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Family Resemblance: On Knowing and Not Knowing
Audio recording of a lecture given by Dean Sarah Davis on August 30, 2024 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "What do a Greek tragedy and a 20th-century work of philosophy…
Music: The Representative Liberal Art
Typescript of a lecture delivered on September 2, 1988, by Wye Allanbrook and Eva Brann as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Music: The Representative Liberal Art
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on September 2, 1988, by Wye Allanbrook and Eva Brann as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
What Is a Book?
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on August 30, 1991, by Eva Brann as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
The Perfections of Jane Austen
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on January 31, 1975, by Eva Brann as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Plato's Theory of Ideas
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on September 14, 1979, by Eva Brann as part of the Formal Lecture Series. The quality of the recording ranges from poor to very poor. Written versions of the lecture are available in the Formal Lecture Series…
The Declaration of Independence
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on April 30, 1976, by Eva Brann as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
On Parts and Wholes in Living Things: Harvey, Descartes, and the Heartbeat
Video recording of a lecture delivered on August 25, 2023, by Suzy Paalman as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Ms. Paalman describes her lecture: "William Harvey and René Descartes famously disagreed in their accounts of what the heart is doing…
Ms. Paalman describes her lecture: "William Harvey and René Descartes famously disagreed in their accounts of what the heart is doing…
Eva Brann, circa 1986
Photograph of Eva Brann used on pg. 47 of a catalogue of St. John's College. The markings on the front state, "86 S.F. G.I."
Eva Brann, circa 1984
Portrait of Eva Brann, circa 1984. The back of the photograph reads, "Eva Brann, reproduce as is, Sept. 1984 Reporter."
Eva Brann at the St. John's College Commencement, May 1997
Eva Brann at the St. John's College Commencement, May 1997
Scene in Coffee Shop, St. John's College, circa 1960s
Scene in Coffee Shop, St. John's College, circa 1960s
At the retirement party for Eva Brann, the dean reads with surprise at a galley copy of her newest book, The Past-Present, delivered by tutor Pamela Kraus and designer Adrienne Rogers, 1997
At the retirement party for Eva Brann, the dean reads with surprise at a galley copy of her newest book, The Past-Present, delivered by tutor Pamela Kraus and designer Adrienne Rogers, 1997.
Eva Brann playing the flute, circa 1980s or 1990s
Eva Brann playing the flute, circa 1980s or 1990s.
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…
What, Then, Is Time?
Typescript of a lecture delivered on September 4, 1998, by Eva Brann as part of the Formal Lecture Series. Brann's lecture is based on her book What, Then, Is Time?, published by Rowman and Littlefield in 1999. The typescript of the lecture was…
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.
“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…
Moments in the Liberal Education of Frederick Douglass from My Bondage and My Freedom
Video recording of a lecture delivered on August 26, 2022 by Joseph Macfarland as part of the Formal Lecture Series. First formal lecture of the academic year, previously referred to as the "Dean's Lecture", but now called the "Christopher B. Nelson…
Comedy and the Virtue of Divine Puppets
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on August 27, 2021 by Joseph Macfarland as part of the Formal Lecture Series. First formal lecture of the academic year, previously referred to as the Dean's Lecture, but now called the Christopher B. Nelson…