Quiddity

By CiRCE Podcast Network

Join the CiRCE Podcast Network for new conversations in the classical spirit of inquiry.

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Quiddity episodes:

December 05, 2022 From The Archives: Revisiting Sports with Brian, Chuck, & David
With football heading into the home stretch, basketball and hockey heating up, and the special gift of a holiday World Cup upon us, we revisit a conversation from the archives about the place of sports in education: That episode was called "Quit Being So Gnostic and Care About Sports" and featured old friends, David Kern, Brian Philips, and Chuck Hicks.
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54min
November 21, 2022Getting Direct: Language Acquisition
In this episode, Brandon sits down with Buck Holler and Monique Neal to talk about how we learn languages, in particular, via the direct method. Monique and Buck have advice for where to start at home or in the classroom and the goals to keep in mid as you go.

Links mentioned:

https://www.savvas.com/index.cfm?locator=PS31Nh
https://www.na.cambridgescp.com/
https://www.bolchazy.com/Latin-for-the-New-Millennium-C1114.aspx
https://pictadicta.com/
https://k12classical.udallas.edu/k-12-curriculum/k-5-latin-curriculum/
https://www.youtube.com/c/SaturaLanx
https://www.youtube.com/c/Thelinguist
https://www.amazon.com/Athenaze-Book-Introduction-Ancient-2015-12-18/dp/B01FJ0VX7E
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1h 3min
November 10, 2022 From the Archives: Christine Perrin on Teaching and Reading Poetry
This week we dig deep into the Quiddity archive for a conversation between David Kern and Christine Perrin about reading and teaching poetry.
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1h 7min
October 27, 2022Tending for Life: Vigen Guroian on Grammar, Fairytales, and The Heart of Virtue
On today's episode, Brandon visits with Vigen Guroian to discuss his recent address on Grammar and Fairytales in a world rejecting meaning. They also discuss Vigen's book Tending the Heart of Virtue and its soon-to-be-released expanded new edition.

Hear the talks:
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https://global.oup.com/academic/product/tending-the-heart-of-virtue-9780195384314?cc=us&lang=en&

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Vigen's recommendations:

Michael Patrick Hearn, The Victorian Fairy Tale Book
Iona and Peter Opie, The Classic Fairy Tales
Jack Zipes, The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm
Erik Christian Haugaard, Hans Christian Andersen: The Complete Fairy Tales and Stories
Tina Nunnally, Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales
Maria Tatar, The Classic Fairy Tatar: A Norton Critical Edition
An Illustrated Treasury of the Grimm’s Fairy Tales, Illustrated by Daniel A DrescherThe following list of illustrated versions I have found to be largely faithful to the original fairy tale.
John Ruskin, illustrator, Krystyna Turska “The King of the Golden River,” (Greenwillow Books)
Paul O Zelinksy, trans and illustrations, Rapunzel, Rumpelstiltskin (Dutton Children’s Books)
Charles Santore, illustrator, Snow White (Sterling New York/London)
Jacob Grimm, The Frog Prince (North-South Books)
Jacob Grimm, illustrator Susan Jeffers, (Dial Books for Young Readers or Puffin Pied Piper in paperback)
Hans Christian Andersen, illustrator, Georges Lemoine The Steadfast Tin Soldier (Creative Editions)
Hans Christian Andersen, illustrator, John Howie, The Fisherman and his Wife (Creative Editions)
Hans Christian Andersen, trans Eva Le Gallienne, The Nightingale (Harper and Row, Pub., 1965)
George MacDonald, The Light Princess (Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich, Pub.)
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43min
October 20, 2022 Notes From The Quad: Hildegard College
This is the first of what we hope will become a series of periodic conversations with friends of CIRCE working in colleges and college programs that value a classical education. In this episode, Brandon chats with Matthew Smith of Hildegard College in Costa Mesa, CA.
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42min
September 29, 2022 Fantastic Fight Club: Fables. Versus. Fairytales.
Drop in on Dr. Matthew Bianco and Katerina Kern for no-holds-barred free-for-all on the most important stories to give your children.
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1h 1min
September 16, 2022 From the Archives: How to Illicit Good Questions.
This week we dig deep into the Quiddity archive for a conversation between Andrew Kern, Matt Bianco, and David Kern on how to get good questions from a reluctant student.
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1h 1min
September 09, 2022 Museums: Build 'em or Burn 'em
In this episode, Dr. Matthew Bianco and Katerina Kern debate the merits of museums as curators of beauty. They discuss context versus access, democratizing or neutering transcendence, preserving or petrifying the past, and much more.
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59min
September 02, 2022 Rediscovering the Golden Key, Part 2
This episode of Quiddity is part two of an interview between Katerina Kern and Jonathan Pageau about symbols, stories, and the patterns that lead us to God. Portions of this interview were originally published in the FORMA Journal, Issue 17.
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36min
August 25, 2022 Rediscovering the Golden Key, Part 1
This episode of Quiddity is part one of an interview between Katerina Kern and Jonathan Pageau about symbols, stories, and the patterns that lead us to God. Portions of this interview were originally published in the FORMA Journal, Issue 17.
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39min

FAQs about Quiddity:

How many episodes does Quiddity have?

The podcast currently has 47 episodes available.