Take Five

Take Five 2024

This year's theme is Higher education Amid skyrocketing tuition costs and controversies surrounding diversity initiatives, campus speaker cancellations, and accusations of political indoctrination, higher education—both as a concrete post-high school experience and as an abstract concept—is ripe for reflection and reconsideration. The five books listed below ask what it means to be educated at a higher level, whether in a formal academic setting or in other venues far from quads and ivy-covered buildings.

Jan. 23: Dr. Aaron Shaheen presents Robert Penn Warren’s All the King’s Men

Feb. 13: Dr. Verbie Prevost presents Dai Sijie’s Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress 

Feb. 27: Dr. David Pleins presents Emma Smith’s Portable Magic: A History of Books and Their Readers 

Mar. 19: Dr. Victoria Bryan presents R.F. Kuang’s Babel, or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution

Apr. 9: Dr. Bryan Hampton presents Julie Schumacher’s Dear Committee Members 

All Take Five events happen Tuesdays at 6p in the Chattanooga Room of the Univ. Center.

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