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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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Of Gods, Dice, and Spooky Action at a Distance: Introduction to Bell's Inequality (David Branning) 20.02.2023 1:01:42
Recording of a lecture delivered on November 10, 2006, by David Branning as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Another "Lollere in the wynd"? Chaucer, his Miller, and Nicholas' Door (Christina von Nolcken) 17.02.2023 59:09
Recording of a lecture delivered on March 30, 2007, by Christina von Nolcken as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Wealth, Virtue and Corruption: Adam Smith's Moral Philosophy (Lauren Brubaker) 15.02.2023 1:05:41
Recording of a lecture delivered on January 21, 2011, by Lauren Brubaker as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
The Musical Universe and Mozart's Magic Flute (Peter Kalkavage) 13.02.2023 1:07:53
Recording of a lecture delivered on September 28, 2012, by Peter Kalkavage as part of the Formal Lecture Series. A typescript of the lecture is available on the SJC Digital Archives: https://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/show/37.
From Ancient Agony to Contemporary Ecstasy: The Gospel at Colonus (Theophus "Thee" Smith) 10.02.2023 59:45
Recording of a lecture delivered on January 18, 2008, by Theophus "Thee" Smith as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Form and Figure in Greek Art: Ideal Beauty, Individualism, and Political Space in Greek Architecture and Sculpture (Camille Paglia) 08.02.2023 1:51:05
Recording of a lecture delivered on February 16, 2007, by Camille Paglia as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Difference and Belonging in the Histories of Herodotus (Angel Parham) 06.02.2023 46:55
Recording of a lecture delivered on October 14, 2022, by Angel Parham as part of the Formal Lecture Series. Ms. Parham is an associate professor of Sociology and Senior Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia. She offers this description of her lecture: "One of the great gifts of antiquity is that its writers provide a window for us into ways of seeing the w...
Courage, Insight, Sympathy, Solitude: The Genealogy of the Noble Type in Part Nine of Beyond Good and Evil (Lise van Boxel) 03.02.2023 44:45
Recording of a lecture delivered on August 1, 2012, by Lise van Boxel as part of the Graduate Institute Summer Lecture Series. Ms. van Boxel was a tutor at St. John's College. Her talk is on Nietzsche's Geneology of Morals . In particular, her talk examines what it is that makes up a "noble type" for Nietzsche by looking at a close reading of part nine of his work. Her lecture aims to point toward...
Is Man the Measure of All Things? Plato's Analysis of Relativism (Matthew Davis) 01.02.2023 56:29
Recording of a lecture delivered on January 13, 2012, by Matthew Davis as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Virtuality Is Its Own Reward (Sven Birkerts) 30.01.2023 50:31
Recording of a lecture delivered on September 12, 1997, by Sven Birkerts as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Talking, Reading, Writing, Listening: A Lecture for Parents and Students (Eva Brann) 27.01.2023 55:11
Recording of a lecture delivered on November 4, 2011, by Eva Brann as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Politics According to Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky (with Emphasis on The Brothers Karamazov) (Donna Orwin) 25.01.2023 1:09:43
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on March 31, 2000, by Donna Orwin as part of the Formal Lecture Series. Note: the audio cuts out briefly at 00:45:47.
Aristotle on Respiration: The Origins of Functional Anatomy (James Lennox) 23.01.2023 1:05:59
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on March 22, 2013, by James Lennox as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Getting Things Together Again in Kant (Laurence Berns) 20.01.2023 1:07:26
Recording of a lecture delivered on April 14, 2000, by Laurence Berns as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Homer on Military Leadership (Jonathan Shay) 18.01.2023 1:17:32
Recording of a lecture delivered on April 10, 2015, by Jonathan Shay as part of the LCDR Erik S. Kristensen Lecture Series. The lecture is the third in a 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 Institute, Kristensen, a...
Great Books as a Tool for Liberating African Americans (Anika Prather) 16.01.2023 58:29
Recording of a lecture delivered by Anika Prather, Founder of The Living Water School, on September 18, 2020, as part of the Formal Lecture Series. Dr. Prather offers this description for her lecture: "I will first review the history of how the Great Books or Classical studies have historically been instrumental in liberating African Americans and then I will connect that to current events and the...
The Significance of Quantum Mechanics (Bernhardt Trout) 13.01.2023 1:03:13
Recording of a lecture delivered on December 1, 2017, by Bernhardt Trout as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
The Student, by Anton Chekhov: A Story About Us Told and Glanced At (Louis Petrich) 11.01.2023 1:03:15
Recording of a lecture delivered on November 3, 2017, by Louis Petrich as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Intellectual Sin: Three Case Studies (Philip LeCuyer) 09.01.2023 44:31
Recording of a lecture delivered on April 12, 2013, by Philip LeCuyer as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Battle of the Gods and Giants (Joe Sachs) 06.01.2023 57:01
Recording of a lecture delivered on March 6, 1992, by Joe Sachs as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Entropy, the New Caloric (Howard Fisher) 04.01.2023 1:06:08
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on February 12, 2017, by Howard Fisher as part of the Formal Lecture Series. The lecture is part two of a two-part series.
In Praise of Caloric (Howard Fisher) 03.01.2023 1:08:36
Recording of a lecture delivered on February 10, 2017, by Howard Fisher as part of the Formal Lecture Series. The lecture is part one of a two-part series.
Dante's Ontology: What the Florentine Poet Can Teach Contemporary Philosophers (Graham Harman) 30.12.2022 47:41
Recording of a lecture delivered on February 21, 2014, by Graham Harman as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Dante's Beatrice: Between Idolatry and Iconoclasm (Gabriel Pihas) 28.12.2022 54:41
Recording of a lecture delivered on December 2, 2011, by Gabriel Pihas as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
From Nature to History: The Search for Fundamental Necessities in Thucydides, Machiavelli, and Nietzsche (Charles Zug) 26.12.2022 1:05:26
Recording of a lecture delivered on July 13, 2017, by Charles Zug as part of the Graduate Institute Summer Lecture Series.
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