Private Seminars & Speaking

Bring serious political philosophy to your group.

Invite Dr. Michael Millerman to speak or lead a private seminar for your salon, study group, conference, religious community, private club, or serious local gathering.

Political philosophy · Technology · Liberalism · Sovereignty · Ideology · Modern order

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Two Paths

Find the track that fits your audience

Speaking work splits along audience and pricing. The school side covers study groups, salons, conferences, and serious local audiences. Institutional, investor, and corporate engagements run through Millerman Intelligence at a different scale.

Schools, salons, and study groups

Private seminars and lectures for reading groups, salons, philosophy circles, conferences, religious communities, schools, and serious local audiences.

  • Topics in political philosophy, classical thinkers, modern continental thought
  • Lecture, guided discussion, or half-day intensive
  • Travel arranged separately
From $5,000 + travel
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Investors, founders, and institutions

Institutional briefings and private seminars for funds, family offices, founder groups, firms, and corporate clients. Strategic-reading framing on AI, technology, sovereignty, liberalism, and modern order.

  • Private Briefing — engagements from $7,500
  • Institutional Seminar — engagements from $15,000
  • Recurring retainers and Standing Counsel available
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The Offer

A serious intellectual event for your group.

Many groups want more than networking, content, or another topical panel. They want a more serious conversation about the forces shaping the present: technology, politics, markets, institutions, liberalism, sovereignty, religion, education, and the crisis of modern order.

Michael Millerman leads private seminars and talks that bring political philosophy into direct contact with live questions. The format can be lecture, guided discussion, private seminar, investor briefing, institutional talk, or half-day intensive.

The aim is orientation: to help serious people see the assumptions, concepts, and philosophical conflicts beneath the surface of contemporary life.

Formats

Ways to bring Michael to your group

Engagements are packaged by format, not by the hour. Travel, lodging, and event expenses are arranged separately. A deposit secures the date after the format is agreed.

Private Seminar

A rigorous seminar for a serious group that wants guided discussion around a thinker, text, or theme.

  • Best for salons, reading groups, private circles, and local communities
  • Typically 2–3 hours
  • Lecture plus structured discussion
From $5,000 + travel

Salon or Living-Room Seminar

An intimate seminar for a small group hosted in a private home, salon, or local space.

  • Best for hosts gathering 8–20 serious readers
  • Lecture and guided conversation around a chosen text or theme
  • Travel arranged separately
By proposal

Conference or Private Club Talk

A formal talk for a conference, institution, association, private club, or event series.

  • Best for audiences that want depth without an academic lecture format
  • Keynote, featured lecture, or moderated conversation
  • Q&A optional
By inquiry

Half-Day / Full-Day Intensive

A deeper engagement combining lecture, guided reading, structured discussion, and philosophical orientation for a committed group.

  • Best for retreats, leadership groups, private institutions, and advanced audiences
  • Built around a defined theme
  • Can include pre-reading and custom materials
Custom
Possible Topics

What Michael can speak on

Topics can be adapted to the audience: investors, executives, students, religious communities, political groups, founders, or serious general readers.

AI, technology, and the human being

Heidegger, technology, artificial intelligence, automation, and the changing meaning of intelligence, labor, and human agency.

Liberalism and its limits

Why the inherited language of liberal order no longer explains the political and spiritual situation it helped create.

Plato and political rule

Regime, education, justice, elite formation, philosophy, and the problem of ruling and being ruled.

Strauss, secrecy, and judgment

Leo Strauss on political philosophy, esotericism, liberal education, and the recovery of serious reading.

Schmitt, sovereignty, and exception

Political decision, legality, legitimacy, crisis, emergency, and the limits of procedural thinking.

Dugin and multipolarity

Russian political philosophy, civilizational pluralism, Eurasianism, geopolitics, and the metaphysics of world order.

Who This Is For

For groups that want more than content

Schools and academic settings

Universities, philosophy departments, religious schools, and academic conferences seeking a serious philosophical visitor.

Salons and private groups

Serious hosts who want to gather people around a demanding intellectual event rather than another casual talk.

Institutions and clubs

Private clubs, conferences, schools, associations, and institutions seeking a rigorous speaker with range.

Religious and cultural communities

Groups interested in theology, political order, modernity, Jewish thought, or the crisis of secular assumptions.

Reading groups and students

Communities that want help entering difficult thinkers without reducing them to slogans or summaries.

Serious local gatherings

Host Michael in your city for a private seminar, lecture, or guided discussion with a committed audience.

Process

How to request an event

01

Send a note

Describe the host, city, group, audience size, desired date range, and the kind of event you have in mind.

02

Clarify fit

Michael will reply personally if the event appears suitable and ask for any needed details.

03

Agree format

The format, topic, fee, travel terms, and preparation expectations are settled in writing.

04

Secure the date

A deposit secures the date. The remaining balance and travel arrangements follow the agreed terms.

Dr. Michael Millerman
About Michael

Dr. Michael Millerman

Michael Millerman is the founder of Millerman School, where he teaches political philosophy outside conventional academic settings to students, professionals, founders, investors, executives, and serious readers.

His work centers on political philosophy, continental thought, technology, ideology, liberalism, sovereignty, Jewish thought, and the philosophical foundations of political order.

He is the author of Beginning with Heidegger, the translator of multiple major works by Alexander Dugin, and the creator of 20+ courses on Plato, Aristotle, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Strauss, Schmitt, Dugin, and others.

PhD in Political Science, University of Toronto · Subfields in Political Theory and International Relations · Collaborative degree in Jewish Studies

“I rarely do this, but I highly recommend a couple of hours with Michael Millerman. He brings unusual depth and range to questions about the political and economic order, and our conversations have already made me a better investor and a sharper thinker.”

— Tyler, Macro Analyst
Request Michael

Invite Michael to speak or lead a private seminar

Send a concise note with the basic details. You do not need a polished event proposal to begin.

  • Who is hosting?
  • Where would the event take place?
  • What is the approximate audience size?
  • What format are you considering?
  • What topic or problem should the event address?
  • What date range and budget range do you have in mind?
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