COMMUNITY CALENDAR A PUBLICATION OF ST. JOHN’S COLLEGE SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO
MAY/JUNE 2012 VOL. 3.12
In this Issue: Summer Lecture Series, Concerts, Theatre, Events
SUMMER LECTURE SERIES 2012 Join us for a series of informal lectures, sponsored by the college’s Graduate Institute. Beginning on Wednesday, June 27, the series continues for five consecutive Wednesday afternoons, concluding August 1. Free and open to the public, each lecture is followed by a question-and-answer period.
SOCRATIC PIETY AND PRACTICE Michael Ivins, visiting professor, Indiana University of Pennsylvania Wednesday, June 27, 3:15 p.m. Junior Common Room Peterson Student Center There is no charge for admission At the end of Plato’s Meno, Socrates offers a surprising answer to the question of how virtue comes to be present in human beings. Virtue, he tells us, comes about through divine dispensation, as a gift from the gods. This assertion answers Meno’s opening question, but it also supplements his oversight of piety in his apparently comprehensive account of the possible sources of virtue. Even though Meno allows that virtue might come about in some way other than through teaching, practice, or nature, he fails to mention the possibility that obtaining virtue might be a result of acting piously. Socrates, on the other hand, neglects to address Meno’s suggestion that virtue might come about through practice. Although he offers refutations against the ideas that virtue might come from education or by nature, the possibility that virtue comes to be present as a kind of practice remains un-refuted anywhere in the dialogue. These conspicuous omissions hint, along with the dialogue’s close link with Plato’s Apology of Socrates, that there is some important relation between piety and practice, and therefore also, as Michael Ivins would like to argue, between virtue and the practice of philosophy as a way of life. Michael Ivins graduated St. John's College, Santa Fe, with a B.A. in 1997 and M.A. in Liberal Arts in 1999. He went on to earn his doctorate in philosophy from Duquesne University, where he studied ancient and continental philosophy and wrote a dissertation on Aristotle's Physics. He is now a visiting professor at Indiana University of Pennsylvania near Pittsburgh. Information about subsequent lecturers in the series will be available on the college’s website. Visit www.stjohnscollege.edu/events; click on Community Calendar.
At his best, man is the noblest of all animal
BREAD LOAF LECTURE POETRY WITH SANTA FE’S POET LAUREATE Joan Logghe, Santa Fe poet laureate Thursday, June 21 Time and location to be determined Joan Logghe has been an integral part of New Mexico’s Poetry Renaissance. She lives off the academic grid in La Puebla, New Mexico, where she and her husband Michael raised three children and built three houses. She studied at Tufts University, where she graduated as class poet. She began a life in poetry by volunteering at her children’s school thirty years ago. Awards include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry Grants, a Mabel Dodge Luhan Internship, and a Barbara Deming/Money for Women grant. Her teaching life has included Ghost Ranch Abiquiu, University of New Mexico-Los Alamos, Santa Fe Community College, Artworks, Santa Fe Girls’ School, and Santa Clara Pueblo Day School. She taught poetry in Bratislava, Vienna, and Zagreb, Croatia in 2004. Her books include What Makes a Woman Beautiful, Twenty Years in Bed with the Same Man (a finalist in Western States Book Award), Sofia, Rice, The Singing Bowl , and Greatest Hits: Love & Death, a triptych of selected poems by her, Renée Gregorio, and Miriam Sagan, the three founders of Tres Chicas Books. Logghe also is project director of Write Action: Writing from the Heart of AIDS, a grassroots organization which offers free writing workshops in Santa Fe, plus educational outreach to schools of northern New Mexico. For event time and location, visit www.stjohnscollege.edu/events; click on Community Calendar.
THE GREEK INSTITUTE The Graduate Institute in Santa Fe would like to call your attention to an exciting new summer opportunity. Beginning this summer, we will offer an eightweek intensive introductory course in ancient Greek. The aim of this course will be to prepare participants to read Greek authors such as Plato and Homer in the original language. Classes will be small, allowing each individual more time to learn in class. Please note that since this is an intensive Greek course, it will involve memorization, drills, quizzes, and tests. The dates for the Greek Institute will be June 11-August 2. On-campus room and board are available for Greek Institute participants at very reasonable rates. For further information, please contact Katie Widlund at 505-984-6050 or greekinstitute@sjcsf.edu.
ls; separated from law and justice he is the worst— ARISTOTLE
LUNCHTIME CONCERTS Ariel Winnick SF11, GIEC12, violin Peter Pesic, piano Friday, May 4, 12:15 – 1:10 p.m. Junior Common Room Peterson Student Center There is no charge for admission St. John’s student Ariel Winnick joins Peter Pesic, musician-in-residence and tutor, to perform three works in a Mozartian vein: Mozart’s Sonata in A (K308), Beethoven’s Sonata in A, op. 12 no.1, and Schubert’s Sonata in D (D 384). Ariel Winnick graduated from St. John’s College, Santa Fe, in 2011, and is now a graduate student in Eastern Classics at the Santa Fe campus. He enjoys playing classical music and traditional folk music of Appalachia, Ireland, and French Canada. He plays guitar, mandolin, banjo, bass guitar, musical saw, and spoons, and also writes music. Mr. Winnick has been spending time with distinguished musicians and scholars since 1987. Peter Pesic is a tutor and musician-in-residence at St. John’s College, Santa Fe. He attended Harvard and Stanford Universities, obtaining a doctorate in physics. He has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Physical Society, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Mr. Pesic is also a visiting scholar at Harvard University.
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Music for Clarinet and Piano Robert Marcus, clarinet Peter Pesic, piano Friday, June 29, 12:15 – 1:10 p.m. Junior Common Room Peterson Student Center There is no charge for admission Dr. Robert Marcus, for many years a professor of medicine at Stanford University and now resident in Santa Fe, will join the college's musicianin-residence, Peter Pesic, for a varied program of works for clarinet and piano. They will perform Saint-Saëns’s Clarinet Sonata, op. 167 (1921), Milhaud’s Duo Concertant, and Brahms’s Sonata No. 2 in E-flat, op. 120 no. 2. Robert Marcus recently celebrated his 60th year of playing the clarinet. His initial studies took place in Los Angeles, where his teachers were Mitchell Lurie and Antonio Raimondi. He received additional training at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara. Although his primary career was in medicine, Dr. Marcus has been an active musician throughout his adult life, both in orchestral and chamber music.
THEATRE Phedra and Hippolytus May 4, 5, 6 Great Hall Peterson Student Center St. John’s College students will perform two plays based the same ancient Greek myth -- Phedra by Racine and Hippolytus by Euripides -- over the course of the weekend on an alternating schedule. Times to be determined. For details, visit www.stjohnscollege.edu/events; click on Community Calendar.
women not following the same pursuits with eing whole is reduced to half — PLATO
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pen your mind.
Open your heart.
Experience something new. Revisit something familiar. Ignite your intellectual passion.
Discover great works during Summer Classics at St. John’s College where we gather to encourage a deeper understanding of who we are, where we have been, and how we change.
JOIN US FOR SUMMER CLASSICS IN SANTA FE
Summer Classics at St. John’s College is your chance to explore the perplexing, the rousing, and the numinous. Every summer people from across the country, varying widely in age and academic and professional backgrounds, gather in small seminars on the Santa Fe campus in July to read and discuss classics of literature, science, history, philosophy, and opera. Week I: July 9-13 Week II: July 16-20 Week III: July 23-27 Seminars cover a wide range of topics and interests. To inquire about seminars that are still open, call 505-984-6117 or email mspray@sjcsf.edu. Summer Classics participants also are invited to explore the vibrancy of historic Santa Fe and attend cultural events, including St. John’s College Music on the Hill™ concert series, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, and the world-renowned Santa Fe Opera. The complete schedule for Summer Classics 2012 and seminar details are available on our website at http://www.stjohnscollege.edu/outreach/ SF/SC/classics.shtml.
Celebrating its seventh year, 2012 Music on the Hill™ has rapidly become a signature Santa Fe summer event. St. John’s College would like to thank the Santa Fe community and the concert series’ lead sponsors—Los Alamos National Bank, KSFR, Comcast, Verve Gallery, Albuquerque Journal North, the SantaFean, and Barraclough and Associates—for supporting our annual event. From early June to late July, local and nationally known musicians offer free weekly Wednesday evening concerts in a wide range of musical styles, including jazz, R&B, and world music. Concerts take place on the college’s athletic field, from 6 to 8 p.m. Parking is available both on and off campus. (For parking options, visit our website at http://www.stjohnscollege.edu/events/SF/music.shtml.) Concertgoers are encouraged to picnic on the field. Food and soft drinks are available for purchase. Catering by Walter Burke Catering; beverages by Sunflower Markets. Please note that NO PETS are allowed on campus, and that bicycles must be parked in designated areas. This year’s Music on the Hill™ series line-up features the following musicians: June 13
July 11
Bert Dalton The Brazil Project
Janice and Vinnie Zummo Jazz Vocals and Guitar
June 20
July 18
Lori Carsillo Jazz Vocals
Bobby Shew Jazz Trumpet
June 27
July 25
Ron Helman Jazz Flugelhorn
Hillary Smith with Soul Kitchen R&B
This project is made possible in part by New Mexico Arts, a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs, and the National Endowment for the Arts.