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The Gate of Speculation, Is It Open or Closed? On the Possibility of Permanent Questions
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on August 24, 2018, by Joseph Macfarland as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Mr. Macfarland's lecture is the first formal lecture of the academic year. Previously referred to as the Dean's Lecture, this…
Mr. Macfarland's lecture is the first formal lecture of the academic year. Previously referred to as the Dean's Lecture, this…
Our Polity
Video recording of a lecture delivered on August 28, 2020 by Joseph Macfarland as part of the Formal Lecture Series. First formal lecture of the academic year, previously referred to as the "Dean's Lecture", but now called the "Christopher B. Nelson…
The Gate of Speculation, Is It Open or Closed? On the Possibility of Permanent Questions
Typescript of a lecture delivered on August 24, 2018 by Joseph Macfarland as part of the Formal Lecture Series. First formal lecture of the academic year, previously referred to as the "Dean's Lecture", but now called the "Christopher B. Nelson…
Our Polity
Typescript of a lecture delivered on August 28, 2020 by Joseph Macfarland as part of the Formal Lecture Series. First formal lecture of the academic year, previously referred to as the "Dean's Lecture", but now called the "Christopher B. Nelson…
Speaking Freely and the Conversational Virtue
Typescript of a lecture delivered on August 23, 2019 by Joseph Macfarland as part of the Formal Lecture Series. First formal lecture of the academic year, previously referred to as the "Dean's Lecture", but now called the "Christopher B. Nelson…
Comedy and the Virtue of Divine Puppets
Typescript of a lecture delivered on August 27, 2021 by Joseph Macfarland as part of the Formal Lecture Series. First formal lecture of the academic year, previously referred to as the Dean's Lecture, but now called the Christopher B. Nelson Lecture.
Comedy and the Virtue of Divine Puppets
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on August 27, 2021 by Joseph Macfarland as part of the Formal Lecture Series. First formal lecture of the academic year, previously referred to as the Dean's Lecture, but now called the Christopher B. Nelson…
Moments in the Liberal Education of Frederick Douglass from My Bondage and My Freedom
Video recording of a lecture delivered on August 26, 2022 by Joseph Macfarland as part of the Formal Lecture Series. First formal lecture of the academic year, previously referred to as the "Dean's Lecture", but now called the "Christopher B. Nelson…
Feeling Ulysses (Steiner Lecture)
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on March 25, 2016, by Vicki Mahaffey as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Dr. Mahaffey describes her lecture: "Most of the time, readers who have difficulties with Ulysses complain that it is hard to…
Dr. Mahaffey describes her lecture: "Most of the time, readers who have difficulties with Ulysses complain that it is hard to…
Be a Sinner and Sin Boldly: Martin Luther and Christian Freedom
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on November 10, 2017 by Thomas May as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Be a Sinner and Sin Boldly: Martin Luther and Christian Freedom
Typescript of a lecture delivered on November 10, 2017 by Thomas May as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Argument Not Less But More Heroic: Milton's Advent'rous Song in Paradise Lost
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on February 11, 2005, by Thomas May as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Finding Perspective and Staying in One’s Room: Thoughts on Several of Pascal’s Pensées and Latour’s Repentant Magdalene
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on September 9, 2005, by Thomas May as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
What Is the Surface Area of a Hedgehog? (Steiner Lecture)
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on September 30, 2011, by Barry Mazur as part of the Formal Lecture Series.Mazur describes his lecture: "Well, I don't know the answer to the question of the title and no hedgehog will be harmed, or even…
Pity as a Civic Virtue in Sophocles' Philoctetes
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on April 8, 2011, by Marina McCoy as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Philosophy Between the Lines: The Lost History of Esoteric Writing
Audio recording of a lecture delivered by Arthur Melzer, Professor at Michigan State University, on November 1, 2019 as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Melzer describes his lecture topic as follows: "Is it true that most philosophers prior to…
Melzer describes his lecture topic as follows: "Is it true that most philosophers prior to…
"Making New Gods?": Reflections on Plato's Symposium
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on March 21, 2008, by Mitchell Miller as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
"Poet, That’s Just Like You!": Language and the Figure of Echo (Steiner Lecture)
Video recording of a lecture delivered on February 11, 2022, by Ange Mlinko as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Mlinko is the poetry editor of the Nation, an associate professor at the University of Florida, and a Guggenheim fellow.
Mlinko…
Mlinko is the poetry editor of the Nation, an associate professor at the University of Florida, and a Guggenheim fellow.
Mlinko…
What was the purpose of Archimedes' Floating Bodies? (Steiner Lecture)
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on March 30, 2018 by Reviel Netz as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
In Defense of Cicero
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on October 31, 2008, by Walter Nicgorski as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Dr. Nicgorski describes his lecture: "The tradition of criticism of Cicero as a thinker consists in charges that his rhetorical…
Dr. Nicgorski describes his lecture: "The tradition of criticism of Cicero as a thinker consists in charges that his rhetorical…