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Living Room Lectures is a series of monthly presentations delivered to your living room through your device screen. The Paris Photo The Paris Photo is a work of historical fiction set partly at the end of WWII and partly in recent time, linked by a picture taken in 1945. It is a story of how the traumas of wartime ripple into the present. It creates a vivid picture of life during the dark days of the Occupation, and also portrays…

Living Room Lectures is a series of monthly presentations delivered to your living room through your device screen. Eric Mendelsohn’s Synagogues in America Author and photographer Michael Palmer will talk about his book: Eric Mendelsohn’s Synagogues in America about the German-Jewish architect who had planned to build seven synagogues in America, of which four were designed and built, all in the Midwest between 1946 and 1953. Michael Palmer has recorded in exquisite detail Mendelsohn's four built synagogues in Saint Paul,…

Living Room Lectures is a series of monthly presentations delivered to your living room through your device screen. Criminal Justice Reform in Ann Arbor America incarcerates more people per capita than any country on the face of the planet—and communities of color are disproportionately likely to be affected. Washtenaw County Prosecutor Eli Savit ran for office to build a fairer and more equitable justice system. He'll be discussing the reforms his office has already put into place, what's on the…

Living Room Lectures is a series of monthly presentations delivered to your living room through your device screen. How to Build Wealth: A Primer on Saving for Retirement What is compound interest? Why did Albert Einstein say it was the most powerful force in the world?  Learn the simple steps you can take today to harness the power of compound interest to dependably create wealth for you and your family. Nearly $100,000 in debt - not counting the mortgage -…

Living Room Lectures is a series of monthly presentations delivered to your living room through your device screen. Chatter: The Voice in Our Head and How to Harness It Tell a stranger that you talk to yourself, and you’re likely to get written off as eccentric. But the truth is that we all have a voice in our head. In this XXX talk, University of Michigan professor Ethan Kross will discuss his book, Chatter. Interweaving behavioral and brain research from…