Participants will engage in a guided seminar discussion on a painting of Caravaggio’s. The experience is designed to gradually elicit insights from the participants on the different layers of the story as revealed in the painting. 

The seminar will conclude with a short summary of the Great Works Academy - a project looking for the answers to the big questions of life in the great books.


Miroslava Duranková

Miroslava is a co-founder and director of Great Works Academy - a program which enables students to better understand themselves and the world through reliving great stories of Western civilization and discussing them in the community and thus become heroes of their own flourishing story. She graduated from the Master Program in Character Education at the University of Birmingham (Jubilee Center for Character and Virtues) focusing her diploma at the moral imagination and character development through stories. She is a graduate of the university residential program Collegium of Anton Neuwirth (based in Slovakia), where she later worked as a director in 2014-2018.


Thursday, May 26th 11:30 - 1:00 PM

Registration required for attendance. Lunch provided.

Abigail Adams Institute, 14 Arrow Street Suite G10 Cambridge MA