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 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 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 Ahmed Almadlouh, Joseph Marshall, and Dan Davis (Columbia) as they read Roger Scruton’s The Soul of the World over lunch.
Join medieval historian Neslihan Senoçak for a lecture and discussion of St. Francis’s dream of a religious order of equals.
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 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 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 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 Ahmed Almadlouh, Joseph Marshall, and Dan Davis (Columbia) as they read Roger Scruton’s The Soul of the World over lunch.
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.
Join Nathaniel Peters (Morningside) for a discussion about Dominion and the remaking of the ancient world by Christianity.
Join Morningside and philosopher Dan Addison for a seminar series with working professionals on ethics in work and everyday life.
Join Mark Lilla (Columbia) for a dinner conversation on Thomas Mann’s reaction and non-reactionary politics.
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 Professor Teodolinda Barolini for a dinner lecture 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 Morningside and philosopher Dan Addison for a seminar series with working professionals on ethics in work and everyday life.
Join Amogha Sahu (Columbia) for a conversation about Simone Weil’s proposal to under-gird science and the world with the sacred.
Join Professors Richard John and Casey Blake (Columbia) for this dinner seminar series on Democracy and Solidarity.
Join Professor Dhananjay Jagannathan (Columbia) for a discussion of what belongs to us, and what does not.
Join Amogha Sahu (Columbia) for a conversation about Simone Weil’s analysis of political power.
Join James Valentini and Katja Vogt (Columbia) for a small group discussion of Beginner’s Mind and humanistic inquiry.
Join Morningside and philosopher Dan Addison for a seminar series with working professionals on ethics in work and everyday life.
