A Celebration of Robert Joffrey: Heritage, Legacy, and Innovation
2022-06-15 17:30 - 19:00 (America/Chicago) | Online Event
MALA presents a special presentation and discussion centering on the legacy of legendary dancer, teacher, producer, and choreographer Robert Joffrey, who was born Anver Bey Abdullah Jaffa Khan. Joffrey’s achievements and innovations in dance and education have helped to shape the landscape of arts in the U.S. and throughout the global community.

Join us on Wednesday, June 15th to learn more about Robert Joffrey’s life and legacy as we honor Pride Month and explore the influence of Muslim cultures and heritage in the arts. The program will feature a presentation on Robert Joffrey’s cultural and artistic background, with an emphasis on his contributions to the Chicago dance community, to be followed by a Q&A session.

*This program is made possible through the generous support of Illinois Humanities’ Activating History grant.

Artecito Virtual - Ajolote
2022-06-16 18:00 - 19:00 | Online Event
¡Los Ajolotes son anfibios que comienzan su ciclo de vida de huevo-larva-adulto en el agua y pasan por la metamorfosis y se mudan a la tierra cuando son adultos!
¡Únase a nosotros mientras exploramos más sobre los Ajolotes con nuestros amigos en Lincoln Park Zoo!
Conéctate aquí: https://bit.ly/ArtecitoAjolote
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Axolotls are amphibians that begin their egg-larva-adult life cycle in water and go through metamorphosis and move to land when adults!
Join us as we explore more about Axolotls with our friends at Lincoln Park Zoo!
Connect here: https://bit.ly/ArtecitoAjolote

Online Program | Muslims, the Holocaust, and Antisemitism
2022-07-12 18:00 - 19:00 | Online Event
At a challenging time for religious dialogue and healing, join us online with Dr. Mehnaz Afridi, Director of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Interfaith Education Center at Manhattan College and author of “Shoah Through Muslim Eyes,” as she explores the rejection of myths about the Holocaust and Jews, and offers new ways of creating an understanding between two communities through the acceptance and enormity of the Shoah. Dr. Afridi will also discuss Islam and principles of justice, as well as the role of Muslims in North Africa during the Holocaust, rescue stories, and how we can acknowledge narratives of suffering at different times in history.

Members: Free; Non-Members: $5.00

Members must sign in to take advantage of their member discount
Register: https://ihm.ec/muslimsandtheholocaust

Online Program - Breaking the Silence: Native American Boarding Schools
2022-07-18 18:30 - 19:30 | Online Event
Between 1869 and the 1960s, hundreds of thousands of Native American children were forcibly abducted from their homes and families and placed in more than 350 government-funded, and often church-run, Indian Boarding schools. These children were subjected to horrendous conditions, suffering physical, sexual, cultural, and spiritual abuse and torture.
They were banned from speaking their Native languages, from traditional and cultural practices, and stripped of traditional clothing, hair, and personal belongings. The express intent was to implement cultural genocide through removal and “reprogramming” Native children to carry out systematic destruction of Native cultures and communities. Many of these children never returned home, and their fates have yet to be accounted for by the U.S. government.
Join us for a poignant conversation with Dr. Samuel Torres, Deputy Chief Executive Officer for the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition (NABS), as he highlights and addresses the history and ongoing trauma created by the U.S. Indian Boarding School Policy.
Torres is expected to be accompanied by a boarding school survivor. There will be opportunities for questions after the discussion.
Reservations required.

Virtual Fireside Chat – Women in Philanthropy and Social Enterprise
2022-07-20 17:00 | Online Event
Join MALA for a fireside discussion centered on the leadership of women in the philanthropic and entrepreneurial space. Our special guest, Khitam Masoud, will sit down with MALA Co-Founder Zainab Khan to discuss her journey in philanthropy and social enterprise and share advice for other women navigating these fields.
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About Khit:
Khit is a first-generation Palestinian female immigrant born and raised in Northern California. At the age of 16, she was emancipated by the Sacramento Courts as she avoided an arranged marriage to her first cousin. Khit has been on her own ever since with no relationship with her family or relatives since 1998.

Working multiple jobs at a time to provide for herself, she has been trying to complete her first Bachelor’s degree since she graduated high school in 1999. Life lessons including; fighting cancer on her own, managing mental health and disorders such as PTSD, anxiety, ADHD, and depression, and surviving through abusive relationships and sex crimes, has made it very difficult in maintaining a 2.0 or higher G.P.A to complete a college education as a non-traditional adult student.

After surviving cancer in 2007, Khit moved to Chicago where she then learned more about how to get involved with not-for-profit organizations. For the past 6 years, she has been volunteering and working at Chicago-based organizations including Imerman Angels, a 1-on-1 cancer support organization, as a Mentor. Angel. Khit has gained an overwhelming amount of experience and skills thanks to non-profit professionals in her life that have become some of her most trusted mentors today. Her passion for philanthropy and making an impact on women like her, became the impetus for starting her own charity, Blessons for Women (Blessons, NFP). With more than 200 speaking engagements under her belt, she has learned how to cultivate relationships within the Chicago community and beyond

Artecito Virtual - Caballo
2022-07-28 18:00 - 19:00 | Online Event
¡Los caballos tienen 10 músculos diferentes en las orejas y esto les permite girar casi 180 grados!
¡Únase a nosotros mientras exploramos más sobre los caballos con nuestros amigos en Lincoln Park Zoo!
Contáctese aquí:
https://bit.ly/ArtecitoCaballo
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Horses have 10 different muscles in their ears and this allows them to rotate nearly 180 degrees!
Join us as we explore more about Horses with our friends at Lincoln Park Zoo!
Contect Here:
https://bit.ly/ArtecitoCaballo

Devouring Empires: Transmitting Sacrit Tongues
2022-07-28 19:00 | Online Event
TIES is excited to announce DEVOURING EMPIRES, an evening of poetry by Demian DinéYazhi’ @heterogeneoushomosexual and Joss Barton @ganjacum_! Join us Thursday, July 28 at 7 pm CDT for this virtual event hosted by TIES and @centernativefutures. Register for free at the link in our bio or bit.ly/devour7
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Devouring Empires is a Trans, Non-Binary, and Queer futurist poetic offering and call for liberation through the endurance performance poetry of Indigenous Diné artist Demian DinéYazhi´(they/them) and Trans artist Joss Barton (she/her).
Demian DinéYazhi´’s WE LEFT THEM NOTHING is an homage to 90s nihilistic pessimism written between 2018 and 2021. Their long form poetry is a testament to decay and destruction of colonial structures as a regenerative force necessary for rebirth, transition, and survival. Their performance is a ceremonial offering to sacrit Indigenous Land, QTNB2S ancestors, and the reclamation of suppressed power.
Joss Barton’s poem The Wagons Ain’t Here Yet… is a collection of visions, hallucinations, dispatches, and warnings from the fourth dimension. Written in 2017, Wagons is a psychedelic diary of transsexual femme longing, drugs, sexual desires, and ancestral possession. Mixing spoken word, projection art, and drag her stage performance is both a call to arms and a ts oracle prophecy for America.
Devouring Empires seeks to hasten the destruction of global systems of power by liberating the untold and defiant stories of our resilience and survival as indigenous and transgender peoples through the powerful medium of physical and performance poetry, drag artistry, and sacred forms of queer prophecy and protest. for

Artecito Virtual - Lagartos
2022-08-11 18:00 - 19:00 | Online Event
El lagarto más pequeño del mundo mide solo 16 mm de largo (lagarto de Jaragua) y puede caber en la longitud de una moneda de veinticinco centavos. El más grande mide unos 10 pies de largo (Komodo).
¡Únase a nosotros mientras exploramos más sobre los lagartos con nuestros amigos en Lincoln Park Zoo!
Contáctese aquí:
https://bit.ly/ArtecitoLagarto
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The smallest lizard in the world is just 16 mm long (Jaragua Lizard) it can fit in the length of a US quarter. The biggest is about 10 ft long (Komodo).
Join us as we explore more about Lizards with our friends at Lincoln Park Zoo!
Contect Here:
https://bit.ly/ArtecitoLagarto

Online Lunch & Learn: “The Watchmakers”
2022-08-16 12:00 | Online Event
Harry Lenga was born to a family of Chassidic Jews in Kozhnitz, Poland, in 1919. The proud sons of a watchmaker, Harry and his two brothers, Mailekh and Moishe, studied their father’s trade at an early age. Upon the German invasion of Poland, when the Lenga family was upended, Harry and his brothers never imagined that the tools and skills they learned from their father would be key to their survival.
Join us in conversation with Scott Lenga as he recounts the moving and harrowing story of the Holocaust through the eyes of his father and two uncles – the Lenga brothers, three young men whose watchmaking skills, rudimentary tools, and an entrepreneurial spark – helped them survive Nazi concentration camps and stay together despite the odds
Free to the public. Register: https://ihm.ec/watchmakers

Artecito Virtual - Gorilas
2022-08-25 18:00 - 19:00 | Online Event
Artecito is a family-friendly arts workshop, presented for free and in Spanish. Presented by OPEN Center for the Arts and Lincoln Park Zoo.

Los gorilas son animales interesantes con un comportamiento y emociones similares a los humanos, como la risa y la tristeza.
¡Únase a nosotros mientras exploramos más sobre los gorillas con nuestros amigos en Lincoln Park Zoo!
Contáctese aquí:
https://bit.ly/ArtecitoGorila
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Gorillas are amazing animals with human-like behavior and emotions such as laughter and sadness.
Join us as we explore more about Gorillas with our friends at Lincoln Park Zoo!
Contect Here:
https://bit.ly/ArtecitoGorila

Poetry Session with Chicago Poetry Center
2022-09-10 12:00 - 13:00 | Chinese American Museum of Chicago, 238 W. 23rd St, Chicago, IL, 60616, United States
The Chinese American Museum of Chicago (CAMOC) is excited to host two free public programs for the Spotlight Series exhibition Yuge Zhou: Moon Drawings. The first of these programs is a poetry session in collaboration with the Chicago Poetry Center on Saturday, September 10, from 12pm-1pm CT, coinciding with the Mid-Autumn (Moon) Festival. The poetry session will start with a poetry performance by Lisa Low followed by an ekphrastic workshop with participants create and share their poems in response to the themes of the exhibition.

Register here

About the poet
Lisa Low is a poet and essayist from Maryland. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in Copper Nickel, Ecotone, The Massachusetts Review, Poetry, The Southern Review, and elsewhere, and her essay “How to Apologize” won the 2020 Gulf Coast Nonfiction Prize. She earned an MFA from Indiana University and a PhD in creative writing and literature from the University of Cincinnati, where she served as associate editor at The Cincinnati Review. Her debut chapbook, Crown for the Girl Inside, won the 2020 Vinyl 45 Chapbook Contest and is forthcoming from YesYes Books.

NHM Virtual Book Club – Cloud Cuckoo Land
2022-09-15 19:00 - 20:00 | Online, IL, United States
Join the National Hellenic Museum’s Virtual Book Club!
In September, we will be discussing Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr, Pulitzer Prize-Winning author of All the Light We Cannot See.
Book Club is free to join and meets on the third Thursday of each month at 7 PM CDT via Zoom
More about Cloud Cuckoo Land:
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of All the Light We Cannot See, comes the instant New York Times bestseller that is a “wildly inventive, a humane and uplifting book for adults that’s infused with the magic of childhood reading experiences” (The New York Times Book Review).
Among the most celebrated and beloved novels of recent times, Cloud Cuckoo Land is a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring story about children on the cusp of adulthood in worlds in peril, who find resilience, hope, and a book.
In the 15th century, an orphan named Anna lives inside the formidable walls of Constantinople. She learns to read, and in this ancient city, famous for its libraries, she finds what might be the last copy of a centuries-old book, the story of Aethon, who longs to be turned into a bird so that he can fly to a utopian paradise in the sky. Outside the walls is Omeir, a village boy, conscripted with his beloved oxen into the army that will lay siege to the city. His path and Anna’s will cross.
In the present day, in a library in Idaho, octogenarian Zeno rehearses children in a play adaptation of Aethon’s story, preserved against all odds through centuries. Tucked among the library shelves is a bomb, planted by a troubled, idealistic teenager, Seymour. This is another siege.
And in a not-so-distant future, on the interstellar ship Argos, Konstance is alone in a vault, copying on scraps of sacking the story of Aethon, told to her by her father.
Anna, Omeir, Seymour, Zeno, and Konstance are dreamers and outsiders whose lives are gloriously intertwined. Doerr’s dazzling imagination transports us to worlds so dramatic and immersive that we forget, for a time, our own.
On the New York Times bestseller list for over 20 weeks * A New York Times Notable Book * A Barack Obama Favorite * A National Book Award Finalist * Named a Best Book of the Year by Fresh Air, Time, Entertainment Weekly, Associated Press, and many more

Swedish Cooking Class Online - Pytt-i-panna and Bondomelett
2022-09-20 16:00 - 17:00 | Online Event
Join us for another cooking class series. In September we will be making Pytt-i-panna and Bondomelett. Two dishes to cook when you have a little bit of everything in your fridge. You will receive the recipe in advance. You can then either cook alongside or watch and try later. It is an interactive Zoom so you will be able to ask questions. The online class is $10 for members and $15 for everyone else.

Artecito Virtual Workshop
2022-09-22 18:00 - 19:00 | Online Event
Did you know humming birds are the only birds that can fly backwards?
Join us as we explore more about Humming Birds with our friends at Lincoln Park Zoo!
Contect Here:
https://bit.ly/ArtecitoColibri
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¿Sabías que los colibríes son los únicos pájaros que pueden volar al revés?
¡Únase a nosotros mientras exploramos más sobre los colibri’s con nuestros amigos en Lincoln Park Zoo!
Contáctese aquí: https://bit.ly/ArtecitoColibri

What is Artecito?
Artecito is a free workshop in Spanish developed by OPEN Center for the Arts and Lincoln Park Zoo that uses the arts to engage families with nature in ways that resonate with local holidays, culture, and wildlife. With a related art activity, workshops highlight wildlife and nature to encourage children and families to think about nature and their relationship to it in creative ways.

¿Qué es Artecito?
Artecito es un taller gratuito en español bimensual gratuito desarrollado por OPEN Center for the Arts y Lincoln Park Zoo que utiliza las artes para involucrar a las familias con la naturaleza de maneras que resuenan con las festividades locales, la cultura y la vida silvestre. Con una actividad artística relacionada, los talleres destacan la vida silvestre y la naturaleza para alentar a los niños y las familias a pensar sobre la naturaleza y su relación con ella de manera creativa.

1922: The Smyrna Catastrophe in Context
2022-09-22 18:00 - 19:00 | Zoom
This 60-minute online lecture will explore the 1922 Smyrna Catastrophe within the context of the tumultuous year of 1922.
1922 was one of the most eventful and significant years not just of the 20th century, but of human history. Therefore, it is impossible to completely understand the Smyrna Catastrophe without understanding the events at Smyrna within the wider context of that tumultuous year. This special NHM Discussion on the 100th anniversary of the Smyrna Catastrophe will explore the events at Smyrna as part of the year 1922. In this discussion, we will explore questions of nationalism, geo-politics, identity, and power that still effect us today.

Dare to Tell! Storytelling Workshop
2022-09-29 19:00 - 20:30 | Online Event
Do you want to tell stories to connect with people emotionally and to create intimate communities with others? Do you want to tell stories that reflect upon urgent social concerns of our time?
There are two parts to this workshop/circle. During the first part of the session, we will discuss central tenets of this art form and explore some general principles. Participants will practice sharing personal stories during the second part of the session.
Instructor bio
Ada Cheng is a professor-turned-storyteller, solo performer, and storytelling show producer. She is the producer and the host of five storytelling shows, including Pour One Out, Am I Man Enough?, Talk Stories: An Asian American/Asian Diaspora Storytelling Show, Speaking Truths Series, and This Is America: Truths through My Body. She creates platforms for people to tell difficult and vulnerable stories as well as spaces for people and communities who may not have opportunities otherwise. She teaches at both Dominican University and Northwestern University. She has been a speaker for Illinois Humanities Road Scholars Speakers Bureau since 2019. Her interests span multiple fields, including academia, storytelling/performance art, and advocacy. Her motto: Make your life the best story you tell.

Date: Thursday, September 29, 2022
Time: 7pm – 8:30pm
Location: Zoom (Virtual)

Scandinavian Jam ONLINE
2022-10-02 13:30 - 15:30, 2022-10-16 13:30 - 15:30, 2022-11-06 13:30 - 15:30, 2022-11-20 13:30 - 15:30 | Online, IL, United States
Scandinavian Jam, where we practice what we teach. Join Mary Allsopp and Paul Tyler online on the first and third Sunday of every month. Enjoy an afternoon of traditional roots music. We teach by ear, review and share tunes. We are happy to take suggestions and love meeting new people. It’s a friendly group and we have folks joining in from across the country.
Contact Scandi.Fiddler@yahoo.com or PTyler@ameritech.net with any questions and to get a zoom code. This is a free event.

Artecito Virtual - Serpientes
2022-10-06 18:00 - 19:00 | Online, IL, United States
Snakes sometimes get labelled ‘cold-blooded’ but this is incorrect as their blood isn’t actually cold. Reptiles just need to use sources of heat, like the sun, to warm up!
Join us as we explore more about Snakes with our friends at Lincoln Park Zoo!
Contect Here:
https://bit.ly/ArtecitoSerpientes
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Las serpientes a veces son etiquetadas como “de sangre fría”, pero esto es incorrecto ya que su sangre no es realmente fría. ¡Los reptiles solo necesitan usar fuentes de calor, como el sol, para calentarse!
¡Únase a nosotros mientras exploramos más sobre serpientes con nuestros amigos en Lincoln Park Zoo!
Contáctese aquí: https://bit.ly/ArtecitoSerpientes

What is Artecito?
Artecito is a free workshop in Spanish developed by OPEN Center for the Arts and Lincoln Park Zoo that uses the arts to engage families with nature in ways that resonate with local holidays, culture, and wildlife. With a related art activity, workshops highlight wildlife and nature to encourage children and families to think about nature and their relationship to it in creative ways.

¿Qué es Artecito?
Artecito es un taller gratuito en español bimensual gratuito desarrollado por OPEN Center for the Arts y Lincoln Park Zoo que utiliza las artes para involucrar a las familias con la naturaleza de maneras que resuenan con las festividades locales, la cultura y la vida silvestre. Con una actividad artística relacionada, los talleres destacan la vida silvestre y la naturaleza para alentar a los niños y las familias a pensar sobre la naturaleza y su relación con ella de manera creativa

Artecito Virtual - Xoloitzcuintle
2022-10-20 18:00 - 19:00 | Virtual, Chicago, IL, United States
Xoloitzuintle’s are the oldest dogs in the Americas, Xolos have been around for millennia!
Join us as we explore more about Xoloitzuintle’s with our friends at Lincoln Park Zoo!
Contect Here:
https://bit.ly/ArtecitoXolo
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Los Xoloitzuintle son los perros más antiguos de América, ¡los Xolos existen desde hace milenios!
¡Únase a nosotros mientras exploramos más sobre Xoloitzuintle con nuestros amigos en Lincoln Park Zoo!
Contáctese aquí:
https://bit.ly/ArtecitoXolo

What is Artecito?
Artecito is a free workshop in Spanish developed by OPEN Center for the Arts and Lincoln Park Zoo that uses the arts to engage families with nature in ways that resonate with local holidays, culture, and wildlife. With a related art activity, workshops highlight wildlife and nature to encourage children and families to think about nature and their relationship to it in creative ways.

¿Qué es Artecito?
Artecito es un taller gratuito en español bimensual gratuito desarrollado por OPEN Center for the Arts y Lincoln Park Zoo que utiliza las artes para involucrar a las familias con la naturaleza de maneras que resuenan con las festividades locales, la cultura y la vida silvestre. Con una actividad artística relacionada, los talleres destacan la vida silvestre y la naturaleza para alentar a los niños y las familias a pensar sobre la naturaleza y su relación con ella de manera creativa
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NHM Virtual Book Club - The Island of Missing Trees
2022-10-20 19:00 - 20:00 | Online, IL, United States
Join the National Hellenic Museum’s Virtual Book Club!
In October, we will be discussing The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak, shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction.
Book Club is free to join and meets on the third Thursday of each month at 7 PM CDT via Zoom.

More about The Island of Missing Trees:
“A wise novel of love and grief, roots and branches, displacement and home, faith and belief. Balm for our bruised times.” ―David Mitchell, author of Utopia Avenue
A rich, magical new novel on belonging and identity, love and trauma, nature and renewal, from the Booker-shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World.
Two teenagers, a Greek Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot, meet at a taverna on the island they both call home. In the taverna, hidden beneath garlands of garlic, chili peppers and creeping honeysuckle, Kostas and Defne grow in their forbidden love for each other. A fig tree stretches through a cavity in the roof, and this tree bears witness to their hushed, happy meetings and eventually, to their silent, surreptitious departures. The tree is there when war breaks out, when the capital is reduced to ashes and rubble, and when the teenagers vanish. Decades later, Kostas returns. He is a botanist looking for native species, but really, he’s searching for lost love.
Years later a Ficus carica grows in the back garden of a house in London where Ada Kazantzakis lives. This tree is her only connection to an island she has never visited— her only connection to her family’s troubled history and her complex identity as she seeks to untangle years of secrets to find her place in the world.
A moving, beautifully written, and delicately constructed story of love, division, transcendence, history, and eco-consciousness, The Island of Missing Trees is Elif Shafak’s best work yet.
On the New York Times bestseller list for over 20 weeks * A New York Times Notable Book * A Barack Obama Favorite * A National Book Award Finalist * Named a Best Book of the Year by Fresh Air, Time, Entertainment Weekly, Associated Press, and many more.

Scottish American History Forum: Scottish Settlement of Prince Edward Island and Its Implications for Island Society and Culture
2022-11-05 10:00 - 11:00 | Online Event
November 5 | 10:00 am – 11:00 am

Free

Topic: Scottish Settlement of Prince Edward Island and Its Implications for Island Society and Culture
Presenter: Professor Edward MacDonald, PhD, Department of History, University of Prince Edward Island, Canada
This event is complimentary. To attend, please register below.

The Greek Diner and the Making of American Cuisine
2022-11-10 10:00 - 11:00 | Online, IL, United States
In this hour-long class, we will explore the history of the Greek diner and its profound influence on American food culture. On the eve of World War I, Greek immigrants began buying up the diners abandoned by German Americans facing anti-German persecution brought on by the war. In these kitchens, the new Greek owners would adapt traditional German travelers’ fare with a touch of the Mediterranean and a pinch of entrepreneurial spirit. The result: A truly American way of cooking and eating.

Beyond the Headlines: Haiti in Music
2022-11-15 19:30 - 20:30 | Online Event
New Music Chicago presents Crossing Borders Music celebrating its first decade with a return to its first-ever program, “Beyond the Headlines: Haiti in Music”! Featuring music highlighting Haiti’s rich history and cultural traditions, the Haitian diaspora, and the accomplishments of its young artists, this program remains as relevant as ever!
View the concert online at their Facebook page.
Pictured: a poster for “Beyond the Headlines: Haiti in Music” from 2012.

Bold Byzantine Women: Empress Theodora, Anna Komnene, and St. Kassia
2022-11-16 17:00 - 18:00 | Online, IL, United States
Join NHM Discussions as we explore the lives and legacies of three of the Byzantine Empire’s most influential figures: Empress Theodora, Anna Komnene, and St. Kassia. Theirs are stories of palace intrigue, spiritual seeking, and intellectual vibrancy. In the man’s world of the Byzantine Empire, these three women left a legacy for us today.

ONLINE BOOK & AUTHOR: “LIGHTNING DOWN: A WORLD WAR II STORY OF SURVIVAL”
2022-11-17 18:30 | Online, IL, United States
Join us in discussion with #1 New York Times bestselling author Tom Clavin as he makes his literary return to the aerial battlefields of WWII to tell a harrowing and unforgettable story of heroism and human endurance in his latest book, Lightning Down: A World War II Story of Survival.
Based on a true and largely untold story, Lightning Down is an inspiring saga of American WWII fighter pilot Joe Moser who endured unspeakable horrors when his plane was shot down over Nazi-occupied France. Captured immediately, Moser’s journey into hell began with imprisonment in Buchenwald concentration camp. Only a desperate plan would save him and his courageous comrades.
Reservations required.

NHM Virtual Book Club – The Greeks: A Global History
2022-11-17 19:00 - 20:00 | Online, IL, United States
Join the National Hellenic Museum’s Virtual Book Club!
In November, we will be discussing The Greeks: A Global History by Roderick Beaton, a sweeping history of the Greeks, from the Bronze Age to today. This title was selected by members of NHM Virtual Book Club
Book Club is free to join and meets on the third Thursday of each month at 7 PM CST

More about The Greeks: A Global History:
More than 2,000 years ago, the Greek city-states, led by Athens and Sparta, laid the foundation for much of modern science, the arts, politics, and law. But the influence of the Greeks did not end with the rise and fall of this classical civilization. As historian Roderick Beaton illustrates, over three millennia Greek speakers produced a series of civilizations that were rooted in southeastern Europe but again and again ranged widely across the globe.
In The Greeks, Beaton traces this history from the Bronze Age Mycenaeans who built powerful fortresses at home and strong trade routes abroad, to the dramatic Eurasian conquests of Alexander the Great, to the pious Byzantines who sought to export Christianity worldwide, to today’s Greek diaspora, which flourishes on five continents. The product of decades of research, this is the story of the Greeks and their global impact told as never before.

Genealogy Session ONLINE
2022-11-26 10:00 - 12:00 | Online Event
Crimes and Punishment in Sweden by Kathy Meade
Did your Swedish ancestor commit a crime? Many Swedish researchers have discovered a note in the church books that an ancestor was imprisoned and desired to know more about the crime. This class begins by giving an overview of the Swedish criminal justice system and then show where one can find prison and court records. The presentation will also include case studies showing what one can learn from police, prison, and court records.
Kathy Meade is the North American representative for ArkivDigital AD AB, a company that offers online access to newly photographed color images of Swedish church books and other historical records. She has been working with Swedish genealogy for almost twenty years. Ms. Meade serves on the advisory board for the Swedish American Genealogy Research Center at the Swedish American Museum in Chicago. She volunteers at the Swedish American Museum in Chicago and the Arlington Heights Memorial Library in Arlington Heights, Il helping patrons with their Swedish genealogical research.
Cost is free for Swedish American Genealogical Society members; $10 for non-members to participate (use PayPal button below). Reservations by members can be made via email to genealogy@samac.org or by calling the Museum at 773.728.8111. You will need a reservation to receive the Zoom code.
