The Institute for Honor Symposium
Neuroscience and the Law: "My Brain Made Me Do It!"
March 1 - 2, 2013
This year's symposium will focus on neuroscience and the legal system--especially the issues of culpability and the impact of neuroscientific testimony on legal judgment.

The Tom Wolfe Weekend Seminar
A Visit from the Goon Squad, featuring the author Jennifer Egan
April 5 - 6, 2013
This year’s seminar will feature award-winning novelist Jennifer Egan, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "A Visit from the Goon Squad."

Gettysburg
June 30 – July 3, 2013
The Battle of Gettysburg, July 1-3, 1863, is generally regarded as the turning point of the Civil War. Buoyed by the success of his forces over the Union Army at Chancellorsville, Robert E. Lee led the Army of Northern Virginia north into Pennsylvania, ostensibly with a political goal in mind, to discourage the North from continuing its costly war against the Confederacy.

Civil War on the Home Front
July 3 - 6, 2013
Civil War on the Home Front will feature W&L history professor Theodore C. DeLaney, Jr., and politics professor Lucas Morel, UVA historian Elizabeth Varon, author of Disunion!: The Coming of the American Civil War; and Holt Merchant. By examining the Civil War away from the battlefield, we’ll be able to understand more clearly both the causes and the consequences of the War.

A Splendid Dawn
The Music of Mozart
July 7 – 12, 2013
What is it about Mozart that brings us back to him over and over again? The Alumni College will return to him for the third time in 30 years, in part because his musical output provides an inexhaustible supply of riches. Mozart remains certainly the most renowned musical prodigy of all time, a fascinating composer, an enigmatic figure, and among composers the favorite subject of myths, conspiracy theories and absurd hyperbole.

The Georgian Era
July 14 – 19, 2013
Named for the reigns of the four Hanoverian monarchs known as George I, II, III, IV, George IV’s brother, William IV, the Georgian era in England began in 1714 and concluded with the ascension of Victoria to the throne in 1837. In politics, the Georgian era marks the establishment of a constitutional monarchy in England. It was an age of tempestuous revolution in Europe, but England survived, first through a merger with Scotland in 1707 as Great Britain and then, through its merger with Ireland in 1801, as the United Kingdom. These political organizations were never entirely accepted by the Irish and Scots, and for all its liberality Great Britain still lost the American Colonies. The Georgian era was an age of political argument, on the floor of parliament and in tracts and philosophical works that to this day are regarded as foundation stones of political science.

George C. Marshall
In War and Peace
July 21 – 26, 2013
Very few American soldiers or statesmen have profoundly altered the course of their nation’s history. Even rarer has been the soldier-statesman whose decisions assured not only victory in war but also the foundations of a lasting peace. Such an American original was George Catlett Marshall, who in 1953 became the only professional soldier to ever receive the Nobel Peace Prize. Often noble and wise, almost a paragon, yet in some instances flawed in judgment, Marshall remains perhaps our most extraordinary and underappreciated leader of the 20th century.

A Family Adventure in Science
August 1 – 4, 2013
Come share W&L and Lexington with your children or grandchildren in our special family-oriented weekend, built around amazing facts and fun experiments with the W&L faculty. Now in its third year, this program is specially designed for children ages 7-14, their parents and grandparents. You’ll have a chance to see what goes on behind the laboratory doors in the Science Center, our splendid facility that has kept W&L scientists at the forefront of their fields.

Law and Literature
David Guterson’s Snow Falling on Cedars
November 1 – 2, 2013
In its 21st year—the longest-running program of its kind in the country—the Law and Literature Seminar will turn to a prize-winning contemporary American novel, Snow Falling on Cedars. Within the framework of a courtroom drama, David Guterson’s novel explores a variety of themes: memory and guilt, racism, justice and betrayal, and small-town relationships.