FIC NOVEMBER PROGRAMS
November 3, Thursday Luncheon Roundtable – 12:30 to 1:45 p.m.
Speaker is Philadelphia historian George Boudreau. His topic—Telling The Stories of Early American Women, based on the newly published book Women in George Washington’s World, which he co-edited with Charlene Boyer Lewis.
Women known to Washington emerged as strong actors during and after the Revolution. Boudreau will spotlight some of their diverse lives: plantation mistresses and enslaved workers, Loyalists and Patriots, poets and socialites—women who admired and memorialized him, who provided him love and solace, who frustrated him, and who worked for or against him—including notable Philadelphians. They acted not as spectators, and not usually on the battlefield or in government, but they affected the future of their families and even the nation.
George W. Boudreau is a cultural historian specializing in 18th-century Anglo-America, particularly in the history of Philadelphia and the work of Benjamin Franklin. He is now the Paideia Teaching Fellow at Penn and senior research associate at Penn’s McNeil Center for Early American Studies. His books include Women in George Washington’s World (University of Virginia Press, 2022) and Independence: A Guide to Historic Philadelphia (Westholme, 2012 hardcover and 2016 paperback). Boudreau was the founding editor of the journal Early American Studies and has received multiple research fellowships in 18th-century American history and culture, as well as six major grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities to educate teachers about Benjamin Franklin and the 18th century. In 2019, he received a six-month postdoctoral research fellowship at the George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon. A former Hoosier, he holds a PhD from Indiana University.
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November 7, Monday Quarterback Luncheon – 12:30 to 1:45 p.m.
Alina Macneal is our Quarterback
November 10, Thursday Luncheon Roundtable – 12:30 to 1:45 p.m.
Speaker is Corrinne Chong, art historian and assistant curator at the Barnes. Her topic—Modigliani: Up Close, Behind the Scenes.
Art historian Corrinne Chong will speak on the creation of the landmark exhibition on Modigliani now at the Barnes Foundation, taking us behind the scenes to explain how an international team of curators and conservators worked over several years to put the show together. In particular, she will discuss the many discoveries made in the process. Underlying images on canvases and hidden marks left on stone sculptures were uncovered through technical and scientific analysis, giving us new information on Modigliani and his materials, tools, and working methods. Corrinne will highlight a portrait with six hidden images and sculptures with embedded fossils!
Corrinne Chong, PhD, is an assistant curator at the Barnes. Prior to this appointment, she was a research consultant for the 2021 Barnes exhibition “Suzanne Valadon: Model, Painter, Rebel.” She was also a key member of the curatorial team for the 2019 Early Rubens exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto. Corinne holds degrees in education and art history, with a doctorate from the University of Edinburgh. Her publications and research focus on the dialogue between 19th-century art, music, and opera scenography. This November, she will teach the Barnes online course “Hearing Painting, Seeing Music.”
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November 14, Monday Quarterback Luncheon – 12:30 to 1:45 p.m.
Palmer Hartl is our Quarterback.
November 18, Friday Club Dinner, starting with cocktails at 5:30 p.m.
Speakers are Patrick Stoner and Innmate Paula Marantz Cohen. Their topic—The Art and Practice of Interviewing, with two skillful interviewers, interviewing each other.
Patrick Stoner is the film critic and host at WHYY TV. His film-star interview program FLICKS is carried currently on 103 PBS stations. Stoner is in the Hall of Fame of the Philadelphia Broadcasters, and a founding member of the Critics Choice Association, the Hollywood Critics Association, and the Philadelphia Film Critics Circle. He formerly taught in the drama department of the University of Delaware. Stoner is a member of The Players—the oldest American theatrical club founded by Mark Twain and Edwin Booth.
Paula Marantz Cohen, dean of the Pennoni Honors College and a distinguished professor of English at Drexel, is host of the TV interview show, “The Civil Discourse,” broadcast on PBS stations across the country. She is a co-editor of the Journal of Modern Literature and the author of six nonfiction books on literature, film, and culture. Her six novels include the best-selling Jane Austen in Boca and a thriller based on the James family, What Alice Knew: A Most Curious Tale of Henry James and Jack the Ripper. Her essays have appeared in The Yale Review, The American Scholar, The Times Literary Supplement, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and the Wall Street Journal, among other publications. She is the spouse of Innmate Alan Penziner.
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November 21, Monday Quarterback Luncheon – 12:30 to 1:45 p.m.
Alan Penziner is our Quarterback.
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November 28, Monday Quarterback Luncheon – 12:30 to 1:45 p.m.
Roberta Kangilaski is our Quarterback.