Graham School - University of Chicago

[Charles Fout]

https://graham.uchicago.edu/events/lifel...h-10-31-23

As I've previously stated, I really enjoy these Graham School talks. Should I ever find a way for it to make sense financially, I will enroll in the Basic program.

At some point I will sign-up for the Basic Program. Until such time I will continue to enjoy the FREE conversations. Yesterday's was very good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgCt5a6zQV0

I will purchase Michael Roth's book, and perhaps a Graham School sweatshirt, just because.

[Charles Fout]

I have enjoyed freeloading on with the Graham School Free lectures for a while now.

I am looking forward to "Life After Power

Join us for a conversation with bestselling author Jared Cohen exploring how seven former U.S. Presidents engaged life and work after the presidency."

https://graham.uchicago.edu/events/life-...yynu4y6qYX

More exciting to me, I finally enrolled to begin the Basic Program of Liberal Education
https://graham.uchicago.edu/programs-courses/basic-program

Classes begin in March. It's all about life-long learning. Non-credit, no assignments, no exams. It's just sort of a Book Club for adults.

In the meantime. I have been enjoying classes via Zoom from the Unite States Institute of Peace. 

[Charles Fout]

https://graham.uchicago.edu/events/lifel...h-10-31-23

As I've previously stated, I really enjoy these Graham School talks. Should I ever find a way for it to make sense financially, I will enroll in the Basic program.

At some point I will sign-up for the Basic Program. Until such time I will continue to enjoy the FREE conversations. Yesterday's was very good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgCt5a6zQV0

I will purchase Michael Roth's book, and perhaps a Graham School sweatshirt, just because.

So...I really enjoyed my first Basic Program Zoom session yesterday. I am in a cohort with a dozen people. This 10 week quarter will continue through May. This quarter, Year One spring-2024, we are reading and discussing:

Machiavelli,The Prince;
Hobbes, [i]Leviathan;[/i]
[i]Rousseau, First and [i]Second Discourse;[/i][/i]
[i]hakespeare, [i]The Tempest; and[/i][/i]
[i][i]Shakespeare, [i]Othello.[/i][/i][/i]

[i][i][i]I've wanted to enroll this program for a few years. I am loving it already. It's all about liberal education for the sake of life-long learning.   [/i][/i][/i]

[Charles Fout]

Yet another interesting topic for the no-cost First Friday Lecture series.

Seeking the land of the Greeks in my soul”: Ancient Greece in German Culture around 1800
This lecture will explore the manner in which German writers utilized Ancient Greece as a source of inspiration for their works.

https://graham.uchicago.edu/events/seeki...0-05-03-24

These are basically infomercials for the Basic Program and Master of Liberal Arts offered at the Graham School.
I will be finishing my first Basic Program class, spring -Year One,  later this month. We are reading and discussing Machiavelli, Hobbes, Rousseau, Shakespeare's "The Tempest" and Othello. My cohort is  a dozen people from the United States and Canada. We meet for a few hours once a week, via Zoom, to discuss our reading. TheBasic Program is also available in person, in Chicago.

[graduatesoon]

Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I just took a look at it and it gets my brain interested. I'm almost excited, (be still my beating heart). Seriously, thanks, I'm very interested. We'll see how I find it.


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[Charles Fout]

I am now a student in the Basic Program. It was Graham School's FREE content that drew me in. I am looking forward to tuning into an upcoming lecture. "Join us on Zoom at noon on August 15 for a conversation with Graham School Instructor Jennifer A. Lind."

"In the aftermath of the Cold War, Francis Fukuyama, Samuel Huntington and John Mearsheimer published seminal articles offering competing worldviews. Did the end of the 20th-century Cold War mean "The End of History," "The Clash of Civilizations" or "The Tragedy of Great Power Politics?"

"Join us for a discussion with Graham School instructor Jennifer A. Lind examining these three seminal and remarkably apolitical visions of international politics. The conversation will preview Lind’s September class at Graham exploring these international visionsas well as her future courses on international relations."

https://graham.uchicago.edu/events/compe...s-08-15-24

[Charles Fout]

I do love the First Friday Lecture Series. I am particularly looking forward to September's:

Introduction to the Rigveda and Upanishads

"The new Alumni Sequence, Asian Classical Traditions, begins in Autumn Quarter. In this First Friday Lecture, Kendall Sharp will introduce some of the texts to be read in the new sequence, the Rigveda and the Upanishads, by addressing two fundamental questions about them. Who were the authors of the Rigveda and Upanishads, and what was their socio-historical context? Both are composed in Sanskrit, the artistic language of the Bronze Age Aryans who invaded the Indian subcontinent between c. 1700 and 1200 BCE. The Rigveda was composed during this period, and transmitted orally, while the Upanishads emerge several centuries later. This lecture will be concerned primarily with the earlier period."

https://graham.uchicago.edu/events/introduction-rigveda-and-upanishads-09-06-24

[Charles Fout]

I am now a student in the Basic Program. It was Graham School's FREE content that drew me in. I am looking forward to tuning into an upcoming lecture. "Join us on Zoom at noon on August 15 for a conversation with Graham School Instructor Jennifer A. Lind."

"In the aftermath of the Cold War, Francis Fukuyama, Samuel Huntington and John Mearsheimer published seminal articles offering competing worldviews. Did the end of the 20th-century Cold War mean "The End of History," "The Clash of Civilizations" or "The Tragedy of Great Power Politics?"

"Join us for a discussion with Graham School instructor Jennifer A. Lind examining these three seminal and remarkably apolitical visions of international politics. The conversation will preview Lind’s September class at Graham exploring these international visionsas well as her future courses on international relations."

https://graham.uchicago.edu/events/compe...s-08-15-24

Looking forward to beginning the Basic Program Year Two: Autumn. we will be reading Sophocles, Oedipus the King; Aristotle, Poetics; Euripides, Bacchae; Shakespeare,  Antony and Cleopatra; and the Iliad. I also enrolled in an Open Enrollment course, music in American Lives: From Shakers to Suffragists. The free promotional lecture was so very good that it lured me in to pay for this one too.