Why Semper Curious?

Semper Curious brings together learners and scholars to explore important areas of knowledge. Participants gain a multi-disciplinary perspective on our world in a congenial environment of curiosity and inquiry.

Topics

Semper Curious offerings span two broad subject categories: core disciplines & contemporary issues. Participants consider key concepts and methods and explore connections within and across these areas.

•  Core disciplines. Essential fields of science, social science, and humanities. The goal is to cultivate interest and knowledge, for pleasure and personal growth.

•  Contemporary issues. Complex questions affecting our daily lives: social trends, geopolitics, climate change, pandemics, advanced technologies. The goal is to move beyond news and opinion and explore issues critically, from a cross-disciplinary perspective.

Formats

• Starters: articles, videos, moderated conversations, and the like, to whet the appetite (under 1 hour)

• Topical Seminars: build intellectual bridges between general-interest topics and academic fields, in moderated small-group discussions (2 hours total, over 3 days)

• Learning Sprints: mini-explorations of the basic disciplines, each with background materials, discussions, university experts (10 hours total, over 3 weeks)

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• “The Semper Curious experience has been terrific for me. It’s a really good counterpoint to the reading and thinking I was already doing online, and in books and magazines. I really appreciate that you’re doing this, and am looking forward to where it all goes.”

• “One of my favorites so far… I think you have a winning formula, and I’m looking forward to the next topics to be added!”

• “The readings and videos for this seminar are exactly what I have been talking about – they are interesting, complex, sophisticated, and informative.”

• “A real treat. The caliber of guest scholar and participants is impressive and made for such a rich conversation.”