Past Lectures | Email The Monadnock Summer Lyceum
Since 1970, the Unitarian Church in Peterborough has hosted the Monadnock Summer Lyceum, an historic series of summer lectures covering a broad range of issues.
The lecture series is a revival of the original Lyceum, begun in the mid-nineteenth century, the first in New Hampshire. It is known as "a feast for the thoughtful" and features prominent speakers from a wide variety of backgrounds and disciplines who discuss topics of importance to our times.
Lectures are held during the summer months on Sunday mornings at 11:00 a.m. The presentations are typically 45 minutes long, with additional time allowed for questions and answers. Audience members are invited to meet each speaker at a reception in the parish hall immediately following the talk.
You can find out more about the Lyceum by visiting the Monadnock Summer Lyceum website.
2009 Lyceum Schedule:
| Lecture |
Lecture Date |
Air Date/Listen |
| Rona Zlokower – Youth and Media: Benefit vs. Peril |
June 28 |
July 4 |
| Deborah Stone - The Samaritan's Dilemma: Should Government Help Your Neighbor? |
July 5 |
July 11 |
| Michael Gill – How Starbucks Changed My Life |
July 12 |
July 18 |
| Patricia Klindienst– The Earth Knows My Name |
July 19 |
July 25 |
| Eric Keylor – Our Courts: Learning Civics through Games |
July 26 |
August 1 |
| John Perkins – Transforming Turmoil into a New Economy |
August 2 |
August 8 |
| Eric Stumacher– Performing Arts: Pathways across Cultural Divides |
August 9 |
August 15 |
| The Rt. Rev. V. Gene Robinson– Being Spiritual While Living in the Eye of the Storm |
August 16 |
August 22 |
| Andrew Berry – Happy Birthday Darwin and Hello Alfred Wallace |
August 23 |
August 29 |
Lyceum on NHPR
Lectures are broadcast the Saturdays after they are given at 4:00 pm throughout the summer, and can be heard anytime online at NHPR.org.
Request a CD
To order the CD of a Lyceum presentation, please send a letter stating speaker (e.g. Rob Williams), date of broadcast (e.g. July 10, 2005) and a check for $15.00 (which includes shipping and handling) to:
Monadnock Summer Lyceum
Audio Recording Department
25 Main Street
Peterborough, NH 03458
or email the Lyceum
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| Taylor Morris - Education: The Walk of Your Life - July 6* |
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| *Due to technical difficulties we are unable to broadcast Taylor Morris's Lyceum lecture on education. For the July 12 broadcast we presented a lecture from 2007 by Jim Grant, "The Death of Common Sense in Our Classrooms." |
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