Symposium Meetings
If you would like to attend our next meeting then please contact us. Below you will see what we have discussed in the past and what’s up next.
6 April 2024 – Der Begriff des Politischen by Carl Schmitt
20 January 2024 – The Merchant of Venice by Shakespeare (a reading)
21 October 2023 – Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky
10 June 2023 – Antigone by Sophocles
29 April 2023 – Gospel of John
1 April 2023 – “The Myth of the Framework” by Karl Popper
11 February 2023 – Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill
17 December 2022 – Book of Job
15 October 2022 – Faust, Part I by Goethe
7 May 2022 – Considerations on the Causes of the Greatness of the Romans and their Decline by Montesquieu
23 February 2022 – (in collaboration with The European Conservative and the Hayek Institut) – Tacitus Seminar
29 January 2022 – The Annals by Tacitus
4 December 2021 – Antony and Cleopatra by Shakespeare (a reading in collaboration with the Vienna Shakespeare Group)
18 September 2021 – A Discourse on the Method by René Descartes
10 July 2021 – Paradiso by Dante
15 May 2021 – Purgatorio by Dante
27 March 2021 – Inferno by Dante
13 February 2021 – Sonnenfinsternis (Darkness at Noon) by Arthur Koestler
11 July 2020 – The Republic by Plato (repeat); The Open Society and Its Enemies, Vol. 1 by Karl Popper
2 May 2020 – Utopia by Thomas More
5 March 2020 (in collaboration with The European Conservative and the Hayek Institut) – The Geography of Good and Evil by Andreas Kinneging. Professor Kinneging will lead the seminar
18 January 2020 – Candide by Voltaire
19 October 2019 – Oresteia by Aeschylus
10 August 2019 – I Drink, Therefore I am: A Philosopher’s Guide to Wine by Roger Scruton; and Questions of Taste: The Philosophy of Wine edited by Barry C. Smith
25 May 2019 – The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
30 March 2019 – The Life and Works of Sigmund Freud
12 January 2019 – Stoics and Stoicism
27 October 2018 – The Symposium by Plato
18 August 2018 – Suicide of the West: An Essay on the Meaning and Destiny of Liberalism by James Burnham; and Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics is Destroying American Democracy by Jonah Goldberg
28 April 2018 – History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
27 January 2018 – Natural Right and History by Leo Strauss
4 November 2017 – The Life and Works of Rosa Luxemburg
1 July 2017 – The Worth of Women: Wherein Is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility And Their Superiority To Men by Moderata Fonte
8 April 2017 – On War by Carl von Clausewitz (repeat)
25 March 2017 – On War by Carl von Clausewitz
21 January 2017 – The Presocratics
12 November 2016 – Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume; and The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values by Sam Harris
1 October 2016 – The Life and Works of Friedrich Nietzsche
25 June 2016 – Rights of Man by Thomas Paine
30 April 2016 – The Revolt of the Masses by José Ortega y Gasset
19 March 2016 – On Violence by Hannah Arendt
23 January 2016 – “Two Concepts of Liberty” by Isaiah Berlin; and “A Third Concept of Liberty” by Quentin Skinner
21 November 2015 – The Republic by Plato
31 October 2015 – Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
5 September 2015 – John Galt’s speech from Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
25 July 2015 – Anti-Semite and Jew by Jean-Paul Sartre
16 May 2015 – Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice by Rudolf Rocker
18 April 2015 – Statesmanship: The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli; Imam Ali’s Letter to Malik al-Ashtar; and “Erasmus – Creating an Inhabitable Reality” by Scott Nelson
7 March 2015 – Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke
10 January 2015 – The Road to Serfdom by F. A. Hayek
8 November 2014 – Orientalism by Edward Said
13 September 2014 – Capital in the 21st Century by Thomas Piketty
23 August 2014 – The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
14 June 2014 – “The End of History?” by Francis Fukuyama; and “The Clash of Civilizations” by Samuel Huntington
31 May 2014 – On the Harmony of Religion and Philosophy by Averroes
12 April 2014 – Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
15 March 2014 – Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch by Immanuel Kant
1 March 2014 – Politics by Aristotle
11 January 2014 – The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
15 December 2013 – Selections from the Muqaddimah by Ibn Khaldun
20 November 2013 – Science as a Vocation by Max Weber