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"The Toynbee Convector" by Ray Bradbury (EN)

In a utopian world, a young journalist meets a Time Traveler on the centennial anniversary of his one and only journey through time. What he learns makes the journalist question what he thought he knew about history and human nature.

Discussion themes: Future technology; utopia; time travel; societal change; hope and despair
Music by: Joseph Haydn, W.A. Mozart
Duration: 50 Minutes

As seen at: Metropolcon 2026

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Excerpts from "The World of Yesterday" by Stefan Zweig (DE/EN)

Written between 1936-1942, the memoir of Austrian-Jewish writer Stefan Zweig documents the sociopolitical upheaval that he experienced in the first half of the 20th century. Our reading includes four excerpts, spanning Zweig's memories of peacetime in pre-war Vienna, to the outbreak and horrors of WWI, to Zweig's reflections on humanity and a changed Europe in the early 1940s.

Discussion themes: European history; WWI; WWII; European politics; Democracy; Fascism; global borders & international relations; societal progress; present-day politics and historical resonance; personal identity
Music by: TBD
Duration: 75 minutes