Celebrating Men Saint John's 2nd Annual Men's Lives Series1996-1997

October 10, 1996
Bill Meissner, author of Hitting into the Wind and director of Creative Writing, SCSU

Acclaim for Hitting into the Wind:
"These resonant and affecting stories are not baseball stories exactly, but rather stories about men and women, fathers and sons, all connected, in some way, to the summer game." Seattle-Post-Intelligencer
 

Meissner . . . writes less about how the game is played on the field than how it is lived in the heart. He is very good at this, as good as anyone I've ever read." -Boston Sunday Globe

November 3, 1996
Michael Meade, author of Men and the Water of Life and a new book on the rites of passage in the 20th century presents...
Men's Stories/Men's Lives: Telling Men's Stories

"Men and the Water of Life is an astonishing book. Michael Meade has a genius for metaphorical thinking and the stamina of a diver. He is actually rescuing six great stories from the Celtic, African, and Central European past so they can be a part of the emotional life of contemporary men and women. Woven into the book we find also an account of his own repeated refusal to obey orders during the Vietnam War, and what he paid for that. This story alone is worth the price of the book." -Robert Bly, author of Iron John

November 19, 1996
Fathers' Panel: King Lear and Fathering

A panel of fathers will discuss their relationship to their children in light of the play King Lear performed at CSB.

"Which of you shall we say does love us most!" (King Lear, Act I, Scene I, Line 52)
 

"We two alone will sing like birds i' the cage." (King Lear, Act IV, Scene III, Line 10)

February 12, 1997
Jonathan Shay, M.D., Ph.D. presents...
Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character

"Achilles in Vietnam is clearly one of the most original and most important scholarly works to have emerged about the Vietnam War. Beyond that, it is also an intensely moving work, intensely passionate, reaching back through the centuries to touch and heal." -Tim O'Brien, author of The Things They Carried, Looking for Cacciato, and other novels

"This is the most important book the reviewer has read in this decade, perhaps in his professional life . . . were I in charge, this book would be required reading throughout the entire Army and Marine Corps, and recommended reading for every leader, supervisor, and father." -Douglas V. Johnson, U.S. Army War College, Parameters: U.S. Army War College Quarterly 24: 133-135 (1995).

Co-sponsored by the CSB/SJU Honors Program, the CSB/SJU Senior Seminar Program, and the CSB/SJU Communication and Philosophy Departments

May 5, 1997
Dr. Janet Hope, CSB/SJU Sociology Professor presents... Men's Issues--The Future ... Where We've Been ... Where We're Going

A dinner and discussion of preliminary findings from Dr. Hope's current research project on men's programming and desired future programs on men's issues.

Faculty, staff, and students are invited to help envision the future for the Men's Series

July 17-20, 1997
Men & Masculinity National Conference

The 22nd National Conference
Saint John's University, Collegeville, Minnesota