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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…

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Video recording of a lecture delivered on November 3, 2023, by Kevin Kambo as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Professor Kambo describes his lecture: "In Plato's Republic, Socrates suggests that the best regime is doomed to fail. This failure…

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Video 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…

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Video recording of a lecture delivered on August 22, 2025, by 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…

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Video recording of a lecture delivered on February 7, 2025, by Annapolis tutor Mary Elizabeth Halper as part of the Formal Lecture Series. Ms. Halper offers this description: "There are two kinds of speech: the speech we speak and the speech we read.…

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Video 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…

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Video 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…

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Video recording of a lecture delivered on January 9, 2026, by Annapolis Assistant Dean Ron Haflidson, as part of the Formal Lecture Series.Mr. Haflidson offers the following description of his lecture: "In Genesis, when the Man first meets the Woman,…

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Video recording of a lecture delivered on February 13, 2026, by Annapolis tutor Brendon Lasell, as the 2026-26 NEH lecture.Mr. Lasell offers the following description of his lecture: "Diophantus begins his Arithmetica by saying that he has 'tried to…

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Video 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…

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Video recording of a lecture delivered on November 14, 2025, by Annapolis tutor Matthew Linck, as part of the Formal Lecture Series.Mr. Linck offers the following description of his lecture: "Our encounter with Matisse will be an occasion to think…

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Video recording of a lecture delivered on February 6, 2026, by Annapolis tutor Janet Dougherty, as part of the Formal Lecture Series.Ms. Dougherty offers the following description of her lecture: "Usbek, the most prolific writer in Montesquieu’s…

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Video 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…

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Video 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…

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Video 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…

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Audio recording of a lecture delivered on April 21, 2017 by Steven Hancoff as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

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Typescript of a lecture given on September 19, 1975 by Curtis Wilson as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

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Audio recording of a lecture given on September 19, 1975 by Curtis Wilson as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

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Audio recording of a lecture delivered on November 3, 2017, by Louis Petrich as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

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Dwight D. Eisenhower speaking at a podium at the opening of the Francis Scott Key Auditorium and Mellon Hall, St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland, May 22, 1959.Eisenhower's speech is reprinted in Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1959: containing the public…

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