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Reading Groups and Seminars
Multiple DatesMon, Oct 12Join Zephyr to read and discuss works exploring the nature of law and justice.
Multiple DatesThu, Oct 15Join Zephyr as we accompany Boethius on his path towards consolation in the face of death.
Multiple DatesTue, Oct 20Join Zephyr for close readings of some of the classics of 17th century English devotional poetry.
Past Reading Groups and Seminars
Fri, Oct 09All are invited to join Zephyr on Friday, October 9 for this evening seminar on the art of Homer’s Odyssey, led by Barbara Clayton (Stanford Continuing Studies).- Multiple DatesThu, Oct 01Join Zephyr as we accompany Boethius on his path towards consolation in the face of death.
- Multiple DatesTue, Sep 29Join Zephyr to read and discuss works exploring the nature of law and justice.
- Multiple DatesTue, Sep 22Join Zephyr for close readings of some of the classics of 17th century English devotional poetry.
- Multiple DatesMon, May 18Join Zephyr to read and discuss works exploring the nature of law and justice.
Mon, Apr 27Undergraduates, graduates, and recent graduates are invited to this seminar on Jorge Manrique's "Stanzas on the Death of His Father" with Katerina Levinson (Stanford, Iberian and Latin American Cultures).
Wed, Apr 08Join Zephyr as we read Plato's powerful account of Socrates' last day, spent in discourse on the immortality of the soul.- Multiple DatesMon, Mar 02Join Zephyr to read and discuss works exploring the nature of law and justice.
Wed, Feb 04Join Zephyr to read and discuss this classic work on the nature of rhetoric, persuasion, philosophy, and the good life.- Wed, Jan 28Join Zephyr to read and discuss this classic work on the nature of rhetoric, persuasion, philosophy, and the good life.
Wed, Nov 05Join Zephyr to read and discuss together this classic work exploring the nature of courage.
Wed, Oct 29Join Zephyr to read and discuss together this classic work exploring the nature of piety and the relation between morality and the divine.
Wed, Oct 01Join Zephyr to read and discuss together this classic work exploring the nature of our obligations to the state.
Wed, Apr 23Stanford students are invited to join Zephyr for this evening dinner seminar with Prof. Lanier Anderson (Stanford, Philosophy) about Montaigne's classic short essay, "Of Practice."
Thu, Jan 16A Zephyr Seminar with Landon Hobbs (Zephyr) on Aristotle's theory of justice.
Tue, Oct 08A Zephyr seminar with Juan Miguel Matheus (Stanford Constitutional Law Center and National Assembly of Venezuela)
Multiple DatesThu, May 30Join Zephyr for a five-part reading and discussion of Shakespeare's "Coriolanus", led by Ben Gee (PhD Candidate, Department of English).
Multiple DatesWed, May 22Join Zephyr for this exploration of philosophical questions about the nature, purpose, and value of art. We will be reading R. G. Collingwood's "Principles of Art" (1938).
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