University students already have lectures, lengthy readings and exams; our seminars and reading groups are opportunities to stop over lunch or dinner and reflect on ideas that are relevant to all majors and professions. Helped by brief excerpts of important texts and often in conversation with established scholars, these informal discussions explore big questions that the liberal arts can help us answer.
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Join Richard John and Casey Blake (Columbia) for the third session of “The Myth of the Machine.”
Join renowned Dante scholar Professor Teodolinda Barolini to read Dante’s Inferno across the academic year.
Join Austen McDougal (NYU) for the second session of “How Do I Love Thee?” on defining the relationship of love.
Join Austen McDougal (NYU) for the third session of “How Do I Love Thee?” on the fruit of love, children.
Join renowned Dante scholar Professor Teodolinda Barolini to read Dante’s Inferno across the academic year.
Join Ahmed Almadlouh, Joseph Marshall, and Jensen Okimoto (Teacher’s College) for this series on Josef Pieper and the philosophical act of attention.
Join Austen McDougal (NYU) for the third session of “How Do I Love Thee?” on the fruit of love, children.
Join Richard John and Casey Blake (Columbia) for the final session of “The Myth of the Machine.”
Join Dhananjay Jagannathan (Hunter) for a discussion of Montaigne’s revival of Pyrrhonian skepticism.
Join renowned Dante scholar Professor Teodolinda Barolini to read Dante’s Inferno across the academic year.
Join Nicholas Chong (Rutgers) for a discussion of Beethoven, religion, and the Enlightenment from his book, The Catholic Beethoven.
Join Dhananjay Jagannathan (Hunter) for a discussion of Pyrrhonian skepticism.
Join Ahmed Almadlouh, Joseph Marshall, and Jensen Okimoto (Teacher’s College) for this series on Josef Pieper and the philosophical act of attention.
Join Ahmed Almadlouh, Joseph Marshall, and Jensen Okimoto (Teacher’s College) for this series on Josef Pieper and the philosophical act of attention.
Join Ahmed Almadlouh, Joseph Marshall, and Jensen Okimoto (Teacher’s College) for this series on Josef Pieper and the philosophical act of attention.
Join Alejo Sison (Navarra/Fordham) for this talk on the distinctive offerings of virtue ethics for discussion around humanity and AI.
Join Austen McDougal (NYU) for the first session of “How Do I Love Thee?” on the good of love.
Join Pierre Force (Columbia) for a discussion of Tocqueville’s thesis that religion and democracy are mutually reinforcing in the United States.
Join Matthew Morrison (Yale) for a discussion on the role of medicine in the philosophical developments of Ludwig Wittgenstein and William James.
Join renowned Dante scholar Professor Teodolinda Barolini to read Dante’s Inferno across the academic year.
Join Richard John and Casey Blake (Columbia) for the second session of “The Myth of the Machine.”
Join Morningside as Tim Williamson (Columbia) asks if Pascal’s most faithful adherents are actually agnostic atheistic YouTubers.
Join David Hajdu (Columbia) for a discussion over dinner on the nature of art: “What’s wrong with slop?”
Join Richard John and Casey Blake (Columbia) for the first session of “The Myth of the Machine.”
Join renowned Dante scholar Professor Teodolinda Barolini to read Dante’s Inferno across the academic year.
Join Dr. Nathaniel Peters and David Oakley for a lunch discussion on Augustine’s Confessions.
Join renowned Dante scholar Professor Teodolinda Barolini to read Dante’s Inferno across one academic year.
Join Ahmed Almadlouh, Joseph Marshall, and Dan Davis (Columbia) as they read Roger Scruton’s The Soul of the World over lunch.
Join Dr. Nathaniel Peters and David Oakley for a lunch discussion on Augustine’s Confessions.
Join Ahmed Almadlouh, Joseph Marshall, and Dan Davis (Columbia) as they read Roger Scruton’s The Soul of the World over lunch.
Join Nathaniel Peters (Morningside) for a seminar series on how our views on ambition have changed from antiquity through the early days of the American Republic, up to our own time.
Join Dr. Nathaniel Peters and David Oakley for a lunch discussion on Augustine’s Confessions.
Join renowned Dante scholar Professor Teodolinda Barolini to read Dante’s Inferno across one academic year.
Join Dr. Nathaniel Peters and David Oakley for a lunch discussion on Augustine’s Confessions.
Join medieval historian Neslihan Şenocak for a lecture and discussion of St. Francis’s dream of a religious order of equals.
Join Ahmed Almadlouh, Joseph Marshall, and Dan Davis (Columbia) as they read Roger Scruton’s The Soul of the World over lunch.
Join Nathaniel Peters (Morningside) for a seminar series on how our views on ambition have changed from antiquity through the early days of the American Republic, up to our own time
Join Dr. Nathaniel Peters and David Oakley for a lunch discussion on Augustine’s Confessions.
Join renowned Dante scholar Professor Teodolinda Barolini to read Dante’s Inferno across one academic year.
Join Ahmed Almadlouh, Joseph Marshall, and Dan Davis (Columbia) as they read Roger Scruton’s The Soul of the World over lunch.
Join Nicholas Teh (Notre Dame) for a lunch talk on Confucius, Pieper, and Anscombe.
Join Professor Richard John and Hirsh Chitkara (Columbia) for a series on the new “Tech Right” and their shared commitments and profound disagreements.
Join renowned Dante scholar Professor Teodolinda Barolini to read Dante’s Inferno across one academic year.
Join Professor Richard John and Hirsh Chitkara (Columbia) for a series on the new “Tech Right” and their shared commitments and profound disagreements.
Join Professor Richard John and Hirsh Chitkara (Columbia) for a series on the new “Tech Right” and their shared commitments and profound disagreements.
Join renowned Dante scholar Professor Teodolinda Barolini to read Dante’s Inferno across one academic year.
