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Four sides of a cube : or, why a certain question must be asked again and again
Transcript of a lecture given on August 31, 2001 by David Levine as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.
A community of learning... in a land of Cartesians?
Transcript of a lecture given on August 30, 2002 by David Levine as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.
"At the very center of the plenitude" : Goethe's grand attempt to overcome the 18th century, or how freshman laboratory saved Goethe from the general sickness of his age
Transcript of a lecture given on August 29, 2003 by David Levine as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.
The forgotten faculty : the place of phronesis or practical sense in liberal education
Transcript of a lecture given on August 27, 2004 by David Levine as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.
This senseless course of human things : 'one of Professor Kant's most cherished ideas'
Transcript of a lecture given on August 26, 2005 by David Levine as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.
Humanity dehumanized : Hegel's reflections on the Enlightenment and the French Revolution...and their other legacy
Audio recording of a lecturer given on November 3, 2017 by David Levine as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.
Modern symbolic unreality, or Mr. Klein's question : Who lives symbolically?
Audio recording of a lecture given on February 28, 2020 by David Levine as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.
Evolution as a cause
Audio recording of a lecture given on November 4, 2016 by Benjamin Liebeskind as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.
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…
Thinking about nature
Typescript of a lecture delivered on January 20, 2017 by Matthew Linck as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Thinking about Nature
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on January 20, 2017 by Matthew Linck as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
The Serpent and An Octopus: On Reading
Audio recording of a lecture delivered by Matt Linck on January 18, 2019 as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Nighttime Walks with Proust: "Le Pays Obscur" Par le Clair de Lune
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on September 5, 2014, by Patricia Locke as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Becoming (A) Woman in La Princesse de Clèves
Video recording of a lecture delivered by Patricia Locke, Annapolis tutor on October 2, 2020, as part of the Formal Lecture Series. Ms. Locke describes her lecture: "Madame de Lafayette’s book, La Princesse de Clèves, is one of the earliest novels of…
1001 Nights of Marcel Proust
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on February 11, 2011, by Patricia Locke as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Hegel's Reading of Antigone
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on September 30, 1988, by Patricia Locke as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
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…
W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk, and the Democratic Catastrophe of the Color Line
Video recording of a lecture delivered by Jared Loggins on April 16, 2021 as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Mr. Loggins is an Assistant Professor of Black Studies and Political Science at Amherst University. His research and teaching interests…
Mr. Loggins is an Assistant Professor of Black Studies and Political Science at Amherst University. His research and teaching interests…
What Is Civic Friendship?
Audio recording of a lecture delivered by Paul Ludwig on September 14, 2018 as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Much Ado About Nothing: A Brief History of 'Empty Space'
Typescript of a lecture delivered on October 26, 2018 by Bryan Luther as part of the Formal Lecture Series.