In this episode, Brandon sits down with Head Master Thomas Fickley for a conversation about the Kansas Integrated Humanities Program and its educational offerings.Send questions and comments to podcasts@circeinstitute.org or join the conversation at https://circe.circle.so/c/quiddity/ From the show: Two Tramps In Mud Time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5LBLhGZJHc Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is the first of what we hope to be regular appearances by poet, author, and teacher Christine Perrin. Christine takes Brandon through a contemplation of Gerard Manley Hopkins' The Starlight Night. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode Brandon sits down with author Jimmie Moglia. They discuss Moglia's situational dictionaries of Shakespeare and Dante as well as forthcoming Shakespeare and Gibbon projects. Send questions and comments to podcasts@circeinstitute.org Moglia's Website: http://www.yourdailyshakespeare.comMoglia contact: jimmie.moglia@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

At 88 years old, Wendell Berry released two books in 2022, one fiction and one non-fiction. In light of that, we are revisiting an interview with Laura Dunn, the director the Wendell Berry documentary Look and See. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mentorship has been a common thread throughout classical education. And it is at the center of what we do here at CIRCE. With that in mind, revisit this conversation between two of our Apprenticeship Head Mentors, Buck Holler and Matthew Bianco.Send questions, comments, or suggestions to podcasts@circeinstitute.org Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, Brandon and Matt sit down with Andrew Case, co-creator of Aleph with Beth and Free Hebrew Online. They discuss the impetus and goals of Andrew and Bethany's ministry and the benefits of the direct method for text reading and translation.LINKS:Free Hebrew Online: https://freehebrew.online/ Aleph by Beth: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLq1vmb-z7PpQt2PDNUr7XOzBjWAOWf0Rt Don't Throw the Book at Them: https://www.amazon.com/Dont-Throw-Book-Them-Communicating/dp/087808865Learning Latin and Greek from Antiquity to the Present: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/learning-latin-and-greek-from-antiquity-to-the-present/B2413AE4A73F8E7C42DBBB42638C4B08 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

John Hodges joins Brandon again for a new feature on music literacy. In this installment, he walks us through part of Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro". He takes into Mozart'sunique contributions to Opera.Glyndebourne 1973 performance:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IugFH6PxeMQ1994 Performance with English subtitleshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yy-DTtJ5q-AShawshank Redemption Scene:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bjqmg_7J53sCenter for Western Studies: https://www.centerws.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As we close out the Christmas season with Epiphany in the West and Theophany in the East, I wanted to revisit a conversation between Christine Perrin, Matthew Bianco, and David Kern. Their discussion of T.S. Eliot's The Journey of the Magi helped me instantly fall in love with this poem. I hope you enjoy it as much as me. - Brandon Leblanc. Important Links: Nativity Troparion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1P-uCnEDG6wFra Angelico - Adoration of the Magi: https://www.flickr.com/photos/edk7/8447286989 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

CiRCE has several of our most popular talks available free to to stream from our website in our Free Audio Library. In this episode we present one of those talks, Further Up and Further In: An Exploration of the Classical Quadrivium by Andrew Kern. Find more audio at the links below.Free Audio Library: https://circeinstitute.org/free-audio-library/CiRCE Audio Resources: https://circeinstitute.org/product-category/audio-resources/CiRCE Streaming: https://www.patreon.com/circeconference Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this installment of our periodic conversations with friends of CIRCE working in higher education Brandon chats with Erik Ellis of Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, MI. Their conversation ranges over what is classical education, the place of language, and in particular Latin and Greek, as well as the opportunities at Hillsdale. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.