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Upcoming Online Events
The Agora Foundation is a nonsectarian 501(c)3 non-profit endeavor, providing great books seminars and other educational opportunities to those who are busy with careers, families, and daily responsibilities yet are seeking to further their education. The goal of these offerings is to provide an understanding of the ideas that shape civilizations and to promote civil discourse on complicated subjects.
Generously funded by The Ahmanson Foundation, Southern California Edison, The Shanbrom Family Foundation, the Ventura County Community Foundation, the WRG Foundation, the Constance Eaton and William Hart Fund, the Ojai Valley Chamber of Commerce, Rotary Club of Ojai, and private donations, the Teachers for Lifelong Learning Program provides training to high school teachers in this engaging approach to learning, and The Ojai Chautauqua provides panels promoting civil discourse on controversial and complicated subjects.
Upcoming Regular Events
Online Seminar Series
Shakespeare ad Plutarch:
Roman Plays, Roman Lives
Saturday, December 3
12:00-2:00PM PST
Although more than four of Shakespeare’s plays are set in Roman times, four are set either in Rome itself or wherever large events decided the fate of Roman power at any given moment.
Reading:
Life of Antony by Plutarch
Schedule:
12:00-2:00PM PST
Tutor:
Eric Stull
Online Format:
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Online Seminar Series
Locke's Essay
Sunday, December 4
12:00-2:00PM PST
Jung's work has been influential in the fields of psychiatry, anthropology, archaeology, literature, philosophy, psychology and religious studies.
Reading:
Book I, Chapter IV, Section 12 unabridged and Book II, Chapters I to XX (Winkler's abridgment, pp. 33 to 92)
Schedule:
12:00-2:00PM PST
Tutor:
Carol Seferi
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Online Free Community
Seminar Series
Foundations of Our Republic - Equal Rights Amendment
Monday, December 5
5:30-6:30PM PST
A person may choose to have an abortion until a fetus becomes viable, based on the right to privacy contained in the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. (1973)
Reading:
Roe v. Wade Supreme Court Decision - edited (1973)
Schedule:
5:30-6:30PM PST
Tutor:
Andy Gilman
Online Format:
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UPDATED 10/4/22 - View the September 28, 2022
Ojai City Council Candidate Forum
View the November 14, 2020 Online Special Music Event
From Lugubrious to Luminous: Words about Music
(and where they take us!)
View the May 28, 2020 Ojai Chautauqua Panel - The Future of Education After COVID-19.
An Introduction to The Agora Foundation. What is liberal education?
An Introduction to The Agora Foundation's Ojai Chautauqua Panels.