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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 Free Community
Seminar Series
Foundations of Our Republic
Monday, October 3
5:30-6:30PM PDT
What are the fundamental principles of our Republic? Are these principles based on a view of objective reality/nature, or simply the "consent of the governed"?
Reading:
Supreme Court Case - Plessy vs. Ferguson
Schedule:
5:30-6:30PM PDT
Tutor:
Andy Gilman
Online Format:
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Online Seminar Series
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Wednesday, October 5
12:00-1:30PM PDT
A story with no real beginning or end, the work has come to assume a preeminent place in English literature. Join us as we read this text one chapter at a time, every other Wednesday afternoon.
Reading:
Book One - Chapter Three of Finnegans Wake by Joyce, continued, page 63.
Schedule:
12:00-1:30PM PDT
Tutor:
Barry Rabe
Online Format:
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Online Seminar Series
Shakespeare and Plutarch: Roman Plays, Roman Lives
Saturday, October 8
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 decided the fate of Roman power at any given moment.
Reading:
The Life of Brutus by Plutarch
Schedule:
12:00-2:00PM PDT
Tutor:
Eric Stull
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.