Join live seminars with professors and scholars from around the world.
Explore literature, philosophy, history, art, and music in small groups. Read with guidance, bring your questions, and develop your understanding through conversation.
Live discussion · Small cohorts · Verified scholars
A simpler way to go deeper.
The Sophia Forum brings together verified professors and curious learners for small, live seminars centered on books, ideas, and serious conversation. Choose what interests you, enroll one seminar at a time, and learn alongside people who want to understand it too.
Professors create seminars
Verified professors and educators teach the subjects they know and care about most. They choose the topic, readings, schedule, cohort size, and price—and lead the seminar on their own terms.
Choose what you want to study
Browse upcoming seminars and enroll individually in the ones that interest you. There's no subscription or ongoing commitment—you pay only for the seminars you choose to join.
Learn in small groups
Meet live with your professor and a small cohort of fellow learners. Read closely, bring your questions, and develop a deeper understanding through discussion rather than passive lectures.
Suggest what comes next
Can't find what you want to study? Suggest a book, thinker, question, or subject. Other learners can express interest, helping professors see what people want to explore next.
“Contemplation is at once the highest form of activity.”
Intimate cohorts of students meeting in real time.
Guided close reading with university professors and published researchers.
Foundational texts in literature, philosophy, and history that invite lifelong return.
Study a subject that matters to you.
Our first seminars are taking shape.
We’re welcoming scholars for our first live cohorts. Bring a subject you love, suggest what you’d like to study, or join a discussion.
Explore the ideas that shaped the world.
A seminar gives you time to work through a difficult passage, test an interpretation, and hear what others notice. The discussion becomes something to reflect on long after the session ends: a question to revisit, a connection to follow, a clearer understanding of what you have read.