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Espionage 

For the Fall 2025 Espionage Study Group we are going to read two books by authors we have read before and four books by authors who may be new to us. ...  View More

Location: Wieboldt Hall Location : 
  Wieboldt Hall.

Start date: 09/04/25

Days of the Week: Weekly - Thu .

Weekly - Thu 9:45 AM - 11:45 AM (9/4/2025-10/16/2025)

Email olli@northwestern.edu for more information.
 
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Readings in Western Culture – Great Books Conversations 

Challenge your understanding, in dialogue with others equally interested in exploring the Western canon, by reading selections curated by the Great Bo ...  View More

Location: Wieboldt Hall Location : 
  Wieboldt Hall.

Start date: 09/04/25

Days of the Week: Weekly - Thu .

Weekly - Thu 9:45 AM - 11:45 AM (9/4/2025-12/4/2025)

Email olli@northwestern.edu for more information.
 
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Great Short Stories 

As Pulitzer Prize winning author Stacy Schiff wrote in The New York Times, "A short story is by definition an odder, more eccentric creature than a no ...  View More

Location: Wieboldt Hall Location : 
  Wieboldt Hall.

Start date: 09/08/25

Days of the Week: Weekly - Mon .

Weekly - Mon 9:45 AM - 11:45 AM (9/8/2025-12/8/2025)

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West Meets East: Selected Short Stories of Nikolai Gogol and Lu Hsun 

The realists and satirists, Nikolai Gogol of Russia, and Lu Hsun of China, were masters of the short story genre. As significant social critics of the ...  View More

Location: Wieboldt Hall Location : 
  Wieboldt Hall.

Start date: 09/08/25

Days of the Week: Weekly - Mon .

Weekly - Mon 1:15 PM - 3:15 PM (9/8/2025-10/20/2025)

Email olli@northwestern.edu for more information.
 
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Echoes of Empire: British Mysteries Explores the Commonwealth 

During its height, it was said that the sun never set on the British Empire, which in 1913 held sway over 412 million people, 23% of the world populat ...  View More

Location: Wieboldt Hall Location : 
  Wieboldt Hall.

Start date: 10/23/25

Days of the Week: Weekly - Thu .

Weekly - Thu 9:45 AM - 11:45 AM (10/23/2025-12/4/2025)

Email olli@northwestern.edu for more information.
 
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