“The subject matter of the liberal arts is life."
- Mark Van Doren
The Morningside Institute brings scholars and students together to examine human life beyond the classroom and consider its deepest questions through the life of New York City.
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 Morningside for a day-long intellectual retreat discussing The Memoirs of Hadrian.
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 Dr. Joan O’Bryan (Harvard) for a dinner seminar on politics in a post-AGI world.
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 Christopher Beha, former editor of Harper’s Magazine, for a talk on his book Why I Am Not an Atheist.
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.
Monday, November 16, 2026 at 5 p.m. at Columbia University
