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The Gadfly, Vol. XLV, Issue 5
Volume XLI, Issue 5 of The Gadfly. Published December 13, 2023.
Evils in Our Midst: A Close Reading of Alfred Hitchcock’s Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Audio recording of a lecture given by Jeffrey Stout on December 8, 2023 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "What is the movie about? Does the title contain an allusion? When…
On Aristotle's Hypothetical Method in De Anima
Audio recording of a lecture given by tutor Jacques Duvoisin on December 1, 2023 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "To understand Aristotle’s remark that there is no…
The Gadfly, Vol. XLV, Issue 4
Volume XLI, Issue 4 of The Gadfly. Published November 27, 2023.
The Gorgias Nothings: Dickinson, Plato and the Philosophical Blues
Audio recording of a lecture given by Fred Moten on November 3, 2023 as part of the Dean's Lectura & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has proviced this description of the event: "We will conduct a paraphilological thought experiment in which we…
The Gadfly, Vol. XLV, Issue 3
Volume XLI, Issue 3 of The Gadfly. Published November 2, 2023.
What the Heck is Hell? Divine Judgment in the Gospel of Matthew
Video recording of a lecture delivered on October 27, 2023, by Ron Haflidson as part of the Formal Lecture Series.Mr. Haflidson describes his lecture: "In this lecture, I explore the largely neglected and perhaps totally wrong possibility that when…
The Oresteia and Attic Tragedy
Audio recording of a lecture given by Joshua Billings on October 20, 2023 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "The lecture will discuss the only surviving ancient tragic…
The Gadfly, Vol. XLV, Issue 2
Volume XLI, Issue 2 of The Gadfly. Published October 12, 2023.
Man, Woman, and the Wholeness of the Human: A Biblical and Platonic Account
Audio recording of a lecture given by Ronna Burger on October 6, 2023 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: “And God created Adam in His own image . . . male and female created…
Wallace Stevens and Our Redemption Through Poetry
Audio recording of a lecture given by tutor Lin Atnip on September 29, 2023 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: “After one has abandoned a belief in god, poetry is that…
On Parts and Wholes in Living Things: Harvey, Descartes, and the Heartbeat
Video recording of a lecture delivered on August 25, 2023, by Suzy Paalman as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Ms. Paalman describes her lecture: "William Harvey and René Descartes famously disagreed in their accounts of what the heart is doing…
Ms. Paalman describes her lecture: "William Harvey and René Descartes famously disagreed in their accounts of what the heart is doing…
The Gadfly, Vol. XLV, Issue 1
Volume XLV, Issue 1 of The Gadfly. Published September 25, 2023.
Making Sense of Artificial Intelligence
Audio recording of a panel given by tutor David McDonald, Curtis Johnson, Patrick Anderson, and Benjamin Scott on September 22, 2023 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: The…
Vital Exuberance: Goethe on What Plants Want
Video recording of a lecture delivered on September 15, 2023, by Daniel Carranza as part of the Formal Lecture Series.The lecture conducts a close reading of Goethe's poem on the "Metamorphosis of Plants" by situating it within Goethe's larger…
Play and Playfulness in Plato
Audio recording of a lecture given by tutor Richard McCombs on September 1, 2023 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: Plato thinks the serious person has need of much…
A Timely Untimely Education
Audio recording of a lecture given by Dean Sarah Davis on August 25, 2023 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: “I hate everything that merely instructs me without augmenting or…
Second Thoughts about Shakespeare's As You Like It
Audio recording of a lecture given by Grant Franks on June 14, 2023, as part of the Graduate Institute Summer Lecture Series. The Graduate Institute provided this description of the event: "As You Like It is a much-loved fixture in the Shakespearean…
The Gadfly, Vol. XLIV, Issue 10 [Updated version]
Volume XLIV, Issue 10 of The Gadfly. Published May 30, 2023.
Commencement Program, 2023
Program for the two hundred twenty-ninth commencement in the three hundred twenty-seventh year of the college.