This will be an online Zoom meeting. Please RSVP on our Meetup for this event to get access to the Zoom link. See our online meeting instructions at: https://torontooasis.org/online-meeting-instructions
Our program will run from 11 am to 12:30 pm and you can join in to the meeting starting at 10:45 am for our open social. Followed by an extended discussion for a half hour. Volunteers please join by 10:30 am.
This Sunday, our featured presentation will be the second in a series of talks by Michael Dorman. In his first talk, back in January, Michael presented a brief cursory survey of the history of some major writing systems leading us up to the invention of the Gutenberg press. In this second talk, Michael will outline how literacy spreads and how books get disseminated (libraries, bookstores, mobile libraries, etc).
In the discussion that follows, Michael would like participants to talk about their bookstore and library experiences; whether they come from homes with or without books and other readers; or were they the only in the house to be a reader and how they think being a reader impacted their lives.
Michael received his B.A. in Anthropology from McMaster University in Hamilton and trained to teach English and French as second languages. He taught French to grades 7 & 8 for a couple of years. Michael has a passion for languages with French and Spanish being his second and third languages and he has studied Italian, German, Portuguese, and Latin. Michael is interested in language in general.
Please RSVP on meetup:
https://www.meetup.com/Toronto-Oasis/events/zgtbgsycchbfc/
Looking forward to seeing familiar faces and perhaps some new ones!
This meeting has been recorded:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/185709uxx8uD-_5elBMBpnV84czmlpv2z/view?usp=sharing