CafeLitt 110: Global Financial crisis 2008. The end of an era?!

Thu 26 Feb 2009, 19:00, by Ali Paknejad, at Thomson House: 3650 Rue McTavish Montreal (Map)
The Year of  2008 has been a historic year in terms of infrastructural changes that U S banks, financial institutions had gone through  and dire effect they had on  global economy.   In some respect it resembles to great depression in some others to the end of the second world war.  Some compare it with 1989 collapse of  communism some others look at it as a financial equivalent of September 11 2001. What happened,  why it happened, What are the diagnosis? These and some other issues regarding personal financial planning will be discussed in our next gathering.... more >>

CafeLitt 109: From Margine to center

Thu 19 Feb 2009, 23:10, by Amir Khadir, at Thomson House: 3650 Rue McTavish Montreal (Map)
Dr. Amir Khadir (born 1961 in Tehran, Iran) is a francophone Iranian-Québécois politician, the MNA-elect for Mercier, and currently the male spokesperson for Québec solidaire, a sovereignist and left-wing political party which was created by the merger of the Union des Forces Progressistes and Option Citoyenne, a feminist political movement, in February, 2006. On December 8, 2008, Khadir became the first and only elected representative for Québec solidaire in the general election in Quebec.This session Dr. Khadir will talk about how, we as immigrants, can come to the center of the society from being passive in the margin.... more >>

CafeLitt 108: CafeLitt First Photo awards and Second Birthday

Thu 12 Feb 2009, 23:04, by CafeLitt, at Thomson House: 3650 Rue McTavish Montreal (Map)
A Party till midnightCheck the competion results here and read an informal report from night here.... more >>

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About us

CaféLitt is not a place; it is a gathering of minds. We are a group of mostly Persian young students, scholars and professionals who gather every Thursday evening around 19h00 to discuss various subjects and share different ideas, ranging vastly from history to science, from literature to fine arts. We started these gatherings on Jan 17th, 2006 with 5 people and have reached an average weekly audience of about 40 people. Each week, one of us takes the responsibility of presenting a topic for about an hour in a subject s/he is intimately familiar with or has an expertise in. Afterwards, the evening turns into a discussion forum and all members of the audience will have an opportunity to ask their question(s) and share their points of view.

Some new and exciting ideas were born out of CaféLitt sessions. We have started a series of monthly meetings called CaféCinema during which a movie is presented and discussed in some detail afterward. This year's program of CaféCinema revolves around the history of Iranian cinema. Some Cinema students hold these sessions (mainly conducted in English) on the last Sunday of each month.

Likewise, CaféLitt BookClub is an activity where people who like books decide to read a book each month and discuss it during a cozy Café session on the second Sunday of every month.

CaféTheatre is a series of semi-rehearsed sessions in which we select a play, divide the roles among different people and read the play from the text in front of an audience. Similar to other CaféLitt sessions, each CaféTheatre session will end with a discussion of that day's play.  

CaféScience and CaféPhilo are our plans for near future. The purpose of CaféScience is to provide a forum for the public discussion and understanding of all scientific findings and ideas, with an emphasis on new, interesting and publicly relevant topics. During CaféPhilo sessions, we will talk about philosophy, its history and all its related aspects.

CaféLitt is pen to all comments, suggestion and new ideas. CaféLitt provides an unparalleled opportunity for learning about culture, science and philosophy in a relaxed and friendly environment, and for sharing your knowledge and expertise with like-minded members of your community.

CafeLitt is a nonpartisan, nonreligious and nonpolitical entity.


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