Past Valor Institute Events 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 All Past 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 Mar 11 Mar 11, 2026 – Mar 13, 2026 Thomas Aquinas and the Contemporary Age: Academic Retreat Led by Dr. John Finley Mar 11, 2026 – Mar 13, 2026 Mar 11, 2026 – Mar 13, 2026 Feb 25 Feb 25, 2026 – Feb 27, 2026 Absalom, Absalom! Academic Retreat Led by Dr. Glenn Arbery Feb 25, 2026 – Feb 27, 2026 Feb 25, 2026 – Feb 27, 2026 Feb 11 Feb 11, 2026 – Feb 13, 2026 Embodying Charity in Flannery O’Connor: Academic Retreat Led by Dr. Farrell O'Gorman Feb 11, 2026 – Feb 13, 2026 Feb 11, 2026 – Feb 13, 2026 Jan 30 Jan 30, 2026 Valor Winter Symposium with Dr. D. C. Schindler Jan 30, 2026 Jan 30, 2026 Jan 5 Jan 5, 2026 – Jan 9, 2026 Democracy in America: College Student Retreat Led by Dr. Raul Rodriguez Jan 5, 2026 – Jan 9, 2026 Jan 5, 2026 – Jan 9, 2026 Dec 10 Dec 10, 2025 – Dec 12, 2025 Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics: Academic Retreat Led by Dr. John Finley Dec 10, 2025 – Dec 12, 2025 Dec 10, 2025 – Dec 12, 2025 Nov 5 Nov 5, 2025 – Nov 7, 2025 The Decameron: Academic Retreat Led by Dr. Anthony Nussmeier Nov 5, 2025 – Nov 7, 2025 Nov 5, 2025 – Nov 7, 2025 Oct 22 Oct 22, 2025 – Oct 24, 2025 Friendship in Athens, Rome, and the New Jerusalem: Academic Retreat Led by Dr. Matthew Walz Oct 22, 2025 – Oct 24, 2025 Oct 22, 2025 – Oct 24, 2025 Oct 8 Oct 8, 2025 – Oct 10, 2025 The Gawain Poet: Academic Retreat Led by Dr. Greg Roper Oct 8, 2025 – Oct 10, 2025 Oct 8, 2025 – Oct 10, 2025 Sep 26 Sep 26, 2025 Valor Fall Symposium with Dr. Wilfred McClay Sep 26, 2025 Sep 26, 2025 Sep 10 Sep 10, 2025 – Sep 12, 2025 Romans and the Early Church: Academic Retreat led by Fr. Thomas Esposito Sep 10, 2025 – Sep 12, 2025 Sep 10, 2025 – Sep 12, 2025 Aug 28 Aug 28, 2025 – Aug 29, 2025 Crime and Punishment: Academic Retreat Led by Dr. Jason Baxter Aug 28, 2025 – Aug 29, 2025 Aug 28, 2025 – Aug 29, 2025 Jul 7 Jul 7, 2025 – Jul 9, 2025 The Quadrivium: Summer Intensive Led by Dr. Shannon Valenzuela Jul 7, 2025 – Jul 9, 2025 Jul 7, 2025 – Jul 9, 2025 May 26 May 26, 2025 – May 29, 2025 Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales: College Student Retreat Led by Dr. Benedict Whalen May 26, 2025 – May 29, 2025 May 26, 2025 – May 29, 2025 May 1 May 1, 2025 – May 2, 2025 Aristotle’s De Anima: Academic Retreat Led by Dr. John Finley May 1, 2025 – May 2, 2025 May 1, 2025 – May 2, 2025 Mar 26 Mar 26, 2025 – Mar 28, 2025 Dietrich von Hildebrand’s Aesthetics: Academic Retreat Led by Dr. Maria Fedoryka Mar 26, 2025 – Mar 28, 2025 Mar 26, 2025 – Mar 28, 2025 Mar 6 Mar 6, 2025 – Mar 7, 2025 Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure: Academic Retreat Led by Dr. Andrew Moran Mar 6, 2025 – Mar 7, 2025 Mar 6, 2025 – Mar 7, 2025 Feb 21 Feb 21, 2025 Poetry & Education: Lecture by Dana Gioia, Poet Laureate Feb 21, 2025 Feb 21, 2025 Jan 31 Jan 31, 2025 Valor Winter Symposium with Dr. Jonathon Sanford Jan 31, 2025 Jan 31, 2025 Jan 6 Jan 6, 2025 – Jan 9, 2025 Dante’s Purgatorio: College Student Retreat Led by Jason Baxter Jan 6, 2025 – Jan 9, 2025 Jan 6, 2025 – Jan 9, 2025 Sep 27 Sep 27, 2024 Valor Fall Symposium with Dr. Daniel Coupland Sep 27, 2024 Sep 27, 2024 Jan 26 Jan 26, 2024 Valor Winter Symposium with Peter Crawford Jan 26, 2024 Jan 26, 2024 Sep 29 Sep 29, 2023 Valor Fall Symposium with Dr. James Matthew Wilson Sep 29, 2023 Sep 29, 2023 Jun 26 Jun 26, 2023 – Jun 28, 2023 Ferdinand Ulrich on Childhood: Academic Retreat Led by Dr. Andrew Shivone Jun 26, 2023 – Jun 28, 2023 Jun 26, 2023 – Jun 28, 2023 May 22 May 22, 2023 – May 26, 2023 The Wisdom of Josef Pieper: College Student Retreat Led by Dr. John Finley May 22, 2023 – May 26, 2023 May 22, 2023 – May 26, 2023 May 3 May 3, 2023 – May 5, 2023 Eric Voegelin’s The New Science of Politics: Academic Retreat Led by Dr. Michael Hickman May 3, 2023 – May 5, 2023 May 3, 2023 – May 5, 2023 Apr 12 Apr 12, 2023 – Apr 14, 2023 The Complexities of Patriotism: Academic Retreat Led by Dr. Susan Hanssen Apr 12, 2023 – Apr 14, 2023 Apr 12, 2023 – Apr 14, 2023 Mar 15 Mar 15, 2023 – Mar 17, 2023 Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov: Academic Retreat Led by Dr. Hilary Finley Mar 15, 2023 – Mar 17, 2023 Mar 15, 2023 – Mar 17, 2023 Feb 15 Feb 15, 2023 – Feb 17, 2023 Politics and the Person: Academic Retreat Led by Dr. David Walsh Feb 15, 2023 – Feb 17, 2023 Feb 15, 2023 – Feb 17, 2023 View our upcoming events to see what’s happening next at the Valor Institute. 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