St. John's College (Annapolis) Lectures

Dec 09 2024 235 ep. 59 mins 18
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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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All in C Major: On the Very Beginning of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier (Elliott Zuckerman)

Dec 09 2024 37 mins  
Recording of a lecture delivered on September 2, 2016, by Annapolis tutor Elliott Zuckerman as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Thucydides on Peace, Peacemaking and Peacemakers (Karl Walling)

Dec 05 2024 95 mins  
Recording of a November 20, 2024 lecture and Q&A session by Karl Walling of the U.S. Naval War College. The conversation with Dr. Walling centers on the problem of peacemaking in the Peloponnesian War, and Thucydides’ preference to often call what some name peace, a mere truce.

Aristophanes' Clouds and the Power of Logos (Stephanie Nelson)

Nov 21 2024 50 mins  
Recording of a lecture delivered on November 15, 2024, by Stephanie Nelson as part of the Formal Lecture Series. Dr. Nelson (SJC Annapolis, 1983) is Professor of Classical Studies at Boston University and a Visiting Tutor at St. John’s. Her most recent book is titled, Time and Identity in Ulysses and the Odyssey (2023), and explores how each work benefits from being read alongsi

The Philosophical Challenge of Early Art (Allen Speight)

Nov 14 2024 58 mins  
Recording of a lecture delivered on November 8, 2024, by Allen Speight as part of the Formal Lecture Series. Professor Speight (SJC Annapolis, 1984) is Professor of Philosophy and Director of Graduate Admissions at Boston University, with a teaching focus on the philosophy of art and culture. Alongside his interest in early art, he has written extensively on Hegel and German Ideol

Know Thyself in Dialogue with Others: A Case for Cross-Cultural Philosophy (Bret Davis)

Nov 11 2024 60 mins  
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on November 1, 2024, by Bret Davis as part of the Formal Lecture Series. Bret W. Davis is Professor and Higgins Chair in Philosophy at Loyola University Maryland, where he teaches courses in Asian, Western, and cross-cultural philosophy, with previous research and teaching stops in Germany and Japan. Professor Davis has published articles on

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