Past Events
2024
April 21, 2024
Online Seminar Series
The Laws of Plato
Book 3 - Sections 4-5: The Lessons of History
April 20, 2024
Online Seminar Series
The Romantic I/Eye
The Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis by Foscolo
April 18, 2024
Online Intensive
Paradise Lost - Book Eleven
by John Milton
April 17, 2024
Online Intensive
Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky - Epilogue
April 17, 2024
Online Seminar Series
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Book Two - Chapter Nine - pages 231-236
April 14, 2024
Online Seminar Series
The Golden Bough by Frazer - Chapters XVII - The Burden of Royalty, XVIII - The Perils of the Soul
April 13, 2024
Online Seminar Series
The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James
Lectures Sixteen and Seventeen - Mysticism
April 11, 2024
Online Intensive
Paradise Lost - Book Ten
by John Milton
April 11, 2024
Online Seminar Series
Epistemology of Spinoza
Ethics, Part I, Propositions 16-36 and Appendix
April 10, 2024
Online Intensive
Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky - Part Six - Chapters V-VIII
Free Community Online Seminar Series
April 7, 2024
The Foundations of Our Republic - Federalist Papers Complete - 17-20
April 6, 2024
Online Contemporary Issues Seminar Series
The Gene - An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee - Part Two - Truths and Reconciliations, Transformation, Lives Unworthy of Living, That Stupid Molecule, Objects Come in Pairs
April 4, 2024
Online Intensive
Paradise Lost - Book Nine
by John Milton
April 3, 2024
Online Intensive
Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky - Part Six - Chapters I-IV
April 3, 2024
Online Seminar Series
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Book Two - Chapter Nine - pages 228-231
April 2, 2024
Online Intensive
Book of Leviticus - Parashat Bechukotai - Chapters 26:3–27:34
Free Onsite Community Seminar
April 2, 2024
The Tao Te Ching - Verse 3
March 31, 2024
Online Seminar Series
The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin - Chapter Seven
March 30, 2024
Online Seminar Series
The Work of Flannery O'Connor
Parker's Back and Aquinas on Idolatry - Question 94 - Article 2
March 28, 2024
Online Intensive
Paradise Lost - Book Eight
by John Milton
March 27, 2024
Online Intensive
Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky - Part Five - Chapters IV-V
March 26, 2024
Online Intensive
Book of Leviticus - Parashat Behar - Chapters 25:1–26:2
March 24, 2024
Online Seminar Series
The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt - Chapter Nine - he Decline of the Nation-State and the End of the Rights of Man
March 23, 2024
Online Seminar Series
The New Testament - Epistles of Paul - First and Second Letters to the Thessalonians, First and Second Letters to Timothy
March 21, 2024
Online Intensive
Paradise Lost - Book Seven
by John Milton
2024 (continued)
March 20, 2024
Online Intensive
Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky - Part Five - Chapters I-III
March 20, 2024
Online Seminar Series
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Book Two - Chapter Nine - pages 222-228
March 19, 2024
Online Intensive
Book of Leviticus - Parashat Emor -
Chapters 21:1–24:23
Free Onsite Community Seminar
March 19, 2024
The Tao Te Ching - Verse 2
March 17, 2024
Online Seminar Series
Shakespearean Marriage, Italian-Style (Mostly) - & One by Marlowe! - The Merchant of Venice
March 16, 2024
Onsite Film Seminar Series
The Earrings of Madame de... Directed by Max Ophüls
March 14, 2024
Online Intensive
Paradise Lost - Book Six
by John Milton
March 13, 2024
Online Intensive
Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky - Part Four - pages 330-376 - Chapters IV-VI
March 12, 2024
Online Intensive
Book of Leviticus - Parashat Kedoshim - Chapters 19:1–20:27
March 10, 2024
Online Seminar Series
The Romantic I/Eye
Rene, and Atala by Chateaubriand
March 9, 2024
Online Free Community
Seminar Series
Vitruvius on Architecture - Book II, On Dwellings and Substances
March 7, 2024
Online Intensive
Paradise Lost - Book Five
by John Milton
March 6, 2024
Online Intensive
Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky - Part Four - pages 295-330 - Chapters I-III
March 6, 2024
Online Seminar Series
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Book One - Chapter Eight - page 213 to Book Two - Chapter Nine - page 222
March 5, 2024
Online Intensive
Book of Leviticus - Parashat Acharei Mot - Chapters 16:1–18:30
Free Onsite Community Seminar
March 5, 2024
The Tao Te Ching - Verse 1
March 3, 2024
Online Seminar Series
Supreme Court - Decisions and Interpretations - Trump v. Anderson - Colorado Ballot 2024 Case
March 3, 2024
Online Seminar Series
The Laws of Plato
Book 2 - Section 3: The Arts in the Service of Education
March 2, 2024
Online Seminar Series
The Golden Bough by Frazer - Chapters XI - The Influence of the Sexes on Vegetation, XII - The Sacred Marriage, XIII - The Kings of Rome and Alba, XIV - The Succession to the Kingdom in Ancient Latium, XV - The Worship of the Oak, XVI - Dianus and Diana
February 29, 2024
Online Intensive
Paradise Lost - Book Four
by John Milton
February 28, 2024
Online Intensive
Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky - Part Three - pages 247-292 - Chapters IV-VI
February 27, 2024
Online Intensive
Book of Leviticus - Parashat Metzora - Chapters 14:1–15:33
February 25, 2024
Online Seminar Series
The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James
Lectures Fourteen and Fifteen - The Value of Saintliness
Free Community Online Seminar Series
February 24, 2024
The Foundations of Our Republic - Federalist Papers Complete - 13-16
February 22, 2024
Online Intensive
Paradise Lost - Book Three
February 22, 2024
Online Seminar Series
Epistemology of Spinoza
Ethics, Part I, Propositions 1-15
continued
2024 (continued)
February 21, 2024
Online Seminar Series
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Book One - Chapter Eight - pages 206-213
February 20, 2024
Online Intensive
Book of Leviticus - Parashat Tazria
February 18, 2024
Online Contemporary Issues Seminar Series
The Gene - An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Part One - A Certain Mendel, Eugenics, Three Generations of Imbeciles Is Enough, Part Two - Abhed
February 17, 2024
Online Seminar Series
The Romantic I/Eye
The Prelude by Wordsworth
February 15, 2024
Online Intensive
Paradise Lost - Book Two
by John Milton
February 14, 2024
Online Intensive
Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky - Part Two - pages 151-204 - Chapters V-VII
February 13, 2024
Online Intensive
Book of Leviticus - Parashat Shemini - Chapters - 9:1–11:47
February 10, 2024
Online Seminar Series
The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin - Chapter Six
February 8, 2024
Online Intensive
Paradise Lost - Book One
by John Milton
February 8, 2024
Online Seminar Series
Epistemology of Spinoza
Ethics, Part I, Propositions 1-15
February 7, 2024
Online Intensive
Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky - Part Two - pages 95-151 - Chapters I-IV
February 7, 2024
Online Seminar Series
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Book One - Chapter Eight - pages 200-206
February 6, 2024
Online Intensive
Book of Leviticus - Parashat Tzav - Chapters - 6:1–8:36
February 4, 2024
Online Seminar Series
Shakespearean Marriage, Italian-Style (Mostly) - & One by Marlowe! - The Jew of Malta
January 31, 2024
Online Intensive
Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky - Part One - pages 42-91 - Chapters IV-VII
January 30, 2024
Online Intensive
Book of Leviticus -
Parashat Vayikra - Chapters 1:1–5:26
January 28, 2024
Online Seminar Series
The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt - Chapter Eight - Continental imperialism : the pan-movements
January 27, 2024
Online Seminar Series
The Work of Flannery O'Connor
The Enduring Chill and Aquinas on Prayer - Question 83 - Article 2
January 25, 2024
Online Seminar Series
Epistemology of Spinoza
Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect
January 24, 2024
Online Intensive
Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky - Part One - pages 3-42 - Chapters I-III
January 24, 2024
Online Seminar Series
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Book One - Chapter Eight - pages 196-200
January 21, 2024
Online Seminar Series
The Romantic I/Eye
Hyperion, or The Hermit of Greece by Holderlin
January 20, 2024
Online Free Community
Seminar Series
Vitruvius on Architecture - Book I, Chapters 1-3
January 17, 2024
Online Seminar Series
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Book One - Chapter Seven - pages 190-195
January 14, 2024
Online Seminar Series
Supreme Court - Decisions and Interpretations - Chapters 5 and 6 - Privacy - and New York State Rifle Association v. Bruen
2023
December 27, 2023
Online Seminar Series
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Book One - Chapter Seven - pages 182-190)
December 19, 2023
Online Intensive
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Chapters 81-86, Finale
December 17, 2023
Online Seminar Series
The Romantic I/Eye - Reveries of a Solitary Walker by Rousseau
December 14, 2023
Online Seminar Series
The Epic of Gilgamesh - Part II of II
December 13, 2023
Online Seminar Series
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Book One - Chapter Seven - pages 178-182)
December 12, 2023
Online Intensive
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Chapters 72-80
December 10, 2023
Online Seminar Series
Supreme Court - Decisions and Interpretations - Chapter 1 - (Cooper v. Aaron, pages 12-15), Chapter 4 - Civil Rights (pages 89-109). Also, Tocqueville - Why Democratic Nations Show a More Ardent And Enduring Love of Equality Than of Liberty
December 9, 2023
Online Seminar Series
The Laws of Plato
Book 1 - Section 2: Drinking Parties as an Educational Device
December 7, 2023
Online Seminar Series
The Epic of Gilgamesh - Part I of II
December 5, 2023
Online Intensive
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Chapters 68-71
December 3, 2023
Online Seminar Series
Leibniz - Excerpts from the Letters to de Volder, Principles of Nature and Grace, Based on and The Monadology
December 2, 2023
Online Seminar Series
The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James
Lectures Eleven, Twelve, Thirteen - Saintliness
November 29, 2023
Online Seminar Series
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Book One - Chapter Seven - pages 173-178)
November 28, 2023
Online Intensive
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Chapters 63-67
November 22, 2023
Online Intensive
Book of Exodus - Chapters 38:21 - 40:38
November 21, 2023
Online Intensive
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Chapters 58-62
November 19, 2023
Online Seminar Series
The Golden Bough by Frazer - Chapters VII - Incarnate Human Gods, VIII - Departmental Kings of Nature, IX - The Worship of Trees, X - Relics of Tree-worship in Modern Europe
Free Community Online Seminar Series
November 18, 2023
The Foundations of Our Republic - Federalist Papers Complete - 9-12
November 15, 2023
Online Intensive
Book of Exodus - Chapters 35:1 - 38:20
November 15, 2023
Online Seminar Series
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Book One - Chapter Seven - pages 166-173)
November 14, 2023
Online Intensive
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Chapters 54-57
November 12, 2023
Online Seminar Series
US Supreme Court—Decisions and Interpretations - Chapter 3 - Freedom of Religion (pages 60-88)
Also, Reynolds v. United States - 1878
November 11, 2023
Online Seminar Series
Shakespearean Marriage, Italian-Style (Mostly) - & One by Marlowe! - The Two Gentlemen of Verona
November 8, 2023
Online Intensive
Book of Exodus - Chapters 30:11 - 34:35
November 7, 2023
Online Intensive
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Chapters 49-53
November 5, 2023
Online Seminar Series
Leibniz - Discourse on Metaphysics
November 4, 2023
Online Seminar Series
The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
Chapter Seven - Imperialism
November 1, 2023
Online Intensive
Book of Exodus - Chapters 27:20 - 30:10
November 1, 2023
Online Seminar Series
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Book One - Chapter Six - pages 160-166)
October 31, 2023
Online Intensive
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Chapters 43-48
October 29, 2023
Online Seminar Series
The Romantic I/Eye - The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe
Free Community Online Seminar
October 27, 2023
Part of the Ojai Storytelling Festival - Story Saves the Day:
When Demonstration and Logic Fail, Story Heaves Up the Truth
October 25, 2023
Online Intensive
Book of Exodus - Chapters 25:1 - 27:19
October 24, 2023
Online Intensive
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Chapters 38-42
October 22, 2023
Online Seminar Series
The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin - Chapter Five
October 21, 2023
Online Seminar Series
The New Testament - Epistles of Paul to the Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians
October 18, 2023
Online Intensive
Book of Exodus - Chapters 21:1 - 24:18
October 18, 2023
Online Seminar Series
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Book One - Chapter Six - pages 155-160)
October 17, 2023
Online Intensive
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Chapters 34-37
October 15, 2023
Online Seminar Series
US Supreme Court—Decisions and Interpretations - Chapter 2 - Freedom of Speech (pages 31-59)
Also, Miller v. California (1973)
October 11, 2023
Online Intensive
Book of Exodus - Chapters 18:1 - 20:23
October 10, 2023
Online Intensive
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Chapters 28-33
October 8, 2023
Online Seminar Series
Leibniz - Excerpts from the Letters to Clarke and On Nature Itself
Free Community Online Seminar Series
October 7, 2023
The Glory of Art - The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin
October 4, 2023
Online Intensive
Book of Exodus - Chapters 13:17 - 17:16
October 3, 2023
Online Intensive
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Chapters 23-27
September 27, 2023
Online Seminar Series
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Book One - Chapter Six - pages 151-155)
September 26, 2023
Online Intensive
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Chapters 18-22
September 26, 2023
Online Seminar Series
New Science by Giambattista Vico Book 4 - Sections 13-14, Book 5, Conclusion of the Work
September 24, 2023
Online Seminar Series
The Laws of Plato
Book 1 - Section 1: The Inadequacy of Spartan and Cretan Legislation
September 23, 2023
Online Seminar Series
The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James
Lecture Ten - Conversion, Concluded
September 20, 2023
Online Intensive
Book of Exodus - Chapters 6:2 - 9:35
September 19, 2023
Online Intensive
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Chapters 13-17
September 17, 2023
Online Seminar Series
US Supreme Court—Decisions and Interpretations - Federalist Paper #78, Article III, US Constitution,
Judicial Power in the United States - De Tocqueville, Supreme Court Decisions—Chapter 1
(pages 1-11, 15-30) McCulloch v. Maryland, Marbury v. Madison, United States v. Nixon, Hamdi v. Rumsfeld
September 16, 2023
Online Seminar Series
Shakespearean Marriage, Italian-Style (Mostly) - & One by Marlowe! - Romeo and Juliet
September 13, 2023
Online Intensive
Book of Exodus - Chapters 3:16 - 6:1
September 12, 2023
Online Intensive
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Chapters 7-12
September 10, 2023
Online Seminar Series
Leibniz - On the Ultimate Origination of Things and Preface to the New Essays
September 9, 2023
Online Seminar Series
The Golden Bough by Frazer - Chapters IV - Magic and Religion,
V - The Magical Control of the Weather, VI - Magicians as Kings
September 6, 2023
Online Intensive
Book of Exodus - Chapters 1:1 - 3:15
September 6, 2023
Online Seminar Series
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Book One - Chapter Six - pages 145 - 151)
September 5, 2023
Online Intensive
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Prelude, Chapters 1-6
September 5, 2023
Online Seminar Series
New Science by Giambattista Vico Book 4 - Book 4 - Sections 1-12
Free Community Online Seminar Series
September 3, 2023
The Foundations of Our Republic - Federalist Papers Complete - 5-8
September 2, 2023
Online Seminar Series
Natural Law - Letter from Birmingham Jail and I Have a Dream Speech by Martin Luther King Jr.
Free Community Onsite Film Series
August 28, 2023
Hitchcock Monday Movie Nights - North by Northwest - 1959
August 27, 2023
Online Seminar Series
The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
Chapter Six - Imperialism
August 26, 2023
Online Seminar Series
The New Testament - The Epistle of Paul to the Galatians
August 23, 2023
Online Seminar Series
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Book One - Chapter Six - pages 143, Question 9 - 145 Question 10)
August 22, 2023
Online Seminar Series
New Science by Giambattista Vico Book 3 - Discovery of the True Homer
Free Community Onsite Film Series
August 21, 2023
Hitchcock Monday Movie Nights - Vertigo - 1958
August 20, 2023
Online Contemporary Issues Seminar Series
The Gene - An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Prologue, Part One - The Walled Garden, The Mystery of Mysteries, The Very Wide Blank, Flowers He Loved
August 19, 2023
Online Seminar Series
The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin - Chapter Four
Free Community Onsite Film Series
August 14, 2023
Hitchcock Monday Movie Nights - Dial M for Murder - 1954
2023 (continued)
Free Community Online Seminar Series
August 13, 2023
The Glory of Art - The Arts and Crafts of Today by William Morris
August 9, 2023
Online Seminar Series
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Book One - Chapter Six - pages 138-143, Question 8)
August 8, 2023
Online Seminar Series
New Science by Giambattista Vico Sections 6-11
Free Community Onsite Film Series
August 7, 2023
Hitchcock Monday Movie Nights - Shadow of a Doubt - 1943
Free Community Onsite Film Series
July 31, 2023
Hitchcock Monday Movie Nights - Psycho - 1960
July 29, 2023
Online Seminar Series
The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James
Lecture Nine - Conversion
July 26, 2023
Online Seminar Series
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Book One - Chapter Six - pages 135 -138
July 25, 2023
Online Seminar Series
New Science by Giambattista Vico Section 5 of Book 2 - Poetic Politics
Free Community Onsite Film Series
July 24, 2023
Hitchcock Monday Movie Nights - The Lady Vanishes - 1938
July 23, 2023
Online Seminar Series
Shakespearean Marriage, Italian-Style (Mostly) - & One by Marlowe! A Midsummer Night's Dream
July 22, 2023
Online Seminar Series
The Golden Bough by Frazer - Preface, Chapters I - The King of the Wood, II - Priestly Kings, III - Sympathetic Magic
Free Community Onsite Film Series
July 17, 2023
Hitchcock Monday Movie Nights - The 39 Steps - 1935
July 16, 2023
Online Seminar Series
Natural Law - C.S. Lewis - The Abolition of Man
July 15, 2023
Online Seminar Series
The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
Chapter Five - Imperialism
July 12, 2023
Online Seminar Series
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Book One - Chapter Six - pages 132 -135
July 11, 2023
Online Seminar Series
New Science by Giambattista Vico Sections 3 and 4 of Book 2 - Poetic Morality and Poetic Economics, or Household Management
Free Community Onsite Film Series
July 10, 2023
Hitchcock Monday Movie Nights - Rear Window - 1954
July 9, 2023
Online Seminar Series - Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - End of the Essay and excerpts from The Stillingfleet Correspondence
July 8, 2023
Online Seminar Series
The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin - Chapter Three
Free Community Onsite Film Series
July 3, 2023
Hitchcock Monday Movie Nights - Rope - 1948
Free Community Online Seminar Series
July 2, 2023
The Glory of Art - Victor Zuckerkandl - Man the Musician - Two Chapters on The Meaning of Song
Free Community Online Seminar Series
July 1, 2023
The Foundations of Our Republic - Federalist Papers Complete - 1-4
June 28, 2023
Online Seminar Series
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Book One - Chapter Six - pages 128 -132
June 27, 2023
Online Seminar Series
New Science by Giambattista Vico Section 2 of Book 2 - Poetic Logic
Free Community Onsite Film Series
June 26, 2023
Hitchcock Monday Movie Nights - The Birds -1963
June 25, 2023
Online Seminar Series
On Reading Six Women Artists/Thinkers -
Personal Truths, Metaphors and the Public Sphere -
Jane Austin - Persuasion
June 24, 2023
Online Seminar Series
The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James
Lecture Eight - The Divided Self, and the Process of its Unification
June 17, 2023
Online Seminar Series
Shakespearean Marriage, Italian-Style (Mostly) - & One by Marlowe!
Much Ado About Nothing
June 14, 2023
Online Seminar Series
New Science by Giambattista Vico Section 3 and 4 of Book 1. Prolegomena, Introduction and Section 1 of Book 2
June 4, 2023
Online Seminar Series - Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - Book IV Of Knowledge and Opinion (pages 274-322)
June 3, 2023
Online Seminar Series
Natural Law - Treatise on Law by Thomas Aquinas - Questions 98-108 (selections)
June 1, 2023
Online Intensive
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes - Part Two - Chapters 67-74
May 31, 2023
Online Seminar Series
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Book One - Chapter Five - page 124 to Chapter Six - page 128
May 30, 2023
Online Intensive
The Old Testament - Book of Genesis - 47:28–50:26
May 30, 2023
Online Seminar Series
New Science by Giambattista Vico - Section Two
May 28, 2023
Online Seminar Series
The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
Chapter Four - Antisemitism
May 27, 2023
Online Seminar Series
The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin - Chapter Two
May 23, 2023
Online Intensive
The Old Testament - Book of Genesis - 44:18–47:27
May 21, 2023
Online Seminar Series
On Reading Six Women Artists/Thinkers -
Personal Truths, Metaphors and the Public Sphere -
Martha Nussbaum - Poetic Justice - Selection: Rational Emotions
May 20, 2023
Online Seminar Series
Shakespearean Marriage, Italian-Style (Mostly) - & One by Marlowe!
The Taming of the Shrew
May 18, 2023
Online Intensive
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes - Part Two - Chapters 59-66
May 17, 2023
Online Seminar Series
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Book One - Chapter Five - pages 118-124
May 16, 2023
Online Intensive
The Old Testament - Book of Genesis - 41:1–44:17
May 16, 2023
Online Seminar Series
New Science by Giambattista Vico - Chronological table and Section 1
Free Community Online Seminar Series
May 15, 2023
The Glory of Art - Victor Zuckerkandl - Man the Musician - Preface and Chapter One
May 13, 2023
Online Seminar Series
The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James
Lectures Six and Seven - The Sick Soul
May 11, 2023
Online Intensive
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes - Part Two - Chapters 50-58
May 9, 2023
Online Intensive
The Old Testament - Book of Genesis - 37:1–40:23
May 7, 2023
Online Seminar Series - Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - Book IV Of Knowledge and Opinion (pages 224-273)
May 6, 2023
Online Seminar Series
The New Testament - Paul - First and Second Letters to the Corinthians
May 4, 2023
Online Intensive
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes - Part Two - Chapters 42-49
May 3, 2023
Online Seminar Series
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Book One - Chapter Five - pages 114-118
May 2, 2023
Online Intensive
The Old Testament - Book of Genesis - 32:4–36:43
May 2, 2023
Online Seminar Series
New Science by Giambattista Vico - Idea of the Work
April 29, 2023
Online Seminar Series
Natural Law - Treatise on Law by Thomas Aquinas - Questions 95, 96, 97
April 27, 2023
Online Intensive
Greek History - Part Two
Plutarch - Life of Alexander
April 27, 2023
Online Intensive
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes - Part Two - Chapters 33-41
April 25, 2023
Online Intensive
The Old Testament - Book of Genesis - 28:10–32:3
Free Community Online Seminar Series
April 24, 2023
The Glory of Art - Lewis Rowell - Thinking About Music - Chapter 2
April 22, 2023
Online Seminar Series
The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
Chapter Three - Antisemitism
April 22, 2023
Online Seminar Series
The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin - Preface, Introduction, and Chapter One
April 20, 2023
Online Intensive
Greek History - Part Two
Xenophon - Hellenika - Books Six and Seven
April 20, 2023
Online Intensive
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes - Part Two - Chapters 25-32
April 19, 2023
Online Seminar Series
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Book One - Chapter Five - pages 112-114
April 18, 2023
Online Intensive
The Old Testament - Book of Genesis - 25:19–28:9
Free Community Online Seminar Series
April 17, 2023
The Foundations of Our Republic - Federalist Paper 10
April 16, 2023
Online Seminar Series
On Reading Six Women Artists/Thinkers -
Personal Truths, Metaphors and the Public Sphere -
Hannah Arendt - Truth and Politics
April 15, 2023
Online Seminar Series
The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James
Lectures Four and Five - The Religion of Healthy-Mindedness
April 13, 2023
Online Intensive
Greek History - Part Two
Xenophon - Hellenika - Book Five
April 13, 2023
Online Intensive
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes - Part Two - Chapters 17-24
April 11, 2023
Online Intensive
The Old Testament - Book of Genesis - 23:1–25:18
Free Community Online Seminar Series
April 10, 2023
The Glory of Art - Hans Hoffman - The Search for the Real
2023 (continued)
April 8, 2023
Online Seminar Series
Anguish and the Absurd
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov - Part Three of Three - pages 216 to end
April 6, 2023
Online Intensive
Greek History - Part Two
Xenophon - Hellenika - Book Four
April 6, 2023
Online Intensive
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes - Part Two - Chapters 8-16
April 5, 2023
Online Seminar Series
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Book One - Chapter Five - pages 107-112
April 4, 2023
Online Intensive
The Old Testament - Book of Genesis - 18:1–22:24
April 2, 2023
Online Seminar Series - Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - Book III
April 1, 2023
Online Seminar Series
The New Testament - Paul - Epistle to the Romans
March 30, 2023
Online Intensive
Greek History - Part Two
Xenophon - Hellenika - Book Three
March 30, 2023
Online Intensive
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes - Part Two - To the Count of Lemos, Prologue to the Reader, Chapters 1-7
March 28, 2023
Online Intensive
The Old Testament - Book of Genesis - 12:1–17:27
Free Community Online Seminar Series
March 27, 2023
The Glory of Art - da Vinci - Linear Perspective
March 26, 2023
Online Seminar Series
The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
Chapters One and Two - Antisemitism
March 25, 2023
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March 23, 2023
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March 23, 2023
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March 22, 2023
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March 21, 2023
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March 20, 2023
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March 20, 2023
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March 19, 2023
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March 18, 2023
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March 16, 2023
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March 16, 2023
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March 14, 2023
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March 13, 2023
The Glory of Art - Plotinus on Beauty and Kandinski on the Spiritual in Art
March 9, 2023
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March 8, 2023
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March 6, 2023
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March 6, 2023
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March 5, 2023
Online Seminar Series - Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - Book II, Chapters Chapters XXVI through XXXIII
March 2, 2023
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March 2, 2023
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February 27, 2023
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February 26, 2023
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Anguish and the Absurd
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov - Part Two of Three - pages 105-215
February 25, 2023
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February 23, 2023
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February 23, 2023
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February 22, 2023
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Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Book One - Chapter Four - pages 99-102 of Finnegans Wake by Joyce
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February 20, 2023
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February 20, 2023
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February 19, 2023
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February 18, 2023
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The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James
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February 16, 2023
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Greek History - Part Two
Thucydides - The Peloponnesian War - Book Six
February 16, 2023
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Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes - Chapters 27-31
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February 13, 2023
The Glory of Art - Da VInci - True Science
February 11, 2023
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The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
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February 9, 2023
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Greek History - Part Two
Thucydides - The Peloponnesian War - Book Five
February 9, 2023
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Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes - Chapters 22-26
February 8, 2023
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Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Book One - Chapter Four - pages 95-99 of Finnegans Wake by Joyce
February 7, 2023
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February 6, 2023
The Foundations of Our Republic - The Declaration of Independence - 1776
February 5, 2023
Online Seminar Series - Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - Book II, Chapters Chapters XXI through XXVI
February 4, 2023
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The New Testament - Acts of the Apostles
February 2, 2023
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Greek History - Part Two
Thucydides - The Peloponnesian War - Book Four
February 2, 2023
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Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes - Chapters 16-21
January 31, 2023
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The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
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January 29, 2023
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - Chapters LI - LXXI - Conclusion
January 28, 2023
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The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James
Preface and Lecture One - Religion and Neurology
January 26, 2023
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Greek History - Part Two
Thucydides - The Peloponnesian War - Book Three
January 26, 2023
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Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes - Chapters 8-15
January 25, 2023
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Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Book One - Chapter Four - pages 89-94 of Finnegans Wake by Joyce
January 24, 2023
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January 23, 2023
RELAUNCH - The Foundations of Our Republic - The Articles of Association - 1774
January 22, 2023
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On Reading Six Women Artists/Thinkers -
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January 21, 2023
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Anguish and the Absurd
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov - Part One of Three - pages 9-104
January 19, 2023
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Greek History - Part Two
Thucydides - The Peloponnesian War - Book Two
January 19, 2023
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Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes - Prologue and Chapters 1-7
January 17, 2023
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The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
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January 16, 2023
On Mandala Symbolism - by Jung
January 12, 2023
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Greek History - Part Two
Thucydides - The Peloponnesian War - Book One
January 11, 2023
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Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Book One - Chapter Four - pages 86-89 of Finnegans Wake by Joyce
January 10, 2023
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The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Chapters 1-3
Free Community Online Seminar Series
January 9, 2023
The Foundations of Our Republic - Dobbs v. Mississippi Supreme Court Decision (edited)
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December 28, 2022
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Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Book One - Chapter Four - pages 81-86 of Finnegans Wake by Joyce
December 20, 2022
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Moby Dick by Herman Melville
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December 18, 2022
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Shakespeare and Plutarch: Roman Plays, Roman Lives - Antony and Cleopatra by Shakespeare
December 15, 2022
Greek History Intensive - Section One - Herodotus - Book Nine
December 13, 2022
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Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Chapters 119-130
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December 12, 2022
A Study in the Process of Individuation - by Jung - Conclusion
December 11, 2022
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon - Chapters XLII-L
December 8, 2022
Greek History Intensive - Section One - Herodotus - Book Eight
December 6, 2022
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Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Chapters 107-118
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December 5, 2022
The Foundations of Our Republic - Roe V. Wade Supreme Court Decision (edited)
December 4, 2022
Online Seminar Series - Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - Book II, Chapters I to XX
December 3, 2022
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Shakespeare and Plutarch: Roman Plays, Roman Lives - Life of Antony by Plutarch
December 1, 2022
Greek History Intensive - Section One - Herodotus - Book Seven
November 30, 2022
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Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Book One - Chapter Four continued of Finnegans Wake by Joyce, and Chapter Four of A Reader's Guide to Finnegans Wake by William Tindall
November 29, 2022
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Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Chapters 98-106
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November 21, 2022
The Foundations of Our Republic - The Proposed Equal Rights Amendment
November 20, 2022
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon - Chapter XLI
November 17, 2022
Greek History Intensive - Section One - Herodotus - Book Six
November 16, 2022
Online American History Intensive
Section Three - Kendi - Chapters 34-37, Epilogue
November 16, 2022
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Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
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November 15, 2022
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Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Chapters 88-97
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November 14, 2022
A Study in the Process of Individuation - by Jung - Paragraphs 525-626
November 12, 2022
Online Seminar Series - The Work of Flannery O'Connor - A Late Encounter with the Enemy and Aquinas on Honor
November 10, 2022
Greek History Intensive - Section One - Herodotus - Book Five
November 9, 2022
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Section Three - Kendi - Chapters 34-37, Epilogue
November 8, 2022
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Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Chapters 80-87
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November 7, 2022
The Foundations of Our Republic - Letter from Birmingham Jail and I Have a Dream speech by Martin Luther King Jr.
November 6, 2022
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Shakespeare and Plutarch: Roman Plays, Roman Lives - Julius Caesar by Shakespeare
November 5, 2022
Online Seminar - Frankenstein by Mary Shelly
November 3, 2022
Greek History Intensive - Section One - Herodotus - Book Four
November 2, 2022
Online American History Intensive
Section Three - Boorstin - The Future on Schedule and Epilogue
September 7, 2022
Online Seminar Series
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Book One - Chapter Four of Finnegans Wake by Joyce, and Chapter Four of A Reader's Guide to Finnegans Wake by William Tindall
November 1 2022
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Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Chapters 71-79
October 30, 2022
Online Seminar Series - Anguish and the Absurd - 1984, Part Three - Conclusion - by George Orwell
October 27, 2022
Greek History Intensive - Section One - Herodotus - Book Three
October 26, 2022
Online American History Intensive
Section Three - Dobbs v. Mississippi Supreme Court Decision
October 25, 2022
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Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Chapters 59-70
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October 24, 2022
Conscious, Unconscious, and Individuation - by Jung - Paragraphs 489-524
October 23, 2022
Online Seminar Series - Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - The Epistle to the Reader and Book I
October 22, 2022
Online Seminar Series - Is Natural Law Real? - Selections from Augustine - City of God
October 20, 2022
Greek History Intensive - Section One - Herodotus - Book Two
October 19, 2022
Online American History Intensive
Section Three - Roe v. Wade Supreme Court Decision
October 19, 2022
Online Seminar Series
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Book One - Chapter Three concluded of Finnegans Wake by Joyce, and Chapter Three of A Reader's Guide to Finnegans Wake by William Tindall
October 18, 2022
Online Intensive
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Chapters 53-58
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October 17, 2022
The Foundations of Our Republic - Supreme Court Case - Brown v. Board of Education
October 13, 2022
Greek History Intensive - Section One - Herodotus - Book One
October 12, 2022
Online American History Intensive
Section Three - Boorstin - Language, Knowledge, and the Arts
October 11, 2022
Online Intensive
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Chapters 45-52
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October 10, 2022
The Phenomenology of the Spirit in Fairytales - The Trickster - by Jung - Paragraphs 456-488
October 9, 2022
Online Seminar Series
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon - Chapter XL
October 8, 2022
Online Seminar Series
Shakespeare and Plutarch: Roman Plays, Roman Lives - The Life of Brutus by Plutarch
October 6, 2022
Greek History Intensive - Section One - The Ancient City - The City Part Two
October 5, 2022
Online American History Intensive
Section Three - Kendi - Angela Davis - Chapters 30-33
October 5, 2022
Online Seminar Series
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Book One - Chapter Three continued of Finnegans Wake by Joyce, and Chapter Three of A Reader's Guide to Finnegans Wake by William Tindall
October 4, 2022
Online Intensive
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Chapters 38-44
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October 3, 2022
The Foundations of Our Republic - Supreme Court Case - Plessy v. Ferguson
September 29, 2022
Greek History Intensive - Section One - The Ancient City - The City Part One
September 28, 2022
Onsite Ojai Chautauqua City Council Candidate Forum
September 27, 2022
Online Intensive
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Chapters 32-37
Free Community Online Seminar Series
September 26, 2022
The Phenomenology of the Spirit in Fairytales by Jung Part Two - Paragraphs 419-455
September 25, 2022
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Shakespeare and Plutarch: Roman Plays, Roman Lives - The Life of Caesar by Plutarch
September 24, 2022
Online Seminar Series
The New Testament - Gospel of John
September 22, 2022
Greek History Intensive - Section One - The Ancient City - The Family
September 21, 2022
Online American History Intensive
Section Three - Lepore - Battle Lines
September 21, 2022
Online Seminar Series
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Book One - Chapter Three continued of Finnegans Wake by Joyce, and Chapter Three of A Reader's Guide to Finnegans Wake by William Tindall
September 20, 2022
Online Intensive
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Chapters 23-31
Free Community Online Seminar Series
September 19, 2022
The Foundations of Our Republic - Du Bois - The Souls of Folk - Chapter Four
September 18, 2022
Online Seminar Series - The Work of Flannery O'Connor - Good Country People and Aquinas on Prudence
September 15, 2022
Greek History Intensive - Section One - The Ancient City - Ancient Beliefs
September 14, 2022
Online American History Intensive
Section Three - Boorstin - The Thinner Life of Things
September 13, 2022
Online Intensive
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Chapters 16-22
Free Community Online Seminar Series
September 12, 2022
The Phenomenology of the Spirit in Fairytales by Jung - Paragraphs 384-455
September 11, 2022
Online Seminar Series - Anguish and the Absurd - 1984, Part Two, by George Orwell
September 10, 2022
Online Seminar Series
Epistemology
Descartes - Meditation Six
September 7, 2022
Online Seminar Series
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Book One - Chapter Three continued of Finnegans Wake by Joyce, and Chapter Three of A Reader's Guide to Finnegans Wake by William Tindall
September 6, 2022
Online Intensive
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Chapters 6-15
August 31, 2022
Online American History Intensive
Section Three - The Civil War to the 21st Century - Martin Luther King, Jr. - Letting from Birmingham Jail and I Have a Dream Speech.
August 30, 2022
Online Intensive
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Etymology, Extracts, and Chapters 1-5
August 28, 2022
Online Seminar Series
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon - Chapters XXIV-XXXIX
August 27, 2022
Online Seminar Series
Shakespeare and Plutarch: Roman Plays, Roman Lives - Coriolanus by Shakespeare
August 24, 2022
Online American History Intensive
Section Three - The Civil War to the 21st Century
Session Eighteen - Lepore - Rights and Wrongs
August 24, 2022
Online Seminar Series
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Book One - Chapter Three continued of Finnegans Wake by Joyce, and Chapter Three of A Reader's Guide to Finnegans Wake by William Tindall
August 21, 2022
Online Seminar Series
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant - Section Three
2022 (continued)
February 19, 2023
Online Seminar Series
On Reading Six Women Artists/Thinkers -
Personal Truths, Metaphors and the Public Sphere -
Is Equality an Absolute Good? by Evan Brann
February 18, 2023
Online Seminar Series
The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James
Preface and Lecture Two - Circumscription of the Topic
February 16, 2023
Online Intensive
Greek History - Part Two
Thucydides - The Peloponnesian War - Book Six
February 16, 2023
Online Intensive
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes - Prologue and Chapters 27-31
August 20, 2022
Online Seminar Series - Is Natural Law Real? - Selections from Cicero's - On the Republic and On the Laws
August 17, 2022
Online American History Intensive
Section Three - The Civil War to the 21st Century
Session Seventeen - Boorstin - Mass-Producing the Moment
August 14, 2022
Online Seminar Series - Anguish and the Absurd - 1984, Part One, by George Orwell
August 13, 2022
Online Seminar
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neal Hurston
August 10, 2022
Online American History Intensive
Section Three - The Civil War to the 21st Century
Session Sixteen - Brown vs. Board of Education Supreme Court Case
August 10, 2022
Online Seminar Series
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Beginning Book One - Chapter Three of Finnegans Wake by Joyce, and Chapter Three of A Reader's Guide to Finnegans Wake by William Tindall
August 3, 2022
Online American History Intensive
Section Three - The Civil War to the 21st Century
Session Fifteen - Lepore - A World of Knowledge
July 30, 2022
Online Seminar Series
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon - Chapters Twenty-Six to Thirty-Three
July 27, 2022
Online American History Intensive
Section Three - The Civil War to the 21st Century
Session Fourteen - Boorstin - The Decline of the Miraculous
July 27, 2022
Online Seminar Series
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Concluding Book One - Chapter Two of Finnegans Wake by Joyce, and Chapter Two of A Reader's Guide to Finnegans Wake by William Tindall
July 24, 2022
Online Seminar Series
Shakespeare and Plutarch: Roman Plays, Roman Lives - Life of Coriolanus by Plutarch
July 20, 2022
Online American History Intensive
Section Three - The Civil War to the 21st Century
Session Thirteen - Lepore - The Brutality of Modernity
July 16, 2022
Online Seminar Series
Is Natural Law Real? - Part V
Selections from Aristotle's Ethics and Politics
July 13, 2022
Online American History Intensive
Section Three - The Civil War to the 21st Century
Session Twelve - Boorstin - The Urban Quest for Place
July 13, 2022
Online Seminar Series
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Continued Book One - Chapter Two of Finnegans Wake by Joyce, and Chapter Two of A Reader's Guide to Finnegans Wake by William Tindall
July 10, 2022
Online Seminar Series
Epistemology
Descartes - Meditations Four and Five
July 9, 2022
Online Seminar Series
The New Testament - Gospel of Luke
July 6, 2022
Online American History Intensive
Section Three - The Civil War to the 21st Century
Session Eleven - Lepore - A Constitution of the Air
June 29, 2022
Online American History Intensive
Section Three - The Civil War to the 21st Century
Session Ten - Kendi - W.E.B. Du Bois - Chapters 26-29
June 29, 2022
Online Seminar Series
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Finishing Book One - Chapter One, and starting Chapter Two of Finnegans Wake by Joyce, and Chapter Two of A Reader's Guide to Finnegans Wake by William Tindall
Free Community Online Seminar Series
June 27, 2022
The Foundations of Our Republic - Du Bois - The Souls of Folk - Chapter Three
June 26, 2022
Online Seminar Series
Introduction to Martin Heidegger
What is Called Thinking - Lectures IV, V, and X of Part Two
June 25, 2022
Online Seminar Series
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon - Chapters Sixteen to Twenty-Three
June 22, 2022
Online American History Intensive
Section Three - The Civil War to the 21st Century
Session Nine - Boorstin - Statistical Communities
Free Community Online Seminar Series
June 20, 2022
The Psychological Aspects of the Kore - Case Studies - Paragraphs 306-383
June 15, 2022
Online Seminar Series
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Continued - Book One - Chapter One of Finnegans Wake by Joyce, and Introduction and Chapter One of A Reader's Guide to Finnegans Wake by William Tindall
June 12, 2022
Online Seminar Series
Shakespeare and Plutarch: Roman Plays, Roman Lives - Titus Andronicus
June 11, 2022
Online Seminar Series
The New Testament - Gospel of Mark
June 9, 2022
Online Intensive
The Tao - Chuang Tzu - The Inner Chapters - The Talisman of Integrity Replete, The Great Ancestral Master, The Way of Emperors and Kings
June 8, 2022
Online American History Intensive
Section Three - The Civil War to the 21st Century
Session Three - Plessy vs. Ferguson Supreme Court Case, dissenting opinion, and background
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June 6, 2022
The Psychological Aspects of the Kore - Paragraphs 306-383
June 5, 2022
Online Seminar Series
Introduction to Martin Heidegger
What is Called Thinking - Lectures I-III of Part Two
June 4, 2022
Onsite Seminar and Play Performance
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
at Antaeus Theatre
June 2, 2022
Online Intensive
The Tao - Chuang Tzu - The Inner Chapters - To Care for This Life, The Human Realm
June 1, 2022
Online American History Intensive
Section Three - The Civil War to the 21st Century
Session Three - Lepore - Efficiency and the Masses
June 1, 2022
Online Seminar Series
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Continued - Book One - Chapter One of Finnegans Wake by Joyce, and Introduction and Chapter One of A Reader's Guide to Finnegans Wake by William Tindall
May 31, 2022
Online Intensive
Hero with 1,000 Faces by Joseph Campbell - Part II - Chapter III: The Transformations of the Hero
Free Community Online Seminar Series
May 30, 2022
The Foundations of Our Republic - Du Bois - The Souls of Folk - Chapter Two
May 28, 2022
Online Seminar Series
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant - Section Two - Second half
May 26, 2022
Online Intensive
The Tao - Chuang Tzu - The Inner Chapters - Wandering Boundless and Free, A Little Talk About Evening Things Out
May 25, 2022
Online American History Intensive
Section Three - The Civil War to the 21st Century
Session Three - Kendi - W.E.B. Du Bois - Chapters 21-25
May 24, 2022
Online Intensive
Hero with 1,000 Faces by Joseph Campbell - Part II - Chapter II: The Virgin Birth
Free Community Online Seminar Series
May 23, 2022
Rereading The Child Archetype by Jung - Paragraphs 259-305
May 22, 2022
Online Seminar Series
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon - Chapter Fifteen
May 19, 2022
Online Intensive
The Tao - Tao Te Ching -
Chapters 61-81
May 18, 2022
Online American History Intensive
Section Three - The Civil War to the 21st Century
Session Five - Boorstin - Consumption Communities
May 18, 2022
Online Seminar Series
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Continuing Book One - Chapter One of Finnegans Wake by Joyce, and Introduction and Chapter One of A Reader's Guide to Finnegans Wake by William Tindall
May 17, 2022
Online Intensive
Hero with 1,000 Faces by Joseph Campbell - Part I - Chapter IV - The Keys and Part II - The Cosmogonic Cycle - Chapter I: Emanations
Free Community Online Seminar Series
May 16, 2022
The Foundations of Our Republic - Du Bois - The Souls of Folk - Forethought and Chapter One
May 15, 2022
Online Seminar Series
Introduction to Martin Heidegger
What is Called Thinking - Lectures I-III of Part One
May 14, 2022
Online Seminar Series
Anguish and the Absurd
Animal Farm by George Orwell
May 12, 2022
Online Intensive
The Tao - Tao Te Ching -
May 11, 2022
Online American History Intensive
Section Three - The Civil War to the 21st Century
Session Three - Du Bois - The Souls of Black Folk - Forethought and Chapters 1-4
May 10, 2022
Online Intensive
Hero with 1,000 Faces by Joseph Campbell - The Adventure of the Hero - Part I - Chapter III: Return
Free Community Online Seminar Series
May 9, 2022
The Child Archetype by Jung - Paragraphs 259-305
May 7, 2022
Online Seminar Series
The New Testament - Gospel of Matthew
May 5, 2022
Online Intensive
The Tao - Tao Te Ching -
Chapters 21-38
May 4, 2022
Online American History Intensive
Section Three - The Civil War to the 21st Century
Session Three - Lepore
The State - Of Citizens, Persons, and People
May 4, 2022
Online Seminar Series
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Book One - Chapter One of Finnegans Wake by Joyce, and Introduction and Chapter One of A Reader's Guide to Finnegans Wake by William Tindall
May 3, 2022
Online Intensive
Hero with 1,000 Faces by Joseph Campbell - The Adventure of the Hero - Part I - Chapter II: Initiation
Free Community Online Seminar Series
May 2, 2022
The Foundations of Our Republic - The Broken Constitution - Introduction - Noah Feldman
May 1, 2022
Online Seminar Series
I and Thou - Part Four
Section Three
April 30, 2022
Online Seminar
Waiting for God by Simone Weil - Letters IV-VI, and Reflections on the Right Studies with a View to the Love of God
April 28, 2022
Online Intensive
The Tao - Tao Te Ching -
Chapters 12-20
April 27, 2022
Online American History Intensive
Section Three - The Civil War to the 21st Century
Session Two - Kendi - Reconstructing Slavery and Reconstructing Blame
April 26, 2022
Online Intensive
Hero with 1,000 Faces by Joseph Campbell - The Adventure of the Hero - Chapter I - Departure
Free Community Online Seminar Series
April 25, 2022
On Rebirth by Jung - A Set of Symbols Illustrating Transformation - Paragraphs 240-258
April 24, 2022
Online Seminar Series
Introduction to Martin Heidegger
The Question Concerning Technology
April 23, 2022
Online Seminar Series
Epistemology
Descartes - Meditation Three
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April 18, 2022
The Foundations of Our Republic - Lincoln - First Inaugural Address
April 14, 2022
Online Intensive
The Century Cycle by August Wilson - King Hedley II
Free Community Online Seminar Series
April 11, 2022
On Rebirth by Jung - Middle Third - Paragraphs 199-258
April 9, 2022
Online Seminar Series
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant - Section Two - First Half
April 7, 2022
Online Intensive
The Century Cycle by August Wilson - Jitney
April 6, 2022
Online Brother Karamazov Intensive - Epilogue
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April 4, 2022
The Foundations of Our Republic - Lincoln - Cooper Union Address
April 3, 2022
Online Seminar Series
Introduction to Martin Heidegger
Rectors Address, Reunion Speech, and Bibliography
April 2, 2022
Online Seminar Series
History Plays of Shakespeare -Henry VIII
March 31, 2022
Online Intensive
The Century Cycle by August Wilson - Two Trains Running
Free Community Online Seminar Series
March 28, 2022
On Rebirth by Jung - First Half - Paragraphs 199-258
March 27, 2022
Online Seminar Series
Epistemology
Descartes - Meditations One and Two
March 26, 2022
Online Seminar Series
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon - Chapters Three - Fourteen (abridged)
March 24, 2022
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March 23, 2022
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March 23, 2022
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March 21, 2022
The Foundations of Our Republic - Lincoln Douglas Debates (edited)
March 20, 2022
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March 17, 2022
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March 16, 2022
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Session Twenty-three - Kendi -
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March 14, 2022
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March 12, 2022
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March 10, 2022
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March 9, 2022
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March 9, 2022
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March 7, 2022
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March 6, 2022
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March 5, 2022
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March 3, 2022
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March 2, 2022
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March 2, 2022
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February 28, 2022
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February 27, 2022
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February 26, 2022
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February 24, 2022
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February 24, 2022
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February 23, 2022
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February 23, 2022
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February 21, 2022
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February 20, 2022
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February 19, 2022
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February 16, 2022
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February 15, 2022
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February 14, 2022
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February 13, 2022
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February 12, 2022
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February 10, 2022
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February 9, 2022
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February 9, 2022
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February 8, 2022
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February 7, 2022
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February 2, 2022
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February 2, 2022
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February 1, 2022
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January 31, 2022
The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious by C. G. Jung
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January 30, 2022
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January 27, 2022
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January 26, 2022
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January 26, 2022
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January 25, 2022
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January 24, 2022
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January 23, 2022
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January 22, 2022
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January 20, 2022
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January 19, 2022
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January 18, 2022
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January 17, 2022
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January 16, 2022
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January 15, 2022
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January 13, 2022
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January 12, 2022
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January 11, 2022
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January 10, 2022
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January 9, 2022
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January 6, 2022
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January 5, 2022
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January 5, 2022
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December 22, 2021
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December 22, 2021
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December 16, 2021
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December 15, 2021
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December 12, 2021
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December 11, 2021
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December 9, 2021
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December 8, 2021
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December 8, 2021
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December 6, 2021
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December 5, 2021
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December 2, 2021
Finding Eurydice - Then and Now
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December 2, 2021
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December 1, 2021
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December 1, 2021
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November 29, 2021
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November 24, 2021
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November 21, 2021
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November 20, 2021
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November 18, 2021
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November 17, 2021
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November 16, 2021
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November 15, 2021
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November 14, 2021
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November 11, 2021
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November 11, 2021
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November 10, 2021
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November 9, 2021
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November 7, 2021
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November 6, 2021
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November 4, 2021
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November 3, 2021
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November 3, 2021
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November 2, 2021
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November 1, 2021
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October 31, 2021
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October 28, 2021
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October 27, 2021
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October 27, 2021
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October 26, 2021
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October 24, 2021
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October 23, 2021
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October 21, 2021
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October 20, 2021
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October 19, 2021
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October 18, 2021
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October 17, 2021
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October 16, 2021
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October 14, 2021
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October 14, 2021
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October 13, 2021
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October 13, 2021
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October 12, 2021
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October 10, 2021
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October 7, 2021
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October 6, 2021
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October 6, 2021
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October 5, 2021
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October 3, 2021
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October 2, 2021
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September 30, 2021
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September 30, 2021
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September 29, 2021
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September 29, 2021
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September 28, 2021
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September 26, 2021
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September 23, 2021
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September 21, 2021
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Book Two
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September 20, 2021
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September 19, 2021
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September 18, 2021
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September 16, 2021
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September 16, 2021
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September 14, 2021
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September 12, 2021
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September 11, 2021
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September 11, 2021
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September 6, 2021
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September 4, 2021
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August 29, 2021
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August 28, 2021
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August 23, 2021
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August 22, 2021
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August 21, 2021
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August 19, 2021
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August 15, 2021
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August 14, 2021
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August 9, 2021
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August 8, 2021
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August 5, 2021
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August 4, 2021
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August 1, 2021
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July 28, 2021
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July 26, 2021
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July 22, 2021
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July 21, 2021
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July 14, 2021
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July 13, 2021
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July 12, 2021
The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II - Constitutional Amendments XXV-XXVII
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July 8, 2021
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July 7, 2021
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July 7, 2021
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June 30, 2021
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Section One - The Colonial Period
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June 29, 2021
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June 26, 2021
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June 24, 2021
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June 23, 2021
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June 22, 2021
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Book Eight
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June 21, 2021
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June 20, 2021
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June 19, 2021
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June 19, 2021
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June 16, 2021
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June 15, 2021
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Book Seven
June 13, 2021
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Shakespeare's Henriad Tetralogy
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June 12, 2021
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June 10, 2021
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June 9, 2021
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The Learned Lose Their Monopolies and
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June 8, 2021
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June 8, 2021
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June 7, 2021
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June 6, 2021
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June 5, 2021
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June 3, 2021
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June 2, 2021
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June 2, 2021
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Lunchtime with Ulysses by James Joyce - Chapters Six and Seven: Hades and Aeolus
June 1, 2021
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June 1, 2021
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May 30, 2021
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May 29, 2021
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May 27, 2021
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May 27, 2021
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May 26, 2021
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May 25, 2021
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May 25, 2021
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Book Four
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May 24, 2021
The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II - Constitutional Amendments XX, XXI, XXII
May 23, 2021
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May 23, 2021
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May 22, 2021
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May 20, 2021
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May 19, 2021
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May 18, 2021
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Clouds by Aristophanes
May 18, 2021
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May 16, 2021
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May 15, 2021
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May 13, 2021
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May 12, 2021
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May 11, 2021
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May 11, 2021
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May 10, 2021
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May 6, 2021
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May 5, 2021
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May 5, 2021
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May 4, 2021
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May 4, 2021
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May 2, 2021
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May 1, 2021
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April 29, 2021
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April 29, 2021
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April 28, 2021
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April 27, 2021
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April 26, 2021
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April 25, 2021
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April 25, 2021
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April 24, 2021
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April 22, 2021
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April 21, 2021
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April 20, 2021
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April 18, 2021
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April 17, 2021
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April 15, 2021
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April 13, 2021
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April 12, 2021
The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II - Constitutional Amendment XIV revisited
April 11, 2021
Online Seminar Series
The Wisdom of Humor - Part V
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll
April 11, 2021
Online Seminar series
Beloved, Jazz, and Paradise by Toni Morrison - Beloved, pages 199-277 (Part II)
April 10, 2021
Online Seminar series
Le Morte d'Arthur by Thomas Malory - Book Two
April 10, 2021
Online Seminar Series
Anguish and the Absurd - Part VIII
The Master and Margarita by Bulgakov - Part II - Book Two, Chapters 19-25
April 8, 2021
Online Greek Intensive
Section Two - Cohort One
Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles
April 7, 2021
Online Seminar Series
Lunchtime with Ulysses by James Joyce - Chapters Two and Three: Nestor and Proteus
April 6, 2021
Online Greek Intensive
Section Two - Cohort Two
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
April 1, 2021
Online Greek Intensive
Section Two - Cohort One
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
March 30, 2021
Online Greek Intensive
Section Two - Cohort Two
Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus
Free Community Online Seminar Series
March 29, 2021
The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II - Constitutional Amendment XV
March 28, 2021
Online Seminar Series
Herodotus - The Histories - Book Two
March 27, 2021
Online Seminar Series on Love -
Gunnar's Daughter by Sigrid Undset
March 25, 2021
Online Greek Intensive
Section Two - Cohort One
Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus
March 23, 2021
Online Greek Intensive
Section Two - Cohort Two
The Eumenides by Aeschylus
March 21, 2021
Online Seminar Series
The Wisdom of Humor - Part IV
Selections from Douglass and Swift
March 20, 2021
Online Seminar Series
Epistemology - Part II - selections from Republic by Plato
March 20, 2021
Online Film Series
Charulata - 1964 Indian Film
written and directed by Satyajit Ray
March 18, 2021
Online Greek Intensive
Section Two - Cohort One
The Eumenides by Aeschylus
March 16, 2021
Online Greek Intensive
Section Two - Cohort Two
The Libation Bearers by Aeschylus
Free Community Online Seminar Series
March 15, 2021
The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II - Constitutional Amendment XIV Supreme Court Cases
March 14, 2021
Online Seminar Series
Dialogues Concerning the Two Chief World Systems by Galileo - Day One - pages 1-56
March 13, 2021
Online Seminar Series
Anguish and the Absurd - Part VII
The Master and Margarita by Bulgakov -
Part I - Book One, Chapters 10-18
March 13, 2021
Online Seminar (repeat event)
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
March 11, 2021
Online Greek Intensive
Section Two - Cohort One
The Libation Bearers by Aeschylus
Free Community Online Seminar Series
March 11, 2021
Eastern Classics
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad -
Part III, Chapters 3 and 4
March 9, 2021
Online Greek Intensive
Section Two - Cohort Two
Agamemnon by Aeschylus
March 7, 2021
Online Seminar series
Le Morte d'Arthur by Thomas Malory - Book One
March 7, 2021
Online Seminar series
Beloved, Jazz, and Paradise by Toni Morrison - Beloved, pages 87-196
March 6, 2021
Online Seminar Series on Ocean and Underworld - Inferno by Dante - Cantos 1-16
March 6, 2021
Online Seminar Series
Shakespeare's Henriad Tetralogy
Henry V
March 4, 2021
Online Greek Intensive
Section Two - Cohort One
Agamemnon by Aeschylus
March 3, 2021
Online Seminar Series
Lunchtime with Ulysses by James Joyce - Chapter One: Telemachus
Free Community Online Seminar Series
March 1, 2021
The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II - Constitutional Amendment XIII
February 28, 2021
Online Seminar Series on Stoicism - Part IV - Epictetus, The Enchiridion
February 27, 2021
Online Seminar Series
Herodotus - The Histories - Book One
February 25, 2021
Online Greek Intensive
Section One - Cohort One
Celebration
Free Community Online Seminar Series
February 25, 2021
Eastern Classics
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad -
Part III, Chapter 2
February 23, 2021
Online Greek Intensive
Section One - Cohort Two
Celebration
February 21, 2021
Online Seminar Series
The Wisdom of Humor - Part III
Selections from Twain and Wilde on Lying
February 20, 2021
Online Seminar Series
Shakespeare's Henriad Tetralogy
Henry IV - Part One
February 18, 2021
Online Greek Intensive
Section One - Cohort One
Iliad, Poem of Force by Simone Weil
February 16, 2021
Online Greek Intensive
Section One - Cohort Two
Iliad, Poem of Force by Simone Weil
Free Community Online Seminar Series
February 15, 2021
The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II - Constitutional Amendments XI, XII
February 14, 2021
Online Seminar series
Beloved, Jazz, and Paradise by Toni Morrison - Beloved, pages 1-86
February 13, 2021
Online Seminar Series
Anguish and the Absurd - Part VI
The Master and Margarita by Bulgakov - Part I - Book One, Chapters 1-9
February 11, 2021
Online Greek Intensive
Section One - Cohort One
Odyssey by Homer, Books Twenty-one to Twenty Four
Free Community Online Seminar Series
February 11, 2021
Eastern Classics
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad -
Part III, Chapter 1
February 9, 2021
Online Greek Intensive
Section One - Cohort Two
Odyssey by Homer, Books Twenty-one to Twenty Four
February 7, 2021
Online Seminar Series
Epistemology - Part I - Meno by Plato
February 6, 2021
Online Seminar Series - Words of Divine Love in the Medieval East & West - Part III
From the Songs to Zion and
Where Will I Find You by Yehudah Halevi and Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward by John Donne
February 4, 2021
Online Greek Intensive
Section One - Cohort One
Odyssey by Homer, Books Seventeen to Twenty
February 2, 2021
Online Greek Intensive
Section One - Cohort Two
Odyssey by Homer, Books Seventeen to Twenty
Free Community Online Seminar Series
February 1, 2021
The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II - Constitutional Amendments IX, X
January 31, 2021
Online Seminar
The Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot
January 30, 2021
Online Seminar Series on Ocean and Underworld - Part V - Selections from The Aeneid - Books 3, 4, 5, 6
January 28, 2021
Online Greek Intensive
Section One - Cohort One
Odyssey by Homer, Books Thirteen to Sixteen
Free Community Online Seminar Series
January 28, 2021
Eastern Classics
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad -
Part II, Chapters 5, 6
January 26, 2021
Online Greek Intensive
Section One - Cohort Two
Odyssey by Homer, Books Thirteen to Sixteen
January 24, 2021
Online Seminar
Series on Thucydides - The Peloponnesian
War - Book Eight - Conclusion
January 23, 2021
Online Seminar
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
January 21, 2021
Online Greek Intensive
Section One - Cohort One
Odyssey by Homer, Books Nine to Twelve
January 19, 2021
Online Greek Intensive
Section One - Cohort Two
Odyssey by Homer, Books Nine to Twelve
Free Community Online Seminar Series
January 18, 2021
The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II - Constitutional Amendment XIV, XXV
Special Event
January 17, 2021
Online Seminar Series
The Wisdom of Humor - Part II
Midsummer Night's Dream by Shakespeare
January 16, 2021
Online Seminar Series
Shakespeare's Henriad Tetralogy
Henry IV - Part One
January 14, 2021
Online Greek Intensive
Section One - Cohort One
Odyssey by Homer, Books Five to Eight
Free Community Online Seminar Series
January 14, 2021
Eastern Classics
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad -
Part II, Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4
January 12, 2021
Online Greek Intensive
Section One - Cohort Two
Odyssey by Homer, Books Five to Eight
January 7, 2021
Online Greek Intensive
Section One - Cohort One
Odyssey by Homer, Books One to Four
January 5, 2021
Online Greek Intensive
Section One - Cohort Two
Odyssey by Homer, Books One to Four
Free Community Online Seminar Series
January 4, 2021
The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II - Bill of Rights, Amendment VI, VII, VIII
2020
December 19, 2020
Online Seminar Series
Shakespeare's Henriad Tetralogy
Richard II
December 17, 2020
Online Greek Intensive
Section One - Cohort One
Iliad by Homer, Books Twenty-One to Twenty-Four
December 15, 2020
Online Greek Intensive
Section One - Cohort Two
Iliad by Homer, Books Twenty-One to Twenty-Four
Free Community Online Seminar Series
December 14, 2020
The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II - Bill of Rights, Amendment III, IV, V
December 13, 2020
Online Seminar Series on Stoicism - Part III - Seneca - On Providence
December 12, 2020
Online Seminar
Series on Thucydides - The Peloponnesian
War - Book Seven
December 10, 2020
Online Greek Intensive
Section One - Cohort One
Iliad by Homer, Books Seventeen - Twenty
December 8, 2020
Online Greek Intensive
Section One - Cohort Two
Iliad by Homer, Books Seventeen - Twenty
December 6, 2020
Online Seminar
Series On Marcel Proust - Swann's Way - Part VII
Saturday, December 5, 2020
Online Film Seminar
Rashomon directed by Akira Kurosawa
December 3, 2020
Online Greek Intensive
Section One - Cohort One
Iliad by Homer, Books Thirteen - Sixteen
Free Community Online Seminar Series
December 3, 2020
Eastern Classics
Bhagavad Gita - Chapter Eighteen
December 1, 2020
Online Greek Intensive
Section One - Cohort Two
Iliad by Homer, Books Thirteen - Sixteen
Free Community Online Seminar Series
November 30, 2020
The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II
Bill of Rights, Amendment I continued, and II
November 24, 2020
Online Greek Intensive
Section One - Cohort Two
Iliad by Homer, Books Nine-Twelve
November 21, 2020
Online Seminar
Series on Anguish and the Absurd - Part V - Diary of a Madman and The Nose by Gogol
November 19, 2020
Online Greek Intensive
Section One - Cohort One
Iliad by Homer, Books Nine-Twelve
November 17, 2020
Online Greek Intensive
Section One - Cohort Two
Iliad by Homer, Books Five -Eight
Free Community Online Seminar Series
November 16, 2020
The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II - Preamble to the Bill of Rights, Amendment I
November 15, 2020
Online Seminar Series
The Wisdom of Humor - Part I
Clouds by Aristophanes
November 14, 2020
Online Seminar
From Lugubrious to Luminous:
Words about Music
(and where they take us!)
November 12, 2020
Online Greek Intensive
Section One - Cohort One
Iliad by Homer, Books Five-Eight
Free Community Online Seminar Series
November 12, 2020
Eastern Classics
Bhagavad Gita - Chapter Seventeen
November 10, 2020
Online Greek Intensive
Section One - Cohort Two
Iliad by Homer, Books One-Four
November 8, 2020
Online Seminar
Series on Thucydides - The Peloponnesian
War - Book Six
November 7, 2020
Online Seminar Series on Love, Part IV King Lear by Shakespeare
November 5, 2020
Online Greek Intensive
Section One - Cohort One
Iliad by Homer, Books One-Four
November 3, 2020
Online Greek Intensive
Section One - Cohort Two
Hamilton - Mythology, Parts Two and Three
Free Community Online Seminar Series
November 2, 2020
The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II - James Madison - Memorial and Remonstrance - Against Religious Assessments &
Thomas Jefferson - The Virginia Statute - for Religious Freedom
November 1, 2020
Online Seminar
Series On Marcel Proust - Swann's Way - Part VI
October 31, 2020
Online Seminar Series on Seneca - Part II - On the Shortness of Life
October 29, 2020
Online Greek Intensive
Section One - Cohort One
Hamilton - Mythology, Parts Two and Three
Free Community Online Seminar Series
October 29, 2020
Eastern Classics
Bhagavad Gita - Chapter sixteen
October 27, 2020
Online Greek Intensive
Section One - Cohort Two
Hamilton - Mythology, Part One
October 24, 2020
Online Seminar Series on Ocean and Underworld - Part IV - True Histories by Lucian
October 22, 2020
Online Greek Intensive
Section One - Cohort One
Hamilton - Mythology, Part One
Free Community Online Seminar Series
October 19, 2020
The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II - The Constitution of the U.S. Articles Six and Seven
October 18, 2020
Online Seminar
Series on Michel de Montaigne - Part IV - Of the power of the imagination, Of Cato the Younger, A consideration upon Cicero
Of Democritus and Heraclitus, Of vain subtleties, Of books
October 17, 2020
Online Seminar
Series on Thucydides - The Peloponnesian - War - Book Five
Free Community Online Seminar Series
October 15, 2020
Eastern Classics
Bhagavad Gita - Chapters Fourteen and Fifteen
October 11, 2020
Online Seminar
Series - Athens and Jerusalem:
Reason and Revelation - Part VI -
Leo Strauss, Mutual Influence of Theology and Philosophy
October 10, 2020
Online Seminar
Series On The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Chapters IX - End
Free Community Online Seminar Series
October 5, 2020
The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II - The Constitution of the U.S. Articles Four and Five
October 4, 2020
Online Seminar Series - Words of Divine Love in the Medieval East & West - Part II
Hafiz and Angela da Foligno
October 3, 2020
Online Seminar
Series On The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Chapters I-VIII
Free Community Online Seminar Series
October 1, 2020
Eastern Classics
Bhagavad Gita - Chapters Twelve and Thirteen
September 27, 2020
Online Seminar
Series On Marcel Proust - Swann's Way - Part V
September 26, 2020
Online Seminar
Series on Anguish and the Absurd - Part IV - Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
Free Community Online Seminar Series
September 21, 2020
The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II - The Constitution of the U.S. Article Three
September 20, 2020
Online Seminar Series - Words of Divine Love in the Medieval East & West - Part I
Hildegard von Bingen and Rumi
September 19, 2020
Online Seminar Series on Seneca - Part I - On Anger, Book Three
Free Community Online Seminar Series
September 17, 2020
Eastern Classics
Bhagavad Gita - Chapters Ten and Eleven
September 13, 2020
Online Seminar
Series - Athens and Jerusalem:
Reason and Revelation - Part V -
Al Ghazali, The Incoherence of the Philosophers - Discussion 3 and Averroes, Decisive Treatise
September 12, 2020
Online Seminar Series on Ocean and Underworld - Part III - Frogs by Aristophanes
Free Community Online Seminar Series
September 7, 2020
The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II - The Constitution of the U.S. Article Two - Sections Two through Four
September 6, 2020
Online Seminar
Series on Michel de Montaigne - Part III - On Experience
September 5, 2020
Online Seminar
Series on Thucydides - The Peloponnesian
War - Book Four
Free Community Online Seminar Series
September 3, 2020
Eastern Classics
Bhagavad Gita - Chapter Nine
August 30, 2020
Online Seminar - Waiting for God
Selected Essays by Simone Weil
August 29, 2020
Online Seminar Series on Love, Part III - Selections from Thomas Aquinas
August 27, 2020
Online Seminar Series
Nietzsche - The Use and Abuse of History - Part II - Books Six-Ten
Free Community Online Seminar Series
August 24, 2020
The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II - The Constitution of the U.S. Article Two - Section One
August 23, 2020
Online Seminar
Series - Athens and Jerusalem:
Reason and Revelation - Part IV -
Maimonides - Guide for the Perplexed - Creation and the Eternity of the Universe
August 22, 2020
Online Film Seminar
Shame - 1968 Film by Ingmar Bergman
August 20, 2020
Online Seminar Series
Nietzsche - The Use and Abuse of History - Part I - Books One-Five
Free Community Online Seminar Series
August 20, 2020
Eastern Classics
Bhagavad Gita - Chapter Eight, continued
2020 continued
August 15, 2020
Online Seminar
Series On Marcel Proust - Swann's Way - Part IV
Free Community Online Seminar Series
August 10, 2020
The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II - The Constitution of the U.S. Article One - Sections 9-10
August 9, 2020
Online Seminar
Series on Anguish and the Absurd - Part III - Selected stories of Jorge Luis Borges
August 8, 2020
Online Seminar
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Free Community Online Seminar Series
August 6, 2020
Eastern Classics
Bhagavad Gita - Chapter Eight
August 2, 2020
Online Seminar
Series on Michel de Montaigne - Part II
To the Reader, Of Idleness, Of Solitude, - Of Diversion, Of the Art of Discussion
August 1, 2020
Online Seminar
Series on Thucydides - The Peloponnesian
War - Book Three
Free Community Online Seminar Series
July 27, 2020
The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II - The Constitution of the U.S. Article One - Section 8
July 26, 2020
Online Seminar
Series - Athens and Jerusalem:
Reason and Revelation - Part III -
Fides et Ratio and Thomas Aquinas on natural law
July 25, 2020
Online Seminar Series on Ocean and Underworld - Part II - The Book of Jonah
Free Community Online Seminar Series
July 23, 2020
Eastern Classics
Bhagavad Gita - Chapter Seven concluded
July 19, 2020
Online Seminar
Series On Marcel Proust - Swann's Way - Part III
July 18, 2020
Online Seminar Series on Love, Part iI - Aristotle Ethics, Books 8 and 9 edited
Free Community Online Seminar Series
July 13, 2020
The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II - The Constitution of the U.S. Preamble, Article One - Sections 3-7
July 11, 2020
Online Seminar
Russian Short Stories
Tolstoy, The Forged Coupon
Dostoevsky, The Honest Thief
Free Community Online Seminar Series
July 9, 2020
Eastern Classics
Bhagavad Gita - Chapter Seven
Free Community Online Seminar Series
June 29, 2020
The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II - The Constitution of the U.S. Preamble, Article One - Sections One and Two.
June 28, 2020
Online Seminar
Series on Michel de Montaigne
To the Reader, Of Cannibals, The Education of Children, Of Cruelty, and Of Repentance
June 27, 2020
Online Seminar
Series - Athens and Jerusalem:
Reason and Revelation - Part II -
Plato, Euthyphro
June 25, 2020
Online Seminar
Series on Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (pages 34-end)
Free Community Online Seminar Series
June 25, 2020
Eastern Classics
Bhagavad Gita - Chapters Five and Six
June 20, 2020
Series on Anguish and the Absurd - Nausea by Jean Paul Sartre
June 18, 2020
Online Seminar
Series on Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (pages 1-34)
Free Community Online Seminar Series
June 15, 2020
The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II - Anti-Federalist Papers Brutus I and Cato II
June 13, 2020
Online Seminar
Series On Marcel Proust - Swann's Way - Part II Combray II, pages 49-135
Free Community Online Seminar Series
June 11, 2020
Eastern Classics
Bhagavad Gita - Chapter Four
June 7, 2020
Online Special Event, in Cooperation
with the 74th Annual Ojai Music Festival
The Spaces Where You Go to Listen: Deep Listening in the Time of Pandemic
June 6, 2020
Online Seminar
Series on Thucydides - The Peloponnesian
War - Book Two
Free Community Online Seminar Series
June 1, 2020
The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II - Federalist Papers 78, 85
May 30, 2020
Online Seminar Series on Ocean and Underworld - Selections from Odyssey by Homer
May 28, 2020
Free Online Ojai Chautauqua Panel
What is the Future of Education After COVID-19?
Free Community Online Seminar Series
May 28, 2020
Eastern Classics
Bhagavad Gita - Chapter Three
May 23, 2020
Online Seminar Series on Love
Symposium by Plato
May 21, 2020
Online Seminar Series
The Plague by Albert Camus
Parts Three, Four, and Five
Free Community Online Seminar Series
May 18, 2020
The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II - Federalist Paper 70
May 17, 2020
Online Seminar
Series on Anguish and the Absurd - The Trial by Franz Kafka, Film directed by Orson Welles
May 16, 2020
Online Seminar
Series On Marcel Proust - Swann's Way - Part I Combray, Chapter One
May 14, 2020
Online Seminar Series
The Plague by Albert Camus
Parts One and Two
Free Community Online Seminar Series
May 14, 2020
Eastern Classics
Bhagavad Gita - Chapters One and Two
May 9, 2020
Online Seminar
Series - Athens and Jerusalem:
Reason and Revelation - Part I
Genesis 1-3 and Leo Strauss - On the Interpretation of Genesis
Free Community Online Seminar Series
May 4, 2020
The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II - Federalist Paper 69
May 2, 2020
Online Seminar
Series on Thucydides - The Peloponnesian
War - Book One
Free Community Online Seminar Series
April 30, 2020
Eastern Classics
Confucius - Analects - Chapter Seven
April 25, 2020
Online Seminar
Series - The Story Within the Story III - The Arabian Nights (selections)
Free Community Online Seminar Series
April 20, 2020
The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II - Federalist Papers 66 and 68
Free Community Online Seminar Series
April 16, 2020
Eastern Classics
Confucius - Analects - Chapters Five and Six
April 11, 2020
Online Film Seminar
The Stranger by Albert Camus
Film and Text Pairing
Free Community Online Seminar Series
April 9, 2020
Eastern Classics
Confucius - Analects - Chapters Three and Four
Free Community Online Seminar Series
April 6, 2020
The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II - Federalist Paper 65
March 28, 2020
Online Seminar
Democracy in America, Volume 2 (selections)
by Alexis de Tocqueville
February 29, 2020
Series - The Story Within the Story II - Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
Free Community Seminar Series
February 25, 2020
Greek Philosophy
Phaedo by Plato, part II
Free Community Seminar Series
February 24, 2020
The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II - Federalist Paper 52
February 22, 2020
Pragmatism by William James
Free Community Seminar Series
February 20, 2020
Eastern Classics
Confucius - Analects - Chapters One and Two
February 16, 2020
Ojai Chautauqua Panel Series on Education
Addressing Declining Public School Enrollment in Ojai
Free Community Seminar Series
February 11, 2020
Greek Philosophy
Phaedo by Plato, part I
Free Community Seminar Series
February 10, 2020
The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II - Federalist Paper 51, part II
February 8, 2020
Series - The Story Within the Story I - The Decameron (selections)
Free Community Seminar Series
February 6, 2020
Eastern Classics
Confucius - Analects - Chapter One
Free Community Seminar Series
January 30, 2020
Eastern Classics
Tao Te Ching, Chapters 15, 18
Free Community Seminar Series
January 28, 2020
Greek Philosophy
Crito by Plato
Free Community Seminar Series
January 27, 2020
The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II - Federalist Paper 51
Free Community Seminar Series
January 16, 2020
Eastern Classics
Tao Te Ching, Chapter Eight
Free Community Seminar Series
January 13, 2020
The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II - Federalist Paper 10, Part 2
January 11, 2020
Experience and Education
by John Dewey
Free Community Seminar Series
January 6, 2020
Greek Philosophy
Apology part II by Plato
2019
Free Community Seminar Series
December 23, 2019
The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II - Federalist Paper 10, Part 1
Free Community Seminar Series
December 19, 2019
Eastern Classics
Tao Te Ching, Chapter Five
December 15, 2019
The Red Badge of Courage
by Stephen Crane
Short Story and Film Presentation
Free Community Seminar Series
December 11, 2019
Greek Philosophy
Apology by Plato
Free Community Seminar Series
December 9, 2019
The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II - Federalist Paper 9
December 7, 2019
Lyric Poetry of Emily Dickinson
and Sylvia Plath
Free Community Seminar Series
December 5, 2019
Eastern Classics
Tao Te Ching, Chapter Four
Free Community Seminar Series
November 25, 2019
The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II
Federalist Paper 6
Free Community Seminar Series
November 21, 2019
Eastern Classics
Tao Te Ching, Chapter Three
Free Community Seminar Series
November 13, 2019
Greek Philosophy
Euthyphro by Plato
Free Community Seminar Series
November 11, 2019
The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II
Federalist Papers 2
November 9, 2019
The Origin of Species (selections)
by Charles Darwin
Free Community Seminar Series
November 7, 2019
Eastern Classics
Tao Te Ching, Chapter Two
November 2, 2019
The Copernican Revolution: Planetary Astronomy in the Development of Western Thought (selections) by Thomas Kuhn
Free Community Seminar Series
October 28, 2019
The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II - Federalist Papers 1
Free Community Seminar Series
October 23, 2019
Greek Philosophy
Symposium by Plato - Part III
Free Community Seminar Series
October 17, 2019
Eastern Classics
Tao Te Ching, Chapter One
Free Community Seminar Series
October 14, 2019
The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II - The Articles of Confederation, Part III
September 28, 2019
Lincoln's Pre-Civil War Speeches:
Timely Thoughts on Enduring Political Institutions
Free Community Seminar Series
September 25, 2019
Greek Philosophy
Symposium by Plato - Part II
Free Community Seminar Series
September 23, 2019
The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II - The Articles of Confederation, Part II
September 14, 2019
Two Dialogues of Plato
Apology and Crito
Free Community Seminar Series
September 11, 2019
Greek Philosophy
Symposium by Plato - Part One
Free Community Seminar Series
September 9, 2019
The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II - The Articles of Confederation, Part I
August 31, 2019
The Theory of the Leisure Class - Part II - by Thorstein Veblen
Free Community Seminar Series
August 28, 2019
Greek Philosophy
Meno by Plato - Part Two
Tuesday, August 27, 2019
Italian Movie Night II
The Bicycle Thieves
Free Community Seminar Series
August 26, 2019
The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II - The Declaration of Independence Part II
August 25, 2019
Ojai Chautauqua Panel Series on Education
What is Education For?
Free Community Seminar Series
August 14, 2019
Greek Philosophy
Meno by Plato - Part One
Free Community Seminar Series
August 12, 2019
The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II - The Declaration of Independence
August 10, 2019
Billy Budd
by Herman Melville
Short Story and Film Presentation
August 4, 2019
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
by Bertolt Brecht
Seminar and Play Performance
August 3, 2019
Beyond Good and Evil - Part II
by Friedrich Nietzsche
July 28, 2019
Ojai Chautauqua Panel
Is Legal Cannabis Good for Ojai
June 30, 2019
Engage to Impact -
Series on Growth and Innovation
in Ojai Public Schools
Free Community Seminar Series
June 26, 2019
Early Greek Philosophy
Pythagoras - Golden Verses Part II
Free Community Seminar Series
June 20, 2019
The Foundations of Our Republic
Letter from Birmingham Jail
June 15, 2019
An Inquiry of Nature -
Selections from Newton and Einstein
Free Community Seminar Series
June 12, 2019
Early Greek Philosophy
Pythagoras - Golden Verses Part I
Free Community Seminar Series
June 6, 2019
The Foundations of Our Republic
Brown v. Board of Education
June 1, 2019
The Theory of the Leisure Class - Part I - by Thorstein Veblen
Free Community Seminar Series
May 22, 2019
Early Greek Philosophy
Pythagoras and Geometry continued
May 19, 2019
Responsibility and Judgement
(selections) by Hannah Arendt
Free Public Presentation
May 18, 2019
Adventurous Listening -
A Prelude to the Ojai Music Festival
May 18, 2019
Adventures in Listening:
New Music Since 1899
Free Community Seminar Series
May 16, 2019
The Foundations of Our Republic
Plessy v. Ferguson and Dissenting View
Free Community Seminar Series
May 8, 2019
Early Greek Philosophy
Pythagoras and Geometry
Free Community Seminar Series
May 2, 2019
The Foundations of Our Republic
Lincoln Douglas Debates
Free Community Seminar Series
April 24, 2019
Early Greek Philosophy
Democritus on Nature
April 20, 2019
Beyond Good and Evil, Part One, by Nietzsche
Free Community Seminar Series
April 18, 2019
The Foundations of Our Republic
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
1857 Supreme Court Case
Tuesday, April 16, 2019
Italian Movie Night
Cinema Paradiso
Sunday, April 14, 2019
The Miser by Molière
Seminar and Play Performance
Free Community Seminar Series
April 10, 2019
Early Greek Philosophy
Empedocles on Nature
April 6, 2019
One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel García Márquez
Free Community Seminar Series
April 4, 2019
The Foundations of Our Republic
The Constitution - Amendments 22-27
March 30, 2019
Ojai Chautauqua Panel
Not If... But When
Preparing for the Next Wildland Fire
Special Anniversary Celebration
March 23, 2019
The Spirit of Russia Through Story
The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol, Master and Man and The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy, and The Dream of a Ridiculous Man by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Free Community Seminar Series
March 21, 2019
The Foundations of Our Republic
The Constitution - Amendments 15-21
Free Community Seminar Series
March 7, 2019
The Foundations of Our Republic
The Constitution - Amendment 14 revisited
March 2, 2019
The Dead by James Joyce
Short Story and Film Presentation
February 23, 2019
The Book of Ecclesiastes
January 26, 2019
Structural Anthropology - Part One
by Claude Levi-Strauss
2018
Free Community Seminar Series
December 20, 2018
The Foundations of Our Republic
The Constitution - Amendments 11-14
December 8, 2018
Series - The Feminine - Part II
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Revelation by Flannery O'Connor
Free Community Seminar Series
December 6, 2018
The Foundations of Our Republic
The Constitution - Amendments
5-10
December 1, 2018
The Book of Genesis
Chapters 1-25
November 18, 2018
The Lady with the Dog
by Anton Chekhov
Short Story and Film Presentation
Free Community Seminar Series
November 15, 2018
The Foundations of Our Republic
The Constitution - Amendments
1-4
November 3, 2018
The Analects of Confucius (selections)
Free Community Seminar Series
November 1, 2018
The Foundations of Our Republic
The Constitution - Articles Five, Six, Seven, and Amendment I
Free Community Seminar Series
October 18, 2018
The Foundations of Our Republic
The Constitution - Articles Two, Three, and Four
October 13, 2018
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
Free Community Seminar Series
October 4, 2018
The Foundations of Our Republic
The Constitution - Article One
September 30, 2018
Ojai Chautauqua Panel
Water: Part III
What's Changing and What Might
Still Need to Change
September 22, 2018
Series - The Feminine
The Franklin's Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer, Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare, and the Introduction and Conclusion from The Second Sex
by Simone de Beauvoir
Free Community Seminar Series
September 20, 2018
The Foundations of Our Republic
The Federalist Papers 70, 78, 85
September 9, 2018
Don Quixote and Man of La Mancha Seminar and Play Performance
Free Community Seminar Series
September 6, 2018
The Foundations of Our Republic
The Federalist Papers 68 and 69
Free Community Seminar Series
August 30, 2018
The Foundations of Our Republic
The Federalist Papers 52 and 62
August 19, 2018
Three Days in the Country
Seminar and Play Performance
Free Community Seminar Series
August 16, 2018
The Foundations of Our Republic
The Federalist Paper 51
July 31-August 3, 2018
Four-Day Summer Intensive
Humanity's Place in the Natural World
Panel - Stewardship in the Ojai Valley
August 2, 2018
Free Community Seminar Series
July 19, 2018
The Foundations of Our Republic
The Federalist Paper 10 continued
Summer Pop-Up EventJuly 8, 2018
33 Variations
Play Performance and Post-Show
Gathering with the Director
Free Community Seminar Series
July 5, 2018
The Foundations of Our Republic
The Federalist Paper 10
Free Community Seminar Series
June 21, 2018
The Foundations of Our Republic
The Federalist Papers 6 and 9
Free Community Seminar Series
June 7, 2018
The Foundations of Our Republic
The Federalist Papers I and II
May 19, 2018
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
Free Community Seminar Series
May 17, 2018
The Foundations of Our Republic
The Declaration of Independence, Part II
Free Community Seminar Series
May 3, 2018
The Foundations of Our RepublicThe Declaration of Independence, Part I
April 21, 2018
Double Header Event
The Aeneid by Virgil and
Selected Federalist Papers
April 15, 2018
Ojai Chautauqua Panel
Water: Part II
March 24, 2018
Aristotle on Friendship
March 18, 2018
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Seminar and Play Performance
February 24, 2018
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
February 17, 2018
Ojai Chautauqua Panel
Beyond the Whistle-Blowers: What comes next? Power, Gender, and Writing New Rules for the American Workplace
February 10, 2018
The Yoga Sutra of Patanjali
January 20, 2018
Can Machines Think? Computing and Intelligence by Alan Turing
2017
November 19, 2017
The Ojai Chautauqua Panel
Tourism in the Ojai Valley
November 18, 2017
Continuing Series on Happiness
Kringelbach and Berridge - The Neurobiology of Pleasure and Happiness and, Steven Pinker - How the Mind Works (selections)
October 20, 2017
The Ojai Chautauqua Panel
An Evening with Dan Schnur and Warren Olney
October 14, 2017
Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
September 23, 2017
Hans Jonas Mortality and Morality:
A Search for Good After Auschwitz - Part I
August 26, 2017
As You Like It by William Shakespeare
Seminar and Play Performance
June 17, 2017
Kristin Lavransdatter III - The Cross by Sigrid Undset
June 3, 2017
Ojai Chautauqua Panel
Politics, Media, and Society
May 7, 2017
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
by Tennessee Williams
Seminar and Play Performance
May 6, 2017
Ojai Chautauqua Panel
An Unconventional Presidency - Donald Trump’s First One Hundred Days in Office
April 1, 2017
Thomas Aquinas on Faith and Reason
March 18, 2017
Reason in History by Hegel
February 4, 2017
The Future of an Illusion
by Sigmund Freud
January 7, 2017
Selections from The Quran and
The Life of Muhammad
2016
December 10, 2016
Kristin Lavransdatter, Part II - The Wife by Sigrid Undset
October 8, 2016
Ojai Chautauqua Panel
The 2016 Election - Part II
What Happens Next?
September 24, 2016
Spinoza - The Separation of Church and State
September 17, 2016
Ojai Chautauqua Panel
The 2016 Presidential Election Part I - How Did We Get Here?
September 10, 2016
Continuing Series On Happiness
Augustine - City of God (selections)
June 5, 2016
Hedda Gabler by Ibsen
Seminar and play performance
April 16, 2016
Continuing Series on Happiness - Aristotle, selections from Nicomachean Ethics
March 19, 2016
Art and the Public Sphere
Rousseau and Aristophanes
February 13, 2016
On the Concept of Sin
Piper and Thomas Aquinas
January 30, 2016
Continuing Series on Happiness -
Seneca, Of a Happy Life
2015
November 21, 2015
The Road to Serfdom by F. A. Hayek
November 1, 2015
Uncle Vanya by Chekhov
Seminar and play performance
September 26, 2015
Beginning Series on Happiness
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles and
two essays by Schopenhauer
June 27, 2015
The Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
May 9, 2015
Love
Plato, Symposium
Shakespeare, Othello
April 11, 2015
The Wisdom of Genesis
Genesis, Chapters 1-3,
St. Augustine, Commentary on Genesis
March 14, 2015
On the Right Side of History
Heidegger, Reunion Speech
Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address
Thucydides, Pericles' Funeral Oration
February 21, 2015
On the Soul
Aristotle, On the Soul (selections),
and Leon Kass, NEH Lecture
January 31, 2015
Law and Conscience
Sophocles, Antigone,
Plato, Crito
Speeches from Lincoln and Jefferson
2014
December 13, 2014
What is Charity?
Selections from Aristotle, Frost, O. Henry, Chekhov, the New Testament, and many more.
November 22, 2014
Short Stories of Willa Cather
Paul's Case, Neighbor Rosicky,
and Two Friends.
October 11, 2014
What is Life?
Erwin Schrodinger, What is Life?
Charles de Koninck, Is the Word “Life” Meaningful?
September 27, 2014
The Origin of Knowledge
Plato, Meno
Aristotle, Posterior Analytics (selections)
Descartes, Discourse on Method (selections)
August 30, 2014
Kristin Lavransdatter, Part I - The Wreath
by Sigrid Undset
June 14, 2014
Selections from The Book of Psalms
May 24, 2014
Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich
Nietzsche- Parts 1 and 2
April 12, 2014
An Inquiry on Contemporary Music
March 15, 2014
Selections from The Upanishads
February 22, 2014
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism - Max Weber
January 18, 2014
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
2013
December 14, 2013
Emily Dickinson - Selections
November 16, 2013
Russian Short Stories V
An Honest Thief by Dostoyevsky,
God Sees the Truth But Waits, and The Forged Coupon by Tolstoy, and The Darling by Chekov
October 5, 2013
The Phenomenon of Life by Hans Jonas - Part II Sixth Essay: The Nobility of Sight, plus the Appendix: Sight and Movement; and Seventh Essay: Image-making and the Freedom of Man
September 14, 2013
Emma by Jane Austen
April 27, 2013
Liberal Education and Its Critics
What is Liberal Education? and Liberal Education and Responsibility from Liberalism Ancient and Modern by Leo Strauss. Challenge to Liberal Thought by John Dewey and Education as Socialization and Individualization by Richard Rorty
March 9, 2013
The Bhagavad Gita and Our Demand and Need from the Gita by Sri Aurobindo
February 9, 2013
The Iliad by Homer
January 26, 2013
The Nature of Art
Plotinus, Ennead I.6, On Beauty and Search for the Real by Hans Hofmann
2012
December 8, 2012
The Phenomenon of Life by Hans Jonas - selections: Introduction - On the Subjects
of a Philosophy of Life; Third Essay - Is God a Mathematician? The Meaning of Metabolism; Fifth Essay - Cybernetics and Purpose: A Critique
October 20, 2012
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Parts III, IV
September 22, 2012
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Parts I and II
May 19, 2012
The Book of Revelation
April 28, 2012
The Birth of Modern Theater
Hedda Gabler by Ibsen and The Seagull by Chekhov
March 31, 2012
Democracy in America (selections)
by Alexis de Tocqueville
February 25, 2012
Utopia by Thomas More
January 21, 2012
Contemporary Issues II -
The Phenomenon of Life
Two essays from Hans Jonas - The Burden and Blessing of Mortality and Toward a Philosophy of Technology
2011
December 10, 2011
Why Should We Believe: Is Religious Faith Reasonable?
Selections of texts from Thomas Aquinas.
November 19, 2011
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
October 8, 2011
A Free Economy: A Source of Wealth or Misery?Selections from The Wealth of Nations by
Adam Smith and The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
September 10, 2011
Acting Rightly: Should We Trust Our Conscience?
Selections from Thomas Aquinas and Thomas More
May 7, 2011
Does God Make Sense?
Selections from Thomas Aquinas - Summa Theologiae & selections from Richard Dawkins - The God Delusion
April 9, 2011
The Path of the Law
Selections from Thomas Aquinas - Treatise on Law & Oliver Wendell Holmes - The Path of the Law
March 19, 2011
Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor
February 26, 2011
Aristotle on Sensation and the Soul
January 22, 2011
Between Life and Death
Henry James - The Beast in the Jungle, & The Alter of the Dead, James Joyce - The Dead
2010
November 13, 2010
Richard Dawkins - The God Delusion
October 23, 2010
The Soul
Aristotle, Bk. I, ch. 7 of the Physics Aristotle,Bk. II, ch. 1 of the De Anima
September 25, 2010
The Origin, Significance, and Wisdom of the Constitution - Part III - The Dred Scott Decision (edited) - The Seventh Lincoln Douglass Debate (edited)
July 31 - August 1, 2010
Special Event - The Winter's Tale
April 17-18, 2010
Contemporary Issues series
Man and the Environment
March 19-20, 2010
Contemporary Issues series
Frankenstein and the Ethics of Biotechnology
January 23, 2010
William Faulkner - As I Lay Dying
2009
November 7, 2009
G. K. Chesterton - Orthodoxy
October 17, 2009
Series - The Origin, Significance, and Wisdom of the Constitution - Part II
John Locke - Second Treatise of
Government (selections)
The Declaration of Independence
& The Constitution
September 12, 2009
Cervantes - Don Quixote
June 13 & 14, 2009
Ovid's Metamorphoses
June 6, 2009
Nature and Beyond
Pre-Socratic philosophers, Selections - The Portrait, Gogol
A Doll’s House, Ibsen
May 9, 2009
Heroic Women
Sigrid Undset, Gunnar's Daughter
Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House
March 28 & 29, 2009
Two Dialogues of Plato
Symposium and Phaedrus
February 7, 2009
Seminar Series - The Origin, Significance,
and Wisdom of the Constitution
Aristotle, Politics (selections)
January 17, 2009
Milton, Paradise Lost
2008
November 15, 2008
Tragic Rulers - William Shakespeare
Julius Caesar, Macbeth
October 4 & 5, 2008
Human Being and History
Hegel, Introduction to The Philosophy of History
Heidegger, essays: The Question Concerning Technology and The Turning
September 6, 2008
The Qur'an
June 14, 2008
The Problem of Evil
Elie Wiesel, Night
C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain
May 24, 2008
Camus - The Myth of Sisyphus
April 26, 2008
Freud - Civilization and Its Discontents
March 15, 2008
Notes from Underground by Dostoevsky
February 16, 2008
Fear and Trembling by Kierkegaard
January 19, 2008
Flannery O'Connor
The Lame Shall Enter First ,
A Good Man is Hard to Find, &
The Life You Save May Be Your Own, Rousseau, The Social Contract and Declaration of Independence and
The Federalist Papers (1, 10, 51)
2007
November 9 & 10, 2007
A Weekend with Eva Brann
Lecture on November 9:
Aeschylus Eumenides : Modernity and Patriotism - held at Thomas Aquinas College
Aeschylus - The Persians
Thucydides - Selection from History of the Peloponnesian War
October 6, 2007
A Day on T . S. Eliot
Murder in the Cathedral
The Waste Land
September 15, 2007
Continuing Theme on Ethics
Sophocles - Antigone
Shakespeare - Hamlet
Lecture: Two Paradigms of Ethical Reflection by Mike McLean, Ph.D, Thomas Aquinas College
March 10, 2007
Continuing Theme on Ethics
Machiavelli - The Prince
February 9 & 10, 2007
Aristotle - Nicomachean Ethics, Books I-III
January 13 & 14, 2007
A Weekend on Borges
The Circular Ruins, Ragnarök, The Maker, The Aleph, Borges and I, August 25-1983, The Garden of Forking Paths, The Witness, Everything and Nothing
2006
November 11 & 12, 2006
Approaches to God
St. Thomas, Summa Theologiae, Part One, Chpt 13 - Articles 1-6, and 12 Maimonides, Guide for the Perplexed, Part One, Chpt 50-60
October 20 & 21, 2006
Russian Short Stories IV
Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Dostoevsky, The Gentle Creature
This seminar weekend will kick off with a dinner gathering on Friday night, beginning at 5:00pm, followed by a performance of the Valamm Ensemble from Russia, held at Thomas Aquinas College
Fundamental Seminars Program
September 23 & 24, 2006
Human Suffering
Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus
The Bible, The Book of Job
Epictetus, The Handbook
March 17 & 18, 2006
Liberty II
Ongoing series on Liberty, examining different views of freedom, responsibility, human happiness, and the providential order. Thomas Aquinas - selections - Treatise on Law
February 11 & 12, 2006
Phenomenology III
Ongoing series on the underlying philosophical principles and developments of twentieth-century phenomenology.
Heidegger - further selections from Being and Time
January 7 & 8, 2006
A Weekend on James Joyce
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
2005
December 17 & 18, 2005
Russian Short Stories III
Tolstoy, Father Sergius
Gogol, The Portrait
Chekhov, The Bet
November 12, 2005
Liberty I
The first in an ongoing series on Liberty. This series will examine different views of freedom, responsibility, human happiness, and the providential order.
Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy
October 1 & 2, 2005
Phenomenology II
Ongoing series on the underlying philosophical principles and developments of twentieth-century phenomenology. Heidegger - selections from Being and Time
August 27 & 28, 2005
The Nature of Greek Tragedy
Aristotle, Poetics (chapters 1-18)
Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy
(chapters 1-15)
Euripides, Hippolytus (entire play)
June 4, 2005
The Divine Comedy III
Dante, Paradise
April 23 & 24, 2005
Beginning Series on Phenomenology
Selections from The Essential Husserl
March 19, 2005
The Passion of Christ
Film: The Passion of the Christ
The Gospel of Luke - entire work
The Gospel of John - Chapter 2, versus 1-11, and Chapters 13-19
The Gospel of Mathew - Chapters 26-27
January 15, 2005
Toni Morrison, Beloved
2004
December 4, 2004
The Divine Comedy
Dante, Purgatory
October 16, 2004
The Divine Comedy
Dante, Inferno
September 25, 2004
Tolstoy, War and Peace
June 12 & 13, 2004
Special Event
A Weekend on Music
Man the Musician (selections)
by Victor Zuckerkandl &
Thinking About Music (selections)
by Lewis Rowell
Music selections include:
Josquin Desprez · Kyrie
Wolfgang Mozart · Menuetto, K. 355, Elliott Carter · Poems by Frost, Bishop, etc. set to music
May 1 & 2, 2004
Faust
Christopher Marlowe:
Dr. Faustus - (A-Text version only)
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe:
Faust I - (complete)
Faust II - (acts IV and V)
March 19 & 20, 2004
The American Novel
Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Herman Melville, Billy Budd
Willa Cather, My Antonia
February 20 & 21, 2004
The Book of Job
January 17, 2004
James Joyce, Dubliners
2003
November 22 & 23, 2003
Transgression, Punishment, and Mercy - William Shakespeare
The Merchant of Venice
Measure for Measure
The Winter's Tale
October 11 & 12, 2003
Russian Short Stories II
Tolstoy , The Devil
Chekov , The Black Monk
Dostoevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
September 6 & 7, 2003
The Gospel According to John
May 23 & 24, 2003
When is War Justified
Aquinas, On War, and On Murder
Wendell Berry, The Failure of War
James Sterba, Reconciling Pacifists and Just War Theorists
April 25 & 26, 2003
Is Lying Justifiable
Twain, Was it Heaven? Or Hell?
Aquinas, On Lying
Kant, On the Supposed Right to Lie
March 1 & 2, 2003
Satire and the Human Condition
Swift, Gulliver's Travels
January 17 & 18, 2003
Is Religious Belief Reasonable
Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian
Lewis, Mere Christianity, Book 1
Lewis, MereChristianity, Book 2
2002
December 13 & 14, 2002
Justice and the Political Order Continued - Plato, Republic VI-X
One-Day Intensive
October 12, 2002
The Nature of Sensation
Aristotle, On the Soul, Book Two
(sections 5, 6, 7, & 12 only)
Lecture: "Are Sensible Qualities Real?" - by Dr. Christopher Decaen
Dinner and Reception follow
November 23 & 24, 2002
Justice and the Political Order
Plato, The Republic I-V
September 6 & 7, 2002
Vengeance and Justice
Aeschylus, The Oresteia
June 28 & 29, 2002
The Nature of Comedy
Shakespeare, As You Like It
Chaucer, The Miller's Tale &
The Reeve's Tale
Essays from Bergson, Goldsmith, & Hazlitt
One-Day Intensive
May 11, 2002
Aristotle, On the Soul
Book One Chapters 1-5,
Book Two Chapters 1-2
Lecture: "Thomistic Biology as an Antidote to the Reductionism of Modern Science" - by Dr. William Carroll of Cornell College, Iowa
Dinner and Reception follow
One-Day Intensive
March 23, 2002
Aristotle, On Nature and Causality
Book Two, Chapters 1, 3
Book Two, Chapters 4-6, 8
Lecture: "Natures Act for an End"
by Dr. Robert Augros of
St. Anselm College, New Hampshire
Dinner and Reception follow
February 23 & 24, 2002
Aristotle, On Nature
Book One, Chapters 1, 5-6
Book One, Chapter 7
Book One, Chapters 8-9
January 19 & 20, 2002
Human Suffering
Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus
The Bible, The Book of Job
Epictetus, The Handbook
2001
December 14 &15, 2001
Existentialism
Sartre, Existentialism is a Humanism
Sartre, No Exit and The Flies
Camus, The Stranger
November 17 & 18, 2001
Russian Short Stories
Gogol, The Nose, The Overcoat, The Calash
Chekhov, The Kiss, Gooseberries, The Bishop
Tolstoy, Master and Man
September 22 & 23, 2001
Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
July 6 & 7, 2001
Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
June 2 & 3, 2001
Kant, Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals
March 16 & 17, 2001
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics (On Friendship)
Bk. VIII, Chpt 1-8
Bk. VIII, Chpt 9 – Bk. IX, Chpt 3
Bk. IX, Chapters 4-12
January 20 & 21, 2001
Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
C. S. Lewis, Four Loves
Shakespeare, Othello
2000
December 15 & 16, 2000
Plato and Aristophanes
Plato, Protagoras
Aristophanes, The Clouds
November 17 & 18, 2000
Descartes, Meditations Concerning First Philosophy
September 22 & 23, 2000
The Nature of Poetry
Aristotle, Poetics, Chapters 1-6
Aristotle, Poetics, Chapters 7-15
Euripides, Hippolytus
July 8 & 9, 2000
Aristotle, Ethics I-III
June 16 & 17, 2000
Tyranny and Justice
Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
Thomas Aquinas, On Kingship and Summa Theologiae (selections)
Machiavelli, The Prince
March 17 & 18, 2000
The Short Story
Flaubert, A Simple Heart and
St. Jullian Hospitalier
Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych
Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man is Hard to Find and The Enduring Chill
January 28 & 29, 2000
Augustine, The Confessions
1999
November 13 & 14, 1999
Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
September 24 & 25, 1999
The Political Order
Aristotle, Politics (selections)
Rousseau, The Social Contract
Declaration of Independence and
The Federalist Papers (1, 10, 51)
June 18 & 19, 1999
Faith and Reason
Thomas Aquinas, Summa Contra Gentiles
Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling
St. Paul, Letter to the Galatians
Martin Luther, Commentary on Galatians
April 23 & 24, 1999
The Origin of Knowledge
Plato, Meno
Aristotle, Posterior Analytics
Descartes, Discourse on Method
March 12 & 13, 1999
Law and Conscience
Sophocles, Antigone
Plato, Apology and Crito
Lincoln, selections
January 29 & 30, 1999
Human Action
The Holy Bible, Genesis, Chpt 1-25
Pre-Socratics and Epicurus
Freud, An Outline of Psychoanalysis
1998
December 4 & 5, 1998
Love
Plato, Symposium
C. S. Lewis, Four Loves
Shakespeare, Othello
November 13 & 14, 1998
Does God Exist?
Anselm of Canterbury, Proslogion
Blaise Pascal, Pensees
Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, Ques. 2
September 25 & 26, 1998
Morality and Human Action
Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
St. Thomas Aquinas, On Homicide