Join Nate Ijams (Morningside) for a discussion of Wendell Berry’s conception of the immeasurable goods of life: things too great, too small, or too unusual to be valued by standard economic models.
Join Justin Hawkins (CUIMC) for a dinner seminar on finding a theory of dignity that relies on something more fundamental than accomplishment.
Join Anthony Hejduk (Columbia) for a conversation about rootedness and how its absence in industrial life contributed to the crises Simone Weil observed.
Join Nate Ijams (Morningside) for a discussion of Wendell Berry’s conception of the immeasurable goods of life: things too great, too small, or too unusual to be valued by standard economic models.
Join us for a conversation with Ross Douthat (New York Times), one of America’s most respected commentators on religion and public life.
Join Taylor Pincin (Columbia) for this dinner seminar about the four causes, why they matter, and what might unify them
Join Amogha Sahu (Columbia) for a conversation about Simone Weil’s attempt to synthesize spiritual and political thought.
Join Professor Nicholas Chong (Rutgers) for a pre-opera discussion of Fidelio and the Enlightenment’s view of freedom.
Join Morningside and philosopher Dan Addison for a seminar series with working professionals on ethics in work and everyday life.
Join James Valentini and Katja Vogt (Columbia) for a small group discussion of Beginner’s Mind and humanistic inquiry.
Join Amogha Sahu (Columbia) for a conversation about Simone Weil’s analysis of political power.
See Stile Antico perform Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina’s greatest works after a pre-concert dinner talk with Professor Giuseppe Gerbino (Columbia).
Join Professor Dhananjay Jagannathan (Columbia) for a discussion of what belongs to us, and what does not.
Join Professors Richard John and Casey Blake (Columbia) for this dinner seminar series on Democracy and Solidarity.
Join Amogha Sahu (Columbia) for a conversation about Simone Weil’s proposal to under-gird science and the world with the sacred.
Join Stephen Bullivant, Antón Barba-Kay, and Angel Adams Parham for papers on the radical changes that Western societies are undergoing on the first day of Living Well at the End of a World.
Join Bishop Erik Varden, James Hankins, and Sarah Shortall as we explore historical examples of how communities have navigated periods of intense cultural change and even devastation on the second day of Living Well at the End of a World.
Join Morningside and philosopher Dan Addison for a seminar series with working professionals on ethics in work and everyday life.
Join Professors Richard John and Casey Blake (Columbia) for this dinner seminar series on Democracy and Solidarity.
Join Professor Teodolinda Barolini for a dinner conversation on what it is to act freely in Dante and Aristotle.
Join Professors Richard John and Casey Blake (Columbia) for this dinner seminar series on Democracy and Solidarity.
Join Professors Richard John and Casey Blake (Columbia) for this dinner seminar series on Democracy and Solidarity.
Join Mark Lilla (Columbia) for a dinner conversation on Thomas Mann’s reaction and non-reactionary politics.
Join Professor Nicholas Chong (Rutgers) for a pre-opera discussion of The Barber of Seville before seeing it in an evening
Join Morningside and philosopher Dan Addison for a seminar series with working professionals on ethics in work and everyday life.
Join Morningside and philosopher Dan Addison for a seminar series with working professionals on ethics in work and everyday life.
Join Megan Laverty, director of the Columbia Teachers College Program in Philosophy and Education, for an engaging discussion of Wittgenstein’s ethics.
Join Nathaniel Peters (Morningside) for a dinner seminar on Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death and our new digital age.
Join Justin Hawkins (CUIMC) for a dinner seminar on the various models of disability used today.
Join Morningside and philosopher Dan Addison for a seminar series with working professionals on ethics in work and everyday life.
Join Nathaniel Peters (Morningside) for a dinner seminar on Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death and the rise of the television.
Join James Valentini and Stuart Firestein (Columbia) for a small group discussion of Beginner’s Mind and the scientific mind.
Join Nathaniel Peters (Morningside) for a dinner seminar on Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death and the loss of an American culture of print.
Come celebrate the beginning of the spring semester with friends, fellowship, and food!
Join Morningside and philosopher Dan Addison for a seminar series with working professionals on ethics in work and everyday life.
Join us for an end-of-the-year celebration!
Join Nathaniel Peters (Morningside) for this lunch seminar on Joan Didion's greatest journalism on false stories, false selves, and false societies.
Join the Morningside Institute for a dinner discussion of the Tallis Scholars' music before heading to their concert.
Join Professors Richard John and Casey Blake for a series of dinner conversations on hyper-moral politics in the works of Richard Niebuhr and Musa al-Gharbi.
Join Nathaniel Peters (Morningside) for this lunch seminar on Joan Didion's greatest journalism on false stories, false selves, and false societies.
Join Professors Richard John and Casey Blake for a series of dinner conversations on hyper-moral politics in the works of Richard Niebuhr and Musa al-Gharbi.
A dinner conversation on intellectual firmness with James Valentini (Chemistry) and Nathaniel Peters (Morningside)
Join Nathaniel Peters (Morningside) for this lunch seminar on Joan Didion's greatest journalism on false stories, false selves, and false societies.
Join Professors Richard John and Casey Blake for a series of dinner conversations on hyper-moral politics in the works of Richard Niebuhr and Musa al-Gharbi.
A dinner seminar with Professor Gareth Williams, discussing the modern resonance and relevance of the Metamorphoses.
Join Morningside for a guided tour of the Met’s rich exhibit of Sienese painting at the height of the Middle Ages and the dawn of the Italian Renaissance.
Lunch seminar with Amogha Sahu responding to Chesterton's "On Certain Modern Writers and the Institution of the Family" and "Reflections on a Rotten Apple"
Lunch seminar with Amogha Sahu responding to Chesterton's "The Diabolist" and "The Revival of Philosophy–Why?”
What are the fundamental ideas behind the American national project? What are its persistent aspirations and struggles? What is this country about? What was it created to achieve? A dinner seminar with Roosevelt Montás.
Join Professors Richard John and Casey Blake for a series of dinner conversations on hyper-moral politics in the works of Richard Niebuhr and Musa al-Gharbi.
Join the Morningside Institute for a pre-concert conversation about the musical results of religious persecution.
A screening of the new documentary The End of Humanity, and a conversation with Columbia ethicist Ashley Moyse.
Lunch seminar with Anthony Hejduk responding to Chesterton's "Turning Inside Out" and "The Drift from Domesticity."
A dinner conversation on intellectual firmness with James Valentini (Chemistry) and Nathaniel Peters (Morningside)
Lunch seminar with Anthony Hejduk responding to Chesterton's "The Book of Job" and "On Shakespeare."
Are Faith and Doubt Compatible? A dinner seminar with Stephen Grimm on John Henry Newman, co-sponsored by the Merton Institute.
