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Equity, Justice, and the Rule of Law
Audio recording of a lecture given by tutor Nick Gooding on July 29, 2026 as part of the Graduate Institute Summer Lecture Series. The Graduate Institute Office has provided this description of the event: “In Book V, Chapter 10 of the Nicomachean…
Vaclav Havel and Jan Patočka: To Live (and Die) in Truth
Audio recording of a lecture given by David Satran on July 22, 2026 as part of the Graduate Institute Summer Lecture Series. The Graduate Institute Office has provided this description of the event: “Between the events of the Prague Spring of 1968…
Panel Discussion on the New Middle Eastern Classics Program
Audio recording of a panel discussion given by tutor Seth Appelbaum and visiting scholars David Satran and Ahmed Siddiqi on July 15, 2026 as part of the Graduate Institute Summer Lecture Series. The Dean’s Office has provided this description of the…
We Have Never Been Secular
Audio recording of a lecture given by Musa al-Gharbi on July 8, 2026 as part of the Summer Lecture Series. The Dean’s Office has provided this description of the event: “One virtue of a Great Books curriculum is that it helps pull people out of the…
On the Origin of the Great Books Program at St. John's College
Audio recording of a lecture given by tutor David Levine on July 1, 2026 as part of the Summer Lecture Series.
Lessons in Admiration: George Eliot's Beautiful Atheistic Religiousness
Audio recording of a lecture given by tutor Richard McCombs on June 24, 2026 as part of the Graduate Institute Summer Lecture Series. The Graduate Institute Office has provided this description of the event: “After rejecting Christianity and God,…
Timeless and Timely: Liberal Education and the Demands of the Present
Video recording of a panel discussion between Brendan Boyle, Associate Dean for Graduate Programs, Jonathan Badger, and Patrick Coleman, St. John's College Tutors, on June 19, 2024, as part of the Graduate Institute Summer Lecture Series.
Modern Technology and Modern Discourse
Video recording of a lecture delivered by Annapolis tutor Lee Goldsmith on June 12, 2024, as part of the Graduate Institute Summer Lecture Series.
Second Thoughts about Shakespeare's As You Like It
Audio recording of a lecture given by Grant Franks on June 14, 2023, as part of the Graduate Institute Summer Lecture Series. The Graduate Institute provided this description of the event: "As You Like It is a much-loved fixture in the Shakespearean…
Reading and Teaching the Constitution
Video recording of a lecture delivered on June 29, 2022, by Steve Steinbach as part of the Graduate Institute Summer Lecture Series. Mr. Steinbach was a partner at a law firm in Washington, D.C. before leaving the legal profession for teaching. He is…
It’s Just Talking: Legal Advocacy and the Vital Role of Listening
Video recording of a lecture delivered on July 6, 2022, by Gabriela Quercia Kahrl as part of the Graduate Institute Summer Lecture Series.
Ms. Kahrl is the Associate Director of the Chacon Center for Immigrant Justice at the University of…
Ms. Kahrl is the Associate Director of the Chacon Center for Immigrant Justice at the University of…
Permanent Crisis: The Humanities in a Disenchanted Age
Video recording of a lecture by Professor Chad Wellmon of the University of Virginia, held on June 23, 2021 as part of the Graduate Institute Summer Lecture Series. Professor Wellmon describes his lecture: "The humanities didn't come into their own,…
Reflections on the Bill of Rights
Audio recording of a lecture given by Elizabeth C'de Baca Eastman on June 30, 2020, hosted by Edward Walpin as part of the Graduate Institute Summer Lecture Series. The Graduate Institute provided this description of the event: "Debate about…
The idea of the common good
Audio recording of a conversation with Seth Appelbaum and David McDonald on July 7, 2020, hosted by Edward Walpin as part of the Graduate Institute Summer Lecture Series. The Graduate Institute provided this description of the event: "The idea of a…
Community Colleges and Teaching in the Liberal Arts
Video recording of a panel discussion held on July 1, 2020 as part of the Graduate Institute Summer Lecture Series.
Like St. John’s, community colleges are institutions devoted primarily to teaching and learning. They reach a broad and diverse…
Like St. John’s, community colleges are institutions devoted primarily to teaching and learning. They reach a broad and diverse…
Reading Plato’s Meno Online
Video recording of a lecture delivered on June 24, 2020 by William Braithwaite as part of the Graduate Institute Summer Lecture Series. The final minute of the recording (beginning at 01:02:00) is in audio format only. Mr. Braithwaite describes his…
Teaching Poetry, Revelation, Mathematics, and Respect for Truth
Video recording of a lecture delivered on July 8, 2020 by Ted Hadzi-Antich as part of the Graduate Institute Summer Lecture Series.
Ted Hadzi-Antich, chair of the political science department at Austin Community College, presents a talk about…
Ted Hadzi-Antich, chair of the political science department at Austin Community College, presents a talk about…
Ideas: America Rising, A Call for a New Great Awakening
Video recording of a lecture delivered on June 17, 2020 by David Townsend as part of the Graduate Institute Summer Lecture Series.
Mr. Townsend describes his lecture: "The idea of America, the ideal type American, and the Spirit of America depend…
Mr. Townsend describes his lecture: "The idea of America, the ideal type American, and the Spirit of America depend…
What kind of political community does the U.S. Constitution form?
Audio recording of a lecture given on July 23, 2019 by Elizabeth C'de Baca Eastman as part of the Graduate Institute Summer Lecture Series.
Suspicion and trust in George Eliot's Middlemarch
Audio recording of a lecture given on July 9, 2019 by Richard McCombs as part of the Graduate Institute Summer Lecture Series.