Events for April 4, 2020 - August 3, 2019

Just Powers: Locke on Legitimate Government

Online Zoom Oregon (PST)

On February 10, Gil Greco will give the third talk in the series "The Gutenberg Dialogues: An In-depth Look at Tyranny." John Locke wrote his Two Treatises on Government to defend the Glorious Revolution of 1688. While his first treatise argues against the "Divine Right of Kings," his second treatise argues that legitimate government must meet [...]

Tyranny in the Mind of the Founding Fathers of America

Online Zoom Oregon (PST)

On February 24, Charley Dewberry will give the fourth talk in the series "The Gutenberg Dialogues: An In-depth Look at Tyranny." During the revolutionary period of the 1770s, the focus of the Founding Fathers was on the “tyranny of the monarch.” By the 1780s, they were still concerned with tyranny but now the focus [...]

The Ecumenical State: Re-reading Rousseau

Online Zoom Oregon (PST)

On March 10, Gil Greco will give the fifth talk in the series "The Gutenberg Dialogues: An In-depth Look at Tyranny." Jean-Jacques Rousseau is often portrayed as the darling of the French Revolution. Many of Rousseau's ideas have had problematic implications for our day. Nevertheless, Gil Greco thinks that the standard interpretation of The Social [...]

“Oppressors in Their Turn”: The French Revolution and the English Romantics

Online Zoom Oregon (PST)

On March 31, Chris Alderman will give the sixth talk in the series "The Gutenberg Dialogues: An In-depth Look at Tyranny." Chris Alderman is a tutor at Gutenberg College, where he teaches writing, Greek, and German. Chris has self-published two collections of poetry, Poems in Verse and Ephemerides.   Registration is required to attend this class. [...]

Spring Preview Day (Virtual)

On April 7, Gutenberg will open its "virtual" doors to high school students and transfer students who are considering Gutenberg’s bachelor’s degree program in liberal arts. On Preview Day, you will meet tutors who have devoted their lives to learning and helping others learn, discuss works by the greatest thinkers the world has ever [...]

Free

Tyranny of the Majority and Other Dangers: deTocqueville and Mill

Online Zoom Oregon (PST)

On April 14, Naomi Rinehold will give the seventh talk in the series "The Gutenberg Dialogues: An In-depth Look at Tyranny." Half a century after the publication of the Federalist Papers and the subsequent ratification of the U.S. Constitution, Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat, took an academic tour of the new country. In [...]

How Totalitarianism Unites: Hannah Arendt and the Politics of the Twentieth Century

Online Zoom Oregon (PST)

On April 28, Walter Steeb will give the eighth talk in the series "The Gutenberg Dialogues: An In-depth Look at Tyranny." Does it matter how we understand totalitarianism? Hannah Arendt describes it in a memorable way as "the belief that everything is permitted and, much more terrible, that everything is possible." Her analysis shows [...]

Economic Control and Totalitarianism: A Conversation with Hayek

Online Zoom Oregon (PST)

On May 12, Chris Swanson will give the ninth talk in the series "The Gutenberg Dialogues: An In-depth Look at Tyranny." During the 1930s, economist Friedrich Hayek recognized an increasing desire among Britons for centralized control of the economy. The undeniable economic growth of Germany and the Soviet Union seemed to prove that the [...]

Summer Institute 2021:
The Meaning of the City:
Rebellion and Redemption
July 29-31

Gutenberg College 1883 University Street, Eugene, OR, United States

They said, “Come, let us build for ourselves a city, and a tower whose top will reach into heaven, and let us make for ourselves a name.” (Genesis 11:4) For many of us, the city is the water we swim in: having grown up and lived our lives in an urban environment, we take [...]

Student Art Show & Performance

Gutenberg College 1883 University Street, Eugene, OR, United States

The annual art show at Gutenberg College highlights the performing and visual art of students from Gutenberg College and others in the community. Performance begins at 7:00 p.m. Limited seating is first-come, first-served. A gallery reception follows.

Free