GBGD Free Community Seminars
Sunday Shorts
Free Community Seminars
Sunday Shorts
Join us each week for Sunday Shorts, our free, weekly, 90-minute discussions for members of the GBGD Slack community.
As the name suggests, the reading each week will be short: 5 - 15 pages. Some will be from familiar works and authors, others will be delightful surprises. All will be rich in ideas and will stimulate lively discussions. The discussions will be led by rotating volunteer hosts from GBGD seminar leader team and reader community.
Sunday Shorts meets on Sundays at 4:00pm Eastern/3:00pm Central. You’ll find the Zoom meeting link for each week in the GBGD Slack.
See below for our schedule of meetings and links to the readings.
Sunday Shorts Schedule and Readings
Meeting weekly on Zoom at 4:00pm Eastern/3:00pm Central
Zoom links available in the GBGD Slack
UPCOMING DISCUSSIONS:
October 5, 2025: The Melian Dialogue, by Thucydides
October 12, 2025: Geography, Ch. 1, by Strabo
October 19, 2025: The Shield of Achilles, by W.H. Auden
October 26, 2025: The Masque of the Red Death, by Edgar Allan Poe
PAST DISCUSSIONS:
August 3, 2025: Why War?, by Sigmund Freud
August 10, 2025: On Classical Studies, by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
August 17, 2025: How to Profit by One’s Enemies, by Plutarch
August 24, 2025: Habit, by William James
August 31, 2025: The Nose, by Nikolai Gogol
September 7, 2025: Lectures on Physics, Ch. 1, by Richard Feynman
September 14, 2025: The Closing of the American Mind, Introduction, by Allan Bloom
September 21, 2025: What Pragmatism Means, by William James + Reading Guide to Pragmatism
September 28, 2025: Funeral Oration of Pericles, by Thucydides
Further readings to be announced. If you are not a member of the GBGD Slack but would like to join us for Sunday Shorts, please inquire using the green button below.
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