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Summer Classics 2023

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“Tackling a new or favorite text with kindred spirits and thoughtful, inclusive tutors is transforming in every way.” —Summer Classics 2022 participant

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Week-long Seminars in July

Discover a new or favorite text to study this summer in the seminar catalog by category.

Online Seminars

July 3–7 via Zoom

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In-Person Seminars

July 10–14, July 17–21, and July 24–28 in Santa Fe, New Mexico

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Summer Classics is a 30-year-old seasonal program conceived in the spirit of lifelong learning. Our seminar rooms, whether actual or virtual, provide the space to engage in rigorous conversations on timeless works.

A Summer Classics seminar is not a lecture, nor is it a book club. At St. John’s, seminars are lively, in-depth, and highly participatory conversations on enduring works that span fiction and nonfiction, math and science, poetry and philosophy, as well as visual, cinematic, and performing arts. Beyond the learning that takes place through the works and with one another in seminar, attendees describe their experience as “transformational” and “restorative.”
For registration inquiries please email santafe.classics(at)sjc.edu.

 

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Coming out of a summer classics seminar is like having taken a daily mental shower.”

It was a refreshing deep dive into philosophical discussion and debate with similarly curious lifelong learners of all ages.”

Wonderful opportunity to explore the human condition and life's big mysteries via the great books. Equally appropriate for someone reading them for the first time or revisiting a favorite from their past.”

The Summer Classic experience is a wonderful combination of deep learning about a text and a social gathering of serious learners. The online format dampens the social aspect but does allow most of the deep learning experience.”

Summer Classics is in intellectually invigorating kaleidoscope affording you time to slow down to enjoy a prism of ideas that emerge from a discourse with an author, a text, and other likeminded individuals from all over the world.”

The format is very conducive to substantive discussion. There is nothing as wonderful as reading something substantial and the discovery that comes from discussing it with thoughtful people, with the group pushed and challenged by our tutors to go deep.”

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