St. John's College (Annapolis) Lectures

Recording of a lecture delivered on April 21, 2021, by Dr. David V. Gioe as part of the LCDR Erik S. Kristensen Lecture Series. David Gioe is an Assistant Professor of History at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, a History Fellow for the Army Cyber Institute, and, currently, a Visiting Senior Research Fellow in the Department of War Studies, King’s College, London. In his Global Professorsh...

Audio recording of a lecture delivered on November 17, 2017, by Gregory Fried as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Recording of a lecture delivered on October 1, 2021, by Christopher Frey as part of the Formal Lecture Series. Dr. Frey is an Associate Professor in the Philosophy Department at the University of South Carolina. Dr. Frey describes his lecture: "What unites the millions of biological species that populate our universe and sets them apart from its inanimate remainder? Why should we consider activiti...

Recording of a lecture delivered on June 29, 2022, by Steve Steinbach as part of the Graduate Institute Summer Lecture Series. Mr. Steinbach was a partner at a law firm in Washington D.C before leaving the legal profession for teaching. He is now the chair of the History department at Sidwell Friends, and is the author of With Liberty and Justice for All?: The Constitution in the Classroom . Mr. S...

Video recording of a lecture delivered on February 25, 2022, by Annapolis tutor Robert Druecker as part of the Formal Lecture Series. The lecture is the second in a three-part series on Freshman Lab. Druecker describes his lecture: "This will be the second in a series of lectures for freshman on ways of looking they encounter in Freshman Laboratory. In the second segment of the class, the students...

Video recording of a lecture delivered on July 6, 2022, by Gabriela Quercia Kahrl as part of the Graduate Institute Summer Lecture Series.   Ms. Kahrl is the Associate Director of the Chacon Center for Immigrant Justice at the University of Maryland Carey School of Law.   As part of the partnership between the Annapolis Graduate Institute and the Carey School of Law, Ms. Kahrl  spea...

Video recording of two lectures delivered by Robert Druecker, Annapolis tutor on September 11 and 12, 2020, as part of the Formal Lecture Series. The lectures are the first in a three-part series on Freshman Lab. Mr. Druecker describes the lectures: "Part One gives a sense both of what students at the beginning of Freshman Laboratory read about looking at plants and of how they look at trees and o...

Audio recording of a lecture delivered on April 13, 2016, by Seth Cropsey as part of the LCDR Erik S. Kristensen Lecture Series. The lecture is the first in a newly established joint lectures series between St. John's College and the U.S. Naval Academy to honor the memory of Lieutenant Commander Erik S. Kristensen. An alumnus of the United States Naval Academy and the St. John's College Graduate I...

Audio recording of a lecture delivered on September 16, 2016, by Steven Crockett as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Audio recording of a lecture delivered by Daniel Burns on January 25, 2019, as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Audio recording of a lecture delivered by Agness Callard on January 11, 2019, as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Audio recording of a lecture delivered on March 24, 2017, by Chester Burke as part of the Formal Lecture Series. Mr. Burke describes his lecture: "In The Assayer (1623), Galileo Galilei famously proclaimed that 'Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.' In this lecture, I propose to consider this statement from the perspective of the histor...

Audio recording of a lecture delivered on July 10, 2019, by William Braithwaite as part of the Graduate Institute Summer Lecture Series. Mr. Braithwaite is a tutor at St. John's College, Annapolis. His talk centers on Euclid's role as an educator not just of mathematics but also of life. In particular, Braithwaite examines the ways in which Euclid's mathematical reasoning has applicability outside...

Audio recording of a lecture delivered by Brendan Boyle on February 22, 2019, as part of the Formal Lecture Series. The beginning of the lecture was not recorded.  

Audio recording of a lecture delivered by Karol Berger on February 15, 2019, as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Audio recording of a lecture delivered on July 26, 2017, by Naomi Baron as part of the Graduate Institute Summer Lecture Series.

Audio recording of a lecture delivered on September 9, 2016, by Robert Charles Abbott, Jr. as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Video recording of a lecture delivered by Chris Arnade, Ph. D. on October 30, 2020, as part of the Formal Lecture Series. Dr. Arnade describes his lecture: "What costs do current political and economic forces impose on the worst off among us? We often hear of a divide between 'elites' and 'ordinary people,' but in what does this divide consist? Who are the leaders, and what guides their thinking?...

Audio recording of a lecture delivered by Ronna Burger, Professor of Philosophy at Tulane University, on November 8, 2019, as part of the Formal Lecture Series. Burger describes her lecture topic as follows: "The family is a central concern for the Bible as well as for Greek poetry and philosophy. But there seems to be an important difference in the problem on which each tradition focuses. The dom...

Audio recording of a lecture delivered on April 19, 2017, by Dr. Angelo Codevilla as part of the LCDR Erik S. Kristensen Lecture Series. The lecture is part of a joint lecture series between St. John's College and the U.S. Naval Academy to honor the memory of Lieutenant Commander Erik S. Kristensen. An alumnus of the United States Naval Academy and the St. John's College Graduate Institute, Kriste...

Audio recording of a lecture delivered by Mark Alznauer, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Northwestern University, on September 20, 2019, as part of the Formal Lecture Series. Alznauer describes his lecture topic as follows: "Hegel says that the only presupposition that the philosopher brings to history is the simple thought of reason, that reason rules the world. In this lecture, I will compare...

Audio recording of a lecture delivered on April 26, 2019, by Andrew Bacevich as part of the LCDR Erik S. Kristensen Lecture Series. The lecture is part of a joint lecture series between St. John's College and the U.S. Naval Academy to honor the memory of Lieutenant Commander Erik S. Kristensen. An alumnus of the United States Naval Academy and the St. John's College Graduate Institute, Kristensen,...

Recording of a lecture delivered by Annapolis tutor Eva Brann on September 3, 2021, as part of the Formal Lecture Series. Ms. Brann describes her lecture: "Most people have 'mental images,' pictures and voices that don't occur through the eyes and ears but behind them. Most of these are memory images whose originals are things seen or heard in the outside world. Some, however, are inner events, im...

Recording of a lecture delivered on June 24, 2020, by William Braithwaite as part of the St. John's College, Annapolis Graduate Institute Summer Lecture Series. The final minute of the recording (beginning at 01:02:00) is in audio format only.   Mr. Braithwaite describes his lecture as follows: "Traditionally serving to introduce the study of Plato’s two dozen dialogues, the Meno raises...