September 19, 2026

Online Seminar Series

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - The Nature of Normal Science, Normal Science as Puzzle-solving, The Priority of Paradigms (pages 23-51)

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September 17, 2026

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Jane Austen - Emma - chapters 50-end

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September 16, 2026

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Introduction to Buddhism: Theravada and Mahayana Traditions - In the Buddha's Words - Chapter 4 - The Happiness Visible in This Present Life - pages 107-142

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September 16, 2026

Online Seminar Series

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book Three - Chapter Thirteen - pages 516-522

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September 14, 2026

Monday Night Poetry Group - Online Series - This Lime Tree Bower My Prison by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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September 12, 2026

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Immanuel Kant: Perpetual Peace and Other Essays - What Is Enlightenment? (pages 43-48)

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September 10, 2026

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Jane Austen - Emma - chapters 44-49

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September 10, 2026

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The World and Will and Representation by Schopenhauer - Sections 6-7, pp. 19-35

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September 9, 2026

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September 5, 2026

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Mahatma Gandhi - The Essential Writings - II. Authentic Human Life and the Transformation of the Individual - (pages 39-65)

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September 3, 2026

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Jane Austen - Emma - chapters 38-43

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September 2, 2026

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Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book Three - Chapter Thirteen - pages 512-516

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August 30, 2026

Onsite Ojai Chautauqua Panel
The Future of Ojai - Our Rising Generation - Are we planning thoughtfully for the youth of the valley? 

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August 29, 2026

Online Seminar Series

The Chemical History of a Candle by Michael Faraday - Lecture Three - Products: Water from the Combustion - Nature of Water - A Compound - Hydrogen

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August 27, 2026

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Jane Austen - Emma - chapters 30-37

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August 22, 2026

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The Periodic Table: A Memoir by Primo Levi - Gold, Cerium, Chromium (pages 127-159)

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August 20, 2026

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Jane Austen - Emma - chapters 24-29

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August 20, 2026

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The World and Will and Representation by Schopenhauer - Sections 1-5, pp. 3-18 

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August 19, 2026

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Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book Three - Chapter Thirteen - pages 505-512

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August 17, 2026

Monday Night Poetry Group - Online Series - Frost at Midnight by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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August 13, 2026

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Jane Austen - Emma - chapters 16-23

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August 10, 2026

Monday Night Poetry Group - Online Series - The Eolian Harp by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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August 8, 2026

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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Preface, Introduction, The Route to Normal Science - (pages xxxix - 22)

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August 6, 2026

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Jane Austen - Emma - chapters 9-15

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August 6, 2026

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The World and Will and Representation by Schopenhauer - Prefaces, pp. xii-xxviii 

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August 5, 2026

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Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book Three - Chapter Thirteen - pages 503-505

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August 3, 2026

Monday Night Poetry Group - Online Series - Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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August 1, 2026

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Days and Nights in the Forest - film by Satyajit Ray 

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July 30, 2026

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Jane Austen - Emma - chapters 1-8

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July 16, 2026

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Jane Austen - Mansfield Park - volume 3, chapters 13-17

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July 13, 2026

Monday Night Poetry Group - Online Series - Ode to the West Wind by Percy Bysshe Shelley

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July 11, 2026

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Mahatma Gandhi - The Essential Writings - I. Gandhi, his mission, and the influences on him - (pages 1-38)

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July 9, 2026

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Jane Austen - Mansfield Park - volume 3, chapters 6-12

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July 8, 2026

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Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book Three - Chapter Thirteen - pages 497-503

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July 7, 2026

Onsite Free Community Seminar Series - Eastern Classics

Tao Te Ching - Chapter 48

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July 2, 2026

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Jane Austen - Mansfield Park - volume 3, chapters 1-5

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June 27, 2026

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The Chemical History of a Candle by Michael Faraday - Lecture Two - A Candle: Brightness of the Flame, Air Necessary for Combustion, Production of Water

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June 25, 2026

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Jane Austen - Mansfield Park - volume 2, chapters 6-13

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June 24, 2026

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Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book Three - Chapter Thirteen - pages 491-497

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June 23, 2026

Onsite Free Community Seminar Series - The Poetry of Mary Oliver - Don't Hesitate

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June 22, 2026

Monday Night Poetry Group - Online Series - To a Skylark by Percy Bysshe Shelley

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June 18, 2026

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Jane Austen - Mansfield Park - volume 1, chapter 16 - volume 2, chapter 5

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June 16, 2026

Onsite Free Community Seminar Series - Eastern Classics

Tao Te Ching - Chapter 47

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June 15, 2026

Monday Night Poetry Group - Online Series - Stanzas Written in Dejection, Near Naples by Percy Bysshe Shelley

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June 13, 2026

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The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber -

Part 2 - Chapter Five: Asceticism and the Spirit of Capitalism (pages 102 - 125)

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June 11, 2026

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Jane Austen - Mansfield Park - volume 1, chapters 8-15

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June 9, 2026

Onsite Free Community Seminar Series - Eastern Classics

Poetry of Hafiz - Beloved, who has bid thee ask no more 

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December 22, 2025

Monday Night Poetry Group - Online Series - 13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird by Wallace Stevens

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December 20, 2025

Online Contemporary Issues Seminar Series

The Emperor of All Maladies - A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee - 

Part Two - An Impatient War - An Anatomist's Tumor, An Army on the March, The Cart and the Horse, A Moon Shot for Cancer

(pages 151-190)

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December 18, 2025

Online Intensive

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy - 

Part Eight - Chapters I-XIX

Pages 769-817

 

December 17, 2025

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The Sickness unto Death by Kierkegaard - Conclusion - pages 146-165

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December 15, 2025

Monday Night Poetry Group - Online Series - The Shield of Achilles by W.H. Auden

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December 11, 2025

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Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy - 

Part Seven - Chapters XVII-XXXI

Pages 719-768

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December 10, 2025

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The Sickness unto Death by Kierkegaard - Appendix to A, B. The Continuation of Sin, A - The Sin despairing over one’s sin

pages 133-146 top

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December 10, 2025

Online Seminar Series

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book Two - Chapter Eleven to Book Three - Chapter Twelve - pages 433-440

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December 8, 2025

Monday Night Poetry Group - Online Series - September 1, 1939 by W.H. Auden

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December 7, 2025

Online Seminar Series

Mind and Matter by Erwin Schrödinger -

Chapter 5 - Science and Religion and Chapter 6 - The Mystery of the Sensual Qualities

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December 6, 2025

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The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber -

Authors Introduction and Part 1 - The Problem - Chapter One: Religious Affiliation and Social Stratification (pages xxviii to page 12)​​

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December 4, 2025

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Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy - 

Part Seven - Chapters I-XVI

Pages 671-719

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December 3, 2025

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The Sickness unto Death by Kierkegaard -  A. Despair is Sin - Chapter 2 - The Socratic definition of sin, and Chapter 3 - That sin is not negative but affirmative

pages 120-133 top

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December 1, 2025

Monday Night Poetry Group - Online Series - In Memory of W. B. Yeats by W.H. Auden

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November 26, 2025

Online Seminar Series

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book Two - Chapter Eleven to Book Three - Chapter Twelve - pages 427-433

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November 24, 2025

Monday Night Poetry Group - Online Series - As I Walked Out One Evening by W.H. Auden

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November 22, 2025

Online Seminar Series

Shakespeare in Britain and Greece: Comic, Tragic, Both - 

Pericles

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November 20, 2025

Online Intensive

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy - 

Part Six - Chapters XVIII-XXXII

Pages 613-669

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November 19, 2025

Online Intensive

The Sickness unto Death by Kierkegaard -  A. Despair is Sin - Chapter 1 - pages 107-120 top.

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November 17, 2025

Monday Night Poetry Group - Online Series - Musée des Beaux Arts by W.H. Auden

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November 15, 2025

Online Seminar Series

American Rhetoric: the Lincoln-Douglas Debates

Quincy Debate (October 13, 1858) 

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November 13, 2025

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Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy - 

Part Six - Chapters I-XVII

Pages 551-613

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November 13, 2025

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Immanuel Kant - Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics - Conclusion (pp. 85-98), Solution (pp. 99-104) and Appendix (pp. 105-116)

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November 12, 2025

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The Sickness unto Death by Kierkegaard - B. Despair viewed under the aspect of consciousness (continued) (pages 89-105

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November 12, 2025

Online Seminar Series

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book Two - Chapter Eleven to Book Three - Chapter Twelve - pages 421-427

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November 10, 2025

Monday Night Poetry Group - Online Series - The Moose by Elizabeth Bishop

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November 8, 2025

Online Seminar Series

Mind and Matter by Erwin Schrödinger

Chapter Four - The Arithmetical Paradox- The Oneness of Mind

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November 6, 2025

Online Intensive

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy - 

Part Five - Chapters XVIII-XXXIII

Pages 493-549

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November 5, 2025

Online Intensive

The Sickness unto Death by Kierkegaard - B. Despair viewed under the aspect of consciousness (stopping mid-way through the long section)

(pages 72-89 top)

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November 1, 2025

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The Laws of Plato

Books 11 and 12: Section 25 - Miscellaneous Legislation - Section 26 - The Nocturnal Council
(pages 438-490, 932d - 969d)

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October 30, 2025

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Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy - 

Part Five - Chapters I-XVII

Pages 437-493

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October 30, 2025

Online Seminar Series

Immanuel Kant - Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics - Third Part (pp. 64-84)

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October 29, 2025

Online Intensive

The Sickness unto Death by Kierkegaard -

C. The Forms of this Sickness (Despair) - A) Despair considered without regard to being conscious or not (pages 59-72 top).

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October 29, 2025

Online Seminar Series

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book Two - Chapter Eleven to Book Three - Chapter Twelve - pages 417-421

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October 27, 2025

Monday Night Poetry Group - Online Series - Filing Station by Elizabeth Bishop

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October 23, 2025

Online Intensive

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy - 

Part Four - Chapters XII-XXIII

Pages 391-435

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October 22, 2025

Online Intensive

The Sickness unto Death by Kierkegaard -

Author's Preface, Author’s Introduction, and Part One: The Sickness unto Death is Despair - 

A. That Despair is the Sickness unto Death

B. The Generality of this Sickness (Despair) (Pages 35-58)

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October 20, 2025

Monday Night Poetry Group - Online Series - In the Waiting Room by Elizabeth Bishop

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October 18, 2025

Online Contemporary Issues Seminar Series

The Emperor of All Maladies - A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee - 

Part Two - An Impatient War - They form a society, These new friends of chemotherapy, The butcher shop, An Early Victory, Mice and Men, VAMP (pages 105-150)

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October 16, 2025

Online Intensive

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy - 

Part Four - Chapters I-XI

Pages 353-391

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October 16, 2025

Online Seminar Series

Immanuel Kant - Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics - Second Part (pp. 35-63)

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October 15, 2025

Online Seminar Series

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book Two - Chapter Eleven to Book Three - Chapter Twelve - pages 412-417

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October 13, 2025

Monday Night Poetry Group - Online Series - One Art by Elizabeth Bishop

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October 11, 2025

Online Seminar Series

Lincoln's Words, American's Principles - Second Inagural Address

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October 9, 2025

Online Intensive

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy - 

Part Three  - Chapters XVII-XXXII

Pages 294-352

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October 6, 2025

Monday Night Poetry Group - Online Series - The Fish by Elizabeth Bishop

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October 2, 2025

Online Intensive

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy - 

Part Three - Chapters I-XVI

Pages 237-294

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October 2, 2025

Online Seminar Series

Immanuel Kant - Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics - Preamble (pp. 9-22) and First Part (pp. 23-34)

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October 1, 2025

Online Seminar Series

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book Two - Chapter Eleven to Book Three - Chapter Twelve - pages 406-412

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September 29, 2025

Monday Night Poetry Group - Online Series - The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost

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September 27, 2025

Online Seminar Series

Shakespeare in Britain and Greece: Comic, Tragic, Both - 

The Comedy of Errors

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September 25, 2025

Online Intensive

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy - 

Part Two - Chapters XX-XXXII

Pages 177-236

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September 22, 2025

Monday Night Poetry Group - Online Series - Desert Places by Robert Frost

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September 20, 2025

Online Seminar Series

Lincoln's Words, American's Principles - Gettysburg Address

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September 18, 2025

Online Intensive

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy - 

Part Two - Chapters I-XIX

Pages 117-177

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September 25, 2025

Online Seminar Series

Immanuel Kant - Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics - Letter to Marcus Herz (pp. 117-122) and Preface (pp. 1-8) 

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September 17, 2025

Online Seminar Series

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book Two - Chapter Eleven to Book Three - Chapter Twelve - pages 398-406

 

September 15, 2025

Monday Night Poetry Group - Online Series - The Wood-Pile by Robert Frost

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September 13, 2025

Online Seminar Series

American Rhetoric: the Lincoln-Douglas Debates

Galesburg Debate (October 7, 1858) - pages 173-210

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September 11, 2025

Online Intensive

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy - 

Part One - Chapters XVIII-XXXIV

Pages 60-115

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September 8, 2025

Monday Night Poetry Group - Online Series - Birches by Robert Frost

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September 6, 2025

Online Seminar Series

Mind and Matter by Erwin Schrödinger

Chapter 3 - The Principles of Objectivation

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September 4, 2025

Online Intensive

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy - 

Part One - Chapters I-XVII

Pages 1-60

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September 3, 2025

Online Intensive

Divine Union in the Carmelite Tradition - Jessica Powers (1905-1988), pages 158-169

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September 3, 2025

Online Seminar Series

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book Two - Chapter Eleven - pages 392-398

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September 2, 2025

Online Intensive

Anton Chekhov: The Major Plays - 

The Cherry Orchard - 1903

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August 30, 2025

Online Seminar Series

The Laws of Plato

Book 11: Section 22 - Law of Property, Section 23 - Commercial Law, Section 24 - Family Law

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August 27, 2025

Online Intensive

Divine Union in the Carmelite Tradition - Elizabeth of the Trinity (1880-1906), pages 127-134

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August 26, 2025

Online Intensive

Anton Chekhov: The Major Plays - 

The Three Sisters - 1900

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August 25, 2025

Monday Night Poetry Group - Online Series - Mowing by Robert Frost

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August 23, 2025

Online Contemporary Issues Seminar Series

The Emperor of All Maladies - A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee - 

Prologue, Part One - Vanishing Humors, Remote Sympathy, A Radical Idea, The Hard Tube and the Weak Light, Dyeing and Dying, Poisoning the Atmosphere, The Goodness of Show Business, The House that Jimmy Built

(pages 51-104)​​​​​​​​​

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December 22, 2024

Online Contemporary Issues Seminar Series

The Gene - An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Part Five - The Last Mile, The Hunger Winter

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December 21, 2024

Online Seminar Series

What is Life by Erwin Schrödinger

Chapter 5 - Delbrück’s Model Discussed and Tested

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December 19, 2024

Online Intensive

Daniel Deronda

Book 5 - Mordecai

Chapters 41-44

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December 19, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Epistemology of Berkeley

Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous - Preface and start of first dialogue (pp. 2-23

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December 18, 2024

Online Intensive

Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu

Chapters 53-54

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December 18, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book Two - Chapter Eleven - pages 309-314

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Free Onsite Community Seminar

December 17, 2024

The Tao Te Ching - Verse 22

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December 15, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Shakespeare in Britain and Greece: Comic, Tragic, Both

Two Noble Kinsmen 

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December 14, 2024

Online Seminar Series

The Romantic I/Eye

Emerson - Experience

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December 12, 2024

Online Intensive

Daniel Deronda

Book 5 - Mordecai

Chapters 37-40

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December 11, 2024

Online Intensive

Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu

Chapters 51-52

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Free Community Onsite Seminar Series

December 10, 2024

The Glory of Art - The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin

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December 9, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Transcendentalism -

Walden by Henry David Thoreau Chapters 6-14 - Visitors... Inhabitants and Winter Visitors

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December 8, 2024

Online Seminar Series

What About Democracy is Worth Saving? - Selections from Alexis de Tocqueville -

Volume 2: Part 2

Chapter 10 - On the Taste for Material Well-Being in America,

Chapter 11 - On the Particular Effects that the Love of Material Enjoyments Produces in Democratic Countries, Chapter 15 - How Religious Beliefs at Times Turn the Souls of Americans toward Immaterial Enjoyments, Chapter 17 - How in Times of Equality and Doubt It Is Important to Move Back the Object of Human Actions

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December 7, 2024

Online Seminar Series

The Laws of Plato

Book 7 - Section 12 - Education

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December 5, 2024

Online Intensive

Daniel Deronda

Book 5 - Mordecai

Chapters 35-36

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December 4, 2024

Online Intensive

Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu

Chapters 49-50

 

Free Onsite Community Seminar

December 3, 2024

The Tao Te Ching - Verse 21

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November 27, 2024

Online Intensive

Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu

Chapters 47-48

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November 23, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson - 5. Realms of the Soil, 6. Earth's Green Mantle, 7. Needless Havoc

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November 21, 2024

Online Intensive

Daniel Deronda

Book 4 - Gwendolen Gets Her Choice

Chapters 31-34

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November 20, 2024

Online Intensive

Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu

Chapters 44-46

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November 20, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book Two - Chapter Ten - pages 302-309

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Free Onsite Community Seminar

November 19, 2024

The Tao Te Ching - Verse 20

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November 16, 2024

Online Contemporary Issues Seminar Series

The Gene - An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee - Part Five - Through the Looking Glass - So, We's the Same; The First Derivative of Identity

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November 14, 2024

Online Intensive

Daniel Deronda

Book 4 - Gwendolen Gets Her Choice

Chapters 28-30

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November 13, 2024

Online Intensive

Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu

Chapters 39-43

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November 10, 2024

Online Seminar Series

What About Democracy is Worth Saving? - Selections from Alexis de Tocqueville - Volume 2: Part 1 -

Chapter 1 - On the Philosophical Method of the Americans, Chapter 2 - Of the Principal Source of Belief among Democratic Nations, Chapter 5 - How, in the United States, Religion Knows How to Make Use of Democratic Instincts, Chapter 10 - Why the Americans Apply Themselves to the Practice of the Sciences Rather than to the Theory,

Volume 2: Part 2 - Chapter 1 - Why Democratic Peoples Show a More Ardent and More Lasting Love for Equality than Freedom, Chapter 2 - On Individualism in Democratic Countries, Chapter 5 - On the Use that Americans Make of Association in Civil Life, Chapter 8 - How the Americans Combat Individualism by the Doctrine of Self-Interest Well Understood, 

Chapter 9 - How the Americans Apply the Doctrine of Self-Interest Well Understood in the Matter of Religion

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November 9, 2024

Online Seminar Series

What is Life by Erwin Schrödinger

Chapter 4 - The Quantum-Mechanical Evidence

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November 7, 2024

Online Intensive

Daniel Deronda

Book 3 - Maidens Choosing

Chapters 23-27

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November 6, 2024

Online Intensive

Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu

Chapters 36-38

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November 6, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book Two - Chapter Ten - pages 297-302

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Free Onsite Community Seminar

November 5, 2024

The Tao Te Ching - Verse 19

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November 4, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Transcendentalism -

Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Chapters 1-5 - Economy... Solitude

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Free Community Online Seminar Series

November 3, 2024

The Foundations of Our Republic - Federalist Papers Complete - 33-36

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October 31, 2024

Online Intensive

Daniel Deronda

Book 3 - Maidens Choosing

Chapters 19-22

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October 31, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Epistemology of Berkeley

Principles of Human Knowledge -Sections 101-end

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October 30, 2024

Online Intensive

Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu

Chapters 34-35

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October 24, 2024

Online Intensive

Daniel Deronda

Book 2 - Meeting Streams

Chapters 15-18

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October 23, 2024

Online Intensive

Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu

Chapters 30-33

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October 23, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book Two - Chapter Ten - pages 291-297

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Free Onsite Community Seminar

October 22, 2024

Modern Heroine Autobiographies - Georgia O'Keefe - Part Two

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October 17, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Epistemology of Berkeley

Principles of Human Knowledge -Sections 49-100

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October 16, 2024

Online Intensive

Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu

Chapters 23-29

 

Free Onsite Community Seminar

October 15, 2024

The Tao Te Ching - Verses 17-18

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October 13, 2024

Online Seminar Series

What About Democracy is Worth Saving? - Selections from Alexis de Tocqueville

Volume 1 - Part 2

Chapter 6 - What Are the Real Advantages that American Society Derives from the Government of Democracy,

Chapter 7 - On the Omnipotence of the Majority in the United States and Its Effects,

Chapter 9 - On the Principal Causes Tending to Maintain a Democratic Republic in the United States​

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October 10, 2024

Online Intensive

Daniel Deronda

Book 2 - Meeting Streams

Chapters 11-14

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October 9, 2024

Online Intensive

Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu

Chapters 20-22

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October 9, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book Two - Chapter Ten - pages 286-291

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October 7, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Transcendentalism -

Self-Reliance by Waldo Emerson

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October 3, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Epistemology of Berkeley

Principles of Human Knowledge -Sections 1-48

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October 2, 2024

Online Intensive

Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu

Chapters 14-19

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Free Onsite Community Seminar

October 1, 2024

The Tao Te Ching - Verse 16

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September 29, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson - 1. A Fable for Tomorrow, 2. The Obligation to Endure, 3. Elixirs of Death, 4. Surface Waters and Underground Seas

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September 26, 2024

Online Intensive

Daniel Deronda

Book 1 - The Spoiled Child

Chapters 6-10

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September 25, 2024

Online Intensive

Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu

Chapters 11-13

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September 25, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book Two - Chapter Ten - pages 281-286

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Free Onsite Community Seminar

September 24, 2024

Modern Heroine Autobiographies - Georgia O'Keefe - Part One

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September 22, 2024

Online Seminar Series

The Laws of Plato

Book 6 - Sections 10-11: Civil and Legal Administration and
Marriage and Related Topics

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September 19, 2024

Online Intensive

Daniel Deronda

Book 1 - The Spoiled Child

Chapters 1-5

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September 19, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Epistemology of Berkeley

Principles of Human Knowledge -Introduction, pages 3-21

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September 18, 2024

Online Intensive

Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu

Chapters 7-10

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Free Onsite Community Seminar

September 17, 2024

The Tao Te Ching - Verse 15

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September 15, 2024

Online Seminar Series

The Romantic I/Eye

Müller/Schubert — Die Winterreise

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September 14, 2024

Online Contemporary Issues Seminar Series

The Gene - An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee - Part Four - To Get the Genome; The Geographers; The Book of Man

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Free Onsite Community Film Series

September 13, 2024

Compelling Creators: Women in Film - Lost in Translation

Written and Directed by Sofia Coppola

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September 12, 2024

Online Intensive

Plato on Love and Language -

series as a whole

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September 11, 2024

Online Intensive

Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu

Chapters 5-6

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September 11, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book Two - Chapter Ten - pages 276-281

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Free Onsite Community Seminar

September 10, 2024

The Glory of Art - Georgia O'Keeffe 

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September 9, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Transcendentalism -

Nature - Part One - by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Section IV - Language to End

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September 8, 2024

Online Seminar Series

What About Democracy is Worth Saving? - Selections from Alexis de Tocqueville

Volume 1: Part 1 - Introduction, Chapter 8 - On the Federal Constitution

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June 8, 2026

Monday Night Poetry Group - Online Series - The flower that smiles to-day by Percy Bysshe Shelley

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June 6, 2026

Online Seminar Series

The Periodic Table: A Memoir by Primo Levi - Lead, Mercury, Phosphorus (pages 79-126)

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June 4, 2026

Online Intensive

Jane Austen - Mansfield Park - volume 1, chapters 1-7

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June 2, 2026

Onsite Free Community Seminar Series - Eastern Classics

Tao Te Ching - Chapter 46

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June 1, 2026

Monday Night Poetry Group - Online Series - Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley

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May 30, 2026

Online Seminar Series

Hannah Arendt: Democracy, Responsibility, and the Threat of Authoritarianism - Reflections on Little Rock (pages 192-213)

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May 27, 2026

Online Intensive

Virginia Woolf - A Room of One's Own - Chapters 5 and 6 (pages 67-97, and appendix (pages 109-114)

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May 27, 2026

Online Seminar Series

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book Three - Chapter Thirteen - pages 486-491

 

May 26, 2026

Onsite Free Community Seminar Series - The Poetry of Mary Oliver - When Death Comes

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May 25, 2026

Monday Night Poetry Group - Online Series - Ode to a Nightingale​ by John Keats

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May 23, 2026

Online Seminar Series

The Chemical History of a Candle by Michael Faraday - Preface and Lecture One - The Flame, Its Sources, Structure, Mobility, Brightness

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May 21, 2026

Online Intensive

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice - chapters 54-61

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May 20, 2026

Online Intensive

Virginia Woolf - A Room of One's Own - Chapters 3 and 4 (pages 35 - 66)

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May 19, 2026

Onsite Free Community Seminar Series - Eastern Classics

Tao Te Ching - Chapter 45

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May 18, 2026

Monday Night Poetry Group - Online Series - On First Looking into Chapman's Homer by John Keats

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May 16, 2026

Online Seminar Series

Hannah Arendt: Democracy, Responsibility, and the Threat of Authoritarianism - Thinking and Moral Considerations (pages 159-189)

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May 14, 2026

Online Intensive

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice - chapters 47-53

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May 13, 2026

Online Intensive

Virginia Woolf - A Room of One's Own - Chapters 1 and 2 (pages 1-34)

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May 13, 2026

Online Seminar Series

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book Three - Chapter Thirteen - pages 482-486

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May 12, 2026

Onsite Free Community Seminar Series - Eastern Classics

Poetry of Rumi - Be Lost in the Call

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May 11, 2026

Monday Night Poetry Group - Online Series - Bright Star by John Keats

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May 7, 2026

Online Intensive

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice - chapters 37-46

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May 5, 2026

Onsite Free Community Seminar Series - Eastern Classics

Tao Te Ching - Chapter 44

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May 4, 2026

Monday Night Poetry Group - Online Series - Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats

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May 3, 2026

Online Seminar Series

Shakespeare in Britain and Greece: Comic, Tragic, Both - 

The Merry Wives of Windsor

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April 30, 2026

Online Intensive

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice - chapters 24-36

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April 29, 2026

Online Intensive

Hegel's 1827 Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion - pages 334-347

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April 29, 2026

Online Seminar Series

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book Three - Chapter Thirteen - pages 477-482

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April 28, 2026

Onsite Free Community Seminar Series - The Poetry of Mary Oliver - Forty Years

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April 23, 2026

Online Intensive

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice - chapters 14-23

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April 23, 2026

Online Seminar Series

Epistemology - Thomas Reid - Inquiry and Essays - Conclusion (Ch. 7, pp. 103-121)

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April 22, 2026

Online Intensive

Hegel's 1827 Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion - pages 322-333

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April 21, 2026

Onsite Free Community Seminar Series - Eastern Classics

Tao Te Ching - Chapter 42-43

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April 20, 2026

Monday Night Poetry Group - Online Series - To Autumn by John Keats

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April 18, 2026

Online Seminar Series

Hannah Arendt: Democracy, Responsibility, and the Threat of Authoritarianism - Collective Responsibility (pages 147-158) and Home to Roost (pages 257-275)

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April 16, 2026

Online Intensive

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice - Chapters 1-13

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April 15, 2026

Online Intensive

Hegel's 1827 Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion - pages 310-321

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April 15, 2026

Online Seminar Series

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book Three - Chapter Twelve and Chapter Thirteen - pages 470-477

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April 14, 2026

Onsite Free Community Seminar Series - Eastern Classics

Poetry of Rumi - The Self We Share

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April 13, 2026

Monday Night Poetry Group - Online Series - La Belle Dame Sans Merci by John Keats

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April 11, 2026

Online Seminar Series

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber -

Part 2 - Chapter Four: The Religious Foundations of Wordly Asceticism (pages 53 - 101)

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April 8, 2026

Online Intensive

Hegel's 1827 Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion - pages 298-310 top

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April 7, 2026

Onsite Free Community Seminar Series - Eastern Classics

Tao Te Ching - Chapter 41

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April 6, 2026

Monday Night Poetry Group - Online Series - Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare

by Edna St. Vincent Millay

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April 2, 2026

Online Intensive

Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility - Chapters 44-50

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April 2, 2026

Online Seminar Series

Epistemology - Thomas Reid - Inquiry and Essays - Of Seeing (cont’d) (Ch. 6, Section XX et seq., pp. 83-103)

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April 1, 2026

Online Seminar Series

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book Three - Chapter Twelve - pages 465-470

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March 30, 2026

Monday Night Poetry Group - Online Series - Elegy (Let them bury your big eyes...)

by Edna St. Vincent Millay

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August 21, 2025

Online Seminar Series

Pascal - Pensées - Sections 792-829, 879-905, 975-988

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August 20, 2025

Online Seminar Series

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book Two - Chapter Eleven - pages 388-392

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August 19, 2025

Online Intensive

Anton Chekhov: The Major Plays - 

Uncle Vanya - 1896

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August 18, 2025

Monday Night Poetry Group - Online Series - The Voice by Thomas Hardy

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August 16, 2025

Online Seminar Series

Lincoln's Words, American's Principles - First Inaugural Speech

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August 13, 2025

Online Intensive

Divine Union in the Carmelite Tradition - Thérèse of Lisieux (1873-1897), pages 115-126

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August 12, 2025

Online Intensive

Anton Chekhov: The Major Plays - 

The Seagull - 1895

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Free Onsite Community Seminar

August 12, 2025

The Poetry of Mary Oliver - Morning Poem

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August 11, 2025

Monday Night Poetry Group - Online Series - The Oxen by Thomas Hardy

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April 9, 2025

Online Seminar Series

Shakespeare in Britain and Greece: Comic, Tragic, Both

Cymbeline

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August 7, 2025

Online Seminar Series

Pascal - Pensées - Sections 635-791

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August 6, 2025

Online Intensive

Divine Union in the Carmelite Tradition - Lawrence of the Resurrection (1614-1691),

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August 6, 2025

Online Seminar Series

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book Two - Chapter Eleven - pages 383-388

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August 5, 2025

Online Intensive

Anton Chekhov: The Major Plays - 

Ivanov - 1889

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Free Onsite Community Seminar

August 5, 2025

The Tao Te Ching - Verse 37

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August 4, 2025

Monday Night Poetry Group - Online Series - The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy

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August 2, 2025

Online Seminar Series

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson - 13. Through a Narrow Window, 14. one in Every Four, 15. Nature Fights Back, 16. The Rumblings of an Avalanche, 17. The Other Road 

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Free Onsite Ojai Chautauqua Panel

July 31, 2025

The Future of Ojai - What is Special About Ojai? - What should be nurtured, protected, or expanded? 

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July 30, 2025

Online Intensive

Divine Union in the Carmelite Tradition - John of St, Samson (1571-1691), pages 78-85

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July 28, 2025

Monday Night Poetry Group - Online Series - During Wind and Rain by Thomas Hardy

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July 26, 2025

Online Seminar Series

American Rhetoric: the Lincoln-Douglas Debates

Jonesboro Debate (September 15, 1858) and Dred Scott and Supporting Documents 

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July 24, 2025

Online Seminar Series

Pascal - Pensées - Sections 504-634

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July 23, 2025

Online Intensive

Divine Union in the Carmelite Tradition - Mary Magdalen de’ Pazzi (1566-1607), pages 72-77

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July 23, 2025

Online Seminar Series

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book Two - Chapter Eleven - pages 379-383

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July 21, 2025

Monday Night Poetry Group - Online Series - 

Channel Firing by Thomas Hardy

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July 19, 2025

Online Seminar Series

Mind and Matter by Erwin Schrödinger

Chapter 2 - The Future of Understanding

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July 16, 2025

Online Intensive

Divine Union in the Carmelite Tradition - John of the Cross (1542-1591), pages 42-63)

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Free Onsite Community Seminar

July 15, 2025

The Tao Te Ching - Verse 36

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July 14, 2025

Monday Night Poetry Group - Online Series - The Song of Wandering Aengus by William Butler Yeats

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July 12, 2025

Online Contemporary Issues Seminar Series

The Emperor of All Maladies - A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee - 

Prologue, Part One - A suppuration of blood, A monster more insatiable than the guillotine, Farber's Gauntlet, A Private Plague, Onkos (pages 1-50

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July 10, 2025

Online Seminar Series

Pascal - Pensées - Sections 189-202, 397-435

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July 9, 2025

Online Intensive

Divine Union in the Carmelite Tradition - Teresa of Avila (1515-1582), pages 26-41

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July 9, 2025

Online Seminar Series

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book Two - Chapter Eleven - pages 374-370

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Free Onsite Community Seminar

July 8, 2025

The Poetry of Mary Oliver - Messenger

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July 7, 2025

Monday Night Poetry Group - Online Series - The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats

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July 3, 2025

Online Intensive

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Epilogue - Part Two - Chapters I- XII, and Appendix- pages 1179-1224

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Free Onsite Community Seminar

July 1, 2025

The Tao Te Ching - Verse 35

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June 30, 2025

Monday Night Poetry Group - Online Series - Who Goes with Fergus? by William Butler Yeats

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June 26, 2025

Online Intensive

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Epilogue - Part One - Chapters I-XVI - pages 1129-1178

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June 26, 2025

Online Seminar Series

Pascal - Pensées - Sections 119-188

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June 25, 2025

Online Seminar Series

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book Two - Chapter Eleven - pages 368-374

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Free Onsite Community Seminar

June 24, 2025

The Poetry of Rumi - The House Guest

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June 23, 2025

Monday Night Poetry Group - Online Series - 

Brown Penny by William Butler Yeats

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June 21, 2025

Online Seminar Series

Lincoln's Words, American's Principles - Cooper Union Speech

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June 19, 2025

Online Intensive

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Volume Five - Part Four - Chapters I-XIX - pages 1075-1125

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Free Onsite Community Seminar

June 17, 2025

The Tao Te Ching - Verse 34

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June 16, 2025

Monday Night Poetry Group - Online Series - 

The Swans at Coole by William Butler Yeats

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June 14, 2025

Online Seminar Series

Shakespeare in Britain and Greece: Comic, Tragic, Both - 

Timon of Athens

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June 12, 2025

Online Intensive

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Volume Five - Part Three - Chapters I-XIX - pages 1031-1074

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June 12, 2025

Online Seminar Series

Pascal - Pensées - The Memorial, Sections 1-48, 68-118

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June 11, 2025

Online Seminar Series

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book Two - Chapter Eleven - pages 363-368

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June 7, 2025

Online Seminar Series

The Laws of Plato

Book 9: Section 19 - Woundings, Section 20 - Assault, Section 21 - Religion

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June 5, 2025

Online Intensive

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Volume Five - Part Two - Chapters I-XIX - pages 987-1030

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Free Onsite Community Seminar

June 3, 2025

The Tao Te Ching - Verse 33

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May 31, 2025

Online Seminar Series

American Rhetoric: the Lincoln-Douglas Debates

Jonesboro Debate (September 15, 1858)

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May 29, 2025

Online Intensive

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Volume Four - Part One - Chapters I-XVI - pages 935-986

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May 28, 2025

Online Intensive

Lyric Poetry: Nature, Love, and Death - Contemporary Selections

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May 28, 2025

Online Seminar Series

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book Two - Chapter Eleven - pages 358-363

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Free Onsite Community Seminar

May 27, 2025

The Poetry of Rumi - Who Says Words with My Mouth?

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May 22, 2025

Online Intensive

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Volume Three - Part Three - Chapters XX-XXXIV - pages 874-932

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May 21, 2025

Online Intensive

Lyric Poetry: Nature, Love, and Death - Selections from Dylan Thomas, Sylvia Plath, Seamus Heaney, Richard Wilbur 

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Free Onsite Community Seminar

May 20, 2025

The Tao Te Ching - Verse 32

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May 17, 2025

Online Seminar Series

Lincoln's Words, American's Principles - House Divided Speech

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May 15, 2025

Online Intensive

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Volume Three - Part Three - Chapters I-XIX - pages 821-874

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May 15, 2025

Online Seminar Series

Epistemology of Hume - An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding - Section 12, A Letter from a Gentleman to his Friend in Edinburgh, and An Abstract

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May 14, 2025

Online Intensive

Lyric Poetry: Nature, Love, and Death - Selections from Robert Frost and Rainer Maria Rilke

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May 14, 2025

Online Seminar Series

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book Two - Chapter Eleven - pages 353-358

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Free Onsite Community Seminar

May 13, 2025

The Poetry of Mary Oliver - How Would you Live Then?

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May 10, 2025

Online Seminar Series

Mind and Matter by Erwin Schrödinger

Chapter 1 - The Physical Basis of Consciousness

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May 8, 2025

Online Intensive

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Volume Three - Part Two - Chapters XIX-XXXIX - pages 753-820

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May 7, 2025

Online Intensive

Lyric Poetry: Nature, Love, and Death - Selections from William Butler Yeats and Wallace Stevens

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Free Onsite Community Seminar

May 6, 2025

The Tao Te Ching - Verse 31

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May 5, 2025

Online Seminar Series

Transcendentalism -

Song of Myself by Walt Whitman (Verses 8-16)

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May 1, 2025

Online Intensive

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Volume Three - Part Two - Chapters I-XVIII - pages 682-753

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May 1, 2025

Online Seminar Series

Epistemology of Hume - An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding - Sections 10 and 11

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April 30, 2025

Online Intensive

Lyric Poetry: Nature, Love, and Death - Selections from Emily Dickinson and Gerard Manley Hopkins

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April 30, 2025

Online Seminar Series

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book Two - Chapter Eleven - pages 348-353

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April 26, 2025

Online Seminar Series

Lincoln's Words, American's Principles - Lyceum Address, Temperance Address

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September 7, 2024

Online Seminar Series

The Golden Bough by Frazer - Chapters XXVIII - The Killing of the Tree Spirit 

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September 5, 2024

Online Intensive

Plato on Love and Language

Phaedrus, work as a whole

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September 4, 2024

Online Intensive

Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu

Chapters 1-4

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Free Onsite Community Seminar

September 2, 2024

The Tao Te Ching - Verse 14

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September 1, 2024

Online Seminar Series

The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin - Conclusion

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​​Free Onsite Community Film Series

August 30, 2024

Compelling Creators: Women in Film - Lady Bird

Directed and Written by Greta Gerwig

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​​August 29, 2024

Online Intensive

Plato on Love and Language

Phaedrus, 257c-279c

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Free Onsite Community Seminar

August 27, 2024

Modern Heroine Autobiographies - The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (selections)

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August 22, 2024

Online Intensive

Plato on Love and Language

Phaedrus, 227a-257b

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Free Onsite Community Seminar

August 20, 2024

The Tao Te Ching - Verse 13

 

August 18, 2024

Online Seminar Series

The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt - Chapter Thirteen - Conclusion - Totalitarianism - A Novel Form of Government

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August 17, 2024

Online Seminar Series

What is Life by Erwin Schrödinger

Chapter 3 - Mutations

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Free Onsite Community Film Series

August 16, 2024

Compelling Creators: Women in Film - Big

Directed by Penny Marshall and 
Written by Gary Ross and Anne Spielberg

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August 15, 2024

Online Intensive

Plato on Love and Language

Symposium, work as a whole

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August 14, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book Two - Chapter Ten - pages 270-276

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Free Onsite Community Seminar

August 13, 2024

The Glory of Art - James Baldwin - On the Creative Process

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August 11, 2024

Online Seminar Series

The Imperative of Responsibility by Hans Jonas
Chapter One - The Altered Nature of Human Action

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August 8, 2024

Online Intensive

Plato on Love and Language

Symposium, 201d-223d

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Free Onsite Community Seminar

August 6, 2024

The Tao Te Ching - Verses 11-12

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August 5, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Transcendentalism -

Nature - Part One - by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Introduction to Section III - Beauty 

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August 4, 2024

Online Seminar Series

The Laws of Plato

Book 5 - Sections 8-9: General Preamble to the Legal Code

and The Foundations of the New State

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August 3, 2024

Online Seminar Series

The Romantic I/Eye

On the Love of the Country, On Living to One's Self, and On Thought and Action by Hazlitt

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Free Onsite Community Film Series

August 2, 2024

Compelling Creators: Women in Film - Juno

Directed by Jason Reitman and Written by Diablo Cody

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August 1, 2024

Online Intensive

Plato on Love and Language

Symposium, 172a-201c

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July 31, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book Two - Chapter Ten - pages 265-270

 

Free Onsite Community Seminar

July 30, 2024

Modern Heroine Autobiographies - The Story of My Life by Helen Keller 

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​July 28, 2024

Online Contemporary Issues Seminar Series

The Gene - An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee - Part Four - The Proper Study of Mankind is Man - The Miseries of My Father; The Birth of a Clinic; Interfere, Interfere, Interfere; A Village of Dancers, an Atlas of Moles

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July 27, 2024

Online Seminar Series

The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James

Lecture Twenty and Epilogue 

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July 25, 2024

Online Intensive

Plato on Love and Language

Gorgias, work as a whole

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July 23, 2024

Online Intensive

Book of Numbers - Masei
Chapters 33:1-36:13

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July 21, 2024

Online Seminar Series

The Golden Bough by Frazer - Chapters XXIII - Our Debt to the Savage, XIV - The Killing of the Divine King, XXV - Temporary Kings, XXVI - Sacrifice of the King's Son, XXVII - Succession to the Soul

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July 20, 2024

Online Seminar Series

The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin - Chapters Nineteen and Twenty

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July 18, 2024

Online Intensive

Plato on Love and Language

Gorgias, 486d-527e

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July 17, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book Two - Chapter Ten - pages 260-265

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Free Community Online Seminar Series

July 14, 2024

The Foundations of Our Republic - Federalist Papers Complete - 25-28

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July 13, 2024

Online Seminar Series

The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt - Chapter Twelve - Totalitarianism in Power

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July 11, 2024

Online Intensive

Plato on Love and Language

Gorgias, 447a-486d

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July 11, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Epistemology of Spinoza

Ethics, Ethics, Part V 

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July 9, 2024

Online Intensive

Book of Numbers - Matot
Chapters 30:2-32:42

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Free Onsite Community Seminar

July 9, 2024

The Glory of Art - Hans Hoffman - The Search for the Real

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July 3, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book Two - Chapter Nine - pages 255-259

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July 2, 2024

Online Intensive

Book of Numbers - Pinchas
Chapters 25:10-30:1

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Free Onsite Community Seminar

July 2, 2024

The Tao Te Ching - Verse 10

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July 1, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Transcendentalism -

On Unitarian Christianity - 1819 speech by William Ellery Channing

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June 30, 2024

Online Seminar Series

What is Life by Erwin Schrödinger

Chapter 2 - The Hereditary Mechanism

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June 27, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Epistemology of Spinoza

Ethics, Part IV, Pr. 8-end

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​​June 25, 2024

Online Intensive

Book of Numbers - Balak
Chapters 22:1-25:9

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Free Onsite Community Seminar

June 25, 2024

The Glory of Art - William Morris - The Arts and Crafts of Today

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June 23, 2024

Online Seminar Series

The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James

Lecture Nineteen - Other Characteristics

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June 22, 2024

Online Contemporary Issues Seminar Series

The Gene - An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee - Part Three - The Dreams of Geneticists - Crossing Over, The New Music, Einsteins on the Beach, Clone or Die

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June 19, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book Two - Chapter Nine - pages 249-255

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Free Onsite Community Seminar

June 18, 2024

The Tao Te Ching - Verse 9

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June 15, 2024

Online Seminar Series

The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin - Chapters Seventeen and Eighteen

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June 13, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Epistemology of Spinoza

Ethics, Parts III and IV

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June 11, 2024

Online Intensive

Book of Numbers - Chukat
Chapters 19:1-22:1

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Free Onsite Community Seminar

June 11, 2024

The Glory of Art - Kandinsky - On the Spiritual in Art

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June 8, 2024

Online Seminar Series

The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt - Chapter Eleven - The Totalitarian Movement 

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June 8, 2024

Online Seminar Series

The Romantic I/Eye

Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto One by Byron

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June 5, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book Two - Chapter Nine - pages 245-249

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June 4, 2024

Online Intensive

Book of Numbers - Korach
Chapters 16:1-18:32

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Free Onsite Community Seminar

June 4, 2024

The Tao Te Ching - Verse 8

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June 3, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Transcendentalism -

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God by Jonathan Edwards

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June 2, 2024

Online Seminar Series

The Laws of Plato

Book 4 - Sections 6-7: Magnesia and Its People and The Correct Way to Legislate 

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June 1, 2024

Online Seminar Series

What is Life by Erwin Schrödinger

Chapter 1 - The Classical Physicist's Approach to the Subject

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May 28, 2024

Online Intensive

Book of Numbers - Shlach
Chapters 13:1-15:41

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​​Free Onsite Community Seminar

March 28, 2024

The Glory of Art - Plotinus - On Beauty

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May 26, 2024

Onsite Seminar and Play Performance

Nora (an adaptation of A Doll's House by Ibsen) at Antaeus Theatre

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May 25, 2024

Online Seminar Series

The Golden Bough by Frazer - Chapters XIX - Tabooed Acts, XX - Tabooed Persons, XXI - Tabooed Things, XXIII - Tabooed Words

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May 23, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Epistemology of Spinoza

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May 22, 2024

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May 21, 2024

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May 19, 2024

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The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James

Lecture Eighteen - Philosophy

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May 18, 2024

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May 14, 2024

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Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

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March 29, 2026

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Male and Female - A Study of the Sexes in a Changing World by Margaret Mead - Edition Introductions (pages xxv-xlv), Part One - Introductory (pages 1-44)

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March 28, 2026

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March 26, 2026

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March 25, 2026

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March 24, 2026

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March 19, 2026

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March 18, 2026

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Book Three - Chapter Twelve - pages 460-465

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March 17, 2026

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Tao Te Ching - Chapter 40

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March 16, 2026

Monday Night Poetry Group - Online Series - Spring (To what purpose, April…) by Edna St. Vincent Millay

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March 14, 2026

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March 12, 2026

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March 11, 2026

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March 10, 2026

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Poetry of Rumi - I Closed My Eyes to Creation

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March 9, 2026

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March 5, 2026

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March 5, 2026

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March 5, 2026

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Hegel's 1827 Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion - pages 249-262 middle

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March 4, 2026

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Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book Three - Chapter Twelve - pages 454-460

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March 3, 2026

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Tao Te Ching - Chapter 39

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March 2, 2026

Monday Night Poetry Group - Online Series - If I should learn, in some quite casual way by Edna St. Vincent Millay

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March 1, 2026

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The Emperor of All Maladies - A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee - 

Part Three - Will You Turn Me Out If I Can't Get Better - (pages 191-234)

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February 28, 2026

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Shakespeare in Britain and Greece: Comic, Tragic, Both - 

Macbeth

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February 26, 2026

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Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility - Chapters 1-13

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February 24, 2026

Onsite Free Community Seminar Series - The Poetry of Mary Oliver - Every Morning

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February 23, 2026

Monday Night Poetry Group - Online Series - The World as Meditation by Wallace Stevens

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February 19, 2026

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Epistemology - Thomas Reid - Inquiry and Essays - Chapter 2, Of Smelling (Ch. 2, pp. 12-31)

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February 18, 2026

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Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book Three - Chapter Twelve - pages 449-454

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February 17, 2026

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The Poetry of Rumi - In Silence

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February 16, 2026

Monday Night Poetry Group - Online Series - Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour by Wallace Stevens

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February 12, 2026

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Jane Austen - Northanger Abbey

Chapters 24-31

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February 10, 2026

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Tao Te Ching - Chapter 38

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February 9, 2026

Monday Night Poetry Group - Online Series - The Idea of Order at Key West by Wallace Stevens

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February 8, 2026

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The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber -

Part 1 - The Problem - Chapter Two: The Spirit of Capitalism, and Chapter Three: Luther's Conception of the Calling  (pages 13 - 50)

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February 7, 2026

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Hannah Arendt: Democracy, Responsibility, and the Threat of Authoritarianism - Prologue (pages 3-14)

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February 5, 2026

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February 5, 2026

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Epistemology - Thomas Reid - Inquiry and Essays - Introduction Chapter 1, pp. 3-12

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February 5, 2026

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Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

 Book Three - Chapter Twelve - pages 445-449

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February 2, 2026

Monday Night Poetry Group - Online Series - The Snowman by Wallace Stevens

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Jane Austen - Northanger Abbey

Chapters 10-15

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January 26, 2026

Monday Night Poetry Group - Online Series - The Poems of Our Climate by Wallace Stevens

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January 25, 2026

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Lincoln-Douglas Debate

Seventh Debate - Alton Debate (October 15, 1858) - pages 251-294

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January 24, 2026

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The Periodic Table: A Memoir by Primo Levi - Argon, Hydrogen, Zinc - pages 1-36

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Jane Austen - Northanger Abbey

Chapters 1-9

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January 21, 2026

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Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book Three - Chapter Twelve - pages 440-445

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April 24, 2025

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Volume Three - Part One - Chapter I-XXIII - pages 603-681

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April 23, 2025

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April 17, 2025

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War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Volume Two - Part Five - Chapters I-XXII pages 535-600

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April 17, 2025

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Epistemology of Hume - An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding - Sections 8 and 9

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April 16, 2025

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Lyric Poetry: Nature, Love, and Death - Selections from John Donne, Andrew Marvell, and George Herbert

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April 15, 2025

The Tao Te Ching - Verse 30

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April 10, 2025

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War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Volume Two - Part Four - Chapters I-XII - pages 488-534

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April 9, 2025

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Lyric Poetry: Nature, Love, and Death - Selected Sonnets from William Shakespeare

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April 8, 2025

The Poetry of Mary Oliver - The Summer Day

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April 7, 2025

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Transcendentalism -

Song of Myself by Walt Whitman (Verses 1-7)

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April 5, 2025

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Shakespeare in Britain and Greece: Comic, Tragic, Both

King Lear

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April 3, 2025

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War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Volume Two - Part Three - Chapters I-XXVI - pages 418-487

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April 2, 2025

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Lyric Poetry: Nature, Love, and Death - Selections from Petrarch, 
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April 2, 2025

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Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book Two - Chapter Eleven - pages 343-348

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April 1, 2025

The Tao Te Ching - Verse 29

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March 29, 2025

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The Laws of Plato

Book 9 - Section 16 - Capital Offenses, Section 17 - The Theory of Punishment, Section 18, Homicide Law

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March 27, 2025

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War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Volume Two - Part Two - Chapters I-XXI - pages 347-417

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March 26, 2025

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Lyric Poetry: Nature, Love, and Death - Selections from Sappho, Horace, Medieval lyrics 

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March 25, 2025

Modern Heroine Autobiographies - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou, Chapters 17 - end

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March 22, 2025

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American Rhetoric: the Lincoln-Douglas Debates

Freeport Debate (August 27, 1858)

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March 20, 2025

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War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Volume Two - Part One - Chapters I-XVI - pages 297-346

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March 20, 2025

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Epistemology of Hume - An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding - Sections 5 to 7

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March 19, 2025

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Lyric Poetry: Nature, Love, and Death - Selected Psalms, Homeric Hymn to Apollo

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March 19, 2025

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Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book Two - Chapter Eleven - pages 339-343

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March 18, 2025

The Tao Te Ching - Verse 28

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March 16, 2025

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Twelfth Night by Shakespeare at Antaeus Theatre

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March 15, 2025

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What is Life by Erwin Schrödinger

Chapter 7 - Is Life Based on the Laws and Physics? and Epilogue - Determinism and Free Will

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March 13, 2025

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War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Volume One - Part Three - Chapters VIII - pages 244-294

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March 11, 2025

The Poetry of Mary Oliver - In Blackwater Woods

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March 8, 2025

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Silent Spring by Rachel Carson - 10. Indiscriminately from the Skies, 11. Beyond the Dreams of the Borgias, 12. The Human Price

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March 6, 2025

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War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Volume One - Part Three - Chapters I-VII - pages 201-244

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March 6, 2025

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Epistemology of Hume - An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding - Sections 1 to 4

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March 5, 2025

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Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book Two - Chapter Eleven - pages 337-339

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March 4, 2025

The Tao Te Ching - Verse 27

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March 1, 2025

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The Gene - An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Part Six - Post-Genome 

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February 27, 2025

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War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Volume One - Part Two - Chapters XI - pages 158-200

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February 25, 2025

Modern Heroine Autobiographies - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou, Chapters 11 - 16  (pages 70-111)

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February 22, 2025

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The Laws of Plato

Book 8 - Sections 13-15: Sports and Military Training, Problems of Sexual Conduct, Agriculture, Economics and Trade

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February 13, 2025

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War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Volume One - Part Two - Chapters I-X - pages 112-158

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February 19, 2025

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Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book Two - Chapter Eleven - pages 331-337

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February 18, 2025

The Tao Te Ching - Verse 26

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February 16, 2025

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What About Democracy is Worth Saving? - Selections from Alexis de Tocqueville -

Chapter 1 - Equality Naturally Gives Men the Taste for Free Institutions

Chapter 2 - That the Ideas of Democratic Peoples in the Matter of Government Are Naturally Favorable to the Concentration of Powers

Chapter 3 - That the Sentiments of Democratic Peoples are in Accord with Their Ideas to Bring Them to Concentrate Power

Chapter 4 - On Some Particular and Accidental Causes That Serve to Bring a Democratic People to Centralize Power or Turn It Away from That

Chapter 6 - What Kind of Despotism Democratic Nations Have to Fear 

Chapter 7 - Continuation of the Preceding Chapters

Chapter 8 - General View of the Subject

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February 15, 2025

Online Seminar Series

Shakespeare in Britain and Greece: Comic, Tragic, Both

Troilus and Cressida

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February 13, 2025

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War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Volume One - Part One - Chapters XIV-XXV - pages 56-111

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February 13, 2025

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Epistemology of Berkeley

Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous - Third dialogue

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February 11, 2025

The Poetry of Mary Oliver - Wild Geese

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February 8, 2025

Online Seminar Series

The Romantic I/Eye

Poe - The Landscape Garden, William Wilson, and The Fall of the House of Usher

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February 6, 2025

Online Intensive

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Volume One - Part One - Chapter I-XIII - pages 3-56

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February 5, 2025

Online Seminar Series

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book Two - Chapter Eleven - pages 326-331

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Free Onsite Community Seminar

February 4, 2025

The Tao Te Ching - Verse 25

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Special Onsite Seminar and Panel Event

February 1, 2025

A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold - Co-hosting by the Agora Foundation and the Ojai Valley Land Conservancy

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January 30, 2025

Online Intensive

Daniel Deronda

Book 8 - Fruit and Seed

Chapters 64-70

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January 30, 2025

Online Seminar Series

Epistemology of Berkeley

Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous - Second dialogue

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Free Onsite Community Seminar

January 28, 2025

Modern Heroine Autobiographies - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou, Chapters 1-10 (pages 1-70)

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January 25, 2025

Online Seminar Series

What is Life by Erwin Schrödinger

Chapter 6 - Order, Disorder and Entropy

 

January 23, 2025

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Daniel Deronda

Book 8 - Fruit and Seed

Chapters 58-63

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January 22, 2025

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Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book Two - Chapter Eleven - pages 320-326

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January 21, 2025

The Tao Te Ching - Verse 24

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January 16, 2025

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Daniel Deronda

Book 7 - The Mother and the Son

Chapters 53-57

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January 12, 2025

Online Seminar Series

What About Democracy is Worth Saving? - Selections from Alexis de Tocqueville -

Volume 2: Part 2

Chapter 18 - Why Among the Americans All Honest Professions Are Reputed Honorable,

Chapter 19 - What Makes Almost All Americans Incline Toward Industrial Professions,

Chapter 20 - How Aristocracy Could Issue from Industry,

Volume 2: Part 3

Chapter 18 - On Honor in the United States and in Democratic Societies,

Chapter 19 - Why One Finds So Many Ambitious Men in the United States and So Few Great Ambitions,

Chapter 20 - On the Industry of Place-Hunting in Certain Democratic Nations

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January 11, 2025

Online Seminar Series

American Rhetoric: the Lincoln-Douglas Debates

Ottawa Debate (August 21, 1858)

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January 9, 2025

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Daniel Deronda

Book 7 - The Mother and the Son

Chapters 50-52

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January 8, 2025

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Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book Two - Chapter Eleven - pages 314-320

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January 7, 2025

The Tao Te Ching - Verse 23

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​​January 6, 2025

Online Seminar Series

Transcendentalism -

Conclusion of Walden and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau 

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January 4, 2025

Online Seminar Series

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson - 8. And No Birds Sing, 9. Rivers of Death

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January 9, 2025

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Daniel Deronda

Book 6 - Revelations

Chapters 45-49

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January 2, 2025

Online Seminar Series

Epistemology of Berkeley

Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous - End of first dialogue (pp. 24-42)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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May 7, 2024

Online Intensive

Book of Numbers - Bamidbar
Chapters 1:1-4:20

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May 7, 2024

The Tao Te Ching - Verse 5

 

​May 5, 2024

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Supreme Court - Decisions and Interpretations - Trump v. United States 2024 Presidential Immunity Case

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​May 5, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Shakespearean Marriage, Italian-Style (Mostly) - & One by Marlowe! - Othello

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May 4, 2024

Online Seminar Series

The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt - Chapter Ten - The Classless Society

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April 25, 2024

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Paradise Lost - Book Twelve
by John Milton

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April 25, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Epistemology of Spinoza

Ethics, Part II

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April 21, 2024

Online Seminar Series

The Laws of Plato

Book 3 - Sections 4-5: The Lessons of History 

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April 20, 2024

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The Romantic I/Eye

The Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis by Foscolo

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April 18, 2024

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Paradise Lost - Book Eleven
by John Milton

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April 17, 2024

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Crime and Punishment by  Dostoevsky - Epilogue

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April 17, 2024

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Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book Two - Chapter Nine - pages 231-236

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April 16, 2024

The Tao Te Ching - Verse 4

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April 14, 2024

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The Golden Bough by Frazer - Chapters XVII - The Burden of Royalty, XVIII - The Perils of the Soul

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​April 13, 2024

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The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James

Lectures Sixteen and Seventeen - Mysticism

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April 11, 2024

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Paradise Lost - Book Ten
by John Milton

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April 11, 2024

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Epistemology of Spinoza

Ethics, Part I, Propositions 16-36 and Appendix

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April 10, 2024

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Crime and Punishment by  Dostoevsky - Part Six - Chapters V-VIII

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Free Community Online Seminar Series

April 7, 2024

The Foundations of Our Republic - Federalist Papers Complete - 17-20

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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 

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April 4, 2024

Online Intensive

Paradise Lost - Book Nine
by John Milton

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April 3, 2024

Online Intensive

Crime and Punishment by  Dostoevsky - Part Six - Chapters I-IV

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April 3, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book Two - Chapter Nine - pages 228-231

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April 2, 2024

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Book of Leviticus - Parashat Bechukotai - Chapters 26:3–27:34

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April 2, 2024​

The Tao Te Ching - Verse 3

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March 31, 2024

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The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin - Chapter Seven

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March 30, 2024

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The Work of Flannery O'Connor

Parker's Back and Aquinas on Idolatry - Question 94 - Article 2

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March 28, 2024

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Paradise Lost - Book Eight
by John Milton

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March 27, 2024

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Crime and Punishment by  Dostoevsky - Part Five - Chapters IV-V

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March 26, 2024

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Book of Leviticus - Parashat Behar - Chapters 25:1–26:2

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March 24, 2024

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The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt - Chapter Nine - The Decline of the Nation-State and the End of the Rights of Man

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March 23, 2024

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The New Testament - Epistles of Paul - First and Second Letters to the Thessalonians, First and Second Letters to Timothy

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March 21, 2024

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Paradise Lost - Book Seven
by John Milton

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March 20, 2024

Online Intensive

Crime and Punishment by  Dostoevsky - Part Five - Chapters I-III

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​March 20, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book Two - Chapter Nine - pages 222-228

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March 19, 2024

Online Intensive

Book of Leviticus - Parashat Emor -
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March 19, 2024

The Tao Te Ching - Verse 2

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March 17, 2024

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Shakespearean Marriage, Italian-Style (Mostly) - & One by Marlowe! - The Merchant of Venice

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March 16, 2024

Onsite Film Seminar Series

The Earrings of Madame de...  Directed by Max Ophüls

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March 14, 2024

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Paradise Lost - Book Six
by John Milton

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March 13, 2024

Online Intensive

Crime and Punishment by  Dostoevsky - Part Four - pages 330-376 - Chapters IV-VI

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March 12, 2024

Online Intensive

Book of Leviticus - Parashat Kedoshim - Chapters 19:1–20:27

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March 10, 2024

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The Romantic I/Eye

Rene, and Atala by Chateaubriand

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March 9, 2024

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Vitruvius on Architecture - Book II, On Dwellings and Substances

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March 7, 2024

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Paradise Lost - Book Five
by John Milton

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March 6, 2024

Online Intensive

Crime and Punishment by  Dostoevsky - Part Four - pages 295-330 - Chapters I-III

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March 6, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book One - Chapter Eight - page 213 to Book Two - Chapter Nine - page 222

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March 5, 2024

Online Intensive

Book of Leviticus - Parashat Acharei Mot - Chapters 16:1–18:30

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Free Onsite Community Seminar

March 5, 2024

The Tao Te Ching - Verse 1

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March 3, 2024

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Supreme Court - Decisions and Interpretations - Trump v. Anderson - Colorado Ballot 2024 Case

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March 3, 2024

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The Laws of Plato

Book 2 - Section 3: The Arts in the Service of Education

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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

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February 29, 2024

Online Intensive

Paradise Lost - Book Four
by John Milton

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February 28, 2024

Online Intensive

Crime and Punishment by  Dostoevsky - Part Three - pages 247-292 - Chapters IV-VI

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February 27, 2024

Online Intensive

Book of Leviticus - Parashat Metzora - Chapters 14:1–15:33

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February 25, 2024

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The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James

Lectures Fourteen and Fifteen - The Value of Saintliness

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Free Community Online Seminar Series

February 24, 2024

The Foundations of Our Republic - Federalist Papers Complete - 13-16

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February 22, 2024

Online Intensive

Paradise Lost - Book Three

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February 22, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Epistemology of Spinoza

Ethics, Part I, Propositions 1-15

continued

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February 21, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book One - Chapter Eight - pages 206-213

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February 20, 2024

Online Intensive

Book of Leviticus - Parashat Tazria

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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

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February 17, 2024

Online Seminar Series

The Romantic I/Eye
The Prelude by Wordsworth

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February 15, 2024

Online Intensive

Paradise Lost - Book Two
by John Milton

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February 14, 2024

Online Intensive

Crime and Punishment by  Dostoevsky  - Part Two - pages 151-204 - Chapters V-VII

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February 13, 2024

Online Intensive

Book of Leviticus - Parashat Shemini - Chapters - 9:1–11:47

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February 10, 2024

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The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin - Chapter Six

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February 8, 2024

Online Intensive

Paradise Lost - Book One
by John Milton

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February 8, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Epistemology of Spinoza

Ethics, Part I, Propositions 1-15

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February 7, 2024

Online Intensive

Crime and Punishment by  Dostoevsky  - Part Two - pages 95-151 - Chapters I-IV

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February 7, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book One - Chapter Eight - pages 200-206

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February 6, 2024

Online Intensive

Book of Leviticus - Parashat Tzav - Chapters - 6:1–8:36

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February 4, 2024

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Shakespearean Marriage, Italian-Style (Mostly) - & One by Marlowe! - The Jew of Malta

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January 31, 2024

Online Intensive

Crime and Punishment by  Dostoevsky  - Part One - pages 42-91 - Chapters IV-VII

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January 30, 2024

Online Intensive

Book of Leviticus -
Parashat Vayikra - Chapters 1:1–5:26

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January 28, 2024

Online Seminar Series

The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt - Chapter Eight - Continental imperialism : the pan-movements

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January 27, 2024

Online Seminar Series

The Work of Flannery O'Connor

The Enduring Chill and Aquinas on Prayer - Question 83 - Article 2

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January 25, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Epistemology of Spinoza

Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect 

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January 24, 2024

Online Intensive

Crime and Punishment by  Dostoevsky - Part One - pages 3-42 - Chapters I-III

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January 24, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book One - Chapter Eight - pages 196-200

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January 21, 2024

Online Seminar Series

The Romantic I/Eye
Hyperion, or The Hermit of Greece by Holderlin

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January 20, 2024

Online Free Community
Seminar Series

Vitruvius on Architecture - Book I, Chapters 1-3

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January 17, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book One - Chapter Seven - pages 190-195

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January 14, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Supreme Court - Decisions and Interpretations - Chapters 5 and 6 - Privacy -  and  Rifle Association v. Bruen

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