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Events for University Students

  • 2023–4 Undergraduate Fellowship: Value in a Human Life
    2023–4 Undergraduate Fellowship: Value in a Human Life
    October 4 & 18; November 1, 15, & 29
    October 4 & 18; November 1, 15, & 29
    Palo Alto, 560 College Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94306, USA
    This fellowship is open to undergraduate students at Stanford University. The deadline for applications is Saturday, September 30th.
  • Zephyr Mentorship Program
    Zephyr Mentorship Program
    Open to students and young professionals
    Open to students and young professionals
    Zephyr Institute, 560 College Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94306, USA
    Work better, live better
  • 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 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).
  • 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
  • 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
  • New Revelations on Nixon and Watergate
    New Revelations on Nixon and Watergate
    Fri, Mar 24
    Mar 24, 2023, 5:00 PM PDT – Mar 26, 2023, 5:30 PM PDT
    Palo Alto
    An intellectual retreat about the biggest political scandal of the Twentieth Century with Dwight Lee Chapin, Luke A. Nichter, and Geoff Shepard
  • The Sacred, Chance, and the Machine
    The Sacred, Chance, and the Machine
    Sun, Nov 06
    Nov 06, 2022, 12:30 PM – 8:00 PM PST
    To be sent to participants
    A Colloquium for faculty and students
  • The Battle of the Sexes in Ancient and Modern Thought
    The Battle of the Sexes in Ancient and Modern Thought
    Sat, Nov 05
    Nov 05, 2022, 9:00 AM – 8:00 PM
    To be sent to participants
  • 2022-2023 Undergraduate Fellowship: What is Liberal Education?
    2022-2023 Undergraduate Fellowship: What is Liberal Education?
    Sat, Oct 22
    Oct 22, 2022, 9:00 AM – 8:00 PM PDT
    Stanford University
    This fellowship is open to undergraduate students at Stanford University. The deadline for applications to the Fall Term Fellowship is Friday, September 30th. The Fall 2022 seminar will be on October 22 and will be led by Peter Berkowitz (Hoover Institution, Stanford University).
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