What does Socrates have to teach the American University today? To address this question, Penn PRRUCS Faculty Director John J. DiIulio, Jr., will consider the life and legacy of Michael Sugrue, one year after his death in January 2024.  Like Socrates, Sugrue was largely “unpublished”, but he devoted his career to teaching the philosophical wisdom and historical traditions of the last three millennia to generations of students at the University of Chicago, Columbia, Princeton, and Ave Maria University.  He also was among the most popular and celebrated lecturers of The Teaching Company’s Great Courses series and became, according to the New York Times, an “internet phenomenon” for both his teaching videos and his podcasts.  Could there be a future for “The Great Teacher” of “the great minds” in the contemporary research university and beyond?

We invite you to join us virtually on Monday, February 3 at 5pm for the Inaugural Sugrue Lecture, livestreamed from Ave Maria University in Florida.

Date: Monday, February 3, 5:00 PM

Location: Ave Maria University/Virtual (click the button below to access the livestream)

Questions? Please email Quinn Moore (qmoore@collegiuminstitute.org).