St. John's College (Annapolis) Lectures

Recording of a lecture delivered by Michael Zuckert, Emeritus Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame, on September 13, 2019, as part of the Formal Lecture Series.  Zuckert describes his lecture topic as follows: "Constitution Day is intended to honor and cogitate on the Constitution. My talk focuses not so much on the constitution itself but on constitutionalism. To a...

Recording of a lecture delivered by Matt Linck on January 18, 2019, as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Recording of a lecture delivered on December 9, 1983, by Samuel S. Kutler as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Recording of a lecture delivered on October 6, 1972, by Eva Brann as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Recording of a lecture delivered by Paul Ludwig on September 14, 2018, as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Recording of a lecture delivered on November 28, 1973, by Beate Ruhm von Oppen as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Recording of a lecture delivered by Mitzi Lee, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado Boulder, on February 7, 2020, as part of the Formal Lecture Series. Dr. Lee offers this description for her lecture: "What kind of a virtue is justice, and how does it differ from the other virtues, according to Aristotle? I shall argue that, for Aristotle, justice is fundamentally concer...

Recording of a lecture delivered on January 20, 2017, by Matthew Linck as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Recording of a lecture given on September 14, 1973, by Curtis Wilson as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Recording of a lecture delivered on September 22, 2017, by Margaret Kirby as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Recording of a lecture delivered on September 30, 2016, by Leon Kass as part of the Formal Lecture Series. Kass describes his lecture as, "a close examination and fresh interpretation of the Biblical text (Exodus 20)."

Recording of a lecture delivered on August 26, 2022, by Joseph Macfarland as part of the Formal Lecture Series. The lecture is the first of the academic year, previously referred to as the "Dean's Lecture", but now called the "Christopher B. Nelson Lecture".

Recording of a lecture delivered by Patricia Locke, Annapolis tutor on October 2, 2020, as part of the Formal Lecture Series. Ms. Locke describes her lecture: "Madame de Lafayette’s book, La Princesse de Clèves , is one of the earliest novels of psychological realism, while at the same time it offers us an idealized description of an historical milieu. Our protagonist must wend her way through the...

Recording of the National Endowment for the Humanities lecture delivered on April 22, 2022, by Annapolis tutor Jason Tipton as part of the Formal Lecture Series. Mr. Tipton describes his lecture: "Many animals, Aristotle claims, live by imagination.  In an important way, we can understand that imagination is the product of the process of perception and the condition for noetic activity. ...

Recording of a lecture delivered on November 19, 2021, by Melvin Rogers as part of the Formal Lecture Series. Professor Rogers is an Associate Professor of Political Science and the Director of Graduate Studies of Political Science at Brown University.  His current book project is  The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political...

Recording of a lecture delivered on October 29, 2021, by Sarah Vitale as part of the Formal Lecture Series. Dr. Vitale is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Co-Editor of Radical Philosophy Review at Ball State University. Dr. Vitale describes her lecture: “Marxist feminists have approached the question of what comes first – patriarchy or capitalism – in many ways, but there are two main threads...

Recording of a lecture delivered on March 8, 1974, by Gisela Berns as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Recording of a lecture delivered on October 27, 2017, by Henry Higuera as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Recording of a lecture delivered on September 24, 2021, by Johannes Haubold as part of the Formal Lecture Series. Dr. Haubold is a Professor of Classics at Princeton University. Dr. Haubold describes his lecture: "This lecture investigates some fundamental problems of leadership as they emerge from the Homeric epics. It asks what happens when heroic leaders (Achilles, Agamemnon, Hector, Odysseus)...

Recording of a lecture delivered by Ron Haflidson, Annapolis tutor, on September 25, 2020, as part of the Formal Lecture Series.  Mr. Haflidson offers this description for the lecture: "In the Book of Job, God and Job seem to disagree about ostriches. I use that disagreement as a means to explore Job’s spiritual crisis and God's response to it. This inquiry will involve numerous—often wondrou...

Recording of a lecture delivered on April 6, 2022, by Jeffrey R. Macris as part of the LCDR Erik S. Kristensen Lecture Series. Twenty-four centuries ago the ancient Greek world erupted in a fratricidal war that pitted Athens and its allies versus Sparta and theirs. Exiled by his Athenian peers, the general Thucydides penned a history of the Peloponnesian War that drew upon eyewitness accounts and...

Recording of a lecture delivered on July 8, 2020, by Ted Hadzi-Antich as part of the Graduate Institute Summer Lecture Series. Ted Hadzi-Antich, chair of the political science department at Austin Community College, presents a talk about teaching the first book of Euclid’s Elements in the context of other works studied in the Great Questions seminar. This lecture includes some animated presentatio...

Audio recording of a lecture delivered on April 21, 2017, by Steven Hancoff as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Audio recording of a lecture delivered on December 2, 2016, by Michael Grenke as part of the Formal Lecture Series.   Mr. Grenke describes his lecture: "Shakespeare's Cymbeline has at its center a love story.  Two young lovers marry without permission and against conventional expectations.  The young lovers vow fidelity, as in many marriages, and profess themselves and their affecti...

Recording of a lecture delivered on July 5, 2017, by Rebecca Goldner as part of the Graduate Institute Summer Lecture Series. Ms. Goldner is a tutor at St. John's College in Annapolis. Her talk is about the importance and relevance of the work of Simone de Beauvoir. In particular, her talk focuses on de Beauvoir's seminal work The Second Sex and the perennial questions it asks. From what it means...