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St. John's College (Annapolis) Lectures

Recordings of lectures from St. John's College's Annapolis campus. The recordings include lectures in the Formal Lecture Series, Graduate Institute Wednesday Night Lecture Series, and the annual Erik S. Kristensen Memorial Lecture. The recordings are also available on the College's Digital Archives where you'll find many more lectures not yet available here.

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Jul 2, 2026

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Episodes

Words and Things: Mystical Traditions of Reading Sacred and Secular Books (Mark Delp) 01.05.2023

Recording of a lecture delivered on June 20, 2018, by Mark Delp as part of the Graduate Institute Summer Lecture Series.

What is a Question? (Daniel Harrell) 28.04.2023

Recording of a lecture delivered on October 16, 2015, by Daniel Harrell as part of the Formal Lecture Series. A typescript of Mr. Harrell's lecture is also available on the SJC Digital Archives .

Leibniz's Monadology and the Philosophical Foundations of Non-Locality in Quantum Mechanics (James Beall) 24.04.2023

Recording of a lecture delivered on December 4, 2015, by James Beall as part of the Formal Lecture Series. A typescript of Mr. Beall's lecture is also available on the SJC Digital Archives .

Francis Bacon and the Conquest of Nature (Laurence Berns) 21.04.2023

Recording of a lecture delivered on April 25, 1975, by Laurence Berns as part of the Formal Lecture Series. A typescript of Mr. Berns' lecture is also available on the SJC Digital Archives .

Galileo Agonistes (Curtis Wilson) 18.04.2023

Recording of a lecture delivered on October 1, 1999, by Curtis Wilson as part of the Formal Lecture Series. A typescript of Mr. Wilson's lecture is also available on the SJC Digital Archives .

Sappho I: An Ontological Approach (Joshua Kates) 13.04.2023

Recording of a lecture delivered on January 13, 1995, by Joshua Kates as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Dante and Ulysses: A Reading of Inferno XXVI (Peter Kalkavage) 11.04.2023

Recording of a lecture delivered on January 27, 1989, by Peter Kalkavage as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Baudelaire's Swan Song (Jonathan Tuck) 07.04.2023

Recording of a lecture delivered on October 13, 2006, by Jonathan Tuck as part of the Formal Lecture Series. A typescript of Tuck's lecture is also available on the SJC Digital Archives.

The Anger of Achilles, and Its Source: A Reading of Book One of the Iliad (Adam Schulman) 05.04.2023

Recording of a lecture delivered on September 7, 2012, by Adam Schulman as part of the Formal Lecture Series. A typescript of Schulman's lecture is also available in the SJC Digital Archives.

Shakespeare’s Sonnet 64: What Can Be Said About a Poem, and What Should Be Said (Elliott Zuckerman) 03.04.2023

 Recording of a lecture delivered on July 11, 2018, by Elliott Zuckerman as part of the Graduate Institute Summer Lecture Series.

The Female Drama (Charlotte Thomas) 31.03.2023

Recording of a lecture delivered on November 5, 2021, by Charlotte Thomas as part of the Formal Lecture Series. Dr. Thomas is Professor of Philosophy from Mercer University in Atlanta and Co-Director of the McDonald Center for America’s Founding Principles. She was named the Executive Director of Association for Core Texts and Courses in 2020. Dr. Thomas describes her lecture: "At the beginni...

Interpretations of the Magic Flute (Beata Ruhm von Oppen) 29.03.2023

Recording of a lecture delivered on April 4, 1978, by Beate Ruhm von Oppen as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Beyond Point-and-Shoot Morality: Why Cognitive Science Matters for Ethics (Joshua Greene) 27.03.2023

Recording of a lecture delivered on November 11, 2011, by Joshua Greene as part of the Formal Lecture Series. Greene describes his lecture: "How does the moral brain work, and how can it work better?... In this talk I'll review evidence old and new for the dual-process theory of moral judgment, according to which moral judgments are driven by both automatic emotional responses and control...

Schiller's Drama: Fulfillment of History and Philosophy in Poetry (Gisela Berns) 24.03.2023

Recording of a lecture delivered on February 26, 1982, by Gisela Berns as part of the Formal Lecture Series. A typescript of Berns' lecture is also available on the St. John's College Digital Archives: https://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/show/1089. Berns' voice is rather difficult to hear in the original recording and it may be helpful to refer to the typescript.

What, Then, Is Time? (Eva Brann) 22.03.2023

Recording of a lecture delivered on September 4, 1998, by Eva Brann as part of the Formal Lecture Series. Brann's lecture is based on her book What, Then, Is Time? , published by Rowman and Littlefield in 1999: https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780847692927/What-Then-Is-Time. The typescript of the lecture was reprinted in The St. John's Review , volume XLV, number 3 (2000): https://digitalarchives....

Pity as a Civic Virtue in Sophocles' Philoctetes (Marina McCoy) 20.03.2023

Recording of a lecture delivered on April 8, 2011, by Marina McCoy as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Learning to Read Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed (Judy Seeger) 15.03.2023

Recording of a lecture delivered on January 29, 2016, by Judy Seeger as part of the Formal Lecture Series. A typescript of the lecture is also available on the SJC Digital Archives .  

Are Individuals Beings? (Hannah Hintze) 13.03.2023

Recording of a lecture delivered on April 20, 2018, by Hannah Hintze as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

American Identity in the Age of Trump (Lydia Polgreen) 10.03.2023

Recording of a lecture delivered on March 31, 2017, by Lydia Polgreen as part of the Formal Lecture Series. This lecture is also part of the Steiner Lecture Series, which is made possible by a gift from the Steiner family in memory of Andrew Steiner, an alumnus of the college from 1963. The lecture series was established to bring notable speakers to campus from a variety of disciplines and endeavo...

Books of Nature (Elizabeth Yale) 06.03.2023

Recording of a lecture delivered on February 24, 2017, by Elizabeth Yale as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Resentment, Injustice, and the Appeal to Providence in Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments (John T. Scott) 03.03.2023

Recording of a lecture delivered on January 10, 2014, by John Scott as part of the Formal Lecture Series. 

Lucretius on the Nature of Things (Margaret Kirby) 01.03.2023

Recording of a lecture delivered on April 13, 2012, by Margaret Kirby as part of the Formal Lecture Series. A typescript of the lecture is also available in the SJC Digital Archives .  

1001 Nights of Marcel Proust (Patricia Locke) 27.02.2023

Recording of a lecture delivered on February 11, 2011, by Patricia Locke as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Thought, Image, and the Printed Page in Early Modern Europe (Daniel Selcer) 24.02.2023

Recording of a lecture delivered on October 26, 2012, by Daniel Selcer as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Dwelling in the Land of the Confessions (Michael J. Brogan) 22.02.2023

Audio recording of a lecture delivered on November 22, 2013, by Michael Brogan as part of the Formal Lecture Series.  A typescript of Brogan's lecture is also available from the SJC Digital Archives .  

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