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A full list of events for Lunch Lectures and Civil Discourse Debates can be found below Upcoming Events.

 

 

Lunch Event Series

 

  • August 29: Welcome Lunch with Peer Mentors
  • September 5: Erik Dempsey, "In Defense of Pleasure: Some Thoughts on the Role of Enjoyment in Liberal Education"
  • September 12: Aaron Tugendhaft, "Why It Matters that You Don't Speak Phygian: Herodotus on Languange and Politics"
  • September 19: Constitution Day: Deniss Rasmussen, "The Peg-Legged Abolitionist Who Wrote the Constitution"
  • September 26: Eric Hobby on Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemmings
  • October 3: Derek Foret on Aristotle
  • October 10: Book Club Meeting: Aristotle's Politics Book VIII on Musical Education
  • October 17: Advisement Luncheon
  • October 24: Ariel Helfer on Isocates (afternoon lecture)
  • October 31: TBD
  • November 7: TBD
  • November: 14: Mark Fisher, "Reapproaching Melos: What We Miss When Reading Thucydides as a Realist."
  • November 21: Evan Cree Gee on Aristotle and Machiavelli
  • December 5: Timothy Brennan, UATX, "Does Liberalism Presuppose Free Will? Augustinianism, Pelagianism, and the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin"

 

 

Civil Discourse Debates

All debates will take place in Batts 5.108.