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This page contains a list of the Center's programs, as well as links to digital copies of the readings for the American Founding and Western Intellectual Tradition colloquia.
Click here to apply for our colloquia. There is one application for all colloquia. Please rank them (1-8) in order of your preferences.
You may also learn more about our programs and our Academic Alliance events.
Summer Seminar
The American Founding and the Western Intellectual Tradition Colloquia
Please contact Janice D'Agostino, Program Administrator, for more information.
2008-2009
Ordering American Foreign Policy: The Pacificus-Helvidius Debates from 1793-1784
May 8-11, 2008 - Boston, MA
The Federalists and the Anti-Federalists: Competing Visions of Liberty
July 7-11, 2008 - Colorado Springs, CO
Liberty and Responsibility in Adam Smith
August 4-9, 2008 - Colorado Springs, CO
Education and the Free Society
September 18-21, 2008 - Mecosta, MI
Two Visions of America: Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton
October 16-19, 2008 - Colorado Springs, CO
Liberty and Responsibility in Cicero's Philosophical Works and Addison's Cato
November 6-9, 2008 - Houston, TX
Liberty and Order in Plato's Republic
December 4-7, 2008 - Alexandria, VA
Liberty and Sovereignty in Four Shakespearean Tragedies: Richard III, Titus Andronicus, Richard II and Julius Caesar
January 15-18, 2009 - Houston, TX
2007-2008 American Founding and the Western Intellectual Tradition Colloquia
Past Seminars
History
Texas History at
the United
Way Community Center-
Don Frazier and Stephen Hardin
Friday, February 8, 2008
Origins of Humanity, Culture, and
Civilization at the Houston Museum of Natural Science-
Gleaves Whitney and Claire Scoggin
Friday, September 7, 2007
Rome: the Greatest of Ancient
Civilizations at the Houston Museum of Natural Science-
Tom Behr and Claire Scoggin
Friday, May 18, 2007
America at War at the
University of St. Thomas-
Don Frazier, Robert Pace and John Bradley
Friday, May 4, 2007
Rome: the Greatest of Ancient
Civilizations for Home School Educators and Home
Schooled High School Students at the Museum of Natural Science-
Gleaves Whitney and Claire Scoggin
Tuesday, February 27,
2007
Rome: the Greatest of Ancient
Civilizations at the Houston Museum of Natural Science-
Gleaves Whitney and Claire Scoggin
Monday, February 26, 2007
Rome: the Greatest of Ancient
Civilizations at the Houston Museum of Natural Science-
Gleaves Whitney and Claire Scoggin
Friday, February 23, 2007
American Presidents at the
Federal Reserve Bank - Houston Branch
Michael Bordelon and Brett Mills
Friday, February 2, 2007
Historians: the Storytellers of History
at the University of St. Thomas-
Gleaves Whitney and Thomas Jodziewicz
Monday, January 15, 2007
U.S. and World War II at the
University of St. Thomas-
John Bradley and Brett Mills
Monday, November 20, 2006
Benjamin Franklin Day for Home School
Educators and Home Schooled High School Students at the Museum of
Natural Science-
Gleaves Whitney and Claire Scoggin
Tuesday, October 17,
2006
Benjamin Franklin Day at the Museum of
Natural Science-
Gleaves Whitney and Claire Scoggin
Monday, October 16, 2006
Texas History - Don Frazier, Brett Mills
Friday,
February 27, 2004
Understanding America: Alexis de Tocqueville and
Orestes
Brownson
October
30, 2003
World War II: Economics, Politics, and the
Battlefield Strategy
March 28, 2003
America's
President's: Pre-Civil War
September 19, 2002
War Between the States
at the Jesse Helms Center,
Wingate, North Carolina
March 18, 2002
Texas
History at
Houston Baptist University
March 1, 2002
Lives of the Founders
in Houston
February 8, 2002
Black History Workshop
at Houston Baptist University
January 21, 2002
American
Presidents, at University of St. Thomas, Houston
October 15, 2001
Christianity
& Critical Historical Events, Tyler, Texas
September 14, 2001
History of Liberty: Its
Birth and Its
Absence
February 16, 2001
The War
Between the
States
April 5, 2001
Political
Science
Foundations of
Republican Government at
the Federal Reserve Bank - Houston Branch
Bill Gilmer, Tom Behr, and Michael Bordelon
Monday, October 15, 2007
Origins of Humanity, Culture, and
Civilization for Home School Educators and Home Schooled High
School Students at the Museum of Natural Science-
Gleaves Whitney, Tom Behr and Claire Scoggin
Tuesday, September 11,
2007
Gleaves Whitney, Tom Behr and Claire Scoggin
Monday, September 10, 2007
Socratic Seminar: America's Roots in Rome - Gleaves Whitney
Saturday, February 24, 2007
Socratic Seminar: Plato's Republic -
Terry Hall and Michael Bordelon
Saturday, October 14,
2006
Socratic Seminar: Aristotle's Politics-
Michael Bordelon
Saturday, April 8, 2006
Principles of America's Founding- Brad Birzer
and Michael Bordelon
Friday, December 2, 2005
America's Presidents - Brad Birzer and Gleaves
Whitney
Friday,
February 13, 2004
America's Presidents in Buffalo
Gap, Texas- Don Frazier, Robert Pace
and Bob Wettemann
Monday,
February 16, 2004
Thomas More's Utopia: A Discussion
(Invitation Only) -
Clint
Brand
Saturday,
February 28, 2004
Roots of the American Order - Brad Birzer and
Winston Elliott
Friday,
April 2, 2004
Understanding a Republican Government: Venice, a
City-State and
America, a Nation-State
May 2, 2003
Principles of the U.S. Constitution: A Judicial
Perspective
(Middle and High School
History and Government Teachers)
December 5, 2002
America and Communism
(Middle and High School
Literature and History Teachers)
November 14, 2002
Founders and
the Constitution- October 23rd at HBU
Roots
of the
American Order
April 25, 2001
Wealth, Poverty and Human Destiny at the United Way Community Center-
Brian Domitrovic and Ralph Ancil
Friday, February 8, 2008
Free Markets, Free Enterprise, and
Modernity at the Federal Reserve Bank - Houston Branch
Bill Gilmer, Brian Domitrovic and Richard Gosselin
Monday, October 15, 2007
Understanding Economics at
the Federal Reserve Bank - Houston Branch
Brian Domitrovic and Richard Gosselin
Friday, February 2, 2007
Economics: Theory and Practice at the
Houston Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank- Brian Dimitrovic, Greg
Rehmke, and Richard Gosselin
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
Economics in
One
Lesson at the Federal Reserve Bank- Houston
Branch- Richard Gosselin
Friday, September 10,
2004
Teaching Economics Through Literature - Richard
Gosselin
Friday,
March 5, 2004
Economics: Work and Prosperity - Gleaves Whitney
and
Richard
Gosselin
Friday,
May 7, 2004
The Revolution in Development Economics
November
7, 2003
Globalization and International Trade
(Economics, Geography,
and Government Teachers)
October 23, 2002
Economics
Colloquium at the Center for the American
Idea Classroom
April 4, 2002
Free
Markets:
Adam Smith to the 21st Century-
November 20th at HBU
Utopia and Distopia in Modern Literature at the United Way Community Center-Clint Brand
Friday, February 8, 2008
Socratic Seminar: Sophocles' Theban Plays
- Clint Brand and Terry Hall
Saturday, August 25,
2007
Socratic Seminar: Aeschylus' Orestia -
Clint Brand and Terry Hall
Saturday, May 5, 2007
American Idea Home School Workshop: Crime
& Punishment Day Two of a Two Day Program at the American
Idea Classroom-
Marc Miller
Saturday, February 17, 2007
American Idea Home School Workshop: Crime
& Punishment Day One of a Two Day Program at the American
Idea Classroom-
Marc Miller
Saturday, February 10, 2007
Reading Southern Literature at
the University of St. Thomas-
Michael Jordan and Clint Brand
Monday, January 15, 2007
Socratic Seminar: Homer's Odyssey -
Clint Brand and Terry Hall
Saturday, January 13,
2007
Socratic Seminar: Plato's Five Dialogues
(Euthyphro, Apology, and Crito) - Terry Hall and Michael Bordelon
Saturday, December 9,
2006
American Idea Home School Workshop:
Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter Day One of a Two Day Program at the
American Idea Classroom-
Marc Miller
Saturday, October 28, 2006
American Idea Home School Workshop:
Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter Day One of a Two Day Program at the
American Idea Classroom-
Marc Miller
Saturday, October 21, 2006
The Comedic Mind of Shakespeare at the
University of St. Thomas- Ben Lockerd and Clint Brand
Friday, October 20, 2006
The Heroic & Tragic World in Classical
Literature- Clint Brand, Kerry MacArthur, and Terry Hall
Friday, August 25, 2006
Victorian Literature- Clint Brand and
Kerry MacArthur
Friday, May 5, 2006
Sonnet Poetry and the Moral Imagination- Clint
Brand and
Kerry MacArthur
Monday, January 16, 2006
Women Authors and Characters Overcoming: Harriet
Beecher Stowe, Willa
Cather and Zora Neal Hurston
April 26, 2003
Shakespeare and the World:Hamlet, Love
and Friendship in Romeo
and Juliet, and
Harold Bloom Misunderstanding Shakespeare
April 5, 2003
Reviving Western Tradition in Myth: C.S. Lewis
and J.R.R. Tolkien
(Middle and High
School Literature and History Teachers)
November 15,
2002
History
in Shakespeare's Plays (Literature and
History Teachers)
September 17, 2002
Literature and the Moral
Imagination at the Jesse
Helms Center,
Wingate, North Carolina
March 18, 2002
Literature
Workshop at CAI Offices
March 2, 2002
Literature Workshop at Houston
Baptist University
March 1, 2002
The Literary Tradition of the 20th
Century
March 9, 2001
Philosophy
Socratic Seminar: Aristotle's Nicomachean
Ethics- Michael Bordelon
Saturday, May 13, 2006
Rights and Duties: Order, Justice, and Liberty
April 11, 2003
Understanding the
American Cause: Teaching and Practicing
Virtue (Middle and High School
History, Government and
Literature Teachers)
March 7, 2003
March 26, 2001
Theology
Jeremy Wilkins
Friday, February 22 and Saturday, February 23, 2008
Culture
Film and the Moral Imagination at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston- Kerry MacArthur, Randall Smith, and George Ramirez
Friday, October 27, 2006
Small Group Discussion: Leisure: the Basis of Culture
November 8, 2003
Understanding the Moral Imagination: Yesterday and Today
October 13, 2003
Understanding Conservatism: The 50th Anniversary of Russell Kirk's The Conservative Mind
April 12, 2003