Events for February 19, 2020 - August 3, 2019

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

Solutions and Illusions

On May 4, Chris Swanson will give the twelfth talk in the series "It’s Complicated: The Histories Behind What We Think We Know." When a populous and complex society has problems, they are always big ones that need big solutions. But who is going to provide these big solutions? Private enterprise? (Should we trust [...]

Young Philosophers:
What Is Language?
May 12

Online Zoom OR

“Life has never been normal,” wrote C. S. Lewis in an address to students at the outset of World War II. If we are waiting for a better time to pursue truth, goodness, and beauty, we may never get started. In the Young Philosophers series, Gutenberg College opens its (virtual) doors to high-school-age participants [...]

$15.00

Understanding Group Think and Selfhood with the Help of Hoffer and Orwell

On May 18, Colin Stetter will give the thirteenth talk in the series "It’s Complicated: The Histories Behind What We Think We Know." The past 100 years has seen the rise of a variety of mass movements, promoting just as varied motives and goals. This class will explore Eric Hoffer’s The True Believer in [...]

The Legacy of Constantine

On June 1, Alexander Titus will give the fourteenth talk in the series "It’s Complicated: The Histories Behind What We Think We Know." Celebrated as a hero by some and maligned as a villain by others, Flavius Valerius Constantinus, often regarded as the "first Christian emperor," represented a major shift in the history of [...]