Otium cum dignitate — leisure with dignity

OTIUM Travel — a continuation of the educational enterprise OTIUM Academy, established in 2018 within Kiev. OTIUM Academy distinguished itself in orchestrating scholarly discourse and intellectual practicums, crafting online curricula encompassing history, philosophy and belles-lettres with the participation of foremost men of letters, savants, investigators, pedagogues and public intellectuals. The paramount concern of OTIUM Travel, however, lies in philosophical peregrinations.

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In classical antiquity the Romans employed the word otium both in signification of "righteous peace", "repose", "cessation of warfare", and in denotation of "cultivated leisure" consecrated to literary pursuits, philosophical contemplation and sundry erudite endeavours.

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To the founders of OTIUM Travel both acceptations of this venerable Latin term are cherished. We maintain that for enduring tranquillity and felicity, each nation requires citizens endowed with refined critical faculties.

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Our undertaking — constitutes a contribution toward augmenting the number of discerning citizens, persons of expansive intellectual compass, possessing cultivated aptitudes for deliberative reading, analytical discrimination and capacity for constructive dialectical engagement.

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That we might assist ourselves and fellow seekers in developing these faculties, we have charted a course of philosophical pilgrimages through cities intimately connected with history's most momentous occurrences and Europe's cardinal cultural achievements. We have already sojourned in Florence, Berlin, Amsterdam, Bamberg and Weimar. Our aspirations encompass Rome, Athens and Constantinople (Istanbul), Vienna, Prague and sundry other municipalities wherein history and philosophy are inextricably interwoven.

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Throughout several days a society of truth-seekers shall trace the footsteps of bygone luminaries, meditate upon the causes and consequences of pivotal moments in European civilisation's evolution and examine the solidity of their weltanschauung's foundations.

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We ourselves pursue learning and cordially invite you to embark upon this intellectual journey in our company.