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- Collection: St. John's College Lecture Recordings—Santa Fe
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Speedy Achilles
Audio recording of a lecture given by Tutor Emeritus Howard Fisher on April 9, 2025 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: “Galileo’s mathematical treatment of ‘speed’…
King Lear's "Love Test"
Audio recording of a lecture given by David Hayes and Jeremy Schwartz on April 18, 2025 as part of the Dean’s Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean’s Office has provided this description of the event: “The ‘Love Test’ in King Lear is widely understood…
I Know Not Seems: Appearance, Reality, and the Grave of Ophelia in Shakespeare's Hamlet
Audio recording of a lecture given by tutor Kit Slover on April 25, 2025 as part of the Dean’s Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean’s Office has provided this description of the event: “In the final act of Shakespeare’s Hamlet the northern prince…
The Pleasure of the Mathematical Text
Audio recording of a lecture given by Philip Ording on May 2, 2025 as part of the Dean’s Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean’s Office has provided this description of the event: “There is no shortage of evidence that professional mathematicians…
Pulling Away from the Bank: Philosophy and Friendship in War and Peace
Audio recording of a lecture given by Dean Sarah Davis on August 29, 2025 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "St. John’s students often have the experience of coming to…
Arrays and Faces
Audio recording of a lecture given by Tutor Emeritus Phil LeCuyer on September 5, 2025 as part of the Dean’s Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean’s Office has provided this description of the event: "In this lecture arrays are contrasted to sequences…
Parody in Paradise: Dante Takes on Thomas Aquinas
Audio recording of a lecture given by Tutor Emeritus John Cornell on September 12, 2025 as part of the Dean’s Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean’s Office has provided this description of the event: "Dante’s Comedy is widely assumed to champion the…
Into the Deep: Imaging Supermassive Black Holes
Audio recording of a lecture given by Daryl Haggard on September 19, 2025 as part of the Dean’s Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean’s Office has provided this description of the event: “It’s been a fantastic decade for black hole studies,…
How Can Shun Live Happily Thereafter?: Revisiting the Question of Filial Piety in Mencius 7A35
Audio recording of a lecture given by Qiu Lin on September 26, 2025 as part of the Dean’s Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean’s Office has provided this description of the event: "In Mencius 7A35, Tao Ying poses a dilemma to Mencius: Suppose Shun's…
There's No Place Like Home—in Plato's Republic
Audio recording of a lecture given by Michael Davis on October 3, 2025 as part of the Dean’s Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean’s Office has provided this description of the event: "Those living in the various versions of the best city described…
Time, Memory, and a Sense of Home: Ernst Krenek's Elegies for Webern
Audio recording of a lecture given by David Miller on October 24, 2025 as part of the Dean’s Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean’s Office has provided this description of the event: “In the summer of 1965, Austrian-American composer Ernst Krenek…
What the Heck is Hell? Divine Judgment in the Gospel of Matthew.
Audio recording of a lecture given by Annapolis Assistant Dean Ron Haflidson on November 7, 2025 as part of the Dean’s Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean’s Office has provided this description of the event: “In this lecture, I explore the largely…
St. Paul's Letter to the Romans and the Problem of Original Sin
Audio recording of a lecture given by Erik Dempsey on November 14, 2025 as part of the Dean’s Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean’s Office has provided this description of the event: “This talk offers a close reading of St. Paul’s Epistle to the…
Time to Think
Audio recording of a lecture given on August 24, 2012 by J. Walter Sterling as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.
On Friendship
Audio recording of a lecture given on August 26, 2011 by J. Walter Sterling as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.
The Visibility of Dying in Homer's Iliad
Audio recording of a lecture given on September 1, 2006 by J. Walter Sterling as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.
Levinas : Experiments at the Limits of Philosophy
Audio recording of a lecture given on January 23, 2009 by J. Walter Sterling as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.
Considerations on Play (παιδιά) and Liberal Education in Plato's Republic
Audio recording of a lecture given by Antoine Pageau-St-Hilaire on December 5, 2025 as part of the Dean’s Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean’s Office has provided this description of the event: “In both the Republic and the Laws, the leader of the…
The Virtues of Technological Obsolescence: Day, Berry, Lo-fi
Audio recording of a lecture given by Erik Baker on December 12, 2025 as part of the Dean’s Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean’s Office has provided this description of the event: “People who are concerned about technological change, or who resist…
Theism and Atheism in Patañjali's Yoga: Three Perspectives
Audio recording of a lecture given by Andrew Nicholson on January 23, 2026 as part of the Dean’s Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean’s Office has provided this description of the event: “The Yoga Sūtras of Patañjali (c. 4th century CE) have been an…