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On the Biblical, Geometrical, Political Mind: A Panel in Honor of Bob Sacks
Audio recording of a tutor panel given by tutors Seth Appelbaum, Phil LeCuyer, April Olsen and Ken Wolfe on March 10, 2023 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "Robert Sacks, a…
A Clearing in the Forest: Heidegger’s Thinking
Audio recording of a lecture given by tutor Frank Hunt on May 3, 2023 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "The lecture uses Heidegger’s 1966 “The End of Philosophy and the…
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…
“‘Justice,’ or ‘Just’ Speech?: How Philosophy Conceives its Limit, from Plato through Kant, Hegel, and Arendt
Audio recording of a lecture given by Claudia Brodsky on April 28, 2023 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "The aim of this paper is to demonstrate that, of all the abstract…
Alternating Current
Audio recording 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…
The Gadfly, Vol. XLIV, Issue 9 [Badfly issue]
Volume XLIV, Issue 9, special Badfly issue of The Gadfly. Published April 24, 2023.
Myth and Mycelium
Audio recording of a lecture given by Sophie Strand on April 22, 2023 as part of the Carol J. Worrell Annual Lecture Series on Literature. A description of the event: "For most of human history knowledge was kept alive through our relationships to…
Draupadī on the Walls of Troy: Reabduction Narratives in Two Indo-European Epics, the Iliad and the Mahābhārata
Audio recording of a lecture given by Stephanie Jamison on April 21, 2023 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "A curious episode in Iliad, the Teikhoskopia (viewing from the…
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…
The Concept of Truth in the Book of Genesis
Audio recording 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…
Duns Scotus’s Modal Argument for the Existence of God - An Introduction
Audio recording of a lecture given by tutor James Carey on April 12, 2023 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "John Duns Scotus (c. 1266 –1308) was a Franciscan friar and…
To Be Forever and Immortal: Struggle and Salvation in the Thought of al-Farabi
Audio recording of a lecture given by tutor Ahmed Siddiqi on April 7, 2023 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "In the Muslim world, as in the world at large, there is an…
Philosophy and the Cave Wall: Plato and Kant on the Form of the Given
Typescript of a lecture delivered on March 31, 2023, by Matthew Caswell as part of the Formal Lecture Series. Mr. Caswell describes his lecture: "The lecture will compare inquiries into the nature of sensibility offered by Plato, and by Kant.…
Machiavelli: A Good Teacher of Goodness
Audio recording of a lecture given by Maurizio Viroli on March 31, 2023 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "Against current scholarly trends that maintain that Niccolo…
'Secret Science' and Piano Experiments: The Discovery of Harmonics
Audio recording of a lecture given by tutor Peter Pesic, (with performances by Consuelo Sanudo and David Forrest) on March 29, 2023 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event:…
Remarks on the Inauguration of President Nora Demleitner: Citizenship, Undergraduate Education, and Great Books
Typescript of a lecture delivered on March 24, 2023, by Robert Post as part of the Formal Lecture Series. The lecture was the first President's Law and Society lecture and was part of the events celebrating the inauguration of Nora Demleitner.
Moments in the Liberal Education of Frederick Douglass from ‘My Bondage and My Freedom’
Audio recording of a lecture given by Dean Joseph Macfarland on March 3, 2023 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series.
The Gadfly, Vol. XLIV, Issue 8
Volume XLIV, Issue 8 of The Gadfly. Published March 1, 2023.
On Motion
Typescript of a lecture delivered on February 24, 2023, by Leah Lasell as part of the Formal Lecture Series. Ms. Lasell describes her lecture: "The new science of motion presented in the last two days of The Two New Sciences is Galileo's last word in…
Dante in Italian Cinema
Audio recording of a lecture given by P. Adams Sitney on February 24, 2023 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: Just as all English speakers casually refer to lines by…