St. John's College (Annapolis) Lectures

Nov 04 2024 229 ep. 59 mins 17
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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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Caesars: From Plutarch to Shakespeare—and Beyond (Christopher Pelling)

Nov 04 2024 56 mins  
Recording of a lecture delivered on March 22, 2002, by Christopher Pelling as part of the Formal Lecture Series. Dr. Pelling is Regius Professor of Greek emeritus at the University of Oxford. Note: the recording started slightly after Dr. Pelling began speaking. This lecture is also part of the Steiner Lecture Series. The Andrew Steiner Memorial Lecture fund was created by the

Ways of Naysaying (Eva Brann)

Oct 31 2024 53 mins  
Recording of a lecture delivered on November 2, 2001, by Eva Brann as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Pursuing the Tiniest Bits of Matter: the Legacy of Democritus from Quarks to Cancer (Cynthia Keppel)

Oct 28 2024 49 mins  
Recording of a lecture delivered on October 18, 2024, by Cynthia Keppel as part of the Formal Lecture Series. Dr. Keppel, a St. John's Annapolis alum, leads the Physics Division at Jefferson Labs, where she and her colleagues study the structure and dynamics of the fundamental building blocks of matter. She is both a nuclear physicist and a cancer researcher, with numerous patents

The Ethics and Aesthetics of Sympathy in Sophocles' Philoctetes (Ellwood Wiggins)

Oct 17 2024 50 mins  
Recording of a lecture delivered on October 11, 2024, by Dr. Ellwood Wiggins as part of the Formal Lecture Series. Professor Wiggins (SJC Annapolis, 1998) is an associate professor in the German department at the University of Washington, Seattle, where he teaches comparative literature and philosophy. He has also taught in Kentucky, Germany, and Russia. His teaching and research

What's Wrong With History? (Zena Hitz)

Oct 07 2024 57 mins  
Recording of a lecture delivered on September 27, 2024, by Annapolis tutor Zena Hitz as part of the Formal Lecture Series. Ms. Hitz offers this description of her lecture: “In a St. John's seminar, we do not approach the readings historically, that is, ‘in a context.’ Instead, we ask them questions, as we might ask living people questions, and engage them in conversation and

Phenomenology of Nature (Ryan Shea)

Sep 30 2024 67 mins  
Recording of a lecture delivered on September 20, 2024, by Ryan Shea as part of the Formal Lecture Series. Ryan Shea taught at Providence College for eight years, including courses in philosophy of science, environmental philosophy, and nature writing. His research weaves together ancient philosophical biology (especially Aristotle), the scientific revolution, phenomenology, Germa

The Political Foundations of Modernity (Henry Higuera)

Sep 23 2024 67 mins  
Recording of a lecture delivered on January 24, 2003, by Henry Higuera as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Footnotes to Aristotle (Graham Harman)

Sep 19 2024 75 mins  
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 philosop

Do We Have a Right to Live as We Please (So Long as We Respect the Right of Others to Do the Same)? (David Bolotin)

Sep 12 2024 63 mins  
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on November 1, 2002, by Santa Fe tutor David Bolotin as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

The One and the Many in Psalm 42: Sicut Cervus (Susan Paalman)

Aug 29 2024 50 mins  
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 aq