Dusting off the Classics: Shakespeare's Hamlet
University College Enrichment Program, University of Denver
Five sessions overall (including performance at DCPA)
Four Wednesday evenings from 6:30-8:30pm MT in-person at DU
September 4, 11, 18, 25, 2024
Hamlet at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts
Saturday September 21, 2024 at 7:00pm MT
Richard Sacks taught literature, mythology and linguistics at Columbia University for four decades, and he also regularly participated in Columbia's well-known Core Curriculum, teaching its great books course for first-year students and giving lectures to its faculty on the challenges of teaching texts ranging from the Iliad and Odyssey to biblical narratives such as Genesis and the Gospels. He received his A.B. (1974) and Ph.D. (1978) from Harvard University, and his publications include a book on Homeric poetry as well as articles on Greek, Old English and Old Norse poetry and mythology. He has also written on technology issues in higher education while serving terms as Columbia's Director of Academic Computing and Networking, and as Executive Director of Information Technology and Adjunct Professor of Management Information Systems at the Columbia Business School. His lectures to general audiences include venues ranging from the Metropolitan Museum of Art to Columbia Alumni Travel Study Programs to Greece, Turkey and Scandinavia. He moved to Denver in 2017 after 40 years in New York City, and since 2019 has been teaching in the "Dusting Off the Classics" series of the University of Denver Enrichment Program.
Dusting Off the Classics: Beowulf
University College Enrichment Program, University of Denver
March 21, 28, April 4, 11, 18, 2019, 6:30-8:30pm MDT
Dusting Off the Classics: 1-poem-a-week physical-distancing edition
University College Enrichment Program, University of Denver
Wednesdays in April 2020, 10:00-11:00am MDT
(poems by Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Dickinson, Yeats & Millay)
Thursdays in May 2020, 10:00-11:00am MDT
(poems by Shakespeare, Dickinson, Yeats & Heaney)
When Our Gods Just Don't Get it:
Ancient Myths on the Limitations of Divinity
University College Enrichment Program, University of Denver
Tuesday October 20, 2020, 7:00-9:00pm
Dusting Off the Classics: Homer's Odyssey
University College Enrichment Program, University of Denver
(rescheduled for fall 2020 after March 2020 COVID-19 cancellation)
Section #1: November 9, 16, 23, 30, December 7, 2020, 6:30-8:30pm MDT
Section #2: December 8, 15, 22, 2020, January 5, 12, 2021, 6:30-8:30pm MDT
Dusting Off the Classics: Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse
University College Enrichment Program, University of Denver
Section #1: Tue. April 20, 27, May 4, 11, 2021, 6:30-8:30pm MDT
Section #2: Wed. May 12, 19, 26, June 2, 2021, 6:30-8:30pm MDT
Dusting Off the Classics: Homer's Iliad
University College Enrichment Program, University of Denver
March 15, 22, 29, April 5, 12, 2022, 6:30-8:30pm MDT
Designing Creation: Narrative Strategies in the Opening Chapters of Genesis
University College Enrichment Program, University of Denver
Wednesday evening October 19, 2022 from 7:00-9:00pm MDT
Beyond Dusting Off the Classics: From Homer to a "Map of the New World"
University College Enrichment Program, University of Denver
Free Back to School Preview Series on Zoom
Thursday January 12, 2023 from 7:00-8:00pm MST
Transcending the Classics: Derek Walcott's Omeros
University College Enrichment Program, University of Denver
Six Monday evenings from 6:30-8:30pm MDT
March 20, 27, April 3, 10, 17, 24, 2023
Dusting off the Classics: Shakespeare's Hamlet
University College Enrichment Program, University of Denver
Five sessions overall (including performance at DCPA)
Four Wednesday evenings from 6:30-8:30pm MDT in-person at DU
September 4, 11, 18, 25, 2024
Hamlet at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts
Saturday September 21, 2024 at 7:00pm MDT
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