August or December. The reading list/schedule for the 2007/2008 season is the following:
9/29/07: BELOVED (Toni Morrison) 10/27/07: THE SCARLET LETTER (Nathaniel Hawthorne) 11/24/07: A LESSON BEFORE DYING (Ernest Gaines) December: NO MEETING 1/26/08: THE FIXER (Bernard Malamud) 2/23/08: A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS (Robert Bolt) 3/29/08: THE TRIAL (Franz Kafka) 4/26/08: BABBITT (Sinclair Lewis) 5/31/08: THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY (Oscar Wilde) 6/28/08: SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE (Kurt Vonnegut) 7/26/08: THE KITE RUNNER (Khaled Hosseini)
GROUP V Located at the SEMINOLE COMMUNITY LIBRARY
9200 113 Street North, Seminole, Florida 33772.
727-394-6905
This group meets monthly on Wednesdays at 2:00 P.M. and is currently
reading Series I of the Great Books.
Contact Mike Bryan at 727-394-6923 for more information.
GROUP VII: The Great Books Discussion Group at the South Shore Library, 15810 Beth Shields Way, in Ruskin,
meets on the FIRST SATURDAY of each month, from 10:30 A.M. to 12 noon.
The reading list/schedule for the rest of 2007 is the following:
5/5/07: MADAME BOVARY (Gustave Flaubert) 6/2/07: MY ANTONIA (Willa Cather) 7/7/07: THE PLAGUE (Albert Camus) AUGUST: NO MEETING 9/8/07: DEATH IN VENICE (Thomas Mann) 10/6/07: MRS. DALLOWAY (Virginia Woolf) 11/3/07: THE AWAKENING (Kate Chopin) 12/1/07: A PASSAGE TO INDIA (E.M. Forster) Moderator and contact person is Patrick DeMarco, (813) 672-9052
Contact Patrick DeMarco at TampaBayArea1@greatbooksdiscussionprograms.org
or Tom Santee at 727-867-1166 for more information.