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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
The New Testament
Saturday, September 24
12:00-2:00PM PDT
The word testament in the expression New Testament refers to a new covenant that Christians believe fulfills the covenant that God made with the people of Israel made on Mount Sinai through Moses, described in the books of the Old Testament.
Reading:
The Gospel of John. Also, Genesis Chapters
1 - 2:3, and Chapters 18 - 19:3
Schedule:
12:00-2:00PM PDT
Tutor:
Larry Shields
Online Format:
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Online Seminar Series
Shakespeare and Plutarch: Roman Plays, Roman Lives
Sunday, September 25
12:00-2:00PM PDT
Although more than four of Shakespeare’s plays are set in Roman times, four are set either in Rome itself or wherever large events, the results of forces variously centrifugal and centripetal, decided the fate of Roman power at any given moment.
Reading:
The Life of Caesar by Plutarch
Schedule:
12:00-2:00PM PDT
Tutor:
Eric Stull
Online Format:
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Online Free Community
Seminar Series
The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious by C. G. Jung
Monday, September 26
5:30-6:30PM PDT
Jung's work has been influential in the fields of psychiatry, anthropology, archaeology, literature, philosophy, psychology and religious studies.
Reading:
Theriomorophic Spirit Symbolism - Paragraphs 419-455
Schedule:
5:30-6:30PM PDT
Tutor:
Andy Gilman
Online Format:
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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.
View the September 28, 2022
Ojai City Council Candidate Forum