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Great Shakespeare Scenes in Opera
Toronto Pursuits 2019
NEW! Afternoon Seminar on the Odyssey
Toronto Pursuits 2019
“This particular web”: George Eliot’s Middlemarch
Toronto Pursuits 2019
Heart and Soul: Nationalism in Music
Toronto Pursuits 2019
The Second Sex 70 Years Later
Toronto Pursuits 2019
No Man Is an Island: Icelandic Sagas
Toronto Pursuits 2019
Like Light on Broken Glass: Stories and Plays of Anton Chekhov
Toronto Pursuits 2019
Seeing Through Clothes
Toronto Pursuits 2019
The Poetic Conversation
Toronto Pursuits 2019
The Gathering of Chaucer’s Pilgrims: The Canterbury Tales
Toronto Pursuits 2019
Inside Rajasthan with the Jaipur Literature Festival
Travel Pursuits 2019
Russia’s Golden Age: 19th-Century Art, Literature, and Music
Travel Pursuits 2019
Mystery and Manners in Savannah: Flannery O’Connor
Travel Pursuits 2019
Vincent van Gogh’s Quest: In the Footsteps of the Artist
Travel Pursuits 2019
Basque in the Glory: Walking the Camino del Norte
Travel Pursuits 2019
Braving It Out: Position and Influence in Trollope
Toronto Pursuits 2018
The Enduring Power of Myth
Toronto Pursuits 2018
Podium Power: The Art and Artistry of Conducting
Toronto Pursuits 2018
Forces Mortal and Immortal: Homer’s Iliad
Toronto Pursuits 2018
The Birth of New Powers in Florence
Toronto Pursuits 2018
Listening to the Voices of Resistance
Toronto Pursuits 2018
Power Embodied: Memoirs of Hadrian
Toronto Pursuits 2018
Power, Rights and Personhood: Who Gets to Be Human?
Toronto Pursuits 2018
Conflict and Compromise: Hammering Out a Republic in Philadelphia
Travel Pursuits 2018
Magic Mountains: Literature, Culture and Coffee in Colombia
Travel Pursuits 2018
The Name of the Rose in Central Italy
Travel Pursuits 2018
No Mere Discord of Flags: English Poets of WWI
Travel Pursuits 2018
Cool Gray City of Love: Literary San Francisco
Made to Measure
Innocence, Experience & Wisdom: Edith Wharton – SOLD OUT
Toronto Pursuits 2017
Eye of the Beholder: The Alexandria Quartet
Toronto Pursuits 2017
Cinema and the Art of Concealment
Toronto Pursuits 2017
Imaginary Gardens: The Nature Poetry of Hopkins, Moore & Frost
Toronto Pursuits 2017
Benefit of the Doubt: Shakespeare, Miller, Stoppard, Mamet – SOLD OUT
Toronto Pursuits 2017
Man in the Mirror: Self-Knowledge in Montaigne, Shakespeare & Rembrandt
Toronto Pursuits 2017
Make Room for Women Artists
Toronto Pursuits 2017
From Kant to Coppola: Art, Life & the Nature of Knowledge
Toronto Pursuits 2017
A Symphonic Symposium: Sources, Symptoms & Solutions – SOLD OUT
Toronto Pursuits 2017
Jewish Montreal: Its Midcentury Legacy
Travel Pursuits 2017
Celebrating Life, Death & Rebirth in Mexico
Travel Pursuits 2017
Kraków: Face to Face with Poland’s Creative Artists
Travel Pursuits 2017
The Road Less Travelled: Caminho Português
Travel Pursuits 2018
The Ferrante Phenomenon: On Location in Naples and Ischia
Travel Pursuits 2017
Light Changes to Dark: Film Noir
Toronto Pursuits 2016
PORTUGAL: Poised Between Proud Tradition and Global Modernity
Travel Pursuits 2016
LITERARY CUBA: What Now? What Next? A Country in Transition
Travel Pursuits 2016
LITERARY ICELAND: From Ancient Epic to Modern Novel
Travel Pursuits 2016
THE PITY OF WAR: English Poets of WWI
Travel Pursuits 2016
“Who’s he when he’s at home?”: James Joyce’s Ulysses
Toronto Pursuits 2016
Tiresias, and Other Adventures in Genderland
Toronto Pursuits 2016
The Hollow Crown: The Unmaking and Making of Kings—SOLD OUT
Toronto Pursuits 2016
The Fall of the House of Oedipus
Toronto Pursuits 2016
Everything Changes, Nothing Dies: Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Painting, Music, and Poetry—SOLD OUT
Toronto Pursuits 2016
“A Riddle Without an Answer”: Charles Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend—SOLD OUT
Toronto Pursuits 2016
Betwixt and Between: Metamorphosis in Classic Fairy Tales
Toronto Pursuits 2016
Finding Balance: Wallace Stegner’s Angle of Repose—SOLD OUT
Toronto Pursuits 2016
Metamorphoses of Americans in Europe: Henry James’s The Ambassadors—SOLD OUT
Toronto Pursuits 2016
Speaking of Beauty
Toronto Pursuits 2016
MUSIC—Follow the Lieder: The Songs of Franz Schubert
Toronto Pursuits 2015
ART—The Pleasure Principle: Criticism That Performs
Toronto Pursuits 2015
What’s Done Is Done: What Is History Good For? – SOLD OUT
Through a Tremulous Prism: Literary Memoir
Toronto Pursuits 2015
You Can Do It! James Joyce’s Ulysses – SOLD OUT
Toronto Pursuits 2015
Battle of the Titans: Tolstoy vs. Dostoevsky
Toronto Pursuits 2015
Living Character: George Eliot’s Middlemarch – SOLD OUT
Toronto Pursuits 2015
The Remorseless Working of Things: Macbeth, Hamlet, King Lear — SOLD OUT
Toronto Pursuits 2015
Augustine’s Confessions
Toronto Pursuits 2015
Homer’s Odyssey
Toronto Pursuits 2015
IN A QUIET CORNER OF ITALY … TRIESTE — SOLD OUT
Travel Pursuits 2015
ALICE MUNRO: MASTER OF THE CONTEMPORARY SHORT STORY — SOLD OUT
Travel Pursuits 2015
TAKING YOUR SOUL FOR A STROLL: 160 Kilometers on the Camino de Santiago — SOLD OUT
Travel Pursuits 2015
MYSTERY & MANNERS IN SAVANNAH — SOLD OUT
Travel Pursuits 2015
COLOMBIA: A Paradise Where Reality and Magic Blur
Travel Pursuits 2015
10. MUSIC – Impressionism in Music
Toronto Pursuits 2014
09. FILM – Japanese Cinema: Films by Akira Kurosawa
Toronto Pursuits 2014
08. ART – Islamic Art & Architecture: A Mirror of the Cosmos
Toronto Pursuits 2014
07. Taste of an Indian Classic: A Telling of the Mahabharata
Toronto Pursuits 2014
06. Independent People by Halldór Laxness: Iceland’s Rediscovered Masterpiece
Toronto Pursuits 2014
05. Muslim Women Writers of the Middle East: Breaking Out of Our Cocoons
Toronto Pursuits 2014
04. The Prophet and the Poet: Reciting God
Toronto Pursuits 2014
03. Japan: The Cult of Beauty
Toronto Pursuits 2014
02. Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie (SOLD OUT)
Toronto Pursuits 2014
01. An African Conversation – It is a Disgrace How Things Fall Apart in the Beloved Country’s Darkest Heart
Toronto Pursuits 2014
PO’BOYS AND NAUGHTY GIRLS IN N’AWLINS – The land of dreamy dreams that defies “objective” reality
Travel Pursuits 2014
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(SOLD OUT) LITERARY ICELAND – Isle of Awe
Travel Pursuits 2014
(SOLD OUT) RUSSIA’S GOLDEN AGE – 19th century art, literature, and music in Moscow and St. Petersburg">

(SOLD OUT) RUSSIA’S GOLDEN AGE – 19th century art, literature, and music in Moscow and St. Petersburg">
(SOLD OUT) RUSSIA’S GOLDEN AGE – 19th century art, literature, and music in Moscow and St. Petersburg
Travel Pursuits 2014
(SOLD OUT) CONFOUNDED & BEWITCHED – The Strange Rise of Modern India">

(SOLD OUT) CONFOUNDED & BEWITCHED – The Strange Rise of Modern India">
(SOLD OUT) CONFOUNDED & BEWITCHED – The Strange Rise of Modern India
Travel Pursuits 2014

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