Seminars and Reading Groups
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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UPCOMING lunch & DINNER seminars
seminar series and reading groups
Past seminar series and reading groups
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.
Join Professor Richard John and Hirsh Chitkara (Columbia) for a series on the new “Tech Right” and their shared commitments and profound disagreements.
Join Dr. Matthew Rose (Morningside) and Nathan Darmon (GS ‘25) for a discussion on Samuel Huntington and James Kurth.
Join Nathaniel Peters (Morningside) for a discussion about Dominion, the World Wars, and the moral revolutions of the twentieth century.
Join Dr. Matthew Rose (Morningside) and Nathan Darmon (CC ‘25) for a discussion on Huntington’s “The Clash of Civilizations?”
Join Nathaniel Peters (Morningside) for a discussion about Dominion and the Reformation, Enlightenment, and colonialism.
Join Dr. Matthew Rose (Morningside) and Nathan Darmon (CC ‘25) for a discussion on Fukuyama’s “The End of History?”
Join Nathaniel Peters (Morningside) for a discussion about Dominion and the reformations and intellectual ferment of the Middle Ages.
Join Morningside and philosopher Dan Addison for a seminar series with working professionals on ethics in work and everyday life.













