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About our Workshops and Seminars
Upcoming American Idea Residential Colloquia:
There is one application for all colloquia. Please rank them (1-8) in order of your preferences. Click here to apply.
May 8-11, Ordering American Foreign Policy: The Pacificus-Helvidius
Debates from 1793-1794
July 7-11, Federalists & Anti-Federalists
August 4-9, Liberty & Responsibility in Adam Smith
September 18-21, Education and the Free Society
October TBA, Two Visions of America: Thomas Jefferson & Alexander
Hamilton
November 6-9, Liberty & Responsibility in Cicero’s On Duties and Addison’s Cato Tragedy
December TBA, Liberty & Order in Plato’s Republic
January, 2009 TBA, Liberty & Responsibility in Four Shakespearean Tragedies: Richard III, Titus Andronicus, Richard II, and Julius Caesar
Upcoming American Idea Workshops:
Socratic Seminar: The Odyssey at the American Idea Classroom -
Clint Brand and Valerie Hall
Date: TBA
Socratic Seminar: The American Revolution: A Revolt of Sober Expectations at the American Idea Classroom - John Hittinger and Terry Hall
Date: TBA
Recent American Idea Workshops:
American Idea Home School Workshop: The Mystery of Redemption in the Church Fathers Two Day Program at the American Idea Classroom-
Jeremy Wilkins
Friday, February 22 and Saturday, February 23, 2008
Texas History at the United Way Community Center-
Don Frazier and Stephen Hardin
Friday, February 8, 2008
Wealth, Poverty and Human Destiny at the United Way Community Center-
Brian Domitrovic and Ralph Ancil
Friday, February 8, 2008
Utopia and Distopia in Modern Literature at the United Way Community Center-
Clint Brand
Friday, February 8, 2008
The American and Western Intellectual Tradition: The Federalists & the Anti-Federalists: Competing Visions of Liberty - December 6-9, 2007
The American and Western Intellectual Tradition: Historical & Philosophical Roots of American Constitutionalism - November 8-11, 2007
Free Markets, Free Enterprise, and Modernity at the Federal Reserve Bank - Houston Branch
Bill Gilmer, Brian Domitrovic and Richard Gosselin
Monday, October 15, 2007
Foundations of Republican Government at the Federal Reserve Bank - Houston Branch
Bill Gilmer, Tom Behr, and Michael Bordelon
Monday, October 15, 2007
American Idea High School Home School Workshop: Featuring Author Joseph Pearce at the American Idea Classroom-
Joseph Pearce
Friday, October 12, 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
Origins of Humanity, Culture, and Civilization at the Houston Museum of Natural Science-
Gleaves Whitney, Tom Behr and Claire Scoggin
Monday, September 10, 2007
Origins of Humanity, Culture, and Civilization at the Houston Museum of Natural Science-
Gleaves Whitney and Claire Scoggin
Friday, September 7, 2007
The American and Western Intellectual Tradition: Liberty & Responsibility in the Western Tradition - September 6-9, 2007
The American and Western Intellectual Tradition: Shakespeare and Plutarch: Liberty and Tyranny - August 23-26, 2007
Socratic Seminar: Sophocles' Theban Plays - Clint Brand and Terry Hall
Saturday, August 25, 2007
The Constitutional Convention and Liberty , Philadelphia, PA
June 24 - 29, 2007
Rome: the Greatest of Ancient Civilizations at the Houston Museum of Natural Science-
Tom Behr and Claire Scoggin
Friday, May 18, 2007
Socratic Seminar: Aeschylus' Orestia - Clint Brand and Terry Hall
Saturday, May 5, 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
Socratic Seminar: America's Roots in Rome - Gleaves Whitney
Saturday, February 24, 2007
Rome: the Greatest of Ancient Civilizations at the Houston Museum of Natural Science-
Gleaves Whitney and Claire Scoggin
Friday, February 23, 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
Understanding Economics at the Federal Reserve Bank - Houston Branch
Brian Domitrovic and Richard Gosselin
Friday, February 2, 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
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
U.S. and World War II at the University of St. Thomas-
John Bradley and Brett Mills
Monday, November 20, 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
Film and the Moral Imagination at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston- Kerry MacArthur, Randall Smith, and George Ramirez
Friday, October 27, 2006
Economics: Theory and Practice at the Houston Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank- Brian Dimitrovic, Greg Rehmke, and Richard Gosselin
Tuesday, October 24, 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
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
Socratic Seminar: Plato's Republic - Terry Hall and Michael Bordelon
Saturday, October 14, 2006
The Heroic & Tragic World in Classical Literature- Clint Brand, Kerry MacArthur, and Terry Hall
Friday, August 25, 2006
Socratic Seminar: Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics- Michael Bordelon
Saturday, May 13, 2006
Victorian Literature- Clint Brand and Kerry MacArthur
Friday, May 5, 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
Sonnet Poetry and the Moral Imagination- Clint Brand and
Kerry MacArthur
Monday, January 16, 2006
Economics in One Lesson at the Federal Reserve Bank- Houston Branch- Richard Gosselin
Friday, September 10, 2004
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
Texas History - Don Frazier, Brett Mills
Friday, February 27, 2004
Thomas More's Utopia: A Discussion (Invitation Only) -
Clint Brand
Saturday, February 28, 2004
Teaching Economics Through Literature - Richard Gosselin
Friday, March 5, 2004 (Click here to download Workshop flyer in .pdf format)
Roots of the American Order - Brad Birzer and Winston Elliott
Friday, April 2, 2004
Economics: Work and Prosperity - Gleaves Whitney and
Richard Gosselin
Friday, May 7, 2004
Small Group Discussion: Leisure: the Basis of Culture
November 8, 2003
The Revolution in Development Economics
November 7, 2003
Understanding America: Alexis de Tocqueville and Orestes
Brownson
October 30, 2003
Understanding the Moral Imagination: Yesterday and Today
October 13, 2003
Understanding a Republican Government: Venice, a City-State and America,
a Nation-State
May 2, 2003
Women Authors and Characters Overcoming: Harriet Beecher
Stowe, Willa Cather and
Zora Neal Hurston
April 26, 2003
Understanding Conservatism: The 50th Anniversary of the
Russell Kirk's The
Conservative Mind
April 12, 2003
Rights and Duties: Order, Justice, and Liberty
April 11, 2003
Shakespeare and the World:Hamlet, Love and Friendship
in Romeo and Juliet,
and Harold Bloom Misunderstanding Shakespeare
April 5, 2003
World War II: Economics, Politics, and the Battlefield Strategy
March 28, 2003
Understanding the American
Cause: Teaching and Practicing
Virtue (Middle and High School History,
Government and
Literature Teachers)
March 7, 2003
Principles of the U.S. Constitution: A Judicial Perspective
(Middle and High School
History and Government Teachers)
December 5, 2002
Reviving Western Tradition in Myth: C.S. Lewis and J.R.R.
Tolkien
(Middle and High
School Literature and History Teachers)
November 15, 2002
America and Communism
(Middle and High School Literature
and History Teachers)
November 14, 2002
Globalization and International Trade (Economics, Geography, and Government
Teachers)
October 23, 2002
History
in Shakespeare's Plays (Literature and History Teachers)
September 17, 2002
America's President's:
Pre-Civil War
September 19, 2002
Economics
Colloquium at the Center for the American Idea Classroom
April 4, 2002
Literature
and the Moral Imagination at the Jesse Helms Center,
Wingate, North Carolina
March 18, 2002
War
Between the States 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
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
Founders and the Constitution- October 23rd at HBU
Free Markets: Adam Smith
to the 21st Century-
November 20th at HBU
History of Liberty: Its Birth and Its Absence
February 16, 2001
The Literary Tradition of the 20th Century
March 9, 2001
Morality and Modern Culture:
A Christian Perspective
March 26, 2001
The War Between the States
April 5, 2001
Roots of the American Order
April 25, 2001