“The University Seminar is an independent universe. Its boundaries are limited only by its horizons.”
Frank Tannenbaum
Upcoming Events
SOF@50: Humanities in the World
Environmental and Racial Justice in Shakespeare Studies
Annual Dinner and Tannenbaum Lecture
Memorial Day
Winter 2026
Seminar News
“I have always been a great admirer of this institution, which to me looks like an authentic republic of letters …”
Hannah Arendt
Seminar supported books
Quantum Screens
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Democracy and Beauty
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The Sounds of Poetry Viewed as Music
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African Pharmakon
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Poetic Desire and Literary Thievery
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The Meeting of Rivers
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Crabgrass Catholicism
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Irish Lacemaking
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Love, Money, Duty
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Les Volontaires
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All the World on a Page
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Cracked Foundations
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Body Language
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The Inner Life of Mrs. Dalloway
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The Jew, the Beauty, and the Beast
Annual Events
Schoff Memorial Lecture Series
Annual Dinners
“The strength of its structure lies in the very multiplicity of its forms; each a small living world in itself …”
Margaret Mead