Join us on November 19 at 6 pm for the Commonwealth Club’s Virtual Gala. Raise your glass to Good Health, as we celebrate the leadership of women in science and medicine. Visit

Join us on November 19 at 6 pm for the Commonwealth Club’s Virtual Gala. Raise your glass to Good Health, as we celebrate the leadership of women in science and medicine. Visit commonwealthclub.org/2021gala to learn more or Text Club2021 to 41444 to register and donate today! Many nations have a national poet, whose poetry helps carve out their own unique cultural niche in human civilization. Italy has enjoyed many literary geniuses for over two millennia, but still looks to one man the most: Dante. Like major poets in other cultures, Dante’s influence on the Italian language can hardly be overstated. The Divine Comedy was the first major work of literature to leave Latin behind in favor of Italian, and it remains the world standard of poetic excellence. Dante’s fertile imagination also inspired artists, writers and theologians, making him almost as influential about the afterlife as he is linguistically. Join Humanities West in person at The Commonwealth Club, or via livestream, to celebrate the 700th Anniversary of Dante’s death—which ironically occurred not that many months after he completed his speculations about post-death possibilities—with a two-hour, three-lecture Dante feast: • Timothy Hampton on "Dante After Dante: the Forms of Memory." Though there were many "in the know" about the achievement of Dante's great poem during his lifetime, his vast influence on Italian poetry and world literature was uneven in the centuries following his death. In some areas of artistic creation—for example, in the painting of Botticelli—Dante was powerfully present. In other areas (poetry, philosophy, literary criticism) his influence was definite, but diffuse and oblique. This lecture will speak about the ways in which Dante's work did and didn't shape Italian and European culture in the early modern period. • Kip Cranna on "Dante at the Opera: From the Divine Comedy to a Comic Puccini Delight." In "The Inferno," part one of The Divine Comedy, Dante introduces the condemned sinner Gianni Schicchi, consigned to the Eighth Circle of Hell along with others guilty of fraud. His crime: impersonating the deceased Buoso Donati to falsify Buoso's will for his own benefit. Dante personally knew the Donatis (he was married to one), and therein lies an intriguing tale of medieval Florentine society. The story of this fraudulent will and the legend surrounding it became the inspiration for the famed composer Giacomo Puccini's only comic opera. After outlining the Dante-Puccini connection, San Francisco Opera's Dramaturg Emeritus Kip Cranna will present brief video highlights from the opera Gianni Schicchi, including the ever-popular aria "O mio babbino caro." • Marisa Galvez on "Dante Before Dante Become Dante." In retrospect it almost seems like Dante invented Italian literary culture, but he arrived on the Italian literary scene as a love poet—an admirer of courtly love and the troubadour traditions which had begun a century earlier in Occitania, and had spread to Italy, Spain and then most of Europe. Dante defined the troubadour lyrics as rhetorical, musical and poetical fiction — which is also a good description of The Divine Comedy. OCTOBER 22, 2021 SPEAKERS Kip Cranna Dramaturg Emeritus, San Francisco Opera Marisa Galvez Professor of French and Italian, and by Courtesy, of German Studies and Comparative Literature; Faculty Director, Structured Liberal Education, Stanford University Timothy Hampton Aldo Scaglione and Marie M. Burns Distinguished Professor of French and Comparative Literature; Director, Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities, University of California, Berkeley George Hammond —Moderator 💯SUBSCRIBE for more VIDEOS: https://www.youtube.com/user/commonwealthclub 📆 UPCOMING EVENTS: https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events 🎉 BECOME a MEMBER: https://www.commonwealthclub.org/membership 💰 DONATE NOW: https://support.commonwealthclub.org/sslpage.aspx?pid=298 📺➕📻 Watch & Listen https://www.commonwealthclub.org/watch-listen CWC Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thecommonwealthclub/ CWC Instagram https://www.instagram.com/cwclub/ CWC Twitter https://twitter.com/cwclub The Commonwealth Club of California is the nation's oldest and largest public affairs forum 📣, bringing together its 20,000 members for more than 400 annual events on topics ranging across politics, culture, society and the economy. Founded in 1903 in San Francisco California 🌉, The Commonwealth Club has played host to a diverse and distinctive array of speakers, from Teddy Roosevelt in 1911 to Hillary Clinton in 2010. Along the way, Martin Luther King, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton have all given landmark speeches at the Club.

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Grandmother Maria Alice Campos Freire talks about the Grandmothers and the challenges they face to fulfill their mission. Grandmother Maria Alice Campos Freire was born in Brazil. Growing up in Brazil she saw much war and persecution. At age 17, when pregnant with her daughter, Maria Alice was put in prison and tortured. Her daughter was born after Maria Alice became a political refuge in Europe and Africa before receiving amnesty to return to Brazil where she led a spiritual community in the deepest parts of the Amazon Rainforest reservation. Learn more about the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers here.

To purchase the entire documentary of this teaching on a DVD, visit the Earth & Spirit Council's Website.

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The Turtle Lodge has partnered with Manitoba 150 and IG Wealth Management to present a series of short animated films on the Seven Sacred Laws, to be released in English, French, and Anishinaabe.

The Turtle Lodge has partnered with Manitoba 150 and IG Wealth Management to present a series of short animated films on the Seven Sacred Laws, to be released in English, French, and Anishinaabe. Written by Anishinaabe Elder, Dr. David Courchene (Nii Gaani Aki Inini (Leading Earth Man)) and Cree Director Erica Marie Daniels, the vignettes follow an Indigenous boy on his vision quest, growing, thriving, and gaining wisdom. On his spiritual journey, he meets seven sacred animals who teach him how we as people should live our lives on Mother Earth. Created by Manitoba’s Peg City Pictures Inc., the short animated films tell the stories of Indigenous Peoples in their own voices, in a format that is accessible not only for Indigenous people, but for all Peoples. COMING SOON TO www.turtlelodge.org See promo clips at http://www.turtlelodge.org/coming-soon/

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The Turtle Lodge has partnered with Manitoba 150 and IG Wealth Management to present a series of short animated films on the Seven Sacred Laws, to be released in English, French, and Anishinaabe.

The Turtle Lodge has partnered with Manitoba 150 and IG Wealth Management to present a series of short animated films on the Seven Sacred Laws, to be released in English, French, and Anishinaabe. Written by Anishinaabe Elder, Dr. David Courchene (Nii Gaani Aki Inini (Leading Earth Man)) and Cree Director Erica Marie Daniels, the vignettes follow an Indigenous boy on his vision quest, growing, thriving, and gaining wisdom. On his spiritual journey, he meets seven sacred animals who teach him how we as people should live our lives on Mother Earth. Created by Manitoba’s Peg City Pictures Inc., the short animated films tell the stories of Indigenous Peoples in their own voices, in a format that is accessible not only for Indigenous people, but for all Peoples. COMING SOON TO www.turtlelodge.org See promo clips at http://www.turtlelodge.org/coming-soon/

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P. M. Ravi (Ph.D.) is a Senior Scientist and a Former Head of the Environmental Studies Section, Health Physics Division at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Mumbai, which is India's premier

P. M. Ravi (Ph.D.) is a Senior Scientist and a Former Head of the Environmental Studies Section, Health Physics Division at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Mumbai, which is India's premier Nuclear Research Facility, he is also an adjunct faculty at Mangalore University, India. Dr. P. M Ravi was actively involved in research areas like environmental monitoring, ecological studies, environmental analytical chemistry, and radioecology and their nuclear aspects. He was awarded many prestigious awards for his scientific contributions, like Dr. Ganguly Felicitation prize 2002 for the outstanding work in the field of Radiation Protection and Radiation in Environment, Government of India’s Department of Atomic Energy Special Contribution Award 2011. He was the recipient of Marie Curie Post Doctoral Fellowship of Commission of European Communities, Brussels, during his research career. Dr. P. M. Ravi is a former head of Environmental Studies Section, Health Physics Division at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Mumbai, which is India's premier nuclear research facility, he is also an adjunct faculty at Mangalore University, India. Dr. P. M Ravi was actively involved in research areas like environmental monitoring, ecological studies, environmental analytical chemistry and radioecology and their nuclear aspects. He was awarded many prestigious awards for his scientific contributions, like Dr. Ganguly Felicitation prize 2002 for the outstanding work in the field of Radiation Protection and Radiation in Environment, Government of India’s Department of Atomic Energy Special Contribution Award 2011. He was the recipient of Marie Curie Post Doctoral Fellowship of Commission of European Communities, Brussels, during his research career. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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