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BOOK DISCUSSIONS

Each semester we offer a  number of book discussions facilitated by Georgia College professors over dinner, usually at their homes. These informal "learning beyond the classroom" experiences are designed to stimulate thought and discussion, and promote student-faculty interaction.
 
FALL 2013 (in progress)
Jerry Herbel (Political Science), C.S. Lewis's Mere Christianity
Cynthia Orms (Accounting), Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation
TBA, Chad Harbach's The Art of Fielding

SPRING 2013
Dan Bauer (Education), Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray
Nancy Beasley (English), Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games
Warner Belanger (Religion), Stephane Hessel's Time for Outrage
John Bowen (Leadership), Richard Adams's Watership Down
Jolene Cole (Library), Elie Wiesel's Night
Kim Cossey (Chemistry), Haruki Murakami's Kafka on the Shore
Steve Elliott-Gower (Political Science) and Ben Scafidi (Economics), Paul Tough's How Children Succeed
Hank Edmondson (Political Science), Soren Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling
Jerry Herbel (Political Science), C.S. Lewis's Mere Christianity
Cynthia Orms (Accounting), Thomas Friedman's Hot, Flat, and Crowded
William Risch (History), William Styron's Sophie's Choice

FALL 2012
Dan Bauer (Education), Ismael Beah's A Long Way Gone
Nancy Beasley (English), Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games
Janet Dale (English), Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident...
Hank Edmondson (Political Science), Franklin Foer's How Soccer Explains the World
Jerry Herbel (Political Science), C.S. Lewis's Surprised by Joy
Joshua Kitchens (Library), Kate Chopin's The Awakening
Caitlin Powell (Psychology), Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried
 
SPRING 2012
Warner Belanger (Religion), Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go
Hank Edmondson (Political Science), Franz Kafka's The Trial
Steve Elliott-Gower (Political Science), Alan Bennett's The Uncommon Reader
Steve Elliott-Gower (Political Science), Chris Buckley's Boomsday
Bruce Gentry (English), Flannery O'Connor's "Good Country People"
Gael Guzman-Medrano (Languages), Isabel Allende's Ines of My Soul
Pate McMichael (Mass Comm), Richard Ford's The Sportswriter
Amit Poddar (Marketing), Amitav Ghosh's The Glass Palace
William Risch (History), 
Kim Edwards' The Memory Keeper's Daughter

FALL 2011
Dan Bauer (Education), Markus Zusak's The Book Thief
Beauty Bragg (English), Toni Morrison's Beloved
Ryan Brown (Mathematics), Warren St. John's Outcasts United
Cynthia Orms (Accounting), Benjamin Ajak's They Poured Fire on Us
Caitlin Powell (Psychology), Haruki Murakami's After Dark
Amy Sumpter (Geography), Flannery O'Connor's "A Late Encounter with the Enemy"

SPRING 2011
Dan Bauer (Education), Virginia Woolf's Orlando
Hank Edmondson (Political Science), Thomas Mann's Death in Venice
Steve Elliott-Gower (Political Science), Ian McEwan's Solar
Mark Huddle (History), Joan Didion's Salvador
Pate McMichael (Mass Comm), Cormac McCarthy's The Road

FALL 2010
Ryan Brown (Mathematics), Jeffrey Eugenides's Middlesex
Dorothy Leland (President), Hikaru Okuizumi's The Stones Cry Out
Caitlin Powell (Psychology), Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five
Amy Sumpter (Geography), Daniyal Mueenuddin's In Other Rooms...
Rob Viau (English), Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale
Henry Wang (Philosophy), Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis

SPRING 2010
Myron Avila (Modern Languages), Isabel Allende's The Infinite Plan
Dan Bauer (Education), Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 100 Years of Solitude
Linda Bradley (Education), William Young's The Shack
Hank Edmondson (Political Science), Henry Thoreau's Walden
Doug Oetter (Geography), Herman Hesse's Siddhartha
Amy Sumpter (Geography), Victor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning
Henry Wang (Philosophy), Leo Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilych

FALL 2009
Melanie DeVore (Biology), Arturo Warman's Corn and Capitalism
Bruce Gentry (English), Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find"
Amit Poddar (Marketing), Salman Rusdie's The Satanic Verses
Chuck Ryan, Management, W. Edwards Deming's The New Economics
Evelyn Sweet-Hurd, His Name Was Donn (discussion with the author)

SPRING 2009
Sunita Manian (IDST), Khalid Hosseini's A Thousand Splendid Suns
Eustace Palmer (English), Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions
Amit Poddar (Marketing), Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies

FALL 2008
Dan Bauer (Education), Emma Larkin's Finding George Orwell in Burma
Dorothy Leland (President), Fatima Mernissi's Dreams of Trespass
Bruce Gentry (English), Flannery O'Connor's "Good Country People"
Ben Scafidi (Economics), Milton and Rose Friedman's Free to Choose
Elaine Whitaker (English), Ernest Gaines's A Lesson Before Dying
Tina Yarborough (Art), Erin Hogan's Spiral Jetta

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