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Petrarch’s Climb and the Crisis of the New
Audio recording of a lecture given by tutor David McDonald on November 18, 2022 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "In a letter often called “The Ascent of Mt. Ventoux,” the…
War and Beefs: Gang Violence in The Illiad
Audio recording of a lecture given by Jill Leovy on November 18, 2022 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "The Iliad supplies a detailed and recognizable description of what…
The Epic Narrative of the Book of the Torah: The Story of Creation and the Story of Abraham: Their Literary Character and Teaching
Audio recording of a lecture given by Hillel Fradkin on November 11, 2022 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "This lecture will explore the literary character of the Torah…
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…
Xenophon’s Cyropaedia: The Limits of Political Excellence
Audio recording of a lecture given by tutor Janet Dougherty on November 4, 2022 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "Cyrus, Xenophon tells us in the first chapter of the…
Faustian Phenomena: Goethe on Plants, Animals, and Modern Biologists
Audio recording of a lecture given by tutor John Cornell on October 28, 2022 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "Goethe’s character Faust – based on the medieval legend about…
Plato and the Poets
Audio recording of a lecture given by Elaine Scarry on October 21, 2022 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series.
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…
What it Means to be Human: The Case for the Body in Public Bioethics
Audio recording of a lecture given by O. Carter Snead on October 7, 2022 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "The natural limits of the human body make us vulnerable and…
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…
Time, Eternity, and the ‘Tyranny of History’ in Islamic Philosophy
Audio recording of a lecture given by Saiyad Nizamuddin Ahmad on September 28, 2022 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "An examination of the problem of time and eternity in…
“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…
Pascal’s Conception of ‘Universal Men’
Audio recording of a lecture given by tutor Richard McCombs on September 23, 2022 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "Pascal’s almost unrelenting emphasis on the weakness,…
What is Happening With the Supreme Court?
Audio recording of a lecture given by tutor Martha Franks on September 16, 2022 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "The United States Supreme Court has recently rendered…
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…
Tutor Panel on “Freshman Laboratory and the Laboratory’s Place in the Liberal Arts"
Audio recording of a tutor panel given by Judith Adam, Seth Appelbaum, Grant Franks, Eric Poppele and Ahmed Siddiqi on September 9, 2022 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event:…
Tutor Panel "On Reading Homer"
Audio recording of a tutor panel given by tutors Chris Cohoon, Claudia Hauer, David McDonald and Sarah Stickney on September 2, 2022 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event:…
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…
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…
“Freedom of the Intellect is a Sacred Thing”: A Brief Exploration of Freedom, Liberal Education, and the St. John’s Program.
Audio recording of a lecture given by Dean J. Walter Sterling on August 26, 2021 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "Mr. Sterling will explore the contested idea of freedom…