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 fourth session of “Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment: Marilynne Robinson on America.”
Join renowned Dante scholar Professor Teodolinda Barolini to read Dante’s Purgatorio across the semester.
Join Professor Michele Moody-Adams, former dean of Columbia College, for a dinner presentation on Roosevelt’s inaugural addresses.
Join Dr. Katharina Volk (Columbia) for this dinner talk on Cicero’s On the commonwealth and the political.
Join Ahmed Almadlouh and Jensen Okimoto (Teachers College) for the first session of their series on the uses and abuses of AI in education.
Join Ahmed Almadlouh and Jensen Okimoto (Teachers College) for the second session of their lunch series on the uses and abuses of AI in education.
Join Ahmed Almadlouh and Jensen Okimoto (Teachers College) for the third session of their lunch series on the uses and abuses of AI in education.
Join Dr. Megan Laverty (Teachers College) for this lunch talk on Henry James’s famous novella.
Join Ahmed Almadlouh and Jensen Okimoto (Teachers College) for the final session of their lunch series on the uses and abuses of AI in education.
Join renowned Dante scholar Professor Teodolinda Barolini to read Dante’s Purgatorio across the semester.
Join Nate Ijams (Morningside) for a lunch discussion of E.M. Forster’s “The Machine Stops,” the religious impulses of today’s technologists, and the uses of dystopian fiction for reasoned discussion about AI.
Join renowned Dante scholar Professor Teodolinda Barolini to read Dante’s Purgatorio across the semester.
Join Ahmed Almadlouh and Jensen Okimoto (Teachers College) for the first session of their series on the uses and abuses of AI in education.
Join Ahmed Almadlouh and Jensen Okimoto (Teachers College) for the second session of their lunch series on the uses and abuses of AI in education.
Join Ahmed Almadlouh and Jensen Okimoto (Teachers College) for the third session of their lunch series on the uses and abuses of AI in education.
Join Dr. Megan Laverty (Teachers College) for this lunch talk on Henry James’s famous novella.
Join Ahmed Almadlouh and Jensen Okimoto (Teachers College) for the final session of their lunch series on the uses and abuses of AI in education.
Join Nate Ijams (Morningside) for a lunch discussion of E.M. Forster’s “The Machine Stops,” the religious impulses of today’s technologists, and the uses of dystopian fiction for reasoned discussion about AI.
Join Dr. Gareth Williams (Columbia) for this dinner talk on Seneca and the value of time.
Join Professor Roosevelt Montás (Bard) for this close reading of Lincoln’s Proclamation over lunch.
Join Richard John and Casey Blake (Columbia) for the third session of “Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment: Marilynne Robinson on America.”
Join renowned Dante scholar Professor Teodolinda Barolini to read Dante’s Purgatorio across the semester.
Join Richard John and Casey Blake (Columbia) for the second session of “Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment: Marilynne Robinson on America.”
Join Professor Katja Vogt (Columbia) for this lunch talk on Plato’s Republic and fictionalism or illusionism in AI.
Join Richard John and Casey Blake (Columbia) for the first session of “Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment: Marilynne Robinson on America.”
Join renowned Dante scholar Professor Teodolinda Barolini to read Dante’s Purgatorio across the semester.
Join Dr. Nathaniel Peters (Morningside) as we explore America’s religious heritage in our 250th, reading Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead.
Join Dr. Nathaniel Peters (Morningside) as we explore America’s religious heritage in our 250th, reading Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead.
Join Dr. Nathaniel Peters (Morningside) as we explore America’s religious heritage in our 250th, reading Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead.
Join Dr. Matthew Rose (Morningside) for a three session reading group on Michel Houellebecq’s infamous novel Submission.
Join Dr. Matthew Rose (Morningside) for a three session reading group on Michel Houellebecq’s infamous novel Submission.
Join Dr. Matthew Rose (Morningside) for a three session reading group on Michel Houellebecq’s infamous novel Submission.
Join Alejo Sison (Navarra/Fordham) for this talk on the distinctive offerings of virtue ethics for discussion around humanity and AI.
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 Nicholas Chong (Rutgers) for a discussion of Beethoven, religion, and the Enlightenment from his book, The Catholic Beethoven.
Join renowned Dante scholar Professor Teodolinda Barolini to read Dante’s Inferno across the academic year.
Join Dhananjay Jagannathan (Hunter) for a discussion of Montaigne’s revival of Pyrrhonian skepticism.
Join Richard John and Casey Blake (Columbia) for the final session of “The Myth of the Machine.”
Join Austen McDougal (NYU) for the third session of “How Do I Love Thee?” on the fruit of love, children.
Join Ahmed Almadlouh, Joseph Marshall, and Jensen Okimoto (Teacher’s College) for this series on Josef Pieper and the philosophical act of attention.
Join renowned Dante scholar Professor Teodolinda Barolini to read Dante’s Inferno across the academic year.
Join Austen McDougal (NYU) for the third session of “How Do I Love Thee?” on the fruit of love, children.
Join Austen McDougal (NYU) for the second session of “How Do I Love Thee?” on defining the relationship of love.
Join renowned Dante scholar Professor Teodolinda Barolini to read Dante’s Inferno across the academic year.
