In conjunction with the New York City-based Maxine Greene Foundation, the Museum of Education staged a salon-informal discussion of Ian McEwan’s recent novel, Saturday, on  October 2nd (Sunday afternoon), from 4:00-6:00 p.m. Maxine Greene welcomed us via telephone and then we screened a video of her introduction at the New York City Salon (held on Sept 18th). We proceeded to discuss the novel, led by Lee Bauknight, faculty in the Department of English and former Associate Curator of the Museum of Education.

Dear Friend of the Sunday Salons,

. . . “We are as aware, as all of you must be, of the tensions and uncertainties in this moment of history. Having no solution, we think it helpful to come together for live conversation; and we have selected a book which cannot but generate good talk. It is Ian McEwan's SATURDAY. If you have read ATONEMENT or any other of McEwan’s works, you know he is a fine, gripping, amazingly well-informed writer, who can take you from the operating room of a neurosurgeon to the spaces of a blues musician, to an anti-war protest in the London streets, to memories of 9/11, to the haunting images and sounds of possible terrorism and inward to the most moving struggles for meaning – struggles many of us will recognize. How do we find the meaning of things today? What can we do to render our own lives meaningful? What does activism mean today? Resistance? Transformative thinking? I hope we can be stirred by our reading, stirred enough to reach beyond where we are, to ponder feasible possibility.”
My best,
Maxine Greene