St. John's College Lecture Recordings—Santa Fe
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St. John's College Lecture Recordings—Santa Fe
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Santa Fe, NM
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St. John's College Meem Library
Collection Items
Lessons in Admiration: George Eliot's Beautiful Atheistic Religiousness
Audio recording of a lecture given by tutor Richard McCombs on June 24, 2026 as part of the Graduate Institute Summer Lecture Series. The Graduate Institute Office has provided this description of the event: “After rejecting Christianity and God,…
The Worst Kind of Slavery
Audio recording of a lecture given by tutor Michael Grenke on May 15, 2026 as part of the Dean’s Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean’s Office has provided this description of the event: “In his novella, Benito Cereno, Herman Melville depicts the…
I Know You All
Audio recording of a lecture given by tutor Sarah Stickney on May 8, 2026 as part of the Dean’s Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean’s Office has provided this description of the event: “This lecture will look at Prince Hal’s passage from tavern…
Taking the Measure of Metaphysics
Audio recording of a lecture given by tutor Jim Carey on April 24, 2026 as part of the Dean’s Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean’s Office has provided this description of the event: “According to Aristotle, there is a science (epistēmē) that…
Broadcast Radio
Audio recording of a lecture given by tutor emeritus Howard Fisher on April 29, 2026 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "This talk will recount the paths by which the basic…
The Vacuum Tube
Audio recording of a lecture given by tutor emeritus Howard Fisher on April 15, 2026 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "A puzzling phenomenon observed by Edison in one of his…
Visual Arts Panel
Audio recording of a tutor panel given by tutors Alison Chapman, Krishnan Venkatesh, and David Carl on April 3, 2026 as part of the Dean’s Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean’s Office has provided this description of the event: “What is a portrait? …
On the Mortality of Minds
Audio recording o f a lecture given by John Peters on March 6, 2026 as part of the Dean’s Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean’s Office has provided this description of the event: “As far as we know the most complex thing the universe has brought…
Λόγος and Ανθρωπος: a Genealogy
Audio recording of a lecture given by tutor Ken Wolfe on February 6, 2026 as part of the Dean’s Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean’s Office has provided this description of the event: “In the Origin of Species, Darwin points to analogies between…
Telegraphy and Radiotelegraphy
Audio recording of a lecture given by tutor emeritus Howard Fisher on February 18, 2026 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "Overland telegraph technology implicitly embodied a…
A Moral Philosophy That Will Change Your Life: On Emmanuel Levinas's Totality and Infinity
Audio recording of a lecture given by tutor Claudia Hauer on January 30, 2026 as part of the Dean’s Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean’s Office has provided this description of the event: “Emmanuel Levinas is a moral philosopher of the highest…
Theism and Atheism in Patañjali's Yoga: Three Perspectives
Audio recording of a lecture given by Andrew Nicholson on January 23, 2026 as part of the Dean’s Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean’s Office has provided this description of the event: “The Yoga Sūtras of Patañjali (c. 4th century CE) have been an…
The Virtues of Technological Obsolescence: Day, Berry, Lo-fi
Audio recording of a lecture given by Erik Baker on December 12, 2025 as part of the Dean’s Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean’s Office has provided this description of the event: “People who are concerned about technological change, or who resist…
Considerations on Play (παιδιά) and Liberal Education in Plato's Republic
Audio recording of a lecture given by Antoine Pageau-St-Hilaire on December 5, 2025 as part of the Dean’s Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean’s Office has provided this description of the event: “In both the Republic and the Laws, the leader of the…
Levinas : Experiments at the Limits of Philosophy
Audio recording of a lecture given on January 23, 2009 by J. Walter Sterling as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.
The Visibility of Dying in Homer's Iliad
Audio recording of a lecture given on September 1, 2006 by J. Walter Sterling as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.
On Friendship
Audio recording of a lecture given on August 26, 2011 by J. Walter Sterling as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.
Time to Think
Audio recording of a lecture given on August 24, 2012 by J. Walter Sterling as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.
St. Paul's Letter to the Romans and the Problem of Original Sin
Audio recording of a lecture given by Erik Dempsey on November 14, 2025 as part of the Dean’s Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean’s Office has provided this description of the event: “This talk offers a close reading of St. Paul’s Epistle to the…
What the Heck is Hell? Divine Judgment in the Gospel of Matthew.
Audio recording of a lecture given by Annapolis Assistant Dean Ron Haflidson on November 7, 2025 as part of the Dean’s Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean’s Office has provided this description of the event: “In this lecture, I explore the largely…