Events/Classes
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UPCOMING EVENTS
March 21 - May 23, 2026
"Rainer Maria Rilke: Poet of the Soul"
Live class on Zoom (nine Saturdays)
More Info: https://www.kosmosinstitute.org/rainer-maria-rilke-poet-of-the-soul
May 17, 2026
"The Lady and the Unicorn Tapestries"
Talk at the SF Jung Institute:
More Info/Tickets:
August 12, 2026
“The Romantic Genius of Rudolf Steiner's Calendar of the Soul”
Talk/poetry reading at the second annual EANA (Eurythmy Association of North America) Festival.
Threefold Educational Foundation, Spring Valley, New York.
More info at: https://threefold.org/52colors/
December 17-21, 2026
“Towards a Sophianic Renaissance”
Featured speaker at the Kosmos Institute’s First Annual Colloquium in Ascona, Switzerland.
Info at: https://www.kosmosinstitute.org/colloquia
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SELECT RECENT EVENTS
12/21/25
"Apocalypse, Indeed! Artificial Intelligence versus Archetypal Imagination”
The concluding talk of a three-part series on AI sponsored by Kosmos Institute on the occasion of its second anniversary. On zoom at http://kosmosinstitute.org
12/15/25
“Social Injustice: LEF versus DEI”
A talk at the Harvard University Divinity School’s “100 Year Rudolf Steiner Conference,” Harvard University, live and online. https://pes.hds.harvard.edu/steinerconference
9/19/25
“Prague”
An original poem by Daniel Polikoff read by the author at “Von Prague nach Europa,” the International Rilke Society’s gathering in Prague (Rilke’s native city) in honor of the 150th anniversary of the poet’s birth.
5/14/25
Orpheus, Eurydice, Rilke
A workshop offered at the Anthroposophical Society North American Section for the Literary Arts and Humanities Conference at the Swedenborg Church in San Francisco.
3/30/25
“Anthroposophy Today . . . And Tomorrow?”
A talk given on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Rudolf Steiner’s death for the Kosmos Institute (online) and for the Anthroposophy Bay Area group at San Francisco Waldorf High School.
12/21/24
“Sophianic Pedagogy in the Era of the Polymath”
A lecture in honor of the first anniversary of the Kosmos Institute (available online at: http://kosmosinstitute.org)
9/7/24
“Emerson and Anthroposophy”
A talk given at the Anthroposophical Society’s North American Section for the Literary Arts and Humanities “Genius of Language” Conference at the Swedenborg Church in San Francisco.
6/16/24
“Covid, the Constitution, and Consciousness Soul"
A talk given at a symposium sponsored by the Anthroposophy and Social Justice Project (https://anthrosocialjustice.org) in Harlemville, NY.