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SUMMARY:The 12th book of Virgil’s Aeneid - A Close Reading\, with Recent Scholarship
DESCRIPTION:This seminar will offer participants the chance to reconnect with one of the ancient world’s most famous poems\, Virgil’s classic epic on the adventures of Aeneas. The seminar’s participants are asked to read (or to refamiliarize themselves with) the epic in its entirety. But the seminar itself will focus largely (though not exclusively) on the poem’s final book\, where many of the work’s big issues come to a head\, but where few if any of these issues are straightforwardly and/or satisfactorily ‘resolved’. A clear sense of the poem’s ending as it should always comes from readers working from clues and adducing resolutions\, and from their choosing to value some things over others\, rather than from anything ineluctable and explicit in the text itself. \nIt is this problem of the conclusion that ends without neatly resolving that we will dive into in the seminar\, but to do this we will need to have a good sense of the whole. We will look at how the poem’s final ambiguities have been dealt with in the past\, and the very different ‘Virgils’ and ‘Aeneids’ that these efforts have produced. But instead of attempting to settle the question of how we should think about this poem’s end (as if to ‘locate’ the proper solution)\, we will approach the epic’s difficult finale with a different set of questions in mind: Why does Virgil leave us hanging the way he does? Why write the ending this way\, leaving us with so much to do? What do the endings we adduce\, no two of which are ever quite the same\, tell us about our politics\, our values\, our (American) selves? \nThe seminar’s leader\, Kirk Freudenburg\, recently agreed to write a commentary on the last book of the Aeneid\, so the seminar will serve as a brainstorming expedition\, fishing for new ideas and perspectives. To help the cause\, the seminar’s participants are\, above all\, encouraged to think for themselves. The several articles that have been assigned in addition to the poem itself are intended to help orient readers in the matter of recent scholarship\, not to lock out other possibilities. \n\n\n\nThis seminar will be conducted online.  Readings will be provided in advance of the seminar\, and all participants are asked to complete the readings and to participate in the discussion. \nOur Professor:  Kirk Freudenburg\, Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor of Classics\, Yale University \nKirk Freudenburg received his BA from Valparaiso University\, and an MA in Classics from Washington University in St. Louis. He took his PhD from the University of Wisconsin\, where he wrote a dissertation under the direction of Denis Feeney. \nBefore coming to Yale he taught at Kent State University\, Ohio State University and the University of Illinois. At Ohio State he was Associate Dean of the Humanities and at Illinois he was Chair of the Department of Classics. His research has long focused on the social life of Roman letters\, especially on the unique cultural encodings that structure and inform Roman ideas of poetry\, and the practical implementation of those ideas in specific poetic forms\, especially satire. \nHis main publications include: The Walking Muse: Horace on the Theory of Satire (Princeton\, 1993)\, Satires of Rome: Threatening Poses from Lucilius to Juvenal (Cambridge\, 2001)\, the Cambridge Companion to Roman Satire (Cambridge\, 2005)\, Oxford Readings in Classical Studies: Horace’s Satires and Epistles (Oxford University Press\, 2009)\, and the Cambridge Companion to the Age of Nero (Cambridge\, 2017)\, co-edited with Shadi Bartsch and Cedric Littlewood. Currently he is writing a commentary on the second book of Horace’s Sermones for the Cambridge Green and Yellows. \nRegistration is now open!  Register by filling out the brief form below.
URL:https://everscholar.org/event/the-12th-book-of-virgils-aeneid-a-close-reading-with-recent-scholarship
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SUMMARY:Machiavelli’s "The Prince" and Executive Power (Section 2)
DESCRIPTION:Machiavelli’s Prince is the most famous political book ever written and yet it remains one of the most contested.  Ever since the work’s publication in 1532 – five years after Machiavelli’s death – it has never ceased being a topic of conversation.  Was he the evil “Machiavel” of Elizabethan literature\, a teacher of the dark arts of political duplicity and deception\, or was he prophet of political liberation and maybe even democracy as more recent interpreters have argued?  Was he an advocate of policies of Realpolitik (connecting him to other great “realists” from Thucydides to Henry Kissinger) or an idealist who imagined new possibilities and innovations in political forms?  Perhaps most importantly\, Machiavelli is the writer who puts executive power at the center of his political thinking.  In this seminar we will consider Machiavelli’s role in creating the idea of the modern executive and how this has entered American political debate. \nThis seminar is offered online by EverScholar.  In order to encourage an optimal discussion experience\, enrollment is limited to 15 persons.  However\, the seminar is also offered at one other time\, also with Professor Smith.  Register for the session that you are certain you can attend. \nOur Professor: Steven B. Smith\, Alfred Cowles Professor of Government and Philosophy\, Yale University \nProfessor Smith has taught at Yale since 1984. He has served as Director of Graduate Studies in Political Science\, Director of the Special Program in the Humanities\, and Acting Chair of Judaic Studies and from 1996-2011 served as the Master of Branford College. His research has focused on the history of political philosophy with special attention to the problem of the ancients and moderns\, the relation of religion and politics\, and theories of representative government. \nHis best known publications include Hegel’s Critique of Liberalism (1989)\, Spinoza\, Liberalism\, and Jewish Identity (1997)\, Spinoza’s Book of Life (2003)\, Reading Leo Strauss (2006)\, and The Cambridge Companion to Leo Strauss (2009) and Political Philosophy (2012). His newly released book\, Modernity and its Discontents\, is now available. He is also the Co-Director of Yale’s Center for the Study of Representative Institutions (YSCRI) that focuses on the theory and practice of representative government in the Anglo-American world.  He is also the editor of The Writings of Abraham Lincoln. \nHe has received several academic awards and prizes including the Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize given by Phi Beta Kappa\, but is most proud of receiving the Lex Hixon ‘63 Prize for Teaching Excellence in the Social Sciences in 2009. He is a die-hard Yankees fan and hopes to be able to play for the team in the next life.  He has taught EverScholar participants on several occasions in the past – and is also a lead professor in the October\, 2020 course\, “Montaigne and The Art of Living.”  Professor Smith sits on the EverScholar Advisory Board and participates actively in its year-round discussion group. \nRegistration is now open!  Register by filling out the brief form below.
URL:https://everscholar.org/event/machiavellis-the-prince-and-executive-power-section-2
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SUMMARY:Machiavelli’s "The Prince" and Executive Power (Section 1)
DESCRIPTION:Machiavelli’s Prince is the most famous political book ever written and yet it remains one of the most contested.  Ever since the work’s publication in 1532 – five years after Machiavelli’s death – it has never ceased being a topic of conversation.  Was he the evil “Machiavel” of Elizabethan literature\, a teacher of the dark arts of political duplicity and deception\, or was he prophet of political liberation and maybe even democracy as more recent interpreters have argued?  Was he an advocate of policies of Realpolitik (connecting him to other great “realists” from Thucydides to Henry Kissinger) or an idealist who imagined new possibilities and innovations in political forms?  Perhaps most importantly\, Machiavelli is the writer who puts executive power at the center of his political thinking.  In this seminar we will consider Machiavelli’s role in creating the idea of the modern executive and how this has entered American political debate. \nThis seminar is offered online by EverScholar.  In order to encourage an optimal discussion experience\, enrollment is limited to 15 persons.  However\, the seminar is also offered at one other time\, also with Professor Smith.  Register for the session that you are certain you can attend. \nOur Professor: Steven B. Smith\, Alfred Cowles Professor of Government and Philosophy\, Yale University \nProfessor Smith has taught at Yale since 1984. He has served as Director of Graduate Studies in Political Science\, Director of the Special Program in the Humanities\, and Acting Chair of Judaic Studies and from 1996-2011 served as the Master of Branford College. His research has focused on the history of political philosophy with special attention to the problem of the ancients and moderns\, the relation of religion and politics\, and theories of representative government. \nHis best known publications include Hegel’s Critique of Liberalism (1989)\, Spinoza\, Liberalism\, and Jewish Identity (1997)\, Spinoza’s Book of Life (2003)\, Reading Leo Strauss (2006)\, and The Cambridge Companion to Leo Strauss (2009) and Political Philosophy (2012). His newly released book\, Modernity and its Discontents\, is now available. He is also the Co-Director of Yale’s Center for the Study of Representative Institutions (YSCRI) that focuses on the theory and practice of representative government in the Anglo-American world.  He is also the editor of The Writings of Abraham Lincoln. \nHe has received several academic awards and prizes including the Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize given by Phi Beta Kappa\, but is most proud of receiving the Lex Hixon ‘63 Prize for Teaching Excellence in the Social Sciences in 2009. He is a die-hard Yankees fan and hopes to be able to play for the team in the next life.  He has taught EverScholar participants on several occasions in the past – and is also a lead professor in the October\, 2020 course\, “Montaigne and The Art of Living.”  Professor Smith sits on the EverScholar Advisory Board and participates actively in its year-round discussion group. \nRegistration is now open!  Register by filling out the brief form below.
URL:https://everscholar.org/event/machiavellis-the-prince-and-executive-power-section-1
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SUMMARY:Failure in\, and of\, Political Oratory (Section 3)
DESCRIPTION:Other realms of verbal art embrace failure as part of the creative practice; Samuel Beckett’s adage “fail better” springs to mind (the flawed novel; the play with a weak third act; the half-good poem). By contrast\, political oratory leaves little scope for interesting failure. This seminar will focus on two related topics: the historical study and treatment of failure in political rhetoric\, and the more abstract\, ethical consideration of the failure of political rhetoric. Readings will include case studies from ancient Greece; Aristotle’s rhetorical theory; Quintilian’s handbook on oratorical education; advice from eighteenth and nineteenth century American rhetorical handbooks\, some classic instances of failure / infelicity in American political oratory in the last century\, and readings from contemporary rhetorical theory. We will focus primarily on the use of language\, but we will also consider non-verbal communication and the significance of the medium in determining success and failure in political oratory. Finally\, in the context of the present election cycle\, we will also consider the complexity of classifying failure in political rhetoric in a deeply factional political climate in which speakers often set out to antagonize an out-group of listeners and to foment division. \nThis seminar is offered online by EverScholar.  In order to encourage an optimal discussion experience\, enrollment is limited to 9 persons.  However\, the seminar is also offered at two other times\, also with Professor Greenwood.  Register for the session that you are certain you can attend. \nOur Professor:  Emily Greenwood\, Professor of Classics\, Yale University \nEmily Greenwood is Professor of Classics and Chair of the Classics department at Yale. She trained at the University of Cambridge and then taught at the University of St Andrews in Scotland before joining the faculty at Yale in 2009. She specializes in ancient Greek prose literature of the fifth and fourth centuries BCE\, with a particular interest in historical narratives. Her initial interest in Classics grew out of curiosity about the circulation of ancient Greek and Roman works in so many different guises in the modern world and this curiosity continues to guide her research and teaching. In both she foregrounds questions of transmission\, translation\, adaptation and the role that different interpretative communities and traditions play in creating the works that we study. It is this interest in adaptation and the dynamic interrelationship between so-called “original” or “source” texts and subsequent versions which led to her collaboration on a course on The Tempest and its versions. She has published books on Thucydides’ History (Thucydides and the Shaping of History\, 2006)\, and on responses to the Classics in Anglophone Caribbean Literature (Afro-Greeks\, 2010). Her current research projects include reading Thucydides as war literature\, and a tentative\, tropological encyclopedia of Black Classicism. \nRegistration is now open!  Register by filling out the brief form below.
URL:https://everscholar.org/event/failure-in-and-of-political-oratory-section-3
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SUMMARY:Failure in\, and of\, Political Oratory (Section 2)
DESCRIPTION:Other realms of verbal art embrace failure as part of the creative practice; Samuel Beckett’s adage “fail better” springs to mind (the flawed novel; the play with a weak third act; the half-good poem). By contrast\, political oratory leaves little scope for interesting failure. This seminar will focus on two related topics: the historical study and treatment of failure in political rhetoric\, and the more abstract\, ethical consideration of the failure of political rhetoric. Readings will include case studies from ancient Greece; Aristotle’s rhetorical theory; Quintilian’s handbook on oratorical education; advice from eighteenth and nineteenth century American rhetorical handbooks\, some classic instances of failure / infelicity in American political oratory in the last century\, and readings from contemporary rhetorical theory. We will focus primarily on the use of language\, but we will also consider non-verbal communication and the significance of the medium in determining success and failure in political oratory. Finally\, in the context of the present election cycle\, we will also consider the complexity of classifying failure in political rhetoric in a deeply factional political climate in which speakers often set out to antagonize an out-group of listeners and to foment division. \nThis seminar is offered online by EverScholar.  In order to encourage an optimal discussion experience\, enrollment is limited to 9 persons.  However\, the seminar is also offered at two other times\, also with Professor Greenwood.  Register for the session that you are certain you can attend. \nOur Professor:  Emily Greenwood\, Professor of Classics\, Yale University \nEmily Greenwood is Professor of Classics and Chair of the Classics department at Yale. She trained at the University of Cambridge and then taught at the University of St Andrews in Scotland before joining the faculty at Yale in 2009. She specializes in ancient Greek prose literature of the fifth and fourth centuries BCE\, with a particular interest in historical narratives. Her initial interest in Classics grew out of curiosity about the circulation of ancient Greek and Roman works in so many different guises in the modern world and this curiosity continues to guide her research and teaching. In both she foregrounds questions of transmission\, translation\, adaptation and the role that different interpretative communities and traditions play in creating the works that we study. It is this interest in adaptation and the dynamic interrelationship between so-called “original” or “source” texts and subsequent versions which led to her collaboration on a course on The Tempest and its versions. She has published books on Thucydides’ History (Thucydides and the Shaping of History\, 2006)\, and on responses to the Classics in Anglophone Caribbean Literature (Afro-Greeks\, 2010). Her current research projects include reading Thucydides as war literature\, and a tentative\, tropological encyclopedia of Black Classicism. \nRegistration is now open!  Register by filling out the brief form below.
URL:https://everscholar.org/event/failure-in-and-of-political-oratory-section-2
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SUMMARY:Failure in\, and of\, Political Oratory (Section 1)
DESCRIPTION:Other realms of verbal art embrace failure as part of the creative practice; Samuel Beckett’s adage “fail better” springs to mind (the flawed novel; the play with a weak third act; the half-good poem). By contrast\, political oratory leaves little scope for interesting failure. This seminar will focus on two related topics: the historical study and treatment of failure in political rhetoric\, and the more abstract\, ethical consideration of the failure of political rhetoric. Readings will include case studies from ancient Greece; Aristotle’s rhetorical theory; Quintilian’s handbook on oratorical education; advice from eighteenth and nineteenth century American rhetorical handbooks\, some classic instances of failure / infelicity in American political oratory in the last century\, and readings from contemporary rhetorical theory. We will focus primarily on the use of language\, but we will also consider non-verbal communication and the significance of the medium in determining success and failure in political oratory. Finally\, in the context of the present election cycle\, we will also consider the complexity of classifying failure in political rhetoric in a deeply factional political climate in which speakers often set out to antagonize an out-group of listeners and to foment division. \nThis seminar is offered online by EverScholar.  In order to encourage an optimal discussion experience\, enrollment is limited to 9 persons.  However\, the seminar is also offered at two other times\, also with Professor Greenwood.  Register for the session that you are certain you can attend. \nOur Professor:  Emily Greenwood\, Professor of Classics\, Yale University \nEmily Greenwood is Professor of Classics and Chair of the Classics department at Yale. She trained at the University of Cambridge and then taught at the University of St Andrews in Scotland before joining the faculty at Yale in 2009. She specializes in ancient Greek prose literature of the fifth and fourth centuries BCE\, with a particular interest in historical narratives. Her initial interest in Classics grew out of curiosity about the circulation of ancient Greek and Roman works in so many different guises in the modern world and this curiosity continues to guide her research and teaching. In both she foregrounds questions of transmission\, translation\, adaptation and the role that different interpretative communities and traditions play in creating the works that we study. It is this interest in adaptation and the dynamic interrelationship between so-called “original” or “source” texts and subsequent versions which led to her collaboration on a course on The Tempest and its versions. She has published books on Thucydides’ History (Thucydides and the Shaping of History\, 2006)\, and on responses to the Classics in Anglophone Caribbean Literature (Afro-Greeks\, 2010). Her current research projects include reading Thucydides as war literature\, and a tentative\, tropological encyclopedia of Black Classicism. \nRegistration is now open!  Register by filling out the brief form below.
URL:https://everscholar.org/event/failure-in-and-of-political-oratory-section-1
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SUMMARY:How to Read a Case:  McCulloch v. Maryland (Section 2)
DESCRIPTION:What does the Constitution say?  What tools do we have to discern its meaning?  Americans ask these questions\, or variants of them\, when they consider fundamental issues of the day. Lawyers\, in particular\, require methods to address these issues; in law school they are taught to utilize case reading and analysis. \nProfessor Akhil Amar teaches these foundational lessons to his Yale Law students in his Constitutional Law class.  He always uses as an exemplar “…what many would deem the most central case in our constitutional canon: McCulloch v. Maryland.” \nIn this seminar\, he will teach us the beauty and elegance of McCulloch.  Of this case\, he says: “McCulloch commands our attention not merely for what it says but for how it says\, featuring a richer mixture of elegant constitutional arguments of various types than its rivals. To read McCulloch is to see (and for many beginning students\, to learn) how to do constitutional argument.” \nJoin Professor Amar and EverScholar for a rare opportunity: a close reading of the masterpiece of perhaps America’s greatest jurist\, John Marshall\, and become a constitutional lawyer in 90 minutes. \nOur Professor:  Akhil Reed Amar\, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science\, Yale University \nAkhil Reed Amar is Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University\, where he teaches constitutional law in both Yale College and Yale Law School. After graduating from Yale College\, summa cum laude\, in 1980 and from Yale Law School in 1984\, and clerking for now-Justice Stephen Breyer\, Amar joined the Yale faculty in 1985 at the age of 26. He is the winner of Yale’s DeVane Medal for teaching\, and in 2017 he received the Howard Lamar Award for outstanding service to Yale alumni. He has co-led or been guest professor\, for courses with the EverScholar model on several occasions over the past 5 years. \nRegistration is now open!  Register by filling out the brief form below.
URL:https://everscholar.org/event/how-to-read-a-case-mcculloch-v-maryland-section-2
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SUMMARY:How to Read a Case:  McCulloch v. Maryland (Section 1)
DESCRIPTION:What does the Constitution say?  What tools do we have to discern its meaning?  Americans ask these questions\, or variants of them\, when they consider fundamental issues of the day. Lawyers\, in particular\, require methods to address these issues; in law school they are taught to utilize case reading and analysis. \nProfessor Akhil Amar teaches these foundational lessons to his Yale Law students in his Constitutional Law class.  He always uses as an exemplar “…what many would deem the most central case in our constitutional canon: McCulloch v. Maryland.” \nIn this seminar\, he will teach us the beauty and elegance of McCulloch.  Of this case\, he says: “McCulloch commands our attention not merely for what it says but for how it says\, featuring a richer mixture of elegant constitutional arguments of various types than its rivals. To read McCulloch is to see (and for many beginning students\, to learn) how to do constitutional argument.” \nJoin Professor Amar and EverScholar for a rare opportunity: a close reading of the masterpiece of perhaps America’s greatest jurist\, John Marshall\, and become a constitutional lawyer in 90 minutes. \nOur Professor:  Akhil Reed Amar\, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science\, Yale University \nAkhil Reed Amar is Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University\, where he teaches constitutional law in both Yale College and Yale Law School. After graduating from Yale College\, summa cum laude\, in 1980 and from Yale Law School in 1984\, and clerking for now-Justice Stephen Breyer\, Amar joined the Yale faculty in 1985 at the age of 26. He is the winner of Yale’s DeVane Medal for teaching\, and in 2017 he received the Howard Lamar Award for outstanding service to Yale alumni. He has co-led or been guest professor\, for courses with the EverScholar model on several occasions over the past 5 years. \nRegistration is now open!  Register by filling out the brief form below.
URL:https://everscholar.org/event/how-to-read-a-case-mcculloch-v-maryland
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200826T173000
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SUMMARY:Satire and Free Speech in Ancient Rome
DESCRIPTION:This seminar will offer an overview of issues of humorous free speech in ancient Rome\, focusing on the verse satirists Lucilius\, Horace\, Persius and Juvenal\, as well as Petronius\, author of the Satyricon (a bawdy and irreverent novel mixing prose with verse).  The satires written by these writers tested the boundaries of what could be said in a world where certain persons were not only allowed to indulge in free speech (libertas)\, but expected to do so\, and where others were expected either to keep silent\, or to let others speak for them.  The Roman world of the satirists is one where free speech belonged to certain ‘kinds’ of people\, but not to others.  We will look at who had the right to speak freely in ancient Rome and who did not.  We will examine the workings of libertas\, its protections and limits\, by studying the changing ways and expectations of satire over time\, not only as a matter of different satirists having taken up with the genre in different ways\, each according to his own purposes and talents\, but as matter of the Roman state’s having been made over from a republic\, where libertas was a key identifying feature of noble speech\, to an autocratic family dynasty\, where merely criticizing the trending ways of things could be taken as an attack on the emperor’s governance and/or person\, resulting in the criticizer’s social demise\, if not his exile or death.  If these issues sound contemporary\, that is precisely the point. By examining ancient practices and theories of free expression\, this seminar aims to give historical depth to\, and invite alternative perspectives on\, similar questions in our own day. \nThis seminar will be conducted online.  Readings will be provided in advance of the seminar\, and all participants are asked to complete the readings and to participate in the discussion. \nOur Professor:  Kirk Freudenburg\, Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor of Classics\, Yale University \nKirk Freudenburg received his BA from Valparaiso University\, and an MA in Classics from Washington University in St. Louis. He took his PhD from the University of Wisconsin\, where he wrote a dissertation under the direction of Denis Feeney. \nBefore coming to Yale he taught at Kent State University\, Ohio State University and the University of Illinois. At Ohio State he was Associate Dean of the Humanities and at Illinois he was Chair of the Department of Classics. His research has long focused on the social life of Roman letters\, especially on the unique cultural encodings that structure and inform Roman ideas of poetry\, and the practical implementation of those ideas in specific poetic forms\, especially satire. \nHis main publications include: The Walking Muse: Horace on the Theory of Satire (Princeton\, 1993)\, Satires of Rome: Threatening Poses from Lucilius to Juvenal (Cambridge\, 2001)\, the Cambridge Companion to Roman Satire (Cambridge\, 2005)\, Oxford Readings in Classical Studies: Horace’s Satires and Epistles (Oxford University Press\, 2009)\, and the Cambridge Companion to the Age of Nero (Cambridge\, 2017)\, co-edited with Shadi Bartsch and Cedric Littlewood. Currently he is writing a commentary on the second book of Horace’s Sermones for the Cambridge Green and Yellows. \nRegistration is now open!  Register by filling out the brief form below.
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SUMMARY:Lincoln’s "Lyceum Speech" - Demagogues and Aspiring Tyrants (Section 2)
DESCRIPTION:The problem of demagogues and tyrants is as old as political life.  Politics today has seen a resurgence of the phenomenon of the populist demagogue who claims to speak for the people – the charismatic leader — on both the left and the right. But what is a demagogue and what is the source of their authority?  These questions are at the core of Abraham Lincoln’s speech “On the Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions” given at the Young Men’s Lyceum in Springfield\, Illinois on the evening of January 27\, 1838 when the author was just a few weeks short of his twenty-ninth birthday.  Lincoln here raises the problem of the aspiring tyrant but who exactly is he referring to and what is he afraid of?  Among other themes we will consider from this first great speech of Lincoln’s are the relation of later generations to the American founding\, the fragility of law\, the role of religion in maintaining political institutions\, and the loss of historical memory. \nThis seminar is offered online by EverScholar.  In order to encourage an optimal discussion experience\, enrollment is limited to 15 persons.  However\, the seminar is also offered at one other time\, also with Professor Smith.  Register for the session that you are certain you can attend. \nOur Professor: Steven B. Smith\, Alfred Cowles Professor of Government and Philosophy\, Yale University \nProfessor Smith has taught at Yale since 1984. He has served as Director of Graduate Studies in Political Science\, Director of the Special Program in the Humanities\, and Acting Chair of Judaic Studies and from 1996-2011 served as the Master of Branford College. His research has focused on the history of political philosophy with special attention to the problem of the ancients and moderns\, the relation of religion and politics\, and theories of representative government. \nHis best known publications include Hegel’s Critique of Liberalism (1989)\, Spinoza\, Liberalism\, and Jewish Identity (1997)\, Spinoza’s Book of Life (2003)\, Reading Leo Strauss (2006)\, and The Cambridge Companion to Leo Strauss (2009) and Political Philosophy (2012). His newly released book\, Modernity and its Discontents\, is now available. He is also the Co-Director of Yale’s Center for the Study of Representative Institutions (YSCRI) that focuses on the theory and practice of representative government in the Anglo-American world.  He is also the editor of The Writings of Abraham Lincoln. \nHe has received several academic awards and prizes including the Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize given by Phi Beta Kappa\, but is most proud of receiving the Lex Hixon ‘63 Prize for Teaching Excellence in the Social Sciences in 2009. He is a die-hard Yankees fan and hopes to be able to play for the team in the next life.  He has taught EverScholar participants on several occasions in the past – and is also a lead professor in the October\, 2020 course\, “Montaigne and The Art of Living.”  Professor Smith sits on the EverScholar Advisory Board and participates actively in its year-round discussion group. \nTo Register for this seminar\, please complete the form below:
URL:https://everscholar.org/event/lincolns-lyceum-speech-demagogues-and-aspiring-tyrants-section-2
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SUMMARY:Lincoln’s "Lyceum Speech" - Demagogues and Aspiring Tyrants (Section 1)
DESCRIPTION:The problem of demagogues and tyrants is as old as political life.  Politics today has seen a resurgence of the phenomenon of the populist demagogue who claims to speak for the people – the charismatic leader — on both the left and the right. But what is a demagogue and what is the source of their authority?  These questions are at the core of Abraham Lincoln’s speech “On the Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions” given at the Young Men’s Lyceum in Springfield\, Illinois on the evening of January 27\, 1838 when the author was just a few weeks short of his twenty-ninth birthday.  Lincoln here raises the problem of the aspiring tyrant but who exactly is he referring to and what is he afraid of?  Among other themes we will consider from this first great speech of Lincoln’s are the relation of later generations to the American founding\, the fragility of law\, the role of religion in maintaining political institutions\, and the loss of historical memory. \nThis seminar is offered online by EverScholar.  In order to encourage an optimal discussion experience\, enrollment is limited to 15 persons.  However\, the seminar is also offered at one other time\, also with Professor Smith.  Register for the session that you are certain you can attend. \nOur Professor: Steven B. Smith\, Alfred Cowles Professor of Government and Philosophy\, Yale University \nProfessor Smith has taught at Yale since 1984. He has served as Director of Graduate Studies in Political Science\, Director of the Special Program in the Humanities\, and Acting Chair of Judaic Studies and from 1996-2011 served as the Master of Branford College. His research has focused on the history of political philosophy with special attention to the problem of the ancients and moderns\, the relation of religion and politics\, and theories of representative government. \nHis best known publications include Hegel’s Critique of Liberalism (1989)\, Spinoza\, Liberalism\, and Jewish Identity (1997)\, Spinoza’s Book of Life (2003)\, Reading Leo Strauss (2006)\, and The Cambridge Companion to Leo Strauss (2009) and Political Philosophy (2012). His newly released book\, Modernity and its Discontents\, is now available. He is also the Co-Director of Yale’s Center for the Study of Representative Institutions (YSCRI) that focuses on the theory and practice of representative government in the Anglo-American world.  He is also the editor of The Writings of Abraham Lincoln. \nHe has received several academic awards and prizes including the Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize given by Phi Beta Kappa\, but is most proud of receiving the Lex Hixon ‘63 Prize for Teaching Excellence in the Social Sciences in 2009. He is a die-hard Yankees fan and hopes to be able to play for the team in the next life.  He has taught EverScholar participants on several occasions in the past – and is also a lead professor in the October\, 2020 course\, “Montaigne and The Art of Living.”  Professor Smith sits on the EverScholar Advisory Board and participates actively in its year-round discussion group. \nTo Register for this seminar\, please complete the form below:
URL:https://everscholar.org/event/lincolns-lyceum-speech-demagogues-and-aspiring-tyrants-section-1
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SUMMARY:The Rise and Fall of Great Powers\, including China and the U.S.\, in historical perspective
DESCRIPTION:Paul Kennedy’s book\, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers : Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000\, a magisterial survey of European imperial competition\, was published in 1987. It made a considerable impression in both academic and policy circles\, because of its brilliant synthesis of modern history\, and because of its powerful thesis about the interdependence of economic productivity and military dominance. The final chapter\, in particular\, incited vigorous debate\, because it forecast the relative decline of the United States and the rise of China in the twenty-first century. \nNow\, over thirty years later\, how well has Kennedy’s analysis held up? Translated into Chinese in 2006\, the book inspired in China equally animated discussion about China’s future role in the world system of powers. Today\, viewing the precipitous decline of U.S global influence in many economic and political areas\, and the increasing aggressiveness of Chinese military and economic goals\, Kennedy’s argument has even more salience. \nIn this seminar\, Peter C. Perdue and Paul Kennedy will discuss with the students how Kennedy’s analysis of the close connection of economic and military power\, his thesis of how “imperial overreach” causes the decline of great powers\,  and his projection of future rebalancing of geopolitical relationships can inform our understanding of the U.S. and China’s stature in the world. \nAlso recommended as supplementary reading is the Cambridge military historian Correlli Barnett’s The Audit of War\, which analyzes incisively the causes of Britain’s decline from great power status after the end of the second World War. \nReadings: \nKennedy\, P. (1987). The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers\, excerpts. \nBarnett\, C. (1986). The audit of war : the illusion & reality of Britain as a great nation.New York\, Macmillan. excerpts \nThis seminar will be conducted online.  Readings will be provided in advance of the seminar\, and all participants are asked to complete the readings and to participate in the discussion. \nOur Professors: \nPaul Kennedy\,  J. Richardson Dilworth Professor of History\, Yale University \nProfessor Kennedy  is internationally known for his writings and commentaries on global political\, economic\, and strategic issues. In addition to his Professorship\, he is Director of International Security Studies at Yale\, Distinguished Fellow of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy\, and coordinates the ISS programs funded by the Smith Richardson Foundation. \nHe obtained his BA at Newcastle University and his DPhil at the University of Oxford. He is a former Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies\, Princeton University\, and of the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung\, Bonn. He holds many honorary degrees\, and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society\, the American Philosophical Society\, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was made Commander of the Order of the British Empire (C.B.E.) in 2000 for services to History and elected a Fellow of the British Academy in June 2003. \nProf. Kennedy’s monthly column on current global issues is distributed worldwide by the Los Angeles Times Syndicate/Tribune Media Services. He is the author or editor of nineteen books. His best-known work is The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers\, which provoked an intense debate on its publication in 1988 and has been translated into over twenty languages. \nIn 1991\, he edited a collection entitled Grand Strategies in War and Peace. He helped draft the Ford Foundation-sponsored report issued in 1995\, The United Nations in Its Second Half-Century\, which was prepared for the fiftieth anniversary of the UN. Prof. Kennedy’s most recent book Engineers of Victory\, history through the eyes of problem-solvers during the Second World War\, was published in 2013. He is currently writing a book about seapower and global transformations during World War Two. \nPeter C. Perdue\, Professor of History\, Yale University. \nProfessor Perdue has taught courses on East Asian history and civilization\, Chinese social and economic history\, the Silk Road\, and historical methodology. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His first book\, Exhausting the Earth: State and Peasant in Hunan\, 1500-1850 A.D. (Harvard University Press\,1987)\, examined long-term agricultural change in one Chinese province. His second book\, China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia (Harvard University Press\, 2005)\, discusses environmental change\, ethnicity\, long-term economic change and military conquest in an integrated account of the Chinese\, Mongolian\, and Russian contention over Siberia and Central Eurasia during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He is a coeditor of two books on empires: Imperial Formations\, (SAR Press\, 2007) and Shared Histories of Modernity\, (Routledge\, 2008)\, and a co-author of  Global Connections\, a world history textbook forthcoming from Cambridge University Press\, and Asia Inside Out\, three volumes on inter-Asian connections forthcoming from Harvard University Press. His current research focuses on Chinese frontiers\, Chinese environmental history\, and the history of tea.  Professor Perdue has taught in EverScholar model courses in the past\, sits on the EverScholar Advisory Board\, and participates actively in the EverScholar Google Group. \nThis seminar is full.  Please register for one of our other fantastic seminars!
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SUMMARY:Chinese Classics for German Modernity:  Laozi to Kafka
DESCRIPTION:The first two decades of the twentieth century defined a new global cultural formation\, which we now call “modernity.” Rejecting the historicist assumptions of the nineteenth century\, leading writers around the world developed new visions of the future\, new approaches to human psychology\, and new forms of spiritual cultivation. Germany and the Austro-Hungarian empire produced particularly radical innovations which spread across literature\, the visual arts\, music\, architecture\, and scientific disciplines. We are most familiar with figures like Gustav Mahler\, Sigmund Freud\, and Franz Kafka\, but many others joined this constellation. Chinese thinkers shared in these global currents as well as many others.  \n It is striking that so many of the pioneering European thinkers of this period found inspiration in Asian civilizations\, particularly India and China. Although deeply versed in Christian and Jewish learning\, they broke through limitations of their own traditions\, finding in the classics of Asia new sources of spiritual and cultural inspiration. In this encounter with Asia\, they transformed the texts they discovered\, through translation and the creation of new texts\, forging penetrating insights into the modern world.  \nIn this seminar we will examine just a few examples of this extensive intercultural exchange\, focusing on the impact of four ancient Chinese classics on two major German writers. We will study closely excerpts from Laozi\, Liezi\, Zhuangzi\, and the Yijing [Book of Changes]\, as interpreted by Franz Kafka and Richard Wilhelm. \nFranz Kafka (1883-1924)\, born in Bohemia in the Austro-Hungarian empire\, is of course best known for his short stories\, like “Metamorphosis\,” and his novels The Trial and The Castle. But in 1917\, after being diagnosed with the tuberculosis that eventually caused his death\, he retreated to the small village of Zürau\, where he wrote 109 aphorisms on slips of paper\, each of which is an intense\, cryptic meditation on the journey of the soul. Many of them resonate in striking ways with ancient Chinese poet-philosophers like Laozi\, Liezi\, and Zhuangzi. Through creative writing\, Kafka not only penetrated esoteric Daoist classics\, but also furthered their spirit in a way that transcends Richard Wilhelm\, the pioneer German Sinologist. \nRichard Wilhelm (1873 – 1930)\, trained as a Protestant theologian\, went to China shortly after Germany acquired its leasehold territory at Tsingtao in Shandong. He spent over twenty-five years in China\, and on his return to Germany taught Chinese philosophy\, while translating and interpreting many of the Chinese classics. His most famous work is his translation of the Book of Changes\, an ancient divination text which contains concise\, cryptic explanations of the 64 hexagrams. Wilhelm’s translation\, retranslated into English in 1950\, became extremely popular in the U.S.\, inspiring much of the postwar American enthusiasm for Asian religions and spirituality\, and it is still a major source today. But how do the original Chinese text\, Wilhelm’s German version\, the English version of Wilhelm\, and new English translations each provide multiple perspectives on this baffling philosophical text? We will look at a few selections and attempt to puzzle them out. \nThis seminar will enlist you as pioneers in the search for multiple crisscrossing strands linking the fundamental cultural concepts of China\, Germany\, and the U.S\, from ancient to modern times. Please join us in this adventure! \nThis seminar will be conducted online.  Readings will be provided in advance of the seminar\, and all participants are asked to complete the readings and to participate in the discussion. \nOur Professors: \nHuiwen Helen Zhang\, Wellspring Associate Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature\, University of Tulsa \nEducated at Peking University\, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg\, and Yale\, Huiwen Helen Zhang identifies herself as a transreader—a lento reader\, poetic translator\, creative writer\, and cultural critic in one. The role of transreader and the theory of transreading link Dr. Zhang’s research on Chinese\, German\, and Scandinavian literature\, philosophy\, history\, and art. Dr Zhang’s current projects combine panoramic vision with meticulous methodology. Her second book\, Transreading: A Common Language for Cultural Critique (under contract)\, engages those whom Dr. Zhang terms “transreaders of modernity”: Kierkegaard\, Nietzsche\, Strindberg\, Döblin\, Kollwitz\, and Lu Xun. Her third book\, Kafka’s Dao: The Patience Game\, challenges the reader to decipher one of the most astonishing cross-cultural enigmas: how\, through transreading\, Kafka transplants the seed of Dao and nurtures it in a European mind. \nPeter C. Perdue\, Professor of History\, Yale University \nProfessor Perdue has taught courses on East Asian history and civilization\, Chinese social and economic history\, the Silk Road\, and historical methodology. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the author of numerous books\, including China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia (Harvard University Press\, 2005). His current research focuses on Chinese frontiers\, Chinese environmental history\, and the history of tea. Most recently\, he has published an introduction to environmental history in Chinese. Professor Perdue has taught under the EverScholar model to great acclaim. \nTo Register for this seminar\, please complete the form below:
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SUMMARY:Thucydides' Plague\, and Ours (Section 3)
DESCRIPTION:Thucydides’ account of the plague that struck Athens in 430 BCE is recalled / rediscovered whenever nations in the West experience a global epidemic or pandemic. It is famous both as a seminal chapter in plague literature\, which served as a model for plague narratives in Lucretius\, Virgil\, Ovid\, and Procopius\, and as an important contribution to political thought for its treatment of the plague as both a symptom of and metaphor for political dysfunction. However\, the tendency to treat Thucydides’ plague account as part of a tradition typically obscures what is distinctive and original about this account. The seminar will offer an opportunity to get to grips with the interpretation of this complex passage and to engage with debates in current scholarship. Moreover\, the context for our reading – in the midst of a pandemic – means that we are well placed to notice certain details in Thucydides’ account\, such as his focus on the altered experience of temporality during an epidemic. \nThis seminar is offered online by EverScholar.  In order to encourage an optimal discussion experience\, enrollment is limited to 9 persons.  However\, the seminar is also offered at two other times\, also with Professor Greenwood.  Register for the session that you are certain you can attend. \nOur Professor:  Emily Greenwood\, Professor of Classics\, Yale University \nEmily Greenwood is Professor of Classics and Chair of the Classics department at Yale. She trained at the University of Cambridge and then taught at the University of St Andrews in Scotland before joining the faculty at Yale in 2009. She specializes in ancient Greek prose literature of the fifth and fourth centuries BCE\, with a particular interest in historical narratives. Her initial interest in Classics grew out of curiosity about the circulation of ancient Greek and Roman works in so many different guises in the modern world and this curiosity continues to guide her research and teaching. In both she foregrounds questions of transmission\, translation\, adaptation and the role that different interpretative communities and traditions play in creating the works that we study. It is this interest in adaptation and the dynamic interrelationship between so-called “original” or “source” texts and subsequent versions which led to her collaboration on a course on The Tempest and its versions. She has published books on Thucydides’ History (Thucydides and the Shaping of History\, 2006)\, and on responses to the Classics in Anglophone Caribbean Literature (Afro-Greeks\, 2010). Her current research projects include reading Thucydides as war literature\, and a tentative\, tropological encyclopedia of Black Classicism. \nTo Register for this seminar\, please complete the form below:
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SUMMARY:Thucydides' Plague\, and Ours (Section 2)
DESCRIPTION:Thucydides’ account of the plague that struck Athens in 430 BCE is recalled / rediscovered whenever nations in the West experience a global epidemic or pandemic. It is famous both as a seminal chapter in plague literature\, which served as a model for plague narratives in Lucretius\, Virgil\, Ovid\, and Procopius\, and as an important contribution to political thought for its treatment of the plague as both a symptom of and metaphor for political dysfunction. However\, the tendency to treat Thucydides’ plague account as part of a tradition typically obscures what is distinctive and original about this account. The seminar will offer an opportunity to get to grips with the interpretation of this complex passage and to engage with debates in current scholarship. Moreover\, the context for our reading – in the midst of a pandemic – means that we are well placed to notice certain details in Thucydides’ account\, such as his focus on the altered experience of temporality during an epidemic. \nThis seminar is offered online by EverScholar.  In order to encourage an optimal discussion experience\, enrollment is limited to 9 persons.  However\, the seminar is also offered at two other times\, also with Professor Greenwood.  Register for the session that you are certain you can attend. \nOur Professor:  Emily Greenwood\, Professor of Classics\, Yale University \nEmily Greenwood is Professor of Classics and Chair of the Classics department at Yale. She trained at the University of Cambridge and then taught at the University of St Andrews in Scotland before joining the faculty at Yale in 2009. She specializes in ancient Greek prose literature of the fifth and fourth centuries BCE\, with a particular interest in historical narratives. Her initial interest in Classics grew out of curiosity about the circulation of ancient Greek and Roman works in so many different guises in the modern world and this curiosity continues to guide her research and teaching. In both she foregrounds questions of transmission\, translation\, adaptation and the role that different interpretative communities and traditions play in creating the works that we study. It is this interest in adaptation and the dynamic interrelationship between so-called “original” or “source” texts and subsequent versions which led to her collaboration on a course on The Tempest and its versions. She has published books on Thucydides’ History (Thucydides and the Shaping of History\, 2006)\, and on responses to the Classics in Anglophone Caribbean Literature (Afro-Greeks\, 2010). Her current research projects include reading Thucydides as war literature\, and a tentative\, tropological encyclopedia of Black Classicism. \nTo Register for this seminar\, please complete the form below:
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SUMMARY:Thucydides' Plague\, and Ours (Section 1)
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \nThucydides’ account of the plague that struck Athens in 430 BCE is recalled / rediscovered whenever nations in the West experience a global epidemic or pandemic. It is famous both as a seminal chapter in plague literature\, which served as a model for plague narratives in Lucretius\, Virgil\, Ovid\, and Procopius\, and as an important contribution to political thought for its treatment of the plague as both a symptom of and metaphor for political dysfunction. However\, the tendency to treat Thucydides’ plague account as part of a tradition typically obscures what is distinctive and original about this account. The seminar will offer an opportunity to get to grips with the interpretation of this complex passage and to engage with debates in current scholarship. Moreover\, the context for our reading – in the midst of a pandemic – means that we are well placed to notice certain details in Thucydides’ account\, such as his focus on the altered experience of temporality during an epidemic. \n  \nThis seminar is offered online by EverScholar.  In order to encourage an optimal discussion experience\, enrollment is limited to 9 persons.  However\, the seminar is also offered at two other times\, also with Professor Greenwood.  Register for the session that you are certain you can attend. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nOur Professor:  Emily Greenwood\, Professor of Classics\, Yale University \nEmily Greenwood is Professor of Classics and Chair of the Classics department at Yale. She trained at the University of Cambridge and then taught at the University of St Andrews in Scotland before joining the faculty at Yale in 2009. She specializes in ancient Greek prose literature of the fifth and fourth centuries BCE\, with a particular interest in historical narratives. Her initial interest in Classics grew out of curiosity about the circulation of ancient Greek and Roman works in so many different guises in the modern world and this curiosity continues to guide her research and teaching. In both she foregrounds questions of transmission\, translation\, adaptation and the role that different interpretative communities and traditions play in creating the works that we study. It is this interest in adaptation and the dynamic interrelationship between so-called “original” or “source” texts and subsequent versions which led to her collaboration on a course on The Tempest and its versions. She has published books on Thucydides’ History (Thucydides and the Shaping of History\, 2006)\, and on responses to the Classics in Anglophone Caribbean Literature (Afro-Greeks\, 2010). Her current research projects include reading Thucydides as war literature\, and a tentative\, tropological encyclopedia of Black Classicism. \n  \nTo Register for this seminar\, please complete the form below:
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SUMMARY:Seven Federalist Papers (Session 2)
DESCRIPTION:The Federalist\, or The Federalist Papers\, are familiar terms to American students\, (and\, hopefully\, most American citizens) from AP History classes forward.  They are commonly introduced as a expression – a great expression – of a coherent political theory.  The Constitution\, we know\, is short\, and beyond the Preamble contains neither explanation nor justification for the rules it expounds.  The Federalist\, we are taught\, provides its theoretical basis.\nBut in its day\, the Federalist was no book; it was a series of articles\, published piecemeal over the long\, glorious year of ratification debates.  It was part of a great argument\, and was meant not as a reference for posterity\, but as persuasive material for a vote.  It was perhaps the first political blog.\nIn this seminar we will read seven of these editorials\, and analyze them from the points of view of its intended readers.  Why were Federalist 4-6 published before Federalist 10\, or for that matter before 51?  What were the points of persuasion behind each of these papers?  What do these papers tell us about the process by which the Articles of Confederation were supplanted by the US Constitution?  What were the opposition arguments that the various essays attempted to refute – or head off?\nThe Federalist Papers are frequently cited by Courts\, including the Supreme Court\, for although they were never voted upon\, and never had any legal status\, they represented a form of evidence about what the Constitution meant. Accordingly\, we will probe for clues that shed light on the greatest Constitutional question of the nation’s first century:  secession.\nJoin us\, and re-enter the debate of that miraculous year\, when America constituted itself.\n\n\nThis seminar is full.  Please register for one of our other fantastic seminars!\nOur Professor:  Akhil Reed Amar\, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science\, Yale University \nAkhil Reed Amar is Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University\, where he teaches constitutional law in both Yale College and Yale Law School. After graduating from Yale College\, summa cum laude\, in 1980 and from Yale Law School in 1984\, and clerking for now-Justice Stephen Breyer\, Amar joined the Yale faculty in 1985 at the age of 26. He is the winner of Yale’s DeVane Medal for teaching\, and in 2017 he received the Howard Lamar Award for outstanding service to Yale alumni. He has co-led or been guest professor\, for courses with the EverScholar model on several occasions over the past 5 years.
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SUMMARY:Seven Federalist Papers
DESCRIPTION:.\nThe Federalist\, or The Federalist Papers\, are familiar terms to American students\, (and\, hopefully\, most American citizens) from AP History classes forward.  They are commonly introduced as a expression – a great expression – of a coherent political theory.  The Constitution\, we know\, is short\, and beyond the Preamble contains neither explanation nor justification for the rules it expounds.  The Federalist\, we are taught\, provides its theoretical basis.\nBut in its day\, the Federalist was no book; it was a series of articles\, published piecemeal over the long\, glorious year of ratification debates.  It was part of a great argument\, and was meant not as a reference for posterity\, but as persuasive material for a vote.  It was perhaps the first political blog.\nIn this seminar we will read seven of these editorials\, and analyze them from the points of view of its intended readers.  Why were Federalist 4-6 published before Federalist 10\, or for that matter before 51?  What were the points of persuasion behind each of these papers?  What do these papers tell us about the process by which the Articles of Confederation were supplanted by the US Constitution?  What were the opposition arguments that the various essays attempted to refute – or head off?\nThe Federalist Papers are frequently cited by Courts\, including the Supreme Court\, for although they were never voted upon\, and never had any legal status\, they represented a form of evidence about what the Constitution meant. Accordingly\, we will probe for clues that shed light on the greatest Constitutional question of the nation’s first century:  secession.\nJoin us\, and re-enter the debate of that miraculous year\, when America constituted itself.\n\n\nThis seminar is full.  Please register for one of our other fantastic seminars!\nOur Professor:  Akhil Reed Amar\, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science\, Yale University \nAkhil Reed Amar is Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University\, where he teaches constitutional law in both Yale College and Yale Law School. After graduating from Yale College\, summa cum laude\, in 1980 and from Yale Law School in 1984\, and clerking for now-Justice Stephen Breyer\, Amar joined the Yale faculty in 1985 at the age of 26. He is the winner of Yale’s DeVane Medal for teaching\, and in 2017 he received the Howard Lamar Award for outstanding service to Yale alumni. He has co-led or been guest professor\, for courses with the EverScholar model on several occasions over the past 5 years.
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