St. John's College Lecture Transcripts—Santa Fe
Title
St. John's College Lecture Transcripts—Santa Fe
Description
Items in this collection are part of a series of lectures given every year at St. John's College at the Santa Fe, NM campus.
Coverage
Santa Fe, NM
Contributor
St. John's College Meem Library
Collection Items
The Concept of Truth in the Book of Genesis
Transcript of a lecture given by tutor Phil LeCuyer on April 14, 2023 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "Join tutor Phil LeCuyer for a lecture on the Book of Genesis with a…
Clima(c)tic Change: Twenty Million Hands and the Living, Wavering Globe
Transcript of a lecture given by tutor Llyd Wells on April 19, 2024 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "Climatic change demands of us climactic change. We have yet fully to…
What is the Measure of Electricity?
Transcript of a lecture given by tutor Howard Fisher on February 23, 2024 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "Faraday made use of numerous electrical measuring instruments;…
Alternating Current
Transcript of a lecture given by tutor Howard Fisher on April 26, 2023 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "The technology of alternating current was developed almost entirely…
Faraday's Galvanometer
Transcript of a lecture given on February 22, 2023 by Howard Fisher as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series. The Dean's Office provided this description of the event: "Today we think of the galvanometer as a device that measures electric…
What would Kepler say to Einstein?
Transcript of a lecture given on November 5, 2021 by William Donahue as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series. The Dean's Office provided this description of the event: "Einstein once wrote that there is little value, other than the…
Incommensurability : Meno and the diagonal
Transcript of a lecture given on October 21, 2020 by Cary Stickney as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series. The Dean's Office provided this description of the event: "Can beautiful speeches give rise to beautiful deeds? Please join the SJC…
The Qur'an : an introduction for Johnnies
Transcript of a lecture given on June 16, 2021 by Ken Wolfe as part of the Graduate Institute Summer Lecture Series. Mr. Wolfe provided this description of the event: "In this introduction to the Qur'an, I will explore the context of its composition…
Learning to love Lincoln : Frederick Douglass's journey from grievance to gratitude
Transcript of a lecture given on December 4, 2020 by Diana Schaub as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series. The Dean's Office provided this description of the event: "Having originally been a severe critic of Abraham Lincoln, the radical…
The magnificent pendulums
Transcript of a lecture given on November 18, 2020 by Howard Fisher as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series. The Dean's Office provided this description of the event: "With Galileo, we learn to understand the two natural motions by reducing…
Maxwell reads Faraday
Transcript of a lecture given on April 24, 2020 by Howard Fisher as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.
The phenomenology of blackness
Transcript of a lecture given on November 22, 2019 by Michael Sawyer as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.
Trigonometric interpretation of complex numbers
Transcript of a lecture given on September 17, 2019 by Grant Franks.
Meet your new best friend : the square root of negative one
Transcript of a lecture given on September 11, 2019 by Grant Franks as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.
Reconciling subjectivity and substance : Hegel's critique of pure personhood
Transcript of a lecture given on September 6, 2019 by Jonathan Hand as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.
Returning to Lucretius
Transcript of a lecture given on April 5, 2019 by Thomas Nail as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.
On teachers and students : Heidegger in America
Transcript of a lecture given on September 21, 2018 by Michael Gillespie as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.