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Cells and Genes Are Parts of Animals: Aristotle in the Late 20th Century
Recording of a lecture delivered on September 16, 1994, by James N. Jarvis as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
The Pleasure of the Mathematical Text
Audio recording of a lecture given by Philip Ording on May 2, 2025 as part of the Dean’s Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean’s Office has provided this description of the event: “There is no shortage of evidence that professional mathematicians…
I Know Not Seems: Appearance, Reality, and the Grave of Ophelia in Shakespeare's Hamlet
Audio recording of a lecture given by tutor Kit Slover on April 25, 2025 as part of the Dean’s Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean’s Office has provided this description of the event: “In the final act of Shakespeare’s Hamlet the northern prince…
King Lear's "Love Test"
Audio recording of a lecture given by David Hayes and Jeremy Schwartz on April 18, 2025 as part of the Dean’s Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean’s Office has provided this description of the event: “The ‘Love Test’ in King Lear is widely understood…
Speedy Achilles
Audio recording of a lecture given by Tutor Emeritus Howard Fisher on April 9, 2025 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: “Galileo’s mathematical treatment of ‘speed’…
Speedy Achilles
Transcript of a lecture given by tutor emeritus Howard Fisher on April 9, 2025 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "Galileo’s mathematical treatment of 'speed' perennially…
Right Thoughts at the Last Moment: Buddhism and Deathbed Practices in Medieval Japan
Audio recording of a lecture given by Jacqueline Stone on April 4, 2025 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "Premodern Japanese believed that one's dying thoughts could…
On Written Speech
Typescript 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. This…
Zarathustra's Metamorphosis of the Mind
Audio recording of a lecture given by Steven Berg on March 7, 2025 as part of the Dean’s Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean’s Office has provided this description of the event: “Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra begins with Zarathustra descending…
Democracy, Empire, and the Pharmakon in Thucydides
Audio recording of a lecture given by Larry George on February 28, 2025 as part of the Dean’s Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean’s Office has provided this description of the event: “Does Thucydides believe that empire and democracy are compatible? …
Euclid vs. the Indivisible: The Mathematical Battle over the Shape of Modernity
Audio recording of a lecture given by Amir Alexander on February 21, 2025 as part of the Dean’s Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean’s Office has provided this description of the event: “On August 10, 1632, the Revisors General of the Society of Jesus…
Eva Brann in conversation with a student, 2004
Photograph of Annapolis tutor Eva Brann in conversation with a student, taken in 2004.
Eva Brann, 2004
Portrait of Annapolis tutor Eva Brann taken in 2004.
The Politician as Opthalmologist of the Soul: Aristotle's Conceptions of the Soul and the Aims of Inquiry
Audio recording of a lecture given by Rory Hanlon on February 7, 2025 as part of the Dean’s Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean’s Office has provided this description of the event: “In Nicomachean Ethics (NE) I.13, Aristotle asserts that a politician…
Santa Fe Commencement Program, Spring 2024
Program for the fifty-seventh commencement of the Santa Fe campus in the three hundred and twenty-eighth year of St. John's College.
Santa Fe Commencement Program, Spring 2023
Program for the fifty-sixth commencement of the Santa Fe campus in the three hundred and twenty-seventh year of St. John's College.
Colloquy, Spring 2024
Volume 14 of Colloquy, published in Spring 2024. The theme of the issue is On Character.
Colloquy, Fall 2024
Volume 15 of Colloquy, published in Fall 2024. The theme of the issue is On Being.