Vonnegut’s novel is iconoclastic and irreverent, even outright zany, but it is also deeply personal and instructive for philanthropic studies and ethics.

Teaching Vonnegut is an annual series of workshops exploring the life, work, and legacy of Kurt Vonnegut as well as the causes that he championed.

Kurt Vonnegut was a musically literate writer. In a number of his works there are references to Bach, Mozart, jazz, the blues, the Rolling Stones and the Beatles.

We live in a nation with people all across the political spectrum increasingly willing to use the power of government to suppress expression they don't like: not just with school curriculum and library books, but with a broad swath of other things as well.

Participants will discuss what these frames accomplish, and how they can be used to spur writing and discussion in the classroom.

Teaching Slaughterhouse-Five through the prism of trauma opens the novel to a younger readership, which has a vested, generational understanding of pain quite different from that of Kurt Vonnegut.

Storytelling is a global art form that has bridged the gap between communities, broken the curses between generations and built the wealth between change agents.

Exploring the origins, legacies, and potential teaching applications of Vonnegut’s planetary citizenship, this workshop will focus on central “big ideas” within Kurt’s environmental and social justice writings.

Are comic books art? Are graphic novels literature? Or is it all just nonsense for kids and popcorn munchers?