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The Science of How the Arts Save Lives with Daisy Fancourt

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Jennifer B. Wallace | Mattering: The Secret to a Life of Deep Connection and Purpose | Graham School

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Is There a Boom in Adult Learners? Dean Seth Green & Lee Greenfield on NewsNation with Blake Burman

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Margie Lachman | Primetime: A New Vision for Midlife | UChicago Graham School

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Wuthering Heights with Trish Bredar | Conversation and Course Preview | UChicago Graham School

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Graduate Student-at-Large Info Session | UChicago Graham School | May 2026

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David Rubenstein on 250 Years of American Civic Virtue

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What Does a 100-Year Life Actually Look Like? | Michael Clinton on Longevity

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Nicholas Epley | A Little More Social: Understanding the Science of Everyday Interactions

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What Is the Master of Liberal Arts at UChicago? | Program Overview & Info Session

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The Future of Work is Grey | Dan Pontefract in Conversation at the University of Chicago

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Wild Fictions | Amitav Ghosh in Conversation at the University of Chicago Graham School

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Polybius and Josephus on the Roman Empire | Zoë Eisenman | First Friday Lecture

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Jay Samit | Second Act Advantage: Rethinking Purpose, Work, and Lifelong Learning

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Some Ways Kant’s First Critique Sets Up His Ethics | Clare Pearson | First Friday Lecture

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A Conversation with Melissa Kirsch

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Accounting for Taste: David Hume on Authority in Aesthetic Judgment | Noah Chafets | First Friday

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The Stoic Approach to Happiness | David Shiner | First Friday Lecture

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Boredom: From Aristotle to David Foster Wallace | Katia Mitova | First Friday Lecture

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Reading for Freedom and Equality in the Basic Program | Kendall Sharp | First Friday Lecture

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Great Books and Big Lies: “Theirs” and “Ours” | Adam Rose | First Friday Lecture

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The Art & Science of Joyful Longevity | Info Session with Dr. Kerry Burnight

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Publius, Tocqueville, & Burke on Federalism, Democracy and Revolution | Joseph Alulis | First Friday

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What Makes a Magical World Feel Real? | Stephanie Wilson Medlock | Course Preview

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Herminia Ibarra | Enduring Excellence Conversation

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Rock, Democracy, and American Identity | Greg Kot & Nora Titone | Graham School

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Thriving in a Long-Life World: Seven Principles of Generativity

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The Longevity Equation: How Healthspan and Wealthspan Intersect with Dawn M. Carpenter

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Camus, Sisyphus, and the Defiance of Nihilism

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Capturing Kahanamoku: A Conversation with Michael Rossi

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GSAL Meet the Director: Graduate Student-at-Large Bridge Programs - February 2026

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MLA Residential Seminar: High Classical Athens

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Master of Liberal Arts Information Session - February 2026

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Reading Great Books Against Apocalypse | Amy Thomas Elder | First Friday Lecture

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Philosophy Before Socrates: The Origins of Western Thought | David Shiner | First Friday Lecture

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Free Men and Natural Slaves in Homer’s ‘Iliad’ and Aristotle’s ‘Politics’ | Kendall Sharp | FFL

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A Christian Mystic Reads Homer: Simone Weil on ‘The Iliad’ | Simon Friedland | First Friday Lecture

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Arthur C. Brooks on Happiness, Excellence, and the Second Curve of Life | Enduring Excellence

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Radical Evil from Kant to Nuclearism | Amy Thomas Elder | First Friday Lecture

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Dostoevsky and the Problem of Evil | Clare Pearson | First Friday Lecture

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Max Weber: The Protestant Ethic and Spirit of Capitalism | David Shiner | First Friday Lecture

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Nietzsche, Nihilism, and the Death of God | Richard Hoskins | First Friday Lecture

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Deep Discovery, Lifelong Friendships

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Herodotus as a Lover of Barbarians, or "Philobarbaros" | Cynthia Rutz | First Friday Lecture

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No One Wants Bad Things: Desire in Plato’s Meno | Noah Chafets | First Friday Lecture

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The Song of Roland Across Time | Jacqueline Victor | First Friday Lecture

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American Politics & Policy 1776–1920 | Constitution, Federalism, Parties

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Goethe's Hope | Simon Friedland | First Friday Lecture

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Introduction to the Rig Veda and Upanishads | Kendall Sharp | First Friday Lecture

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Funeral Games in the Iliad | Noah Chafets | First Friday Lecture

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Why Did German Artists Around 1800 Turn to Ancient Greece? | Simon Friedland | First Friday Lecture

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Three Modes of Persuasion in Plato's Phaedo | Zoë Eisenman | First Friday Lecture

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Those Who Have Dared to Hymn Love’s Praises: A Symposium on Black Philosophies of Love | FFL

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The Allegory of Nature in the Romance of the Rose & The Plaint of Nature | Jacqueline Victor | FFL

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Avast! Moby Dick & the Scales of Natural History | Julia Mueller | First Friday Lecture

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