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Transcript of a lecture given by tutor emeritus Howard Fisher on April 29, 2026 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "This talk will recount the paths by which the basic…

Audio recording of a lecture given by tutor Jim Carey on April 24, 2026 as part of the Dean’s Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean’s Office has provided this description of the event: “According to Aristotle, there is a science (epistēmē) that…

Recording of a lecture delivered on April 17, 2026, by Annapolis tutor Louis Petrich, as part of the Formal Lecture Series. Mr. Petrich offers the following description of his lecture: "To think that Shakespeare felt Iago deeply, as he felt Othello…

Audio recording of a lecture given by tutor emeritus Howard Fisher on April 15, 2026 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "A puzzling phenomenon observed by Edison in one of his…

Transcript of a lecture given by tutor emeritus Howard Fisher on April 15, 2026 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "A puzzling phenomenon observed by Edison in one of his…

Video recording of a lecture delivered on April 8, 2026, by Edward Luttwak as part of the LCDR Erik S. Kristensen Lecture Series. The Kristensen special lecture series, jointly sponsored by St. John’s College and the United States Naval Academy,…

Audio recording of a tutor panel given by tutors Alison Chapman, Krishnan Venkatesh, and David Carl on April 3, 2026 as part of the Dean’s Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean’s Office has provided this description of the event: “What is a portrait? …

Audio recording o f a lecture given by John Peters on March 6, 2026 as part of the Dean’s Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean’s Office has provided this description of the event: “As far as we know the most complex thing the universe has brought…

Typescript of a lecture delivered on February 22, 2026, by Annapolis tutor John Tomarchio.

Mr. Tomarchio describes his lecture: “This lecture is inspired by the Letter to the Hebrews as a theological tour de force. Hebrews transfigures the brutal…

Audio recording of a lecture given by tutor emeritus Howard Fisher on February 18, 2026 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "Overland telegraph technology implicitly embodied a…

Transcript of a lecture given by tutor emeritus Howard Fisher on February 18, 2026 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "Overland telegraph technology implicitly embodied a…

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…

Audio recording of a lecture given by tutor Ken Wolfe on February 6, 2026 as part of the Dean’s Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean’s Office has provided this description of the event: “In the Origin of Species, Darwin points to analogies between…

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…

Audio recording of a lecture given by tutor Claudia Hauer on January 30, 2026 as part of the Dean’s Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean’s Office has provided this description of the event: “Emmanuel Levinas is a moral philosopher of the highest…

Audio recording of a lecture given by Andrew Nicholson on January 23, 2026 as part of the Dean’s Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean’s Office has provided this description of the event: “The Yoga Sūtras of Patañjali (c. 4th century CE) have been an…

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,…

Audio recording of a lecture given by Erik Baker on December 12, 2025 as part of the Dean’s Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean’s Office has provided this description of the event: “People who are concerned about technological change, or who resist…

Audio recording of a lecture given by Antoine Pageau-St-Hilaire on December 5, 2025 as part of the Dean’s Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean’s Office has provided this description of the event: “In both the Republic and the Laws, the leader of the…

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…