Join Skidmore College’s Flagg Taylor for a three-day seminar reflecting on the writings of two of the great authors of the twentieth century: Arthur Koestler and Václav Havel.
Multi-Day Seminars
Taught by experts in their field, our multi-day seminars allow students the opportunity to have intensive and fruitful academic engagement with topics and thinkers often neglected in their Yale classrooms. Through these multi-day seminars, the Buckley Institute helps fill the gaps in the Yale curriculum.
Details
In March 2015, we launched our multi-day seminar program, allowing students the opportunity to have intensive and fruitful academic engagement with topics and thinkers neglected in their Yale classrooms. Held over three days during winter, spring, summer, and fall breaks, topics and professors have included:
Past Topics
- Lincoln and the Crisis of American Democracy with Peter Ahrensdorf
- Free Market Fairness with John Tomasi
- Aristotle on The Good Life with Robert Bartlett
- The Federalist Papers and the American Founding with Charles Kesler
- Tocqueville's Democracy in America with Patrick Deneen
Upcoming Seminars
The Buckley Institute is not currently accepting applications. Email madeleine@buckleyinstitute.com with any questions.
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Past Multi-Day Seminars
October 18, 2023 - October 20, 2023
March 22, 2023, 10:00 am - March 24, 2023, 3:30 pm