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SUMMARY:Robert W Hanning - Stories for an Uncertain World
DESCRIPTION:The social fabric of human communities is woven primarily from the creation\, transmission\, and reception of stories.  Is it merely an accident that Western Europe’s two greatest tale collections originated within a long generation of each other\, or is there something important we can learn about the culture of late medieval European civilization from a comparison of Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron (1350s) and Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales (1380s-early 1390s)?  In fact\, for all their differences\, the Decameron and the Canterbury Tales frequently align in telling “stories for an uncertain world”—a world shown to be challenged by radical uncertainties of knowledge\, perception\, and strategy\, and lacking the serene comfort of faith in Divine Providence so often thought to characterize the medieval centuries.  A comparison of passages\, and stories\, from both collections suggests instead that the necessary and proper response to their world is to deploy skills of calculation and deliberation that generate deeds\, and supporting words\, designed to control\, as much as is possible\, life’s ever changing circumstances.  Seen from this perspective\, the frequent goal in these wonderfully told tales is not salvation but agency\,  and the appropriate virtue\, rather than holiness\, is a modified version of what Aristotle called “practical wisdom” (phrónesis) and we\, following Cicero\, call prudence (prudentia).   \n******* \nRobert W. Hanning\, Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University\, holds degrees from Columbia and Oxford.  Recipient of Guggenheim\, ACLS\, NEH\, and Rockefeller Foundation Fellowships\, he gave the New Chaucer Society’s Biennial Chaucer Lecture in 1998 at the Sorbonne.  He has published three books on classical\, medieval\, and Renaissance subjects and has co-translated two major medieval French texts.  His monograph\, “Stories for an Uncertain World: Agency in Boccaccio’s Decameron and Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales\,” is to be published by Oxford University Press.
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SUMMARY:Hot Topics for Top Minds
DESCRIPTION:The Society’s fourth quarterly virtual meeting to debate topics considered to be of interest by the participants\, proposed in advance\, will be held on Wednesday 21st April 2021 from 8pm to 9pm. Places will be limited to a maximum of 20 so everyone is able to have their say on each topic. \nThe critical thing is to have a range of interesting topics\, which is down to you please. The topics can be on almost any subject – topical\, scientific\, philosophical\, serious or amusing\, it is up to you to suggest what you would like to discuss. Having thought of ideas\, please send your contributions directly to Terry Quinn on president@camsocparis.org. Terry will then compère the event. \nThis event will be hosted on Zoom. A meeting link will be sent to all registered attendees two or three days in advance of the event. Since numbers will be limited to 20\, you are encouraged to register early
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SUMMARY:Katie Derham - The Great Silence... the power of music during the pandemic
DESCRIPTION:The face of the BBC Proms\, Katie has been presenting the BBC’s coverage of the yearly musical extravaganza for the past eleven years. With a career in broadcasting spanning over two decades\, Katie has collected an impressive number of credits\, working as an award winning journalist and presenter in both radio and television. She regularly presents the drive time show\, In Tune\, on BBC Radio 3\, interviewing the biggest names in music and the arts\, and in 2019 joined forces with Radio France Musique for a unique broadcasting exchange. \nKatie joined ITV News as Media and Arts Correspondent in 1998 and\, as a 27-year-old\, became the youngest newscaster on British national television and the youngest in ITN history. Always up for a challenge\, Katie learned how to conduct on the BBC reality series Maestro\, dusted off her violin for the Sky Arts series First Love\, and danced her way to the final of Strictly Come Dancing in 2015. She runs her own production company\, Peanut and Crumb. 
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