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2023-2024
Barry Kraft
- Lecture: Shakespeare’s “The Tempest”
- Seminar: Samuel L. Johnson’s preface to Shakespeare
Interact Theater
- Play Reading: Oscar Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest
Cynthia Clegg
- Lecture: Censoring Shakespeare: Custom and the Rule of Law
- Seminar: Shakespeare’s Othello
Daniel Hannan
- Lecture: How Like a God: Shakespeare and the Making of Our Reality.
- Seminar: Shakespeare‘s Henry V.
Robert Greenberg
- Lecture: Beethoven in the Movies
- Seminar: Amadeus
Matt Malkan
- Lecture: Why What A Lot of People Think About Science Is Wrong
- Seminar: Is Our Universe “Fine-Tuned” For Life?
James Muller
- Lecture: Churchill’s Thoughts as Adventures
- Seminar: Churchill’s Finest Hour: the Wartime Speeches
2022-2023
Mark Bauerlein
- Seminar: The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Chapters 10 and 11
- Lecture: The Fall of the Millennials
Susan McWilliams Barndt
- Seminar: Rip Van Winkle and American Civic Life
- Lecture: How the Counterculture Won the War: The Merry Pranksters, The Hells Angels, and the Party That Foretold American Politics
Interact Theater
- Play Reading: Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya
Gary Saul Morson
- Seminar: Three Stories by Anton Chekhov: “The Duel.” “Lights.” “Happiness.”
- Lecture: What Does Not Happen in Uncle Vanya?
Jean Yarbrough
- Seminar: Alexis De Tocqueville’s Democracy in America (Excerpts)
- Lecture: Lincoln and Tocqueville on Slavery
Michael Kulikowski
- Seminar: The Fall of the Western Roman Empire
- Lecture: The Eurasian Turn in Late Antiquity
2021-2022
Jonathan Bank
- Seminar: Conflict, a play by Miles Malleson
- Lecture: Exploding the Dramatic Canon
Paul Rahe
- Seminar: The Influence of Commercial Sea Power on History
- Lecture: Ancient, Modern, and Post-Modern
Interact Theater
- Play Reading: Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen
Michael Ward
- Seminar: C.S. Lewis, Studies in Words (Excerpts)
- Lecture: C.S. Lewis and Liberality
2020-2021
Rafe Esquith
- Seminar: Almost Impossible: Creating a Lifelong Reader in a Mixed-Up, Muddled-Up, Shook-Up World
- Lecture: Beyond the Test: Three Ways to Change a Student’s Life Forever and for Better
Carol McNamara
- Seminar: Shakespeare’s The Tempest
- Lecture: Tom Wolfe’s America
Interact Theater
- Play Reading: Noel Coward’s Private Lives
2019-2020
James Ceaser
- Seminar: What is Populism and Where is it Going?
- Lecture: James Madison: The Founder of Modern Founding
James Muller
- Seminar: Churchill’s My Early Life
- Lecture: The Education of Winston Churchill
Interact Theater
- Play Reading: Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard
Gary Gallagher
- Seminar: Abraham Lincoln, Union War Aims, and the Limits of Reconstruction
- Lecture: Was Reconstruction a Lost Moment? Understanding the Connection between Union War Aims and Postwar Realities.
2018-2019
Daniel Lowenstein
- Seminar: Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure
- Lecture: Law and Mercy in The Merchant of Venice
Joshua Mitchell
- Seminar: Tocqueville’s Democracy in America
- Lecture: Globalism and the Crisis of Inheritance
Bill Harlan
- Seminar: Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part One
- Lecture: ‘Aye, Too Gentle!’: Re-Examining the Motives for Evil in Othello.
Robert Greenberg
- Seminar: Mozart’s Don Giovanni
- Lecture: Will the Real Wolfgang Mozart Please Stand Up?
Interact Theater
- Play Reading: Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia
Constance Walker
- Seminar: Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia
- Lecture: Jane Austen, Aristotle, and the Perfect Plot
Lorraine Pangle
- Seminar: Plato’s Criticism of Homer in The Rebublic
- Lecture: Homer, Educator of the Greeks (and Us)
Joan Waugh
- Seminar: Primary Documents Related to the 1868 Election
- Lecture: ‘Let Us Have Peace’: U.S. Grant, Union, and Civil Rights in the Election of 1868.
Interact Theater
- Play Reading: Bernard Shaw’s The Devil’s Discipline
Barry Kraft
- Seminar: Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and Lucan’s Pharsalia
- Lecture: Hamlet and the Spirit of Revenge
2017-2018
Interact Theater
- Play Reading: Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People
Alan Blumenfeld
- Seminar: Chain Potok’s The Chosen
- Lecture: Finding Shylock: Love and Mercy in The Merchant of Venice
Craig Yirush
- Seminar: The Declaration of Independence
- Lecture: Dissenting Voices fro 1776: Why Islanders, Loyalists, Africans, and Indians Rejected the American Revolution
Bruce Redford
- Seminar: Goethe’s account of his visit to Italy
- Lecture: The Grand Tour of Europe
Diana Schaub
- Seminar: Douglass’ Oration in Memory of Abraham Lincoln
- Lecture: Abraham Lincoln and the Daughters of Dread Scott
AnthonyKronman
- Seminar: Max Weber’s Politics as a Vocation
- Lecture: Is Ours a Godless Age?
John Maurer
- Seminar: Churchill’s essays on before, during, and after the war
- Lecture: Churchill, America, and the Great War
Interact Theater
- Play Reading: Euripides’ Hippolytus and Racine’s Phaedra
2016-2017
Interact Theater
- Play Reading: Tom Stoppard’s Rough Crossing .
Woody Holton
- Seminar: Letters of Abigail Adams
- Lecture: Washington Schlepped Here: How George Washington Admitted an Error and Won the Revolutionary War.
Gary Saul Morson
- Seminar: Three Stories by Anton Chekhov.
- Lecture: Russian Lessons from 1917: Novelists and the Intelligentsia.
Susan McWilliams
- Seminar: Walt Whitman’s Song of the Open Road
- LectureL Reading the American Road Trip.
Allen Guelzo
- Seminar: (Re)Visioning Reconstruction.
- Lecture: ReconstructionL The Last Bourgeois Revolution.
Andy Robinson
- Seminar: Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night.
- Lecture:Stepping into the Light: An Actor’s Journey.
Barry Shain
- Seminar: Monarchy, Republicanism, and the American Revolution.
- Lecture: The Tragic American Revolution and the Accidental Republic.
Interact Theater
- Play Reading: Moliere’s The Misanthrope
Wanda Corn
- Seminar: Writing’s on Georgia O’Keeffe
- Lecture: The Three Lives of Grant Wood’s American Gothic.
2015-2016
Interact Theater
- Play Reading: Jerry Sterner’s Other People’s Money
Robert Putnam
- Seminar: Our Kids
- Lecture: Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis
Matthew Crawford
- Seminar: Francois Furet’s Passing of an Illusion: The Idea of Communism in the Twentieth Century.
- Lecture: Attention as a Cultural Problem
Michael Allen
- Seminar: William Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Table.
- Lecture: William Shakespeare’s Henry IV.
Mark Wahlgren Summers
- Seminar: The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson.
- Lecture: Dead Man Walking: The Not-So-Strange Stillbirth of Radical Reconstruction, 1868.
Fred Sanders
- Seminar: Sophocles’ Antigone.
- Lecture: Law, Rigor, and Personal Responsibility in Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Take and Sophocles’ Antigone.
Vernon Smith
- Seminar: Adam Smith’s The Theory of Moral Sentiments.
- Lecture: On Changing False Beliefs: Three Cases from Experimental Economics.
Interact Theater
- Play Reading: Jean Anoulih’s and Sophocles’ Antigone
Paul Cantor
- Seminar: The Merchant of Venice: Shakespeare’s View of the Commercial Republic.
- Lecture: Robinson Crusoe and the Enlightenment Spirit of Capitalism.