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
Contributor
St. John's College Meem Library
Collection Items
Reflections on the American Constitution
Audio recording of a lecture given by tutor Grant Franks on September 18, 2026 as part of the Dean’s Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean’s Office has provided this description of the event: “Our country is now celebrating the 250th anniversary of the…
Three Thresholds: Notes from the Studio
Audio recording of a lecture given by Jillian Conrad on September 11, 2026 as part of the Dean’s Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean’s Office has provided this description of the event: “When is a threshold just an in-between space, and when is it…
The Stories Keys Can Tell: A New Approach to Film Soundtracks
Audio recording of a lecture given by Tahirih Motazedian on September 4, 2026 as part of the Dean’s Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean’s Office has provided this description of the event: “Key is one of the simplest building blocks of music and a…
Standing Before the Mysteries
Audio recording of a lecture given by Dean Sarah Davis on August 28, 2026 as part of the the Dean’s Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean’s Office has provided this description of the event: “At St. John’s we talk a lot about the importance of…
Equity, Justice, and the Rule of Law
Audio recording of a lecture given by tutor Nick Gooding on July 29, 2026 as part of the Graduate Institute Summer Lecture Series. The Graduate Institute Office has provided this description of the event: “In Book V, Chapter 10 of the Nicomachean…
Vaclav Havel and Jan Patočka: To Live (and Die) in Truth
Audio recording of a lecture given by David Satran on July 22, 2026 as part of the Graduate Institute Summer Lecture Series. The Graduate Institute Office has provided this description of the event: “Between the events of the Prague Spring of 1968…
Panel Discussion on the New Middle Eastern Classics Program
Audio recording of a panel discussion given by tutor Seth Appelbaum and visiting scholars David Satran and Ahmed Siddiqi on July 15, 2026 as part of the Graduate Institute Summer Lecture Series. The Dean’s Office has provided this description of the…
We Have Never Been Secular
Audio recording of a lecture given by Musa al-Gharbi on July 8, 2026 as part of the Summer Lecture Series. The Dean’s Office has provided this description of the event: “One virtue of a Great Books curriculum is that it helps pull people out of the…
On the Origin of the Great Books Program at St. John's College
Audio recording of a lecture given by tutor David Levine on July 1, 2026 as part of the Summer Lecture Series.
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…