From October 15 to October 17, Yale students participated in a fall break seminar focusing on The Brothers Karamazov.
Multi-Day Seminars
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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
- The Federalist Papers and the American Founding with Charles Kesler
- Tocqueville's Democracy in America with Patrick Deneen
- Transcendentalism and the Roots of American Individualism with Ryan Hanley
- C.S. Lewis and the Future of Being Human with Michael Dauphinais
Upcoming Seminars
The Buckley Institute is currently accepting applications for our spring break seminar, “How the Declaration Made America: Relic, Symbol, and Object,” with the Hoover Institution’s Michael Auslin from Wednesday, March 18, to Friday, March 20.
All Yale undergraduates and graduate students are invited to apply. Priority applications are due by January 30, 2026.
If you have any questions, reach out to moe@buckleyinstitute.com
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Past Multi-Day Seminars
The Buckley Institute will run its spring break seminar: Hannah Arendt on Living in Social Crisis, with AEI's Jenna Storey from March 19-21.
Join the Buckley Institute's fall break seminar on Transcendentalism and the Roots of American Individualism with Boston College's Ryan Patrick Hanley from October 16 to 18.
Professor Michael Dauphinais of Ave Maria University led a spring break seminar on the writings and thought of C. S. Lewis.
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.