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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…
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…
Hair, Clothes, Brush: On Becoming Human in The Tale of Genji
Audio recording of a lecture given by tutor Patricia Locke on February 2, 2024 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "In the hothouse of courtly life in Heian Japan, people…
Karma and clinical indications : grappling with lifespan in the early medical traditions of South Asia
Audio recording of a lecture given on July 25, 2018 by Kathleen Longwaters as part of the Graduate Institute Summer Lecture Series.
Two good men in Aristotle's Ethics, or does a liberal education improve one's character?
Audio recording of a lecture given on September 9, 2016 by Joseph Macfarland as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.
The gate of speculation, is it open or closed? On the possibility of permanent questions
Audio recording of a lecture given on January 31, 2020 by Joe Macfarland as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.
Moments in the Liberal Education of Frederick Douglass from ‘My Bondage and My Freedom’
Audio recording of a lecture given by Dean Joseph Macfarland on March 3, 2023 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series.
Machiavelli's enterprise
Audio recording of a lecture given on April 4, 2014 by Harvey Mansfield as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.
The Grammar of Eden: A Reading of Genesis 1-3
Audio recording of a lecture given by tutor Erika Martinez on October 23, 2020 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "In Genesis, God calls things into being, demonstrating…
The telos of Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling
Audio recording of a lecture given on October 7, 2016 by Richard McCombs as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.
On the Philoctetes of Sophocles : the story of a sickness
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on February 15, 2019 by Richard McCombs as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.
Suspicion and trust in George Eliot's Middlemarch
Audio recording of a lecture given on July 9, 2019 by Richard McCombs as part of the Graduate Institute Summer Lecture Series.
Pascal’s Conception of ‘Universal Men’
Audio recording of a lecture given by tutor Richard McCombs on September 23, 2022 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "Pascal’s almost unrelenting emphasis on the weakness,…
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…
Lessons in Admiration: George Eliot's Beautiful Atheistic Religiousness
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,…
Exploring the history of the Qur’ān : from canonisation to textual criticism
Audio recording of a lecture given on June 17, 2016 by Michael McCoy as part of the Graduate Institute Summer Lecture Series.
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…
Petrarch’s Climb and the Crisis of the New
Audio recording of a lecture given by tutor David McDonald on November 18, 2022 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "In a letter often called “The Ascent of Mt. Ventoux,” the…
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…
"Tel us som moral thing" : moral certainty and the art of story in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
Audio recording of a lecture given on September 27, 2019 by Maggie Evans McGuinness as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.