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Unhurried Reading for Our Time
Unhurried Reading for Our Time
Reading slowly and conversing with curious readers since 2006. Symposium Institute is a quiet place where you can spend time with the great works of literature, philosophy, mathematics, and music that have illuminated the world.
Current Programs (Oct-Dec 2025)
Current Programs (Oct-Dec 2025)
4th Quarter Highlights (tentative)
Homer, Iliad
Plato, Republic
Aristophanes, Clouds
Exodus
Maimonides, Guide of the Perplexed
Chaucer, Canterbury Tales
Shakespeare, Henry IV Part II
Shakespeare, Sonnets "Read Aloud"
Borges, Selected Readings
Newman, The Idea of the University
Mathematics
Apollonius of Perga, Treatise on Conic Sections
Music
Louis Armstrong and the Hot Five
Language Learning
Greek | Latin
Upcoming Programs (in 2026)
Upcoming Programs (in 2026)
1st Quarter 2026 Highlights (tenative)
Homer, Iliad (continued)
Plato, Republic (continued)
More Plato
A Year with Montaigne
Sor Juana Ines, Poems and Letters
Thucydides, Peloponnesian War
More Shakespeare
More Newman
Mathematics
Euclid, Elements
Archimedes, On Spheres and Cylinders
Music
Bach | and more
Language Learning
Greek | Latin (continue)
"It is difficult to get the news from poems, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.”
William Carlos Williams
1883-1963, American Poet
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