
Valor Institute Events

Romans and the Early Church: Academic Retreat led by Dr. Thomas Esposito
An academic retreat at the Valor Institute on the Apostle Paul’s Letter to the Romans.

Valor Fall Symposium
Valor’s Annual Fall Symposium, with Keynote Speaker Wilfred McClay, Ph.D, Victor David Hanson Chair in Classical History and Western Civilization at Hillsdale College

The Gawain Poet: Academic Retreat Led by Dr. Greg Roper
An academic retreat at the Valor Institute on the Gawain Poet.

Friendship in Athens, Rome, and the New Jerusalem: Academic Retreat Led by Dr. Matthew Walz
An academic retreat at the Valor Institute on the friendship in Aristotle, Cicero, and Aquinas.

The Decameron: Academic Retreat Led by Dr. Anthony Nussmeier
An academic retreat at the Valor Institute on Boccaccio’s Decameron.

Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics: Academic Retreat Led by Dr. John Finley
An academic retreat at the Valor Institute on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics.

Valor Institute College Retreat: Democracy in America, Led by Dr. Raul Rodriguez
A retreat for undergraduate students at the Valor Institute in Austin, TX.

Valor Winter Symposium
Valor’s Annual Fall Symposium, with Keynote Speaker D.C. Schindler, Ph.D., Professor of Metaphysics and Anthropology at the John Paul II Pontifical Institute in Washington DC

Absalom, Absalom: Academic Retreat Led by Dr. Glenn Arbery
An academic retreat at the Valor Institute on William Faulkner’s A Light in August.

Embodying Charity in Flannery O’Connor: Academic Retreat Led by Dr. Farrell O'Gorman
An academic retreat at the Valor Institute on Flannery O’Connor’s stories.

Thomas Aquinas and the Contemporary Age: Academic Retreat Led by Dr. John Finley
An academic retreat at the Valor Institute on Thomas Aquinas and the Contemporary Age.

William Butler Yeats: Academic Retreat Led by Michael Cowan
An academic retreat at the Valor Institute on the poetry of W.B. Yeats.

Contemplative Pedagogy in a Technocratic Age: Academic Retreat Led by Dr. Tim O’Malley
An academic retreat at the Valor Institute on Contemplation and Technology.

King Lear: Academic Retreat Led by Dr. Michael West
An academic retreat at the Valor Institute on King Lear.

The American Republic: Academic Retreat Led by Dr. Adam Seagrave
An academic retreat at the Valor Institute on Orestes Brownson’s The American Republic.

Valor Institute College Retreat: Wordsworth and Keats, Led by Dr. Jason Baxter
A retreat for undergraduates at the Valor Institute.

Academic Retreat: Crime and Punishment
An academic retreat at the Valor Institute on Crime and Punishment.
