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Seneca, Time, & Mortality

October 16, 2026

In this seminar, Professor Gareth Williams (Columbia) explores how the Roman philosopher-politician, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (c. 2 BCE-65 CE), reflects in his Latin philosophical writings on the value of time in life, the importance of dwelling on the fact of our mortality through the different stages of our existence, and on how that perspective affects our ethical life-choices and outlook. Seneca was of course a privileged member of an aristocratic class in a slave society, and his life-refle...

Can Machines Make Art?

April 09, 2026

The rise of AI has revived longstanding debates about the nature of art and the roles the mind, the body, and the soul play in the creative act. In some ways, moreover, AI seems to be changing the terms of those debates. David Hajdu, professor of journalism at Columbia and music critic of The Nation, asks, “What's wrong with slop?”On Wednesday, February 4, at 6 PM, Morningside welcomed David Hajdu (Columbia) for a dinner discussion of the nature of art. ...

Wonder Confronts Certainty, Then and Now

September 25, 2025

Russian cultural history can be described as the conflict between the radical intellectuals, who imagined they had the ideological key to life and society, and the great writers, who viewed the world as far too complex for any single solution. It was the confrontation of certainty with wonder. The radical intelligentsia seized control in 1917, and from that time on, the great writers faced a totalitarian regime. The very extremity of their situation allowed them to address life’s ultimate que...

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