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- Collection: St. John's College Lecture Recordings—Santa Fe
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Ecology, Evolution, and Ontology of Elevational Ranges
Audio recording of a lecture given by Ethan Linck on February 16, 2024 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "The elevational distributions of organisms have long fascinated…
What is the Measure of Electricity?
Audio recording 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…
Philosophy as an Aid to Invention and Creativity
Audio recording of a lecture given by Dave Shafer on March 27, 2024 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "The philosopher Edmund Husserl (1859-1938) was the founder of…
Modernity for Fools and Knaves: Machiavelli’s Mandragola and Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well
Audio recording of a lecture given by tutor Frank Pagano on March 29, 2024 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: “In chapter 15 of The Prince Machiavelli famously recommends…
"A Monument Without a Tomb:" St. John's Celebrates Major Scenes from Shakespeare's First Folio
Audio recording of a tutor panel given by tutors Alison Chapman, Charlie Barrett, Krishnan Venkatesh, & Jay Smith as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: “In his preface to the…
Buddhist Metaphysics? Making the Case for Enlarging Metaphysics with Mādhyamika Philosophy, or, How Emptiness is Relevant to What There is
Audio recording of a lecture given by Pierre-Julien Harter on April 12, 2024 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: “Buddhist metaphysics, especially in the Madhyamika version…
Clima(c)tic Change: Twenty Million Hands and the Living, Wavering Globe
Audio recording 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…
The Challenge of Heidegger's Approach to Technology
Audio recording of a lecture given by Steven Crowell on April 26, 2024 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: “Of all the writings Heidegger published after Being and Time, “The…
Family Resemblance: On Knowing and Not Knowing
Audio recording of a lecture given by Dean Sarah Davis on August 30, 2024 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "What do a Greek tragedy and a 20th-century work of philosophy…
Hegel's Rhythm: Speculative Thinking and the Relationship between Philosophy and Poetry
Audio recording of a lecture given by Andy Davis on September 6, 2024 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "What can poetry teach us about the demands of writing and reading…
Reading the Silences of the Text: Space, Word, and Japanese Linked Poetry
Audio recording of a lecture given by Esperanza Ramirez-Christensen on September 27, 2024 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "Renga is a hundred-verse sequence composed during…
The Way of All Flesh: Mortality and Transfiguration in Bach's Funeral Cantata
Audio recording of a lecture given by Nathan Shields on October 11, 2024 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "J.S. Bach's Funeral Cantata, Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste…
Distance, Attention and Being: Thinking About Media
Audio recording of a lecture given by tutor David McDonald on October 25, 2024 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "Aura, for critic Walter Benjamin, is the authenticity and…
Christian Nationalism: Through the Lense of Anthropology
Audio recording of a lecture given by Ron Duncan Hart on October 30, 2024 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "Christian nationalism began forming in White working-class…
Don Quixote and the Art of Reading
Audio recording of a lecture given by tutor Obed Lira on November 1, 2024 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "What is reading? Is it an art? Few books explore what it means…
Modern Geometry
Audio recording of a lecture given by Jesse Wolfson on November 8, 2024 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "One hundred and seventy years ago, the German mathematician…
On Parts and Wholes in Living Things: Harvey, Descartes, and the Heartbeat
Audio recording of a lecture given by Annapolis Dean Suzy Paalman on November 15, 2024 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "William Harvey and René Descartes famously…
Socratic Philosophical Legacies: Creating Philosophers of the Future
Audio recording of a lecture given by Anne-Marie Schultz on December 13, 2024 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: “I will examine portions of two Platonic dialogues, the…
Gertrude Stein and the End(s) of Literature
Audio recording of a lecture given by tutor David Carl on January 24, 2025 as part of the Dean’s Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean’s Office has provided this description of the event: “Tender Buttons is a kind of love story which leads us to ask,…
The Politician as Opthalmologist of the Soul: Aristotle's Conceptions of the Soul and the Aims of Inquiry
Audio recording of a lecture given by Rory Hanlon on February 7, 2025 as part of the Dean’s Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean’s Office has provided this description of the event: “In Nicomachean Ethics (NE) I.13, Aristotle asserts that a politician…