2017 Lecture Series

Featuring Paul Muldoon, Jean Hanff Korelitz, Nancy DiPace Pfau, Dr. Richard Pfau, Kat Kinsman, and Dr. J.B. Goss.

Klinkhart hall Lecture Series Season 1

April 15 – October 14, 2017

Paul Muldoon and Jean Hanff Korelitz

Klinkhart Hall Arts Center began its 2017 Lecture Series on Saturday April 15 with a joint reading and discussion by local residents and well-known literary figures Jean Hanff Korelitz and Pulitzer Prize winning poet Paul Muldoon.

Richard and Nancy Pfau

The second event in its 2017 Lecture Series  took place on Saturday, June 18. Dr. Richard Pfau,  local resident and Professor of U.S. Foreign Policy at Hartwick College, delivered a dynamic and broad-ranging talk on Contemporary Foreign Policy. 

Kat Kinsman

The third event in its 2017 Lecture Series took place on Saturday July 15. Kat Kinsman, noted personality, writer, and sometime Sharon Springs resident delivered a lively talk and a reading from her newly published memoir, Hi, Anxiety: Life With a Bad Case of Nerves (Harper Collins, 2017).

Richard and Nancy Pfau

The fourth event in the 2017 Lecture Series took place on Saturday September 16. Sharon Springs resident and Village Historian Nancy DiPace Pfau delivered a lively, informative, illustrated lecture on Diversity in Sharon Springs: From Native Americans until Today.

J B Goss

The final event in its 2017 Lecture Series took place on Saturday October 14.  Neuroscientist and science blogger Dr. J.B. Goss talked about TheMetaphysics of ScienceDr. Goss delivered the first Klinkhart Hall lecture in 2015 on Sleeping and Dreaming: The Owner’s Manual.