
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
Applications are now open for the 2023 fall seminar, Totalitarianism and Dissent, with Skidmore College’s Flagg Taylor.
This not-for-credit, three-day seminar will include two, two-hour sessions each day, for a total of six sessions, starting on October 18th, 2023, and ending on October 20th. The seminar is open to current Yale undergraduates and graduate students.

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Past Multi-Day Seminars
March 22, 2023, 10:00 am - March 24, 2023, 3:30 pm