St. John's College (Annapolis) Lectures

Recording of a lecture delivered on July 12, 2023, by Peter Danchin as part of the Graduate Institute Summer Lecture Series. Mr. Danchin describes his lecture: "Modern critiques of human rights law force us to confront two conceptual puzzles in the area of the claims of culture and religion. The first concerns the twin concepts, often run together, of the secular and freedom, and the question...

Recording of a lecture delivered on April 6, 1984, by Howard J. Fisher as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Recording of a lecture delivered on October 25, 1991, by Gregory Nagy as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Recording of a lecture delivered on February 17, 2023, by Jacob Howland as part of the Formal Lecture Series. Professor Howland describes his lecture: "Plato twice compares human beings to incommensurable magnitudes. What are the implications of this comparison? Thinking through this problem leads me to suggest that the embodied soul is by its very nature a locus of incommensurability. The so...

Recording of a lecture delivered on February 24, 2023, by Leah Lasell as part of the Formal Lecture Series. A typescript of Ms. Lasell's lecture is also available in the College's Digital Archives .

Recording of a lecture delivered on March 24, 2023, by Robert Post as part of the Formal Lecture Series. The lecture was the first President's Law and Society lecture and was part of the events celebrating the inauguration of Nora Demleitner. A typescript of the lecture is available on the College's Digital Archives .

Recording of a lecture delivered on February 7, 2014, by David Roochnik as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Recording of a lecture delivered on June 21, 2023, by Sherman Clark as part of the Graduate Institute Summer Lecture Series.  Professor Clark describes his lecture: "When scholars talk about Patroclus, they usually focus on his relationship with Achilles. But Patroclus is more than a sidekick and source of motivation. In fact, he is often called 'the best of the Achaeans.' But what co...

Recording of a lecture delivered on September 30, 2011, by Barry Mazur as part of the Formal Lecture Series. Mazur describes his lecture: "Well, I don't know the answer to the question of the title and no hedgehog will be harmed, or even mentioned again, in my lecture. The concept of area is one of the many things of interest in Euclid's  Elements , and is familiar to all who have bee...

Recording of a lecture delivered on July 1, 2015, by Steven Crockett as part of the Graduate Institute Summer Lecture Series. Mr. Crockett is a tutor at St. John's College in Annapolis. His talk centers on the year of Tocqueville's journey to and in America that would become the foundation for his work Democracy in America . His talk looks at letters, reflections, and memorabilia from the...

Recording of a lecture delivered on July 11, 2012, by Steven Gimbel as part of the Graduate Institute Summer Lecture Series. Gimbel's lecture is on the relationship between Judaism and Einstein's scientific thinking, in particular Einstein's unique convergence of science, religion, and politics. Gimbel holds the Edwin T. Johnson and Cynthia Shearer Johnson Distinguished Teaching Chair...

Recording of a lecture delivered on December 2, 2022, by Daniel Nicholson as part of the Formal Lecture Series. Dr. Nicholson describes his lecture: "Erwin Schrödinger’s  What is Life?  (1944) is one of the most celebrated scientific works of the twentieth century. However, like most classics, it is far more often cited than read. Efforts to seriously engage with Schrödinger’s arguments are r...

Recording of a lecture delivered on September 20, 1991, by Lucius T. Outlaw, Jr. as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Recording of a lecture delivered on September 30, 1988, by Patricia Locke as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Audio recording of a lecture delivered on April 28, 1989, by Samuel S. Kutler as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Recording of a lecture delivered on November 30, 2012, by Greg Recco as part of the Formal Lecture Series. The lecture was also called, "The Conference in the Meadow: The Choice of Life in Plato's Myth of Er."

Recording of a lecture delivered on April 19, 2013, by Elliott Zuckerman as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Recording of a lecture delivered on October 30, 1998, by Leon Kass as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Recording of part two of a two-part lecture delivered on August 25, 1983, by Eva Brann as part of the Formal Lecture Series. The first part of the lecture was delivered on August 18, 1983. A written version of the entire lecture was published in the Summer 1983 issue of  The St. John's Review .

Recording of part one of a two-part lecture delivered on August 18, 1983, by Eva Brann as part of the Formal Lecture Series. The second part of the lecture was delivered on August 25, 1983. A written version of the entire lecture was published in the Summer 1983 issue of The St. John's Review .

Recording of a lecture delivered on September 6, 2007, by Julie Fiez as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Audio recording of a lecture delivered on March 21, 2008, by Mitchell Miller as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Recording of a lecture given on September 9, 2016, by Joseph Macfarland as part of the Formal Lecture Series. A typescript of Mr. Macfarland's lecture is also available on the SJC Digital Archives .

Recording of a lecture delivered by Jason Tipton on November 16, 2018, as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Recording of a lecture delivered on September 7, 2018, by Karl Walling as part of the Formal Lecture Series. Mr. Walling is an alumnus of St. John's College.