Sigma Tau Delta Dinner and Conversations Fall 2019

College of Arts and Sciences

Dinner and Conversations: Literary Pilgrimage with Dr. Banash

The literary imagination connects us to our world. In the books we read, we find the traces of the people who wrote or inspired the book. We find maps of the roads they travelled, of the buildings they inhabited, the ground they walked, the landscapes that moved them and spots where they died. Rather than taking us out of the world, literature brings us back to our world, allowing us to see our own movement across the earth through new eyes, to see it connected to other lives, other times, and, at its best, to make our experience in the present ring with deeper and greater intensity because the book's imagination reverberates through us, giving us new capacities to feel and respond to the world through which we walk.

For this Dinner and Conversations evening, our theme is literary pilgrimage. Bring your own story of how a book put you out on the road, put you in touch with a landscape, a city, a monument, a battlefield, a bar, a highway, a room, or a grave.

We'll share some of the pilgrimages we have already taken, and before the evening is out, each of us will plan a new literary pilgrimage.

WHEN: Saturday, November 16, 2019, 5:00-8:00 p.m.
WHERE: The Old Bailey House, 100 South Campbell Street, Macomb, IL 61455

https://baileyhouse.jimdo.com/house-history/

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