St. John's College (Santa Fe) Lectures

Audio recording of a lecture given by Tutor Emeritus Howard Fisher on April 9, 2025 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: “Galileo’s mathematical treatment of ‘speed’ perennially draws questions about both the validity and presuppositions of his argument. But perhaps we can make more sense of Galilean speed when we...

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 determine one's postmortem fate. Even a sinful person, by dying with a mind calmly focused on the Buddha, could be reborn in a '...

Audio recording of a lecture given by Steven Berg on March 7, 2025 as part of the Dean’s Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean’s Office has provided this description of the event: “Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra begins with Zarathustra descending from the heights of his overflowing wisdom to effect, in the wake of what he calls the “death of God,” the transformation of the historical destiny...

Audio recording of a lecture given by Larry George on February 28, 2025 as part of the Dean’s Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean’s Office has provided this description of the event: “Does Thucydides believe that empire and democracy are compatible? Do war, conquest, domination, and the exploitation of other polities actually safeguard and protect political space for imperial democratic regimes...

Audio recording of a lecture given by Amir Alexander on February 21, 2025 as part of the Dean’s Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean’s Office has provided this description of the event: “On August 10, 1632, the Revisors General of the Society of Jesus met in Rome to pronounce on a simple question: Whether a straight line is composed of an infinite number of distinct points. The proposition seeme...

Audio recording of a lecture given by Rory Hanlon on February 7, 2025 as part of the Dean’s Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean’s Office has provided this description of the event: “In Nicomachean Ethics (NE) I.13, Aristotle asserts that a politician should know the human soul as an eye-doctor knows the whole body. I will try to make sense of this odd claim, arguing that it illuminates crucial...

Audio recording of a lecture given by tutor David Carl on January 24, 2025 as part of the Dean’s Lecture & Concert Series.  The Dean’s Office has provided this description of the event: “Tender Buttons is a kind of love story which leads us to ask, “What do we love when we love to read?”  Is it a certain meaning or truth that reading can help us achieve, or is it the experience itself—the act...

Audio recording of a lecture given on April 22, 2016 by Lise van Boxel as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.

Audio recording of a lecture given on March 4, 2016 by Alan Levine as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.

Audio recording of a lecture given on February 26, 2016 by Richard H. Davis as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.

Audio recording of a lecture given on February 5, 2016 by Natalie Elliot as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.

Audio recording of a lecture given on January 22, 2016 by Gregory Schneider as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.

Audio recording of a lecture given on December 4, 2016 by Frank Pagano as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.

Audio recording of a lecture given on November 13, 2015 by James Carey as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.

Audio recording of a lecture given on November 6, 2015 by Leslie Kay as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.

Audio recording of a panel discussion given on October 9, 2015 as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.

Audio recording of a lecture given on October 2, 2015 by Richard Velkley as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.

Audio recording of a lecture given on September 25, 2015 by Lorraine Pangle as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.

Audio recording of a lecture given on April 29, 2016 by Lauren Brubaker as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.

Audio recording of a lecture given on September 18, 2015 by Janet Dougherty as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.

Audio recording of a lecture given on September 4, 2015 by Michael Grenke as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.

Audio recording of a lecture given on August 28, 2015 by Matthew Davis as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.

Audio recording of a panel discussion that took place on April 5, 2013 as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.

Audio recording of a lecture given on July 22, 2015 by Robert Richardson as part of the Graduate Institute Summer Lecture Series.

Audio recording of a lecture given on May 1, 2015 by James Conant as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.