[Chat] Lyceum Founder to speak at BES Sunday

Emil Volcheck volcheck at acm.org
Fri Mar 21 16:22:50 EDT 2008


Hello, neighbors,

You may have seen flyers for the Village Lyceum, which
will be offering courses starting next month, in cooperation
with the Village Learning Place.  Their website is

   http://lyceumproject.com/BaltimoreLyceum/bmdMain.html  .

David O'Donaghue, founder of the Lyceum Project and neighbor
of ours, will be speaking this Sunday at the Baltimore Ethical
Society at 10:30 AM.  Here is the description for his talk:

Title:
American Idealism at its Best: The Lyceum Movement, 1830-1860

By David O'Donaghue, Psy.D.

Description:

The Democratic system requires both an educated populace and public
forums in which to grapple with issues. David O’Donaghue, the founder
and director of the Baltimore Lyceum, will explore how the Lyceum
Movement met these objectives through the establishment of local
educational centers, sponsoring such speakers as Ralph Waldo Emerson,
Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony, and Nathaniel Hawthorne on
lecture circuits around the country. He will also tell us about his
experience in continuing this tradition by re-establishing lyceums in
the mountains of North Carolina, in New Orleans and now in Baltimore.

David O'Donaghue, Psy.D. spent the first 15 years of his working life
as a psychologist. He then chose to return to school to do doctoral
work in philosophy, concentrating on the influence of German
philosophy on transcendentalism and adult education. David is the
founder and director of the Baltimore Lyceum.

Where: Baltimore Ethical Society, 306 W. Franklin St.
in the Old Congress Hotel

When: Sunday, 3/23, 10:30 AM


I hope to see some of you there.

Thanks,

--Emil




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