St. John's College (Annapolis) Lectures

Recording of a lecture delivered on January 24, 2003, by Henry Higuera as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Recording of a lecture delivered on September 13, 2024, by Graham Harman as part of the Formal Lecture Series. Professor Harman is an alum of the Annapolis campus of St. John's. He is currently a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and the Liberal Arts Co-Ordinator at the Southern California Institute of Architecture, with teaching stops around the world focused on philosophical thinking, ar...

Audio recording of a lecture delivered on November 1, 2002, by Santa Fe tutor David Bolotin as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Recording of a lecture delivered on August 23, 2024, by Annapolis Dean Suzy Paalman as part of the Formal Lecture Series. Ms. Paalman describes her lecture: "The motet by Palestrina based on Psalm 42:1 is beloved at St. John's College. If one reads further into the Psalm than the first verse, one can find a return of the motif of water which first appears as "fontes aquarum" in...

Recording of a lecture delivered on February 15, 2013, by Annapolis tutor Daniel Harrell as part of the Formal Lecture Series. Mr. Harrell describes his lecture: "We talk - and think - about music as if it moved, in an elementary and thoroughgoing sense. This is the sense in which we might say, of a rhythm, that it quickens and slows; or of a melody, that it rises and falls; or of a harmony,...

Recording of a lecture delivered November 30, 2007, by Annapolis tutor Brendon Lasell as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Recording of a lecture delivered on January 31, 1975, by Annapolis tutor Eva Brann as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Videorecording of a lecture delivered on August 28, 2020, by Annapolis Dean Joseph Macfarland as part of the Formal Lecture Series. The lecture was the first formal lecture of the academic year, previously referred to as the "Dean's Lecture," now called the "Christopher B. Nelson Lecture."

Audio recording of a lecture delivered on September 16, 2005, by Nelson Lund as part of the Formal Lecture Series. Dr. Lund is an alumnus of St. John's College who serves as Distinguished University Professor at the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University.

Recording of a lecture delivered on April 29, 1977, by Peter Quint as part of the Formal Lecture Series. Dr. Quint's lecture was the basis of a longer and more formal article in the Duke Law Journal : Peter E. Quint, "The Separation of Powers under Nixon: Reflections on Civil  Liberties and the Rule of Law," volume 1981, number 1 (February 1981).

Recording of a lecture by Annapolis tutor Daniel Harrell, on July 3, 2024, as part of the Graduate Institute Summer Lecture Series. Mr. Harell describes his lecture: "One can envision a St. John’s College where we study technology as explicitly and seriously as we study mathematics or laboratory science, while also refusing to adopt innovations in technology in the same way we have renounced...

Recording of a lecture delivered on April 22, 1977, by David Eisenbud as part of the Formal Lecture Series. The recording begins amid a speaker introducing Eisenbud.

Recording of a panel discussion between Brendan Boyle, Associate Dean for Graduate Programs, Jonathan Badger, and Patrick Coleman, St. John's College Tutors, on June 19, 2024, as part of the Graduate Institute Summer Lecture Series.

Recording of a lecture delivered on November 14, 2008, by Robert Bernasconi as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Recording of a lecture delivered by Annapolis tutor Lee Goldsmith on June 12, 2024, as part of the Graduate Institute Summer Lecture Series.

Recording of a lecture delivered on April 16, 1999, by Adam Schulman as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Recording of a lecture delivered on September 19, 2014, by William Braithwaite as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Audio recording of a lecture delivered on November 3, 1981, by Ralph Lerner as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Recording of a lecture delivered on March 22, 2024, by Thornton C. Lockwood, Professor of philosophy at Quinnipiac University, as part of the Formal Lecture Series. Dr. Lockwood describes his lecture: "Several senses of the term 'nature' feature prominently in the first book of Aristotle's Politics, although the term is generally absent from the rest of the Politics; justice and t...

Recording of a lecture given on April 18, 2014, by Christopher Kelly as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Recording of a lecture delivered on January 18, 2013, by Michael W. Grenke as part of the Formal Lecture Series. A typescript of the lecture is available in the St. John's College Digital Archives .

Recording of a lecture delivered on April 20, 2012, by Louis Petrich as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Recording of a lecture delivered on October 2, 2015, by Andrew Alexander Davis as part of the Formal Lecture Series. Dr. Davis is a professor at Belmont University. Davis describes his lecture: "Hegel claims that truth must be presented in a system. He also claims that there can be no preface to a system of philosophy. I explore the purpose of Hegel's preface to the Phenomenology of Spiri...

Recording of a lecture delivered on February 23, 2024, by Annapolis tutor Daniel Harrell as part of the Formal Lecture Series. Mr. Harrell describes his lecture: "When the so-called New Program was established at St. John’s College in 1937, conversation was to play no essential role—at least if you believe the first statement of the program, written by Scott Buchanan. Where you would expect t...

Recording of a lecture delivered on February 11, 2022, by Ange Mlinko as part of the Formal Lecture Series. Ms. Mlinko offers this description of her lecture:  "Poetry is an enormous subject, but it can be distilled into a single figure. This figure is Echo, who manifests in three ways: as a prosodic device at the level of the line and stanza; as a poetic form; and as a nymph from Greek mytho...