Bluestocking Salon is a monthly interactive Zoom discussion hosted by SWL’s resident scholars, guest scholars, and sometimes the author of the current selection. Become a Shadowlands Dispatch Subscriber here to gain access to our Salons and much more!
Past Salons
| “2BR02B” by Kurt Vonnegut, led by Dr. Julie Miller | September 2025 |
| Poetry in Film Discussion featuring Paterson, Bright Star, and A Complete Unknown | August 2025 |
| On Magic and Miracles: A Theological Guide to Discerning Fictional Magic with Marian A. Jacobs. | July 2025 |
| G.K. Chesterton and “The Ethics of Elfland” with Joseph Pearce | June 2025 |
| Word Made Fresh with Abram Van Engen | May 2025 |
| “The Machine Stops” by E.M. Forster led by Dr. Julie Miller | April 2025 |
| Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis led by Megan Rials | March 2025 |
| Bridge Building Apologetics: How to Get Along Even When We Disagree with Lindsey Medenwaldt | February 2025 |
| Selected Essays from G.K. Chesterton’s “Tremendous Trifles” with Joseph Pearce | January 2025 |
| What It Means to Be Protestant: The Case for an Always-Reforming Church with Dr. Gavin Ortlund | November 2024 |
| An Afternoon in October Country: An Extended Salon on the Works of Ray Bradbury (with Dr. Julie Miller, Megan Rials, MA, JD, and Dr. Melissa Travis) | October 2024 |
| Wildcat film discussion (with Annie Crawford and Joseph Holmes) | September 2024 |
| 2081 film discussion (with Dr. Julie Miller) | August 2024 |
| At Home in Mitford series (with Mary Jo Tate) | July 2024 |
| Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s acceptance speech for the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize in Literature (with Annie Crawford) | June 2024 |
| Piranesi by Susannah Clarke (with Dr. Melissa Travis) | May 2024 |
| Science and Faith in Harmony with Dr. Sy Garte | April 2024 |
| “Pray Without Ceasing” essay by Wendell Berry | March 2024 |
| Cultural Apologetics by Paul Gould | February 2024 |
| “Dream of the Ridiculous Man” by Dostoevsky (with Dr. Amber Dyer) | January 2024 |
| A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller, Jr. (with Dr. Marybeth Baggett) | October 2023 |
| Gaudy Night by Dorothy Sayers (with Gina Dalfonzo) | August 2023 |
| From the Garden to the City by John Dyer | April 2023 |
| Dorothy and Jack by Gina Dalfonzo | January 2023 |
| The Truth and Beauty by Andrew Klavan | October 2022 |
| Transit by Kelly Belmonte and Tom Liskey | Bonus |
| Subversive by Crystal Downing | July 2022 |
| The Scandal of Holiness by Jessica Hooten Wilson | April 2022 |
| Bandersnatch by Diana Glyer | January 2022 |
| Once Upon a Wardrobe by Patti Callahan | November 2021 |
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