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- Collection: St. John's College Lecture Recordings—Santa Fe
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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,…
Persons and parables : Stanley Elkin's menagerie
Audio recording of a lecture given on April 20, 2018 by Joshua Kates as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.
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…
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…
Plato and the Poets
Audio recording of a lecture given by Elaine Scarry on October 21, 2022 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series.
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…
Poetry, Prosperity and the gods in Hesiod's Works and Days
Audio recording of a lecture given by Steven Forde on September 4, 2020 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series with student panelists Alejandro Ross, George Stengren, Bridget Lynch, and Seungyoun Bang. The Dean's Office has provided this…
Political order and political decay : the American political system in a time of global upheaval
Audio recording of a lecture given on October 21, 2016 by Francis Fukuyama as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.
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…
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…
Recognizing Odysseus
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on February 1, 2019 by Margaret Kirby as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.
Reconciling subjectivity and substance : Hegel's critique of pure personhood
Audio recording of a lecture given on September 2, 2019 by Jonathan Hand as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.
Reflections on the Bill of Rights
Audio recording of a lecture given by Elizabeth C'de Baca Eastman on June 30, 2020, hosted by Edward Walpin as part of the Graduate Institute Summer Lecture Series. The Graduate Institute provided this description of the event: "Debate about…
Religious construction east and west
Audio recording of a lecture given on September 28, 2018 by Stephen Bokenkamp as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.
Returning to Lucretius
Audio recording of a lecture given on April 5, 2019 by Thomas Nail as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.
Right Thoughts at the Last Moment: Buddhism and Deathbed Practices in Medieval Japan
Audio recording of a lecture given by Jacqueline Stone on April 4, 2025 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "Premodern Japanese believed that one's dying thoughts could…
Robert E. Howard : boxing and the cult of masculinity
Audio recording of a lecture given on June 22, 2016 by Christopher Gruber as part of the Graduate Institute Summer Lecture Series.
Rousseau's chemical apprenticeship
Audio recording of a lecture given on November 1, 2013 by Christopher Kelly as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.
Second Thoughts about Shakespeare's As You Like It
Audio recording of a lecture given by Grant Franks on June 14, 2023, as part of the Graduate Institute Summer Lecture Series. The Graduate Institute provided this description of the event: "As You Like It is a much-loved fixture in the Shakespearean…
Seeing the forms
Audio recording of a lecture given on October 31, 2003 by Peter Pesic as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.