Summer School 2010: The Anglo-Saxons

The Rockford Institute, publisher of Chronicles, presents the Thirteenth Annual Summer School:

Arthur and Alfred: The Anglo-Saxons
Rockford, Illinois • July 6-11, 2010

Theme

Only a few Americans know that Hengist and Horsa were the legendary chiefs who led the Anglo-Saxon invasion of Britain, but Thomas Jefferson wanted to put the pair on the Great Seal of the United States.   Continue Reading »

Meet Thomas Fleming on Tour—April 6-17, 2010

Tom Fleming is bringing his “Message of Hope to a Beleaguered Nation!”

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Thomas Fleming Reception, Kansas City

Please join us at a reception for Thomas Fleming, editor of Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture.

Dr. Fleming will deliver a brief talk entitled “Bucking the Trends: Contrarian Reasons to be Optimistic.”

Wednesday, April 7
5:30 – 7:00 PM
Savoy Grill
219 West 9th Street, Kansas City, MO 64105

Ask hostess for Rockford Institute event. Reservations are not required but help organizers know how many are attending.

RSVP: omniabona@gmail.com.

Cheese and fruit will be provided. Guests are encouraged to purchase drinks and/or appetizers.

Dress: Informal / business casual.

You will also have the opportunity to make a tax deductible gift to The Rockford Institute and to subscribe to Chronicles.

Fleming Lecture on Marriage, Tulsa, OK

Please join us for a talk on Christian Marriage by Dr. Thomas Fleming, editor of Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture.

Dr. Fleming will deliver a talk entitled: “It Was Not So in the Beginning: Understanding Christian Marriage.”

12:30 PM, (after the noon mass) Friday, April 9
Holy Family Cathedral
122 W. Eighth Street, Tulsa, OK

918-582-6247
www.holyfamily-tulsa.org

Sponsored by The Diocese of Tulsa, Family Life Office

RSVP to: Adrienne Majewski, 815-964-5053 or amajewski@rockfordinstitute.org

This event is free and open to the public. You will also have the opportunity to make a tax deductible gift to The Rockford Institute and to subscribe to Chronicles.

A box lunch will be available to purchase for $10.00.

JRC 2009 Scholarship Info

We have a few dollars to subsidize attendance of the John Randolph Club by graduate and undergraduate students.  (One donor to the fund specifically asked for students from Texas to be given consideration.)

Applicants should submit an essay answering the question below, as well as a 750-1,000 word prose description of themselves, their interests, and their plans as well as a letter of recommendation from a professor.

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Winter School 2010: Athens

Join us for Winter School 2010!

Whenever the conversation turns to some fundamental institution of our civilization, we say, “The Greeks had a word for it.”  They did: philosophy and theology, mathematics and geometry, epic, tragedy, comedy, and history, politics, democracy—and demagoguery.  The ancient Greeks invented or elevated all these arts and sciences.  In the writing of history and philosophy, they have never been excelled.  In tragedy and epic, they have never been equaled.

Even Christianity owes a profound debt to the Greeks.  Christian theology is Greek philosophy applied to Revelation in defense of the truth against the attacks of heretics.  The arguments of Augustine and Ambrose, Athanasius and Basil, Thomas and Bonaventure, are inconceivable without the works of Plato, Aristotle, and Plotinus.

Join us as we explore the Greek mind and its greatest inventions: responsible self-government and political theory, tragedy and comedy, theology and philosophy.

Faculty include . . .

Thomas and Gail Fleming, Christopher Check, Aaron D. Wolf, and special guest lecturer Fr. Hugh Barbour, O.Praem., Prior of Saint Michael’s Abbey, Silverado, California.

Cost

The price for the Winter School includes:

• seven nights’ (arrive Jan. 20; checkout on Jan. 27) lodging at the
Acropolis Select Hotel, a fully renovated,
three-star hotel within walking distance of the Acropolis

• daily breakfast, five group meals (either dinner or lunch)

• all lectures, discussions, and walking tours

• selected entrance fees to museums

• a motor-coach excursion to Delphi

Early-Bird Rates

Single:  $1,495.00
Couple:  $2,295.00
Shared Double:  $1,195.00

All prices increase $200.00 per person after Oct. 1, 2009.  Registration is limited.  Previous Convivia have sold out. Registration fees are based on current exchange rates; the Institute reserves the right to assess a fee, should rates change significantly at the dollar’s expense.  The Institute will make every effort to help find roommates for students who wish to take advantage of the shared-double rate.  If no roommate is available, the difference between the shared-double rate and the single-occupancy rate will be assessed.

To Register . . .

call (815) 964-5811

Full-time undergraduate and graduate students interested in scholarships,
anyone interested in supporting the Institute’s Scholarship Fund, and anyone
desiring more information should contact: Christopher Check, executive vice
president, at (815) 964-5811.

John Randolph Club Returns to San Antonio

The Rockford Institute and Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture present

The 20th Annual Meeting of the John Randolph Club
“The Future of America: Hell or Texas?”
November 13-14, 2009
San Antonio, Texas

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Join Us in Québec This Fall!

The Rockford Institute and Chronicles present a North American Convivium, September 3-8, 2009

“Enduring Québec”

The story of Québec is an amazing tale of cultural survival. Continue Reading »

The American West: An Invitation to Summer School in Rockford

[Click here for more registration information, or call (800) 383-0680 to register today.]

When I was growing up, Masterpiece Theater was standard Sunday-night fare on our 13-inch color Zenith.  We also watched Monty Python and Mystery.  It is not that we never watched American programs, but we believed that Brits had it all over us when it came to television.  You can imagine my surprise when my family visited London in 1978.  The rage over there was a brand new show called Dallas, and the girl behind the front desk at our hotel was nonplussed on learning I had never seen an episode.  I later understood that European enthusiasm for American pop culture becomes full-blown fascination when the topic is even remotely associated with the American West.  Over the years, I’ve met Europeans who, while praising John Ford films, argue that the brutal life of America’s inner cities is a legacy of our “lawless frontier.”

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The American West: Summer School 2009

Join us in Rockford, Illinois, the headquarters of Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture, for The Rockford Institute’s 12th Annual Summer School: “The American West.”

Theme

Robert Frost held that Americans only became American in the process of fighting wars and moving west.  So much of the American identity, in fact, finds its origins in the frontier experience, that the mythology that resulted thrived in fiction and film long after the frontier disappeared.  The stories from “America’s Homeric age” are tales of conflict: the conflict of man against nature, of course, but also the North-South conflict explored in Owen Wister’s The Virginian and played out in the real-life escapades of the Jameses and Youngers and in the Gunfight at the OK Corral.  Films such as High Noon, Shane, and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance explore the conflict between families establishing communities and the individualism and anarchy of bold and rootless men escaping their past.  Finally, a more thorough understanding of the American identity can come from consideration of ethnic conflicts in the West and of conflicting religious visions.  Alongside all of these are the gunfighters, gamblers, con artists, and gold-mining millionaires, and the writers and humorists who have grappled with the West and contributed to its legends: Bret Harte, Owen Wister, Mark Twain, Frederick Jackson Turner, Francis Parkman, and Robert Louis Stevenson. Continue Reading »

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