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Unhurried Reading for Our Time
Unhurried Reading for Our Time
Reading slowly, thinking carefully, and conversing with curious readers since 2006. Symposium Institute is a quiet place where you can spend time with the greatest works of literature, philosophy, mathematics, and music that have illuminated the world.
Current Programs (April-June 2025)
Current Programs (April-June 2025)
2nd Quarter Programs in Progress
Arc of Modernity: Lorca, Poet in New York (cont. Q2)
Homer’s Odyssey (cont. Q2)
Dante’s Divine Comedy: Purgatorio (Cont. Q2)
Aristotle, Politics (Cont. Q2)
Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason (Cont. Q2)
Mathematics
Euclid’s Elements (Books 8-10)
Music
Language Learning
Xenophon and Homer in ancient Greek, alternate Sunday evenings
Reading Vergil and Livy in Latin, alternating Monday evenings
4th Quarter: Oct-Dec 2025 will be posted in August
Upcoming Programs (July-Sept 2025)
Upcoming Programs (July-Sept 2025)
3rd Quarter Highlights
Cervantes, Don Quixote de la Mancha, Part II (Q3)
Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I (NEW Q3)
Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, (NEW Q3)
Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass (NEW Q3)
Plato, Gorgias (NEW Q3)
Dickinson, Selected Poems (NEW Q3)
Mathematics
Euclid, Optics (NEW Q3)
Music
Language Learning
Xenophon and Homer in ancient Greek, alternate Sunday evenings
Reading Vergil and Livy in Latin, alternating Monday evenings
"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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