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 Nathaniel Peters (Morningside) for this lunch seminar on Joan Didion's greatest journalism on false stories, false selves, and false societies.
A dinner conversation on intellectual firmness with James Valentini (Chemistry) and Nathaniel Peters (Morningside)
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.
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.
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.
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.
Join philosopher Dan Addison for a lunch seminar discussing the role of truth and lies in society.
Join Professor Pierre Force (Columbia) for a lunch seminar close reading of passages from Pascal's Pensées.
What makes for a good explanation? Explore this question and the insights of Aristotle and Plato at this dinner seminar with Taylor Pincin (Columbia).
Join philosopher Dan Addison for a lunch seminar discussing Alasdair MacIntyre's views on the natural law, and how we can begin to resolve our moral conflicts together.
A dinner lecture by poet and critic Adam Kirsch on the concept of “settler colonialism” and its past, present, and future applications.
Is happiness internal to the self, or does it require something external to the self? A dinner seminar with Katharina Volk (Columbia).
Join philosopher Dan Addison for a lunch seminar discussing MacIntyre and intolerable speech within debating communities.
A dinner conversation on intellectual firmness with Dean Emeritus James Valentini (Chemistry).
Join philosopher Dan Addison for a lunch seminar discussing Alasdair MacIntyre and whether politics can direct us to certain forms of the good life.
What is the purpose of the university? Discuss that question and more at this dinner seminar with Nathaniel Peters (Morningside).
Dinner seminar with Nathaniel Peters (Morningside)
Dinner seminar with Nathaniel Peters (Morningside)
Dinner seminar with Nathaniel Peters (Morningside)
