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.
Episodes
Recording of a lecture delivered on October 24, 2025, by Professor Mark Shiffman, as part of the Formal Lecture Series.Mark Shiffman (A89) is Professor and Department Chair of Philosophy at Saint Patrick’s Seminary in California and Director of the Institute for Philosophy, Technology, and Politics. He is the author of What is Ideology, with scholarly work spanning the fields of ancient philosophy, political theory, and the Catholi...
Recording of a lecture delivered on October 10, 2025, by Annapolis tutor Khafiz Kerimov, as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Mr. Kerimov offers the following description: The final lines of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit are not his own. Hegel ends the book with a quotation from Friedrich Schiller’s poem "Friendship" ("Freundschaft")—and misquotes it in a number of ways. Hegel's closing gesture invites a ...
Recording of a lecture delivered on September 26, 2025, by Annapolis Dean Joseph Macfarland as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Mr. Macfarland offers the following description: "According to Galileo, the grand book of the universe standing before our eyes is written in the language of mathematics, in the characters of geometrical figures. On account of this conception of nature as fundamentally mathematical, he is taken to be a so...
Video recording of a lecture delivered on September 19, 2025, by Santa Fe Dean Sarah Davis.
Ms. Davis offers the following description: "I hate everything that merely instructs me without augmenting or directly invigorating my activity.” Nietzsche opens The Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life with this quote from Goethe. It appropriately frames Nietzsche’s own meditation, which does not just walk us through dif...
Recording of a lecture delivered on September 12, 2025, by Annapolis tutor Nicholas Bellinson as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Mr. Bellinson offers the following description of his lecture: "What kind of relationship to time underlies the urge to attend the theater? Shakespeare points to this question in various plays through the metaphor of time's pregnancy. Over and over, his characters stage this very relations...
Recording of a lecture delivered on September 5, 2025, by Professor Thomas Merrill as part of the Formal Lecture Series. Thomas Merrill is an associate professor for American University’s School of Public Affairs, and the associate director for the university’s Political Theory Institute, with research interests in political science and governance. He previously served on the President’s Council on Bioethics, and his most recent bo...
Recording of a lecture delivered on August 22, 2025, by Annapolis President Suzy Paalman as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Ms. Paalman offers the following description: 'We learn as young children that multiplication is taking a number a certain number of times, to form the times tables. As we learn more, the meaning of multiplication subtly changes, even as the methods of doing actual problems don't really change mu...
Recording of a lecture delivered on August 30, 2024, by Annapolis tutor Nicholas Bellinson as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Recording of a lecture delivered on September 2, 1988, by Annapolis tutors Wye Allanbrook and Eva Brann as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
This lecture was the first for the 1988-1989 academic year, at the time called the Dean's Lecture.
Note: The recording begins after the start of the lecture and the first sentence is cut off. A typescript of the complete lecture is available on the St. John's College Digital Ar...
Recording of a lecture delivered on May 19, 1978, by Howard Zeiderman as part of the Formal Lecture Series. Mr. Zeiderman is now a tutor emeritus at St. John's College.
Recording of a lecture delivered on May 2, 1986, by Dr. Stephen Salkever as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Recording of a lecture delivered on January 17, 1986, by Annapolis tutor Stewart Umphrey as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Recording of a lecture delivered on November 8, 2002, by Jacob Howland as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Recording of a lecture delivered on January 11, 2002, by Ori Soltes as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Recording of a lecture delivered on September 16, 1994, by James N. Jarvis as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Recording of a lecture delivered on April 30, 1976, by Eva Brann as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Recording of a lecture delivered on April 4, 2025, by Dr. Jessy Jordan as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Dr. Jordan is Professor of Philosophy at Mount St. Mary’s University, specializing in neo-Aristotelian natural normativity. He is also the Director of the Mount’s common, integrated, and sequenced liberal arts core curriculum. He has published numerous articles on moral philosophy and is currently putting the finishing touch...
Recording of a lecture delivered on March 28, 2025, by Dr. Emily Austin as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Dr. Austin is an Associate Professor of Classics and the College at the University of Chicago, with research interests in Greek literature, especially Homer and depictions of solitude in ancient Greece. Her first book, Grief and the Hero: the Futility of Longing in the Iliad, explores the nexus of grief, longing and ange...
Recording of a lecture delivered on October 3, 2003, by Annapolis tutor Jonathan Tuck as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Recording of a lecture delivered on April 9, 2014, by Francis J. "Bing" West as part of the LCDR Erik S. Kristensen Lecture Series.
The lecture is the second in a series of 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, ...
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