Session 6 of The Hinternet Foundation's inaugural Summer School 2026: Whither the Humanities? What For? Humanism, Self-Cultivation, and Freedom, Led by Justin Smith-Ruiu Readings - Friedrich Schiller, Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man (continued) - Ignatius of Loyola, Spiritual Exercises (1522-24) - The Mīmāṁsā Sūtras (3rd century, BCE) (selections) - Pierre Hadot, Philosophy as a Way of Life: Spiritual Exercises from Socrates to Foucault (2002) Leitmotifs - Spiritual exercises and technologies of the self - Self-cultivation as humanistic practice - Freedom, discipline, and attention - Humanism as a form of life

Session 5 of The Hinternet Foundation's inaugural Summer School 2026: Whither the Humanities? What About Art? Led by Justin Smith-Ruiu Readings - Friedrich Schiller, Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man (1794) (selections) - Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, What Is Philosophy? (1991) (selections) - Serge Gruzinski, What Time Is It There? America and Islam at the Dawn of Modern Times (2010) (selections) - Kyrre Mirador, “A History of the Proceedings of ESTAR(SER)”, in In Search of the Third Bird (2021) Leitmotifs - Aesthetic education and freedom - Philosophy as conceptual creation - The place of creativity in the humanities - Cultivating the historical imagination

Session 4 of The Hinternet Foundation's inaugural Summer School 2026: Whither the Humanities? What About Nature?, led by Justin Smith-Ruiu Readings - C. P. Snow, “The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution” (1959) - Pierre Hadot, The Veil of Isis (2004) (selections) - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Metamorphosis of Plants (1790) - Lorraine Daston, “Attention and the Values of Nature in the Enlightenment” (2003) Leitmotifs - The moral authority of nature - Nature, wonder, and self-cultivation - STEM — allies or aliens? - Nature as object versus nature as interlocutor

Session 3 of The Hinternet Foundation's inaugural Summer School 2026: Whither the Humanities? Towards a New Art of Memory, led by Justin Smith-Ruiu Readings - Frances Yates, The Art of Memory (1966) (selections) - Jack Goody, The Logic of Writing and the Organization of Society (1986) (selections) - John Miles Foley, The Theory of Oral Composition: History and Methodology (1988) (selections) - Milman Parry, selections from the Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature - Justin Smith-Ruiu and Liubomira Romanova, Olonkho: Selected Translations of Sakha Oral Epic (forthcoming) Leitmotifs - Orality and literacy - Literacy as technology - Oral tradition as archive - Alternatives to textual knowledge transmission