The Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture, in collaboration with Big D Reads, invites you to an event focused on Jim Schutze’s book, The Accommodation.  This work focuses on events in the explosive racial history of the city of Dallas.  The Dallas Institute event, called Athena’s Accommodation, will seek to place The Accommodation in dialogue with an ancient Greek tragedy, Aeschylus’s Oresteia. Each text concerns the possibility of a city’s recovery from a painful history of intergenerational trauma. There will be a discussion in which we – together – seek the wisdom of Athena in our own attempt to transcend – to some degree– the injuries of the past.  Panelists will include Lee Cullum, Justin Moore, and Rabbi Nancy Kasten.

Event Location:

• Dallas Institute’s Stroud House (2723 Routh Street) and Nancy Cain Marcus Conference Center (2711 Routh Street) - valet and onsite parking available

Program details:

• 5:30-6:30 PM Welcome reception at Stroud House with drinks and hors d'oeuvres

• 6:30-6:45 PM Transition time to walk to the Nancy Cain Marcus Conference Center, a few doors down on Routh Street

• 6:45-8:00 PM Welcome and panel discussion at Nancy Cain Marcus Conference Center

Cost: $10 donation per person. 

Register now to join us - in person attendance is limited to the first 100 registrants.