A Distinguished Performer Half-Day seminar featuring Robert Buxton, Lecturer (Piano) This event will focus on the music and life of Franz Liszt, composer and pianist extraordinaire of the 19th century, through interspersed performance and discussion of his works with pianist … Read more
A Distinguished Scholar Half-Day Seminar featuring Michael Vazquez, Teaching Assistant Professor and Director of Outreach, Philosophy Department The philosophical and ethical themes of ancient Stoic thinkers have attracted renewed attention in recent decades as people struggle to cope with public … Read more
a DIALOGUES seminar There are more privately owned guns than people in the United States, and “gun culture” is more pervasive in American society than in any other modern, industrial nation. How did a distinctive view of guns influence the … Read more
a DIALOGUES seminar Recent political events serve to remind Americans that the United States is “a republic, not a democracy.” Indeed, our Founding Fathers were inspired by the most famous republic in world history, Rome’s, when they wrote the Constitution. … Read more
a DIALOGUES seminar European political and social systems gradually became more democratic after the 18th century as the traditional power of kings and nobles was replaced by new voting rights and the institutions of representative government. But powerful anti-democratic movements … Read more
a DIALOGUES seminar Democratic political systems can only survive and flourish when courts, judges, and criminal prosecutors remain independent from other branches of government, but how is the legal system maintaining democratic norms in the contemporary United States? Can we … Read more
*NEW DATE: This program, originally scheduled for February 4, has been moved to April 1. A Dialogues Seminar Heated debates about immigration, naturalization, and national identity abound in politics, but these debates are not confined to North America, nor are … Read more
Unfortunately, this program has been cancelled due to unforeseen scheduling conflicts. We hope to reschedule at a future date.
a DIALOGUES seminar Many Americans are familiar with our nation’s history of colonial settlement “from sea to shining sea,” but we often forget that expansion didn’t end at the West Coast. This seminar will look at 19th-century art and literature … Read more
a HALF-DAY DISTINGUISHED SCHOLAR seminar featuring Max Owre Why did France, with the largest and most well-equipped army in Western Europe in 1939, fall to Nazi Germany in little over a month in the spring of 1940? To answer this, we will … Read more
