All seminars take place in the Atlantic Room of the Bayside Pavillion at Mercy Hospital Campus, starting at 6:30 p.m. with wine and sandwiches. Speakers present at 7:00 p.m. sharp. The duration of the presentation is 45 minutes to an hour and is followed by a 15 minutes questions and answers exchange.

Some may regard as unpleasant the basic discovery of a cultural crossroads - the fact that others are quite capable of creating ways of living that are entirely different from our own. Such cultural collisions are, however, integral to many of history’s most creative moments.North America’s immigrant history has created some of the specific habits and dreams that shape the Globalized world where we now live. In her illustrated talk, Prof. Gottlieb-Roberts presents selected art works to mirror and evoke some defining moments inNorth America’s socially collaborative history.