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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…
Perceptual and Deliberative Imagination in Aristotle’s De Anima
Video recording of the National Endowment for the Humanities lecture delivered on April 22, 2022, by Annapolis tutor Jason Tipton as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Mr. Tipton describes his lecture: "Many animals, Aristotle claims, live by…
Looking in Freshman Lab II – How Measuring, Weighing, and Counterbalancing Can Inspire Us to See Things in New Ways
Typescript of two lectures delivered on February 25 and 26, 2022, by Annapolis tutor Robert Druecker as part of the Formal Lecture Series. The lectures are the second in a three-part series on Freshman Lab.
Druecker describes his lectures: "This…
Druecker describes his lectures: "This…
Looking in Freshman Lab II – Measurement and Equilibrium: How Measuring, Weighing, and Counterbalancing Can Inspire Us to Look at Things Differently
Video recording of a lecture delivered on February 25, 2022, by Annapolis tutor Robert Druecker as part of the Formal Lecture Series. The lecture is the second in a three-part series on Freshman Lab.
Druecker describes his lecture: "This will be…
Druecker describes his lecture: "This will be…
"Poet, That’s Just Like You!": Language and the Figure of Echo (Steiner Lecture)
Video recording of a lecture delivered on February 11, 2022, by Ange Mlinko as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Mlinko is the poetry editor of the Nation, an associate professor at the University of Florida, and a Guggenheim fellow.
Mlinko…
Mlinko is the poetry editor of the Nation, an associate professor at the University of Florida, and a Guggenheim fellow.
Mlinko…
Understanding understanding
Audio recording of a lecture given by tutor Peter Pesic on January 27, 2023 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "What does it take to understand something, especially…
The Female Drama
Video recording of a lecture delivered on November 5, 2021, by Charlotte Thomas as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Dr. Thomas is Professor of Philosophy from Mercer University in Atlanta and Co-Director of the McDonald Center for America’s…
Dr. Thomas is Professor of Philosophy from Mercer University in Atlanta and Co-Director of the McDonald Center for America’s…
What would Kepler say to Einstein?
Transcript of a lecture given on November 5, 2021 by William Donahue as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series. The Dean's Office provided this description of the event: "Einstein once wrote that there is little value, other than the…
The Female Drama
Typescript of a lecture delivered on November 5, 2021, by Charlotte Thomas as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Dr. Thomas is Professor of Philosophy from Mercer University in Atlanta and Co-Director of the McDonald Center for America’s Founding…
Dr. Thomas is Professor of Philosophy from Mercer University in Atlanta and Co-Director of the McDonald Center for America’s Founding…
Gender, Intersectionality, and Marx’s Value Theory
Video recording of a lecture delivered on October 29, 2021, by Sarah Vitale as part of the Formal Lecture Series. Dr. Vitale is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Co-Editor of Radical Philosophy Review at Ball State University. Dr. Vitale…
Hiding behind Geometry: Analysis and Synthesis in Descartes and Spinoza
Typescript of a lecture delivered on October 15, 2021, by Joshua Parens as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Dr. Parens is the Dean of Braniff Graduate School of Liberal Arts, the Director of the Institute of Philosophic Studies, the Philosophy…
Dr. Parens is the Dean of Braniff Graduate School of Liberal Arts, the Director of the Institute of Philosophic Studies, the Philosophy…
Aristotle on the Impossibility of Defining Life
Video recording of a lecture delivered on October 1, 2021, by Christopher Frey as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Dr. Frey is an Associate Professor in the Philosophy Department at the University of South Carolina.
Dr. Frey describes his…
Dr. Frey is an Associate Professor in the Philosophy Department at the University of South Carolina.
Dr. Frey describes his…
"We the Heroes" or "We the People?" Leadership in the Homeric Epic
Video recording of a lecture delivered on September 24, 2021, by Johannes Haubold as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Dr. Haubold is a Professor of Classics at Princeton University.
Dr. Haubold describes his lecture: "This lecture…
Dr. Haubold is a Professor of Classics at Princeton University.
Dr. Haubold describes his lecture: "This lecture…
On the Originals of Fictive Mental Images
Video recording of a lecture delivered by Annapolis tutor Eva Brann on September 3, 2021 as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Ms. Brann describes her lecture: "Most people have 'mental images,' pictures and voices that don't occur through the…
Ms. Brann describes her lecture: "Most people have 'mental images,' pictures and voices that don't occur through the…
Comedy and the Virtue of Divine Puppets
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on August 27, 2021 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…
W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk, and the Democratic Catastrophe of the Color Line
Video recording of a lecture delivered by Jared Loggins on April 16, 2021 as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Mr. Loggins is an Assistant Professor of Black Studies and Political Science at Amherst University. His research and teaching interests…
Mr. Loggins is an Assistant Professor of Black Studies and Political Science at Amherst University. His research and teaching interests…
Ulysses: Does Your Life Matter? The Conspiracy Against Knowing Who You Are and How to Fight This Conspiracy with Amor-Matris
Video recording of a lecture delivered by Annapolis tutor David Townsend on March 26, 2021 as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Mr Townsend describes his lecture: "Ulysses names Amor Matris—mother-love—as the passion most strongly opposing the…
Mr Townsend describes his lecture: "Ulysses names Amor Matris—mother-love—as the passion most strongly opposing the…
Observing Black Holes Large and Small
Audio recording of a lecture given by Daryl Haggard on March 12, 2021 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "It’s been a fantastic decade for black hole studies, highlighted by…
Nicia's Virtue
Audio recording of a lecture given by Charlotte Thomas on March 5, 2021 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "Thucydides gives a scathing account of Nicias’s failures in Sicily…
Self-Consciousness in Kant's Transcendental Deduction of the Categories: What do we Understand when we Understand?
Audio recording of a lecture given by tutor Kit Slover on February 26, 2021 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "In the Preface to the Critique of Pure Reason, Kant confesses…