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Continuing the Conversation: a Great Books podcast by St. John’s College

Continuing the Conversation: a Great Books podcast by St. John’s College


Continuing the Conversation: a Great Books podcast by St. John’s College

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Length:
21 episodes
Language:
English
Format:
Podcast

Description

Enter a conversation where questions are more important than answers. Where curiosity and connection trump certainty and combat. Where history’s great thinkers provide a springboard for us to jump into big questions together. Enter Continuing the Conversation: our college’s antidote to the blustery world just beyond our library doors.
Language:
English
Format:
Podcast

Episodes1 - 10 of 21 episodes

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Can War Be Beautiful with Louis Petrich and Erica Beall

The power and beauty of Homer’s imagery in the Iliad is undeniable, and his scenes of b...

65 minutes
Jun 20, 2023

Sonnet 94: Shakespeare’s Unmoved Mover with Louis Petrich and Eva Brann

This episode takes us through a close reading of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 94, which many co...

43 minutes
Jun 20, 2023

To Think or To Do? The Unification of False Dichotomies with Sarah Davis and David McDonald

In the ancient world, art and religion provided a sense of meaning and order that was u...

42 minutes
Jun 20, 2023

We, the Terrible Listeners, with Howard Zeiderman and Louis Petrich

Why is it difficult for people to talk to one another? Annapolis tutor Howard Zeiderman...

54 minutes
May 16, 2023

Vanquishing the Enemy: Sports, War, and... Seminar, with Sarah Davis and Julie Reahard

What is the relationship between sports and war? And what is seminar's relationship to ...

37 minutes
May 16, 2023

The Challenge of Translation with Stella Zhu and Louis Petrich

If one could perfectly translate a literary work, would that translation make the origi...

70 minutes
May 16, 2023

Practicing for Death: Integrating Mind & Body, East & West with Krishnan Venkatesh and Claudia Hauer

Socrates says that the intellectual practice of philosophy is a practice for dying. But...

54 minutes
May 16, 2023

Lincoln’s ’New Birth of Freedom’ with Louis Petrich and George Russell

In the Gettysburg Address, President Lincoln proclaimed that soldiers gave their life a...

62 minutes
Apr 17, 2023

Science as a Liberal Art: Louis Petrich & Chester Burke

Annapolis tutor Chester Burke has spent many years teaching and shaping the laboratory ...

59 minutes
Apr 17, 2023

The Fool’s Paradise: To Where Does Travel Lead? with Krishnan Venkatesh and David Carl

Why do writers travel? Why do some authors write their most influential works in foreig...

41 minutes
Apr 17, 2023