Symposium

  • Macbeth and the Fall of Soul

    On Thursday, October 16, from 6-8pm ET, members of the Lyceum Institute will gather to discuss the beginning of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth under the guidance of Dr. Mark McCullough, who is providing us lectures and readings to focus our understanding. There is much that we can learn from this great tragedy—and here we will focus…

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    Macbeth and the Fall of Soul
  • On Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment

    Beginning in August, the Lyceum Institute will hold a three-week Symposium discussion titled “A Dilemma of Ideology and Faith”, on Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment. This symposium is open to all enrolled members but we are also accepting applications (see below) for a limited number of spots available to the public. We strongly recommend the…

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    On Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment
  • The Challenge of Chivalry

    Written by an anonymous author in the late 14th century, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight continues to entice the human spirit: drawing us toward something grand, mysterious, and—perhaps most of all—towards the betterment of our own virtue. The titular hero, captured in poetic verse, exemplifies chivalry. Sir Gawain demonstrates courage, piety, courtesy, honesty, honor,…

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    The Challenge of Chivalry
  • Lectio Commedia: Dante, Poet of Hope

    Beginning October 6th, every other Wednesday Dr. Mark McCullough (PhD in Humanities from the City University of New York) will facilitate a 45-minute discussion on one canto of Dante Alighieri’s masterwork The Divine Comedy at 12pm ET: the Lectio Commedia: Dante, Poet of Hope. This will be preceded by a reading of the canto with…

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    Lectio Commedia: Dante, Poet of Hope
  • [Symposium] Paradise Lost – Book IX

    A two-week Symposium event on Book IX of Paradise Lost, available to all Lyceum Members.

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    [Symposium] Paradise Lost – Book IX