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Vital Exuberance: Goethe on What Plants Want
Video recording of a lecture delivered on September 15, 2023, by Daniel Carranza as part of the Formal Lecture Series.The lecture conducts a close reading of Goethe's poem on the "Metamorphosis of Plants" by situating it within Goethe's larger…
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…
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…
“‘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…
Draupadī on the Walls of Troy: Reabduction Narratives in Two Indo-European Epics, the Iliad and the Mahābhārata
Audio recording of a lecture given by Stephanie Jamison on April 21, 2023 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "A curious episode in Iliad, the Teikhoskopia (viewing from the…
The Concept of Truth in the Book of Genesis
Audio recording of a lecture given by tutor Phil LeCuyer on April 14, 2023 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "Join tutor Phil LeCuyer for a lecture on the Book of Genesis…
To Be Forever and Immortal: Struggle and Salvation in the Thought of al-Farabi
Audio recording of a lecture given by tutor Ahmed Siddiqi on April 7, 2023 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "In the Muslim world, as in the world at large, there is an…
Philosophy and the Cave Wall: Plato and Kant on the Form of the Given
Typescript of a lecture delivered on March 31, 2023, by Matthew Caswell as part of the Formal Lecture Series. Mr. Caswell describes his lecture: "The lecture will compare inquiries into the nature of sensibility offered by Plato, and by Kant.…
Machiavelli: A Good Teacher of Goodness
Audio recording of a lecture given by Maurizio Viroli on March 31, 2023 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "Against current scholarly trends that maintain that Niccolo…
Remarks on the Inauguration of President Nora Demleitner: Citizenship, Undergraduate Education, and Great Books
Typescript of a lecture delivered on March 24, 2023, by Robert Post as part of the Formal Lecture Series. The lecture was the first President's Law and Society lecture and was part of the events celebrating the inauguration of Nora Demleitner.
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.
On Motion
Typescript of a lecture delivered on February 24, 2023, by Leah Lasell as part of the Formal Lecture Series. Ms. Lasell describes her lecture: "The new science of motion presented in the last two days of The Two New Sciences is Galileo's last word in…
Dante in Italian Cinema
Audio recording of a lecture given by P. Adams Sitney on February 24, 2023 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: Just as all English speakers casually refer to lines by…
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.
"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…
On the Question of Whether Plato’s Phaedo Displays Philosophy in Two Registers: Benardetean Reflections
Audio recording of a lecture given by Patrick Goodin on December 9, 2022 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "Quite early in the Phaedo Socrates famously describes philosophy,…
Tribal Nations & Trade: A History and Outlook for New Mexico
Audio recording of a lecture given by Patrick Schaefer on December 7, 2022 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "While trade flows inherently serve to unite distant…
Is Schrödinger’s What is Life? Still Worth Reading Today?
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on December 2, 2022, by Daniel Nicholson as part of the Formal Lecture Series. Dr. Nicholson describes his lecture: "Erwin Schrödinger’s What is Life? (1944) is one of the most celebrated scientific works of 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…
War and Beefs: Gang Violence in The Illiad
Audio recording of a lecture given by Jill Leovy on November 18, 2022 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "The Iliad supplies a detailed and recognizable description of what…