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- Collection: St. John's College Lecture Recordings—Santa Fe
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'Secret Science' and Piano Experiments: The Discovery of Harmonics
Audio recording of a lecture given by tutor Peter Pesic, (with performances by Consuelo Sanudo and David Forrest) on March 29, 2023 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event:…
"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…
"Deeds of balanced vengeance" and the end of The Iliad
Audio recording of a lecture given on October 26, 2018 by Emily Austin as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.
"Sounding Alarm: (circa 1850)"
Audio recording of a lecture given by Alexander Rehding on February 3, 2023 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: The nineteenth century was a time of progress but also of…
"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.
"The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself" : Reflecting with Montaigne on liberation of the intellect and education in times of crisis
Audio recording of a lecture given by J. Walter Sterling on September 11, 2020 as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series. Dean Sterling provided this description of his lecture: "The lecture will blend reflections on education in times of…
"The tutor and the feeder of my riots" : the problem of friendship in Shakespeare's treatment of Falstaff and Prince Hal
Audio recording of a lecture given on July 19, 2017 by J. Walter Sterling as part of the Graduate Institute Summer Lecture Series.
"We shall be monsters" : Frankenstein and the ugliness of enlightenment
Audio recording of a lecture given on March 2, 2018 by Jeff Black as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.
"Weak" thought and its philosophical implications : an introduction to Gianni Vattimo
Audio recording of a lecture given on April 19, 2019 by Jay Smith as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.
“‘Justice,’ or ‘Just’ Speech?: How Philosophy Conceives its Limit, from Plato through Kant, Hegel, and Arendt
Audio recording of a lecture given by Claudia Brodsky on April 28, 2023 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "The aim of this paper is to demonstrate that, of all the abstract…
“Freedom of the Intellect is a Sacred Thing”: A Brief Exploration of Freedom, Liberal Education, and the St. John’s Program.
Audio recording of a lecture given by Dean J. Walter Sterling on August 26, 2021 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "Mr. Sterling will explore the contested idea of freedom…
A Clearing in the Forest: Heidegger’s Thinking
Audio recording of a lecture given by tutor Frank Hunt on May 3, 2023 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "The lecture uses Heidegger’s 1966 “The End of Philosophy and the…
A commentary on motherhood as presented in Simone de Beauvoir's The second sex
Audio recording of a lecture given on July 27, 2016 by Jay Smith as part of the Graduate Institute Summer Lecture Series.
A Conversation with Alfredo Corchado on "Homelands: Four Friends, Two Countries, and the Fate of the Great Mexican-American Migration" and Border and Immigration Politics and Journalism
Audio recording on an online discussion with Alfredo Corchado held on October 2, 2020 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series and the Carol J. Worrell Annual Series on Literature with student and alumni co-moderators David Adah-Ogoh, Onysha…
A defense of Aristotle's Art of Rhetoric III.13-19
Audio recording of a lecture given on June 18, 2019 by April Olsen as part of the Graduate Institute Summer Lecture Series.
A page of Kepler
Audio recording of a lecture given on February 17, 2017 by Bill Donahue as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.
A Poetry Reading by Rita Dove
Audio recording of a lecture given by Rita Dove on February 21, 2023 as part fo the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: Rita Dove reads a selection of her poetry with commentary.
A short talk by Judge Michael Mukasey
Audio recording of a lecture given on January 27, 2017 by Michael Mukasey as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.
A Timely Untimely Education
Audio recording of a lecture given by Dean Sarah Davis on August 25, 2023 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: “I hate everything that merely instructs me without augmenting or…
Adam Smith's politics : pragmatist or ideologue
Audio recording of a lecture given on April 29, 2016 by Lauren Brubaker as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.