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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Audio recording of a lecture given by tutor David Levine on July 1, 2026 as part of the Summer Lecture Series.

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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? …

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…

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…

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…

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…