FIC NOVEMBER PROGRAMS
November 4, Monday Quarterback Luncheon – 12:30 to 1:45 p.m.
Alina Macneal is our Quarterback.
November 7, Thursday Luncheon Roundtable – 12:30 to 1:45 p.m.
Speaker is Ben Yagoda. His topic – Gobsmacked: The British(isms) Are Here!
Do you find yourself seeing, or using, Britishisms such as queue, kerfuffle, and gone missing more and more lately? Ben Yagoda, author of Gobsmacked! The British Invasion of American English, explains why.
Ben Yagoda has published more than a dozen books, including Will Rogers: A Biography; About Town: “The New Yorker” and the World It Made; When You Catch an Adjective, Kill It: The Parts of Speech, for Better and/or Worse; and The Sound on the Page: Style and Voice in Writing. He is professor emeritus of English at the University of Delaware, where he taught writing and journalism for 25 years. Ben has written on language, writing, and a range of other topics for Slate.com, the New York Times Book Review and Magazine, The American Scholar, Rolling Stone, and Esquire, among many other publications. And he is a dedicated blogger. One of his blogs, Not One-Off Britishisms, has been visited more than 3 million times. He is a member of the Society of American Historians, The Authors Guild, and the National Book Critics Circle.
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November 11, Monday Quarterback Luncheon – 12:30 to 1:45 p.m.
Palmer Hartl is our Quarterback.
November 15, Friday Club Dinner – starting at 5:30 p.m.
Speaker is Jacques deLisle. His topic – How Will China Challenge the International Order?
A rising and more assertive China seeks to shape an international order that has long aligned with U.S. interests and preferences. Both countries increasingly see one another as rivals and threats, and neither seems poised to manage contention well. How serious is this “China challenge,” and how likely is it to be disruptive or to trigger crises? Scholars of international relations vary in their assessments of ambiguous evidence, but most indicators are trending negative.
Jacques deLisle is the Stephen A. Cozen Professor of Law, Professor of Political Science, and Director of the Center for the Study of Contemporary China at Penn. His work on contemporary Chinese law and politics, Taiwan’s status and cross-Strait relations, China’s engagement with the international order, and U.S.–China relations appears in journals of international relations and Asian studies, edited volumes of multidisciplinary scholarship, and law reviews. DeLisle is also Chair of the Asia Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, Co-Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Comparative Law, President of the American Association of Chinese Studies, and a member of the State Department’s Advisory Council on International Law.
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November 18, Monday Quarterback Luncheon – 12:30 to 1:45 p.m.
Richard Pasquier is our Quarterback.
November 21, Thursday Luncheon Roundtable – 12:30 to 1:45 p.m.
Speaker is Thomas H. Keels. His topic – Rogues’ Galleries: Good Money Chasing Bad Art in the Gilded Age.
Tom traces the intertwined history of social striving and questionable art collections, with an emphasis on notable Philadelphia collectors of the Gilded Age such as Peter A. B. Widener, John G. Johnson, and Edward T. Stotesbury.
Thomas H. Keels is a Philadelphia-based historian, lecturer, and author or coauthor of seven books on local history, including Sesqui! Greed, Graft, and The Forgotten World’s Fair of 1926 (Temple University Press, 2017) and Forgotten Philadelphia: Lost Architecture of the Quaker City (Temple University Press, 2007). He has appeared in numerous documentaries, including the 13-episode series Philadelphia: The Great Experiment by History Making Productions (2011-19).
November 25, Quarterback Luncheon – 12:30 to 1:45 p.m.
Dick Ullman is our Quarterback.
November 26, Movie Night at the Inn featuring My Man Godfrey – starting at 6 p.m.
Starring William Powell and Carole Lombard. Director Gregory LaCava, US, 1936, B/W, 94 minutes
In the depths of the Depression, a party game brings dizzy socialite Irene Bullock to the city dump where she meets Godfrey, a derelict, and ends by hiring him as family butler. He finds the Bullocks to be the epitome of idle rich, and nutty as the proverbial fruitcake. Soon, the dramatizing Irene is in love with her ‘protege’… who feels strongly that a romance between servant and employer is out of place, regardless of that servant’s mysterious past.
In 1999, My Man Godfrey was deemed “culturally significant” by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.
No charge for admission or snacks and drinks including popcorn, chips, nuts, sodas, beer and wine.