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upcoming EventS

April 21, 3 pm
Kensington Town Day Of the Book Festival
Guest Speaker and Interview

May 25-27
Hay-On-Wye (Wales)
How the Light Gets In: World’s Biggest Ideas and Music Festival

Stoic Wisdom book talk - May 25th - 12:00-12:45

“Humanity and the Gods of Nature” - May 27th - 10:30 AM Nancy Sherman with Peter Singer and Slavoj Zizek

“Something For Nothing” May 25th - 18:45 Nancy Sherman with Dan Ariely and Paul Bloom

“Unleashing the Self” - May 26th - 16:00 Nancy Sherman with James Riley and Jess Defino


Past EventS 2023

 

Nov. 30-Dec. 1
Aspen Institute Roundtable: Public Philosophy & First Principles

Self-Cultivation with Washinton Post columnist Christine Emba and Yale College of Arts&Sciences Dean and philosopher Tamar Gendler

Nov. 16, 2023
"Stoic Consolations.” Distinguished Lecture in Philosophy,
Weber State University, Ogden,UT

 

January 27, 2023 -  4 pm ET
2023 Elton Endowed Lecture/George Washington University:
“Stoics on Stuff: Consolations on Attachment and Loss”

 

(l-r) Jacki Lyden, Natasha Tretheway, Aminatta Forna, and Nancy Sherman for the event on February 8, 2023, "Reading and Writing the Body/Writing with Trauma”

 

February 8, 2023 - 6 pm ET
Lannan Center, Georgetown University, Copley Living Room:
"
Reading and Writing the Body/Writing through Trauma”
Panel Discussion with Novelist Aminatta Forna, former U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Tretheway, and Nancy Sherman Moderated by NPR’s Jacki Lyden

 
 

February 10, 2023 - 12 pm CT
DePaul University: “Stoics on Stuff: Attachment and Loss”

 
 

March 21, 2023
Presidential Invitation/Georgetown U. Convocation Keynote: “A Life of Learning”

I was honored to give the Keynote at the International Society for Military Ethics-Europe (EuroISME) in Athens in May 2023 at the Hellenic Air Force Academy aka "Schole (School) Icarus"! My talk was on Stoic consolations on the destruction of cultural heritage. Ukraine was on everyone's mind.

May 10-12, 2023
EuroIsme/Athens, Greece
Keynote: Is Military Stoicism Really Stoicism?

May 18, 2023 - 4 pm PT
Seattle University: Title TBA

May 23-25, 2023
U. of NewSouth Wales AUS
Kant and Stoic Ethics: “AngerReinstated”

Oct. 21, 2023
Nancy will be giving a talk at Stoicon 2023 (virtual), 2:30 pm ET
Dancing with the Stoics on how dance can foster fellowship and fun! Tickets

Past EventS 2022

 
 

April 7, 2022 - Virtual
Parr Center for Ethics, UNC-Chapel Hill: “Stoics on Stuff: Consolations on Attachment and Loss”

April 28, 2022 - 12-1:30 pm
Naval War College, Newport, RI Keynote: Military Stoicism

May 21, 2022 - Virtual
Plato’s Academy: “Aristotle & the Stoics on Flourishing”

October 1, 2022 - Virtual
Stoicon Women Keynote: “Courage is Not Just Facing Fear”

October 12, 2022
Danish Institute for International Studies, Copenhagen: Keynote: “Stoic Wisdom: Resilience, Post-9/11 Military Culture, and the Care of Soldiers and Veterans”

November 11, 2022 - 5 pm Virtual
Temple U. Philosophy/Law Conference Women and War: Feminist Approaches to War and Violence. Keynote: “Is Military Stoicism Really Stoicism?” 

December 3, 12 pm ET Virtual
Plato’s Academy: Ancient Philosophy for Modern Leadership/ “Stoic Wisdom: Courageous Defiance

More Past Events 2021

April 15 at 5 pm ET
Endicott College, ME Tadler Ctr Stoic Wisdom: Ancient Lessons for Modern Resilience

May 14 at 6 pm ET
Politics and Prose: P&PLive!
Stoic Wisdom: Ancient Lessons for Modern Resilience
Moderated by Ezekiel Emanuel

May 15 at 12 pm ET
Stoicon-x Military

May 25 at 7 pm ET
House of SpeakEasy
“I Scream, You Scream”

2020 Past Events

February 4, 2020 - 4 pm
Emerson College 
Bill Bordy Theater at 216 Tremont Street, Boston, MA
“Between Art and Life:  Stoic Grit and Compassion”

Feb 21, 2020
U. of Texas Law School at Austin
Bookfest for John Deigh: From Psychology to Morality
With Fellow Symposiast, Martha Nussbaum

March 18, 2020—Cancelled due to COVID 
Loyola College, New Orleans, LA
Keynote at Cultural Heritage and the Ethics of War Conference:
“Stoic Consolations on the Destruction of Stuff. . . in War and Peace”

May 20, 2020—Cancelled due to COVID
Keynote at Justice Involved Veterans: National Institute of Corrections, at American University in DC,
Even Stoics Suffer Moral Injury 

 July 29-30, 2020—Virtual
ISME (International Society for Military Ethics) with COL Tony Pfaff
Moral Injury and Repair for a Stoic Warrior in Autonomous Warfare