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Past Events

  • Bioethics Reading and Discussion Group
    Bioethics Reading and Discussion Group
    Multiple Dates
    Tue, Dec 05
    Dec 05, 2023, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM PST
    Zoom accessible to accepted registrants
    A virtual reading and discussion group for physicians and physicians-in-training, led by Dr. Aaron Kheriaty
  • Fall 2023 Intellectual Retreat: Good, True, Beautiful
    Fall 2023 Intellectual Retreat: Good, True, Beautiful
    Sat, Dec 02
    Dec 02, 2023, 8:00 AM – 9:00 PM
    Atherton, 157 Stockbridge Ave, Atherton, CA 94027, USA
    All undergraduates are invited to participate in this end-of-quarter reflection on perennial questions.
  • Zephyr Poetry Society (Fall 2023)
    Zephyr Poetry Society (Fall 2023)
    Multiple Dates
    Fri, Dec 01
    Dec 01, 2023, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
    Palo Alto, 2345 Dartmouth St, Palo Alto, CA 94306, USA
    The Zephyr Poetry Society is a venue for the collective reading, discussion, and appreciation of the great poems of the English poetic tradition.
  • Value in a Human Life: A Philosophical Reading Group (Fall 2023)
    Value in a Human Life: A Philosophical Reading Group (Fall 2023)
    Multiple Dates
    Wed, Nov 29
    Nov 29, 2023, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
    Palo Alto, 2345 Dartmouth St, Palo Alto, CA 94306, USA
    What makes for a good human life? What confers value on our lives? What seems to confer a value which is in fact delusive? And what is the relative place and rank each of the many apparent goods holds in a complete and flourishing human life?
  • Zephyr Philosophy Club 2023-2024
    Zephyr Philosophy Club 2023-2024
    Multiple Dates
    Tue, Nov 14
    Nov 14, 2023, 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM PST
    Atherton, Atherton, CA, USA
    A monthly philosophy gathering for high school students, led by Dr. Molly Oshatz (Zephyr Institute)
  • Zephyr Poetry Society (Fall 2023): Inaugural Meeting
    Zephyr Poetry Society (Fall 2023): Inaugural Meeting
    Wed, Oct 11
    Oct 11, 2023, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
    Palo Alto, 560 College Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94306, USA
    The Zephyr Poetry Society is a venue for the collective reading, discussion, and appreciation of the great poems of the English poetic tradition.
  • Opening Reception: Academic Year 2023–4
    Opening Reception: Academic Year 2023–4
    Fri, Sep 29
    Sep 29, 2023, 6:00 PM – Sep 30, 2023, 9:30 PM
    Palo Alto, 560 College Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94306, USA
    Come celebrate the start of the new academic year with Zephyr! We will have dinner, information about coming events, and a film screening and discussion of Akira Kurosawa's "Ikiru" (1952).
  • Zephyr Philosophy Camp 2023 - Ethics and Happiness
    Zephyr Philosophy Camp 2023 - Ethics and Happiness
    Mon, Jul 17
    Jul 17, 2023, 10:00 AM PDT – Jul 21, 2023, 2:00 PM PDT
    Stanford University
    A week-long philosophy summer day camp for rising junior and senior high school students and incoming college freshmen with Dr. Molly Oshatz.
  • The Machine has No Tradition (Summer 2023)
    The Machine has No Tradition (Summer 2023)
    Sun, Jul 09
    Jul 09, 2023, 7:00 PM EDT – Jul 15, 2023, 7:00 PM EDT
    Harvard University’s CGIS Knafel Bldg
    A seminar on technology and politics.
  • Is Postliberalism Possible?
    Is Postliberalism Possible?
    Sat, May 27
    May 27, 2023, 8:00 AM – 9:00 PM PDT
    Palo Alto, CA
    An intellectual retreat for Stanford students on the nature, origin, and aims of liberalism with Michael Hanby and D.C. Schindler
  • Zephyr Philosophy Club 2022-2023
    Zephyr Philosophy Club 2022-2023
    Tue, May 23
    May 23, 2023, 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM PDT
    Atherton, Atherton, CA, USA
    A monthly philosophy gathering for high school students, led by Dr. Molly Oshatz (Zephyr Institute)
  • Zephyr Philosophy Club 2022-2023
    Zephyr Philosophy Club 2022-2023
    Multiple Dates
    Tue, May 09
    May 09, 2023, 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM PDT
    Atherton, Atherton, CA, USA
    A monthly philosophy gathering for high school students, led by Dr. Molly Oshatz (Zephyr Institute)
  • The Everlasting Man Reading Group
    The Everlasting Man Reading Group
    Multiple Dates
    Mon, May 08
    May 08, 2023, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM PDT
    Zoom link to be sent to registrants
    A virtual reading group for Stanford undergraduates and recent alumni led by Annika Nordquist
  • Scientific Research and the Good Life
    Scientific Research and the Good Life
    Thu, May 04
    May 04, 2023, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM PDT
    Zephyr Institute, 560 College Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94306, USA
    A Zephyr Salon on the attraction to academic life, particularly in the sciences with Prof. Karl van Bibber (UC Berkeley) for Stanford students and recent alumni
  • Ethics, Happiness, Virtue: Nicomachean Ethics I-II
    Ethics, Happiness, Virtue: Nicomachean Ethics I-II
    Multiple Dates
    Wed, May 03
    May 03, 2023, 6:00 PM – 7:45 PM PDT
    Zephyr Institute, 560 College Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94306, USA
    A dinner reading group for Stanford and Silicon Valley community members led by Patricio A. Fernandez
  • The Everlasting Man Reading Group
    The Everlasting Man Reading Group
    Multiple Dates
    Thu, Apr 20
    Apr 20, 2023, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM PDT
    Zoom link to be sent to registrants
    A virtual reading group for Stanford undergraduates and recent alumni led by Annika Nordquist
  • Private Showing of The Detransition Diaries: Saving Our Sisters
    Private Showing of The Detransition Diaries: Saving Our Sisters
    Wed, Apr 05
    Apr 05, 2023, 6:00 PM – 7:45 PM PDT
    Zephyr Institute, 560 College Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94306, USA
    Film Screening with Q and A after with Filmmaker Jennifer Lahl
  • Bioethics Reading and Discussion Group
    Bioethics Reading and Discussion Group
    Multiple Dates
    Wed, Mar 22
    Mar 22, 2023, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
    Zoom accessible to accepted registrants
    A virtual reading and discussion group for physicians and physicians-in-training, led by Dr. Aaron Kheriaty
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