Apply to study with The Catherine Project
In addition to our Core Program, we offer a variety of courses focused on particular great books, ancient languages, and other related subjects. These courses offer opportunities to focus one's learning in a welcoming intellectual community.
Summer 2026
May 18 - September 13, 2026
Applications Open
Deadline: April 03, 2026
Reading Groups
In a reading group, you choose one or more great books to study and meet regularly for discussions with a group of 8-15 peers. Discussions are led by an experienced reader and guide in conversation in accordance with our discussion guidelines and core principles.
Intensive Reading Groups
Intensive reading groups are an opportunity to go deeper with one's own thinking and the thinking of others. The size of the group is smaller, allowing each reader more conversational space, and readers are asked to write and share short weekly reflection papers.
Subject Tutorials
Subject tutorials offer focused study in a particular discipline or topic with a small group of dedicated readers, guided by a group leader with deep expertise in the subject.
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- Thursdays at 7:00 PM-9:00 PM · May 21, 2026 - Jul 2, 2026 (6 weeks)
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- Online
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Selected speeches and writings by Abraham Lincoln
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- Tuesdays at 8:30 PM-9:45 PM · Jun 23, 2026 - Jul 21, 2026 (4 weeks)
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- Online
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The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy by Anne Conway
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- Tuesdays at 6:30 PM-8:30 PM · Jun 16, 2026 - Jul 21, 2026 (5 weeks)
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- Online
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Birds by Aristophanes
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Knights, Assemblywomen, Peace, and Wealth by Aristophanes
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- Fridays at 4:00 PM-6:00 PM · Jun 19, 2026 - Aug 21, 2026 (9 weeks)
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- Online
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On the Heavens by Aristotle
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- Wednesdays at 7:00 PM-8:30 PM · Jun 3, 2026 - Dec 23, 2026 (29 weeks)
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- Online
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On the Soul by Aristotle
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On Memory and Recollection by Aristotle
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On the Motion of Animals by Aristotle
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On Sense Perception by Aristotle
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On Sleep by Aristotle
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On Dreams by Aristotle
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On Divination in Sleep by Aristotle
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- Tuesdays at 8:00 PM-9:30 PM · May 19, 2026 - Jul 28, 2026 (10 weeks)
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- Online
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- Mondays at 7:30 PM-9:00 PM · Jun 15, 2026 - Aug 17, 2026 (9 weeks)
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- Online
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- Wednesdays at 7:30 PM-9:00 PM · Jun 17, 2026 - Aug 19, 2026 (9 weeks)
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- Online
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- Tbd
- Location
- San Francisco
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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
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Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
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- Thursdays at 9:00 PM-10:30 PM · Jul 30, 2026 - Aug 27, 2026 (4 weeks)
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- Online
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The Analects by Confucius
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- Tuesdays at 8:00 PM-9:00 PM · Jul 7, 2026 - Aug 18, 2026 (6 weeks)
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- Online
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Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
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- Wednesdays at 6:15 PM-7:45 PM · Jun 17, 2026 - Jul 8, 2026 (3 weeks)
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- Annapolis, MD
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- Sundays at 8:00 PM-10:00 PM · Jul 12, 2026 - Aug 2, 2026 (3 weeks)
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- Online
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Geography III by Elizabeth Bishop
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- Wednesdays at 5:00 PM-6:30 PM · May 27, 2026 - Jun 17, 2026 (3 weeks)
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- Online
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Geography III by Elizabeth Bishop
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- Thursdays at 8:00 PM-9:30 PM · May 21, 2026 - Jul 2, 2026 (6 weeks)
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- Online
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Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
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- Wednesdays at 7:00 PM-8:30 PM · Jun 3, 2026 - Jul 29, 2026 (8 weeks)
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- Online
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“A Hunger Artist” and other stories by Franz Kafka
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- Saturdays at 10:30 AM-12:00 PM · Jul 4, 2026 - Aug 1, 2026 (4 weeks)
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- Online
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“The Metamorphosis”, “The Hunger Artist”, and “The Burrow” by Franz Kafka
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- Tuesdays at 10:30 AM-12:00 PM · May 26, 2026 - Jul 28, 2026 (9 weeks)
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- Online
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Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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On the Genealogy of Morals by Nietzsche
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- Mondays at 3:15 PM-5:00 PM · May 18, 2026 - Jun 15, 2026 (4 weeks)
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- Online
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The Principles of Human Knowledge by George Berkeley
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- Wednesdays at 1:30 PM-3:00 PM · Aug 12, 2026 - Oct 21, 2026 (10 weeks)
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- Online
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Le Roman de Silence by Heldris de Cornuälle
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- Mondays at 7:30 PM-9:00 PM · May 25, 2026 - Jul 6, 2026 (6 weeks)
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- NYC, Harlem
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A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen
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Ghosts, Wild Duck, The Lady from the Sea, Hedda Gabler, and Master Builder by Henrik Ibsen
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- Wednesdays at 7:00 PM-8:30 PM · May 20, 2026 - Jul 29, 2026 (10 weeks)
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- Online
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The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
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- Tuesdays at 7:00 PM-9:00 PM · Jun 2, 2026 - Aug 25, 2026 (12 weeks)
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- Online
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Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
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- Tuesdays at 8:00 PM-10:00 PM · Jun 9, 2026 - Aug 25, 2026 (11 weeks)
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- Online
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Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
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- Mondays at 8:00 PM-9:30 PM · Jun 1, 2026 - Jun 22, 2026 (3 weeks)
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- Online
- Schedule
- Thursdays at 12:00 PM-1:30 PM · May 21, 2026 - Jul 16, 2026 (8 weeks)
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- Online
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The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch
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- Tuesdays at 11:00 AM-12:30 PM · Jun 23, 2026 - Aug 4, 2026 (6 weeks)
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- Online
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Selected films by Jacques Tati: Jour de fête, Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday, Mon oncle, PlayTime, Trafic, and Parade
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- Tuesdays at 1:00 PM-2:30 PM · Jun 9, 2026 - Sep 22, 2026 (15 weeks)
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- Online
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- Fridays at 6:30 PM-8:00 PM · May 22, 2026 - Aug 7, 2026 (11 weeks)
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- Online
- Schedule
- Wednesdays at 10:00 PM-11:30 PM · Jun 24, 2026 - Jul 22, 2026 (4 weeks)
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- Online
- Works Read
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Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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- Tuesdays at 4:00 PM-5:30 PM · Jun 2, 2026 - Sep 8, 2026 (14 weeks)
- Location
- Princeton, NJ
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Paradise Lost (1674 edition) by John Milton
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- Tuesdays at 6:30 PM-7:30 PM · Jun 23, 2026 - Aug 25, 2026 (9 weeks)
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- Princeton, NJ
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Paradise Lost (1674 edition) by John Milton
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- Thursdays at 8:00 PM-9:30 PM · Jul 23, 2026 - Aug 20, 2026 (4 weeks)
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- Online
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The Seven Lamps of Architecture by John Ruskin
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- Saturdays at 10:00 AM-12:00 PM · May 23, 2026 - Jul 4, 2026 (6 weeks)
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- Online
- Language
- Discussion and readings in Spanish
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Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
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- Thursdays at 9:00 PM-10:30 PM · May 21, 2026 - Jul 2, 2026 (6 weeks)
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- Online
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Selected plays by Kalidasa
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- Thursdays at 7:00 PM-8:30 PM · May 21, 2026 - Aug 20, 2026 (13 weeks)
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- Online
- Works Read
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War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
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- Thursdays at 10:30 AM-12:00 PM · May 21, 2026 - Aug 13, 2026 (12 weeks)
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- Online
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War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
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- Saturdays at 8:30 AM-10:00 AM · Jul 11, 2026 - Aug 8, 2026 (4 weeks)
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- Online
- Language
- Discussion and readings in Spanish
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Fuenteovejuna by Lope de Vega
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- Wednesdays at 7:00 PM-8:30 PM · May 20, 2026 - Jul 1, 2026 (6 weeks)
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- NYC, Brooklyn
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On the Nature of Things by Lucretius
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- Sundays at 9:00 AM-10:30 AM · Jun 7, 2026 - Aug 2, 2026 (8 weeks)
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- Online
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Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein
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- Wednesdays at 7:00 PM-8:30 PM · Jun 3, 2026 - Aug 26, 2026 (12 weeks)
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- Online
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Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
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- Thursdays at 6:00 PM-8:00 PM · Jun 11, 2026 - Jul 16, 2026 (5 weeks)
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- Washington, DC
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Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
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- Tuesdays at 7:00 PM-8:30 PM · Jun 23, 2026 - Aug 25, 2026 (9 weeks)
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- Online
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Lais by Marie de France
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Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart by Chrétien de Troyes
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The Romance of the Rose by Guillaume de Lorris & Jean de Meun
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- Sundays at 10:00 AM-11:30 AM · May 24, 2026 - Jul 19, 2026 (8 weeks)
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- Online
- Works Read
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Question Concerning Technology and other essays by Martin Heidegger
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- Wednesdays at 5:00 PM-7:00 PM · Jul 8, 2026 - Aug 12, 2026 (5 weeks)
- Location
- Grand Rapids, MI
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Frankenstein (1818 edition) by Mary Shelley
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- Tuesdays at 4:00 PM-5:30 PM · May 19, 2026 - Jun 16, 2026 (4 weeks)
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- Online
- Works Read
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
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- Wednesdays at 8:00 PM-9:30 PM · Jun 3, 2026 - Jul 15, 2026 (6 weeks)
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- Online
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Essays, Book 1 by Michel de Montaigne
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- Saturdays at 3:00 PM-5:00 PM · Jul 4, 2026 - Sep 19, 2026 (11 weeks)
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- Online
- Language
- Discussion and readings in Spanish
- Works Read
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Don Quijote by Miguel de Cervantes
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- Sundays at 2:00 PM-3:30 PM · Jun 14, 2026 - Nov 8, 2026 (21 weeks)
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- Online
- Language
- Discussion and readings in Spanish
- Works Read
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Don Quijote by Miguel de Cervantes
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- Saturdays at 11:00 AM-12:30 PM · May 23, 2026 - Jul 25, 2026 (9 weeks)
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- Online
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The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
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- Tuesdays at 7:00 PM-8:30 PM · May 26, 2026 - Aug 4, 2026 (10 weeks)
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- Online
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The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
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- Wednesdays at 8:00 PM-9:30 PM · Jun 3, 2026 - Jul 8, 2026 (5 weeks)
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- Online
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A Hero of our Time by Mikhail Lermontov
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- Wednesdays at 7:00 PM-8:30 PM · May 20, 2026 - Jul 29, 2026 (10 weeks)
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- Online
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The Comforters by Muriel Spark
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The Ballad of Peckham Rye, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Loitering with Intent, and The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark
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- Wednesdays at 7:00 PM-9:00 PM · Jun 17, 2026 - Aug 5, 2026 (7 weeks)
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- Online
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The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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- Mondays at 8:00 PM-9:30 PM · Jun 1, 2026 - Sep 7, 2026 (14 weeks)
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- Online
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Twilight of the Idols by Nietzsche
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and Ecce Homo by Antichrist
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- Sundays at 2:00 PM-4:00 PM · Aug 2, 2026 - Sep 27, 2026 (8 weeks)
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- Online
- Works Read
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Cleitophon by Plato
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Book I by Republic
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- Mondays at 9:00 AM-10:30 AM · Jul 6, 2026 - Jul 27, 2026 (3 weeks)
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- Online
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Euthyphro by Plato
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and Crito by Apology
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- Sundays at 11:00 AM-12:30 PM · Jul 12, 2026 - Aug 23, 2026 (6 weeks)
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- Online
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Euthyphro by Plato
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Apology, Crito, and Phaedo by Plato
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- Mondays at 2:00 PM-3:30 PM · May 18, 2026 - Jun 8, 2026 (3 weeks)
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- Online
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- Tuesdays at 7:00 PM-8:30 PM · May 19, 2026 - Jun 16, 2026 (4 weeks)
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- Online
- Schedule
- Mondays at 4:00 PM-5:30 PM · May 18, 2026 - Jun 15, 2026 (4 weeks)
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- Online
- Works Read
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Protagoras by Plato
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Meno by Plato
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- Tuesdays at 11:00 AM-12:30 PM · May 19, 2026 - Jul 7, 2026 (7 weeks)
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- Online
- Language
- Discussion and readings in English
- Works Read
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Readers in this course will discuss poems by W. H. Auden, Randall Jarrell, Derek Mahon, Rainer Maria Rilke, John Stone, etc., as well as artworks by Breughel the Elder, Piero di Cosimo, Donatello, Pisanello, Titian, and Leonardo da Vinci
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- Mondays at 7:00 PM · Jun 1, 2026 - Aug 24, 2026 (12 weeks)
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- Online
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Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West
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- Fridays at 1:30 PM-3:00 PM · May 22, 2026 - Jul 3, 2026 (6 weeks)
- Location
- Online
- Language
- Discussion and readings in Spanish
- Works Read
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Los detectives salvajes by Roberto Bolaño
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- Thursdays at 9:00 PM-10:30 PM · Jul 23, 2026 - Dec 17, 2026 (21 weeks)
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- Online
- Works Read
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The Master of Hestviken by Sigrid Undset
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- Wednesdays at 10:00 AM-11:30 AM · Jun 24, 2026 - Aug 5, 2026 (6 weeks)
- Location
- Online
- Works Read
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The Ethics of Ambiguity by Simone de Beauvoir
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- Thursdays at 7:30 PM-9:30 PM · Jun 4, 2026 - Aug 20, 2026 (11 weeks)
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- Online
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Repetition by Soren Kierkegaard
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- Thursdays at 8:30 PM-10:00 PM · Jun 25, 2026 - Aug 13, 2026 (7 weeks)
- Location
- Online
- Works Read
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The Birds by Tarjei Vesaas
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- Saturdays at 1:00 PM-2:30 PM · May 23, 2026 - Jun 27, 2026 (5 weeks)
- Location
- Online
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On Kingship by Thomas Aquinas
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- Saturdays at 7:30 PM-9:30 PM · May 30, 2026 - Aug 1, 2026 (9 weeks)
- Location
- Online
- Works Read
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Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
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- Tuesdays at 8:00 PM-10:00 PM · Jun 16, 2026 - Aug 11, 2026 (8 weeks)
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- Online
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Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
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Apology by Plato
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- Saturdays at 10:00 AM-12:00 PM · May 30, 2026 - Aug 8, 2026 (10 weeks)
- Location
- Online
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The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
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- Thursdays at 9:00 PM-10:30 PM · Jul 2, 2026 - Jul 30, 2026 (4 weeks)
- Location
- Online
- Schedule
- Wednesdays at 8:00 PM-9:30 PM · May 20, 2026 - Aug 26, 2026 (14 weeks)
- Location
- Online
- Works Read
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Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman
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- Mondays at 8:00 PM-10:00 PM · Jul 27, 2026 - Sep 7, 2026 (6 weeks)
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- Online
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Leaves of Grass (1855 edition) by Walt Whitman
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- Sundays at 3:30 PM-5:00 PM · May 24, 2026 - Jul 26, 2026 (9 weeks)
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- Online
- Schedule
- Mondays at 2:30 PM-4:00 PM · May 25, 2026 - Jul 20, 2026 (8 weeks)
- Location
- Online
- Works Read
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Waverley by Walter Scott
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Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
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- Mondays at 7:00 PM-8:30 PM · Jun 15, 2026 - Sep 14, 2026 (13 weeks)
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- Online
- Works Read
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Selected poems by William Blake, William Wordsworth, Percy Shelley, and John Keats
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- Tuesdays at 8:00 PM-9:30 PM · Jun 9, 2026 - Aug 11, 2026 (9 weeks)
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- Online
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The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
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- Mondays at 8:00 PM-10:00 PM · Jun 1, 2026 - Jul 6, 2026 (5 weeks)
- Location
- Online
- Works Read
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Hamlet by William Shakespeare
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- Fridays at 4:00 PM-5:30 PM · Jun 19, 2026 - Aug 28, 2026 (10 weeks)
- Location
- Online
- Works Read
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Hamlet by William Shakespeare
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King Lear by William Shakespeare
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- Thursdays at 8:00 PM-9:30 PM · May 21, 2026 - Jul 16, 2026 (8 weeks)
- Location
- Online
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King Lear and Hamlet by William Shakespeare
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- Mondays at 2:00 PM-3:30 PM · May 25, 2026 - Aug 10, 2026 (11 weeks)
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- Online
- Works Read
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King Lear by William Shakespeare
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Macbeth by William Shakespeare
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- Thursdays at 7:30 PM-9:00 PM · Aug 27, 2026 - Sep 10, 2026 (2 weeks)
- Location
- Austin, TX
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Macbeth by William Shakespeare
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- Wednesdays at 10:00 PM-12:00 AM · May 20, 2026 - Sep 9, 2026 (16 weeks)
- Location
- Online
- Works Read
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Sonnets by William Shakespeare
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- Mondays at 8:00 PM-10:00 PM · Jun 8, 2026 - Aug 31, 2026 (12 weeks)
- Location
- Online
- Works Read
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Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, Eumenides, The Persians, Seven Against Thebes, Suppliants, and Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus
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- Fridays at 12:30 PM-2:30 PM · May 22, 2026 - Sep 4, 2026 (15 weeks)
- Location
- Online
- Language
- Discussion and readings in English
- Works Read
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Works and Days by Hesiod
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Fragments by Parmenides
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Meno by Plato
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Republic (selections) by Plato
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Aristotle, Physics, Book II by Unknown
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Metaphysics (selections) by Aristotle
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Posterior Analytics (selections) by Aristotle
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Elements (selections) by Euclid
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Spherics (selections) by Theodosios
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- Sundays at 5:00 PM-7:00 PM · May 24, 2026 - Sep 13, 2026 (16 weeks)
- Location
- Online
- Works Read
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Parallel Lives (selections) by Plutarch
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Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
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- Mondays at 7:00 PM-9:00 PM · Jun 8, 2026 - Aug 31, 2026 (12 weeks)
- Location
- Online
- Works Read
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The Sickness Unto Death by Soren Kierkegaard
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- Mondays at 12:00 PM-1:30 PM · May 18, 2026 - Jul 13, 2026 (8 weeks)
- Location
- Online
- Works Read
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Summa Theologiae, Prima Pars (First Part) by Thomas Aquinas
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- Sundays at 10:00 AM-12:00 PM · May 24, 2026 - Jul 5, 2026 (6 weeks)
- Location
- Online
- Language
- Discussion in English; readings in Ancient Greek
- Works Read
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Anytè, and Erinna by Epigrams and fragments from Nossis
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- Saturdays at 10:00 AM · May 23, 2026 - Jul 4, 2026 (6 weeks)
- Location
- Online
- Language
- Discussion in English; readings in Ancient Greek
- Works Read
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Pastoral epigrams by Leonidas of Tarentum
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Idyll 7 by Theocritus
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- Sundays at 4:00 PM-6:00 PM · May 24, 2026 - Aug 2, 2026 (10 weeks)
- Location
- Online
- Language
- Discussion in English; readings in Latin
- Works Read
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Itinerarium Mentis in Deum by Bonaventure
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- Mondays at 7:00 PM-8:30 PM · May 18, 2026 - Sep 14, 2026 (17 weeks)
- Location
- Online
- Language
- Discussion in English; readings in Ancient Greek
- Works Read
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Physics, Book II by Aristotle
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- Fridays at 10:00 AM-12:00 PM · May 22, 2026 - Aug 21, 2026 (13 weeks)
- Location
- Online
- Language
- Discussion in English; readings in Ancient Greek
- Schedule
- Tuesdays at 3:00 PM-4:30 PM · May 19, 2026 - Jul 14, 2026 (8 weeks)
- Location
- Online
- Language
- Discussion in English; readings in Latin
- Schedule
- 7:00 PM-9:00 PM · Jun 7, 2026 - Aug 16, 2026 (10 weeks)
- Location
- Online
- Language
- Discussion in English; readings in Hebrew
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Beginning Biblical Hebrew by Mark Futato
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