Gilgamesh
The first recorded story: friendship, mortality, and the beginnings of literature.
Seminars
Into the life of things
Waldorf education is unique in the way material studied ideally reflects and responds to the inner movements, longings, and questions bubbling up in students’ experiences of life, which inevitably shifts and changes age to age. These are examples of seminars we could host, depending on fellows' interests and the year.
01
Literature & Ideas
Close, careful reading of touchstone texts — and the questions they still ask of us.
The Odyssey
Homecoming, identity, and the journey as a way of knowing the world.
Dante
A pilgrimage through the medieval imagination — and our own.
Areopagitica
Milton's argument for a free press, and what it asks of readers today.
The Romantic Poets
Nature, imagination, and rebellion in Wordsworth, Keats, and Shelley.
Comedy and Tragedy
The two great masks of drama, from the Greeks to the present stage and screen.
The Bhagavad Gita and Gandhi
A dialogue on duty — and a life that tried to live the answer.
02
Science & the Living World
Observation as a discipline, and science as a shared human story.
Carl Sagan's Cosmos
Science as wonder — reading and watching Sagan's case for the cosmic perspective.
Living Earth
Reading Robin Wall Kimmerer, Mary Oliver, and Joanna Macy on attention, ecology, and reciprocity.
03
Arts & Making
Understanding the made world by learning how it is made.
Bookmaking
Binding by hand — the book as a crafted object, from folio to finished volume.
Early Cinema
How moving images learned to speak, and how to watch them closely.
History of Industrial Design
The everyday objects that quietly shaped modern life.
04
History, Society & Enterprise
How the world got this way — and how people change it.
Revolutions
Moments when the world turned: their causes, ideas, and consequences.
The Rise of Personal Computing
Tools, systems, and the societies they make and unmake.
Entrepreneurship
Turning an idea into something real that serves others.