Tag: Harvard University

National Book Award winner to speak at St. John’s tonight
[do action=”schuh”/] David Ferry, winner of the 2012 National Book Award for Poetry, will present a reading and translation of his poetry at St. John’s College. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will be held in the Francis Scott Key Auditorium on Friday, October 17 at 8 p.m. Ferry if a […]

Lecture at St. John’s on the Liberal Education of Plato’s “Laws”
St. John’s College tutor Robert Goldberg will give a lecture titled “The Liberal Education of Plato’s ‘Laws’” at St. John’s College. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will be held in the Francis Scott Key Auditorium on Friday, April 4 at 8 p.m. Goldberg earned his bachelor’s, master’s, and doctorate from Harvard […]

St. Johns Lecture–The Fairness Of Taxes
William Peirce, Case Western Reserve University professor emeritus of economics, will give a lecture titled “Can Taxes Be Fair? Should They Be?” at St. John’s College. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will be held in the Francis Scott Key Auditorium on Friday, October 11 at 8 p.m. Peirce received his […]

Summit School’s Annual Symposium Scheduled
On Saturday, October 26, 2013, The Summit School will present their annual Zelma Wynn Symposium Series from 9am-3:30pm. This year’s topic is Visible Thinking, Learning & Understanding: Project Zero Ideas in the Classroom. This day-long event will feature the work of Project Zero, a research group based in the Graduate School of Education at Harvard […]

St. John’s Lecture To Explore Artistic Expression In Animals
St. John’s College, Santa Fe, tutor Linda Wiener will give a lecture titled “Artistic Expression in Animals” at St. John’s College. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will be held in the Francis Scott Key Auditorium on Friday, September 6 at 8 p.m. Wiener’s lecture will explore artistic expressions occurring in […]

Harvard Professor To Lecture At St. John’s College
Harvard psychologist and author Irene Pepperberg will explore “Grey Parrot Number Acquisitions: Parallels with and Differences from Young Children” in her lecture at St. John’s College. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will be held in the Francis Scott Key Auditorium on Friday, August 30 at 8 p.m. In her New […]

New Yorker Book Critic To Present Steiner Lecture at St. John’s College
Harvard professor James Wood will explore “The New Atheism and the Modern Novel” when he gives the Steiner Lecture at St. John’s College. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will be held in the Francis Scott Key Auditorium on Friday, January 11, at 8 p.m. Wood describes his lecture as “an […]

Noted Curator To Lecture On “Women Printmakers” Exhibition At St. John’s College
Elizabeth Seaton, curator at the Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art at Kansas State University, will discuss the exhibition “Pushing the Line: American Women Printmakers” on view at the Mitchell Gallery at St. John’s College from August 24 to October 14. Seaton’s lecture will offer insight into the more than 50 woodcuts, lithographs, engraving, silkscreens, […]