COMMUNITY CALENDAR ST. JOHN’S COLLEGE MAY/JUNE 2013 SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO
VOL. 3.13
Music on the Hill 2013 Wednesday evening concerts in June and July
In this Issue: Summer Lecture Series, Bread Loaf Lectures, Concerts, Events, Bookstore
Law is mind without reason. — WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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SUMMER LECTURE SERIES Join us for a series of informal lectures, sponsored by the college’s Graduate Institute. The series begins on Wednesday, June 19,and continues for six consecutive Wednesday afternoons, concluding July 31. Free and open to the public, each lecture is followed by a question-and-answer period.
Reductionism, Naturalism, and Undecidability Simon DeDeo, research fellow, Santa Fe Institute Wednesday, June 19, 3:15 p.m. Junior Common Room, Peterson Student Center A common version of naturalism holds that higher-level theories, such as those of the biological and social sciences, describe the relationships between coarse-grainings of more fundamental theories. The laws of the higher-level theories must be consistent with laws relating the fine-grained quantities. Using the tools of formal language theory, Simon DeDeo will present a toy model under which this account is strictly true, with a separation of theories into a single, ordered hierarchy of levels. He then will show how, for theories of reasonable sophistication, this hierarchy-of-levels picture not only collapses, but the reducibility of one theory to another becomes undecidable (in the Godelian sense). He will provide an example from recent empirical work that suggests this does indeed take place and examine the natural consequences that (1) the practice of the higher sciences is at least partially independent of physics, and (2) philosophy of science is itself an independent enterprise. Simon DeDeo is a research fellow at the Santa Fe Institute, where he works on information processing and computation in social and biological systems. Since 2011 he has been the principal investigator on an Emerging Frontiers grant from the National Science Foundation, and his research has been covered in the New Scientist and Scientific American and on National Public Radio. He studied physics, cosmology, and applied mathematics at Harvard University, Cambridge University, and Princeton, where he received his PhD in 2006.
“Humanity Exists in a State of Rupture from the World”: Hegel, the Fall, and Spirit’s Alienation from Nature Raoni Padui, tutor, St. John’s College, Santa Fe Wednesday, June 26, 3:15 p.m. Junior Common Room, Peterson Student Center The story of the Fall, especially in the Christian version that interprets it in terms of original sin, is a constant theme in Hegel’s writings. His interpretation of the Fall and of evil is not only interesting and original in its own right, but influences the manner in which Hegel comes to think of humanity’s alienation from nature. In this lecture, Raoni Padui will first attempt to explore Hegel’s reading as it appears in his Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion, with special attention to the necessity of our natural alienation. He
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then hopes to show how it is used and repeated in surprising places throughout Hegel’s work, including the Phenomenology, the Logic, and the Philosophy of History. A visiting tutor at St. John’s College since spring 2012, Raoni Padui received a bachelor of arts degree from Vassar College in 2003 and a master of arts degree and doctorate in philosophy from Villanova University in 2005 and 2012, respectively. Before coming to St. John’s, Raoni Padui was an adjunct instructor at Villanova and on the part-time faculty of the University of New Mexico.
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BREAD LOAF LECTURE The Tolstoy Family Story Contest Michael Katz, professor emeritus, Middlebury College Tuesday, June 25, 7 p.m. Coffee Shop, Peterson Student Center Michael Katz will speak about his current project, “The Tolstoy Family Story Contest,” in which he retranslates Tolstoy’s notorious and controversial story, “The Kreutzer Sonata” and translates into English for the first time two “counter-stories” by Tolstoy’s wife and one by their son, all of which disagree with Tolstoy’s tale. His wife’s stories, recently published in Moscow, lay hidden for almost 100 years in an attempt to avoid compromising her reputation as Tolstoy’s faithful wife and the mother of his many children. Michael Katz is C. V. Starr Professor Emeritus of Russian and East European Studies at Middlebury College. The author of The Literary Ballad in Early Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature and Dreams and the Unconscious in Nineteenth-Century Russian Fiction, he has translated and edited the Norton Critical Editions of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground and Ivan Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons. Professor Katz also has translated, among other works, Dostoevsky’s Devils, Alexander Herzen’s Who Is to Blame?, and N. G. Chernyshevsky’s What Is to Be Done?
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LUNCHTIME CONCERT Chopin and Schoenberg Peter Pesic, piano Friday, May 10, 12:10 -1:15 p.m. Junior Common Room, Peterson Student Center There is no charge for admission. Musician-in-residence and tutor Peter Pesic concludes his series of pianistic explorations for the 2012-2013 academic year. In this concert, he will perform Chopin’s Waltzes, opp. 69/2, 70/2, 70/3, and CT 222, Chopin’s Polonaise-Fantasy, op. 61, and Schoenberg’s Suite, op. 25. Peter Pesic is a tutor and musician in residence at St. John’s College, Santa Fe. He attended Harvard and Stanford, 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.
talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. — SIR FRANCIS BACON
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MUSIC ON THE HILL™
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Celebrating its eighth season, 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, Verve Gallery, Santa Fe Properties Luxury Market Group, the Santa Fean, Chalmers Capitol Ford Lincoln, 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 jazz styles.
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Concerts take place on the college’s athletic field, from 6 to 8 p.m. Parking is available close to campus and a free shuttle runs between Museum Hill and the college’s athletic field. For details, click HERE. Concertgoers may picnic on the field. Food is available for purchase from Walter Burke Catering, and beverages can be purchased from Sprouts Farmers Market. Please note that NO PETS are allowed on campus, and that bicycles must be parked in designated areas.
THE 2013 MUSIC ON THE HILL™ SERIES LINE-UP FEATURES THE FOLLOWING MUSICIANS: June 12 Faith Amour Jazz Vocals
July 10 Janice and Vinnie Zummo Jazz Vocals and Guitar
June 19 Santa Fe Great Big Jazz Band, With Joan Kessler
July 17 John Proulx Quartet Rat Pack Standards
June 26 Straight Up, With J Q Whitcomb and Brian Wingard
July 24 Nosotros Latin Jazz
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.
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SALOME AND THE MAIDS Friday and Saturday, May 3-4; Tuesday and Wednesday, May 7-8 Friday 5/3 and Tuesday 5/7 are The Maids at 7:30 p.m. in the Great Hall Saturday 5/4 and Wednesday 5/8 is Salome at 7:30 p.m. in the Great Hall Admissions is free to the St. John’s College community St. John’s College students will perform Oscar Wilde’s Salomé and Jean Genet’s The Maids over the course of the four days on an alternating schedule.
For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth. — WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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SUMMER CLASSICS 2013 Unlock new realms of thought in the words of Western Civilization’s greatest authors and in the company of inquiring minds around the seminar table.
Join us for Summer Classics in Santa Fe Week I: July 7-12 Week II: July 14-19 Week III: July 21-26 Seminars cover a wide range of topics and interests. 2013 offerings include seminars on works by Aristotle, John Le Carré, Mozart, Issac Newton, Marilynne Robinson, Shakespeare, Stendhal, Leo Tolstoy, Marguerite Yourcenar, and more. Summer Classics participants 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 2013 and seminar details can be viewed HERE. Seminars are filling up quickly, but there are still spaces available. Please call, 505-984-6015 or email summerclassics@sjcsf.edu.
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VISIT THE ST. JOHN’S COLLEGE BOOKSTORE
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JPhi: A Voyage from Brain to Soul by Giulio Tononi Art of Haiku: Its History Through Poems and Paintings by Stephen Addiss Hunger Mountain: A Field Guide to Mind and Landscape by David Hinton The Red Book, Liber Novus, A Reader’s Edition by C.G.Jung The Art of Fermentation by Sandor Ellix Katz
BOOKSTORE SUMMER HOURS BEGIN MAY 28TH:
The Bookstore will be open on Commencement Saturday, May 18, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. We will be closed from May 19 through May 27 to complete our annual inventory and enjoy the Memorial Day holiday.
Monday 8:30-7 Tuesday 8:30-6 Wednesday 8:30-6 Thursday 8:30-7 Friday 8:30-5 Closed Saturday Sunday 12-6
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