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Moments in the Liberal Education of Frederick Douglass from My Bondage and My Freedom
Video recording of a lecture delivered on August 26, 2022 by Joseph Macfarland as part of the Formal Lecture Series. First formal lecture of the academic year, previously referred to as the "Dean's Lecture", but now called the "Christopher B. Nelson…
Reading Genesis Chapter Three
Typescript of a lecture delivered on September 2, 2022, by William Braithwaite as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Mr. Braithwaite offers this description: "The Garden of Eden story, about Adam and Eve, what they did and how they were punished…
Mr. Braithwaite offers this description: "The Garden of Eden story, about Adam and Eve, what they did and how they were punished…
Reading Genesis Chapter Three
Video recording of a lecture delivered on September 2, 2022, by William Braithwaite as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Mr. Braithwaite offers this description: "The Garden of Eden story, about Adam and Eve, what they did and how they were…
Mr. Braithwaite offers this description: "The Garden of Eden story, about Adam and Eve, what they did and how they were…
Toward a Revival of the Mixed Constitution
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on September 16, 2022, by Patrick Deneen as part of the Formal Lecture Series. Mr. Deneen is a professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame, where he holds the David A. Potenziani Chair of…
“The Concept of Irony, with Continual Reference to Socrates:" Kierkegaard on the Infinity of Socratic Irony
Video recording of a lecture delivered on September 23, 2022, by Mary Townsend as part of the Formal Lecture Series.Ms. Townsend is an assistant professor of philosophy at St. John’s University in New York. She is the author of The Woman Question in…
How Deeply Does Democracy Shape Us?: Tocqueville on Our Ideas and Sentiments
Video recording of a lecture delivered on September 30, 2022, by Bryan Garsten as part of the Formal Lecture Series. Professor Garsten offers this description of his lecture: "The lecture will investigate how the Puritans are the point of departure…
Difference and Belonging in the Histories of Herodotus
Video 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…
Ms. Parham is an associate professor of Sociology and Senior Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of…
Walking the First Steps of His Camino with John of the Cross: An Exploration of the Dark Night of Sense
Typescript of a lecture delivered on November 11, 2022, by Annapolis tutor Robert Druecker as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Druecker describes his lecture: "According to John a verse from one of the Psalms is saying to us: Learn to be empty…
Druecker describes his lecture: "According to John a verse from one of the Psalms is saying to us: Learn to be empty…
Is Schrödinger’s What is Life? Still Worth Reading Today?
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on December 2, 2022, by Daniel Nicholson as part of the Formal Lecture Series. Dr. Nicholson describes his lecture: "Erwin Schrödinger’s What is Life? (1944) is one of the most celebrated scientific works of the…
On Motion
Typescript of a lecture delivered on February 24, 2023, by Leah Lasell as part of the Formal Lecture Series. Ms. Lasell describes her lecture: "The new science of motion presented in the last two days of The Two New Sciences is Galileo's last word in…
Remarks on the Inauguration of President Nora Demleitner: Citizenship, Undergraduate Education, and Great Books
Typescript of a lecture delivered on March 24, 2023, by Robert Post as part of the Formal Lecture Series. The lecture was the first President's Law and Society lecture and was part of the events celebrating the inauguration of Nora Demleitner.
Philosophy and the Cave Wall: Plato and Kant on the Form of the Given
Typescript of a lecture delivered on March 31, 2023, by Matthew Caswell as part of the Formal Lecture Series. Mr. Caswell describes his lecture: "The lecture will compare inquiries into the nature of sensibility offered by Plato, and by Kant.…
Vital Exuberance: Goethe on What Plants Want
Video recording of a lecture delivered on September 15, 2023, by Daniel Carranza as part of the Formal Lecture Series.The lecture conducts a close reading of Goethe's poem on the "Metamorphosis of Plants" by situating it within Goethe's larger…
On Parts and Wholes in Living Things: Harvey, Descartes, and the Heartbeat
Video recording of a lecture delivered on August 25, 2023, by Suzy Paalman as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Ms. Paalman describes her lecture: "William Harvey and René Descartes famously disagreed in their accounts of what the heart is doing…
Ms. Paalman describes her lecture: "William Harvey and René Descartes famously disagreed in their accounts of what the heart is doing…
What the Heck is Hell? Divine Judgment in the Gospel of Matthew
Video recording of a lecture delivered on October 27, 2023, by Ron Haflidson as part of the Formal Lecture Series.Mr. Haflidson describes his lecture: "In this lecture, I explore the largely neglected and perhaps totally wrong possibility that when…
Being a Book
Typescript of a lecture delivered on February 23, 2024, by Daniel Harrell as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Mr. Harrell describes his lecture: "When the so-called New Program was established at St. John’s College in 1937, conversation was to…
Mr. Harrell describes his lecture: "When the so-called New Program was established at St. John’s College in 1937, conversation was to…
Being a Book
Video recording of a lecture delivered on February 23, 2024, by Daniel Harrell as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Mr. Harrell describes his lecture: "When the so-called New Program was established at St. John’s College in 1937, conversation was…
Mr. Harrell describes his lecture: "When the so-called New Program was established at St. John’s College in 1937, conversation was…