Valor Institute Events Featured Events Featured Apr 8 Apr 8, 2026 – Apr 10, 2026 Academic Retreat Contemplative Pedagogy in a Technocratic Age: Academic Retreat Led by Dr. Tim O’Malley Apr 8, 2026 – Apr 10, 2026 Academic Retreat Apr 8, 2026 – Apr 10, 2026 Academic Retreat May 6 May 6, 2026 – May 8, 2026 The American Republic: Academic Retreat Led by Dr. Adam Seagrave May 6, 2026 – May 8, 2026 May 6, 2026 – May 8, 2026 May 26 May 26, 2026 – May 29, 2026 Wordsworth and Keats: College Student Retreat Led by Dr. Jason Baxter May 26, 2026 – May 29, 2026 May 26, 2026 – May 29, 2026 All Upcoming Events Featured Mar 26 Mar 26, 2026 – Mar 27, 2026 William Butler Yeats: Academic Retreat Led by Valor’s Dean of Humanities, Michael Cowan Mar 26, 2026 – Mar 27, 2026 Mar 26, 2026 – Mar 27, 2026 Apr 8 Apr 8, 2026 – Apr 10, 2026 Contemplative Pedagogy in a Technocratic Age: Academic Retreat Led by Dr. Tim O’Malley Apr 8, 2026 – Apr 10, 2026 Apr 8, 2026 – Apr 10, 2026 Apr 22 Apr 22, 2026 – Apr 24, 2026 King Lear: Academic Retreat Led by Dr. Michael West Apr 22, 2026 – Apr 24, 2026 Apr 22, 2026 – Apr 24, 2026 May 6 May 6, 2026 – May 8, 2026 The American Republic: Academic Retreat Led by Dr. Adam Seagrave May 6, 2026 – May 8, 2026 May 6, 2026 – May 8, 2026 May 26 May 26, 2026 – May 29, 2026 Wordsworth and Keats: College Student Retreat Led by Dr. Jason Baxter May 26, 2026 – May 29, 2026 May 26, 2026 – May 29, 2026 “Leisure, it must be remembered, is not a Sunday afternoon idyll, but the preserve of freedom, of education and culture, and of that undiminished humanity which views the world as a whole.”— Josef Pieper Featured Past Events Featured Feb 25 Feb 25, 2026 – Feb 27, 2026 Academic Retreat Absalom, Absalom! Academic Retreat Led by Dr. Glenn Arbery Feb 25, 2026 – Feb 27, 2026 Academic Retreat Feb 25, 2026 – Feb 27, 2026 Academic Retreat Feb 11 Feb 11, 2026 – Feb 13, 2026 Academic Retreat Embodying Charity in Flannery O’Connor: Academic Retreat Led by Dr. Farrell O'Gorman Feb 11, 2026 – Feb 13, 2026 Academic Retreat Feb 11, 2026 – Feb 13, 2026 Academic Retreat Jan 30 Jan 30, 2026 Symposium Valor Winter Symposium with Dr. D. C. Schindler Jan 30, 2026 Symposium Jan 30, 2026 Symposium Oct 22 Oct 22, 2025 – Oct 24, 2025 Academic Retreat Friendship in Athens, Rome, and the New Jerusalem: Academic Retreat Led by Dr. Matthew Walz Oct 22, 2025 – Oct 24, 2025 Academic Retreat Oct 22, 2025 – Oct 24, 2025 Academic Retreat Sep 26 Sep 26, 2025 Symposium Valor Fall Symposium with Dr. Wilfred McClay Sep 26, 2025 Symposium Sep 26, 2025 Symposium Feb 21 Feb 21, 2025 Lecture Poetry & Education: Lecture by Dana Gioia, Poet Laureate Feb 21, 2025 Lecture Feb 21, 2025 Lecture View our past events to witness the community of intellectual friendship we have cultivated. VIEW PAST EVENTS
