Events

Annapolis, Formal Lecture Series 2012-2013

Notice: Beginning in January of 2013, lectures will begin at 8 p.m. They are free and open to the public. For more information on the lecture series, please call 410-626-2539.

Lectures are archived in the Greenfield Library; those available online have links below.

 

Date Speaker Title
August 24 Ms. Pamela Kraus
Dean
St. John's College
Annapolis
A Start at Reading
August 31 Mr. Samuel Kutler
Tutor and Dean Emeritus
St. John’s College
Annapolis
Beginnings
September 7 Mr. Adam Schulman
Tutor
St. John’s College
Annapolis
On Homer’s Iliad
Audio | Transcript
September 14 Mr. William Braithwaite
Tutor
St. John's College
Annapolis
What is Free Speech for the Sake of?
September 21
Parker Quartet Concert
September 28
Mr. Peter Kalkavage
Tutor
St. John’s College
Annapolis
The Musical Universe and Mozart’s Magic Flute
Audio | Transcript
October 5 Long Weekend No lecture
October 12
(Steiner Lecture)
Lecture cancelled
 
October 19 Mr. Steven Crockett
Tutor
St. John’s College
Annapolis
Paradoxes of Elections
October 26 Dr. Daniel Selcer
Duquesne University
Pittsburgh, PA
Thought, Image, and the Printed Page in Early Modern Europe
Audio
November 2 Mr. David Stephenson
Tutor
St. John’s College
Annapolis
Melodies and Faces:  A Meno Meditation
Audio | Transcript
November 9
All College Seminar
 
November 16 New York Polyphony Concert
Two Sides of Love
November 23 Thanksgiving Holiday No lecture
November 30 Mr. Greg Recco
Tutor
St. John’s College
Annapolis
The Conference in the Meadow:  The Choice of Life in Plato’s Myth of Er
Audio
December 7 King William Players Performance
December 14 - January 6 Winter Vacation No lectures
January 11
(Steiner lecture)
Professor James Wood
Harvard University
The New Atheism and the Modern Novel
January 18 Mr. Michael Grenke
Tutor
St. John’s College
Annapolis
What Will Heaven Be Like?
Audio | Transcript
January 25 Mr. Frederic Chiu Concert The Piano:  Invention and Transformation
February 1 Long Weekend No lecture
February 8 Mr. Dylan Casey
Tutor
St. John’s college
Annapolis
Surprises and Sweet Spots:  On Discovery and Recognition
Audio
February 15 Mr. Daniel Harrell
Tutor
St. John’s College
Annapolis
Does Music Move?
Audio | Transcript
February 22 Mr. Jacques Duvoisin
Tutor
St. John’s College
Santa Fe
Is the Soul a City?
A Question about Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
March 1 - March 17 Spring Vacation No lectures
March 22 Mr. James Lennox Aristotle’s Method in On Respiration:  The Origins of Functional Anatomy
March 29 Mr. Mark Sinnett
Tutor
St. John’s College
Annapolis
What Does the Mathematical Physicist Know?
April 5 Mr. Jeffrey Smith
Tutor
St. John’s College
Annapolis
Sympathy’s Dimensions:  Reflections on the Moral Philosophy of David Hume
April 3 - Wednesday
(Special lecture)
Mr. Ralph Peters
Novelist and retired U.S. military officer
The Price of Historical Illiteracy: Wishful Thinking and the Death of Strategy
Audio
April 12 Mr. Phil Lecuyer
Tutor
St. John’s College
Santa Fe
Intellectual Sin
April 19 Mr. Elliott Zuckerman
Tutor Emeritus
St. John’s College
Annapolis
Why I Still Scan Verse;
or: How to Sleep in a Procrustean Bed

**Guests please note the new 8 p.m. start time
April 26 King William Players Performance
May 3 Reality Weekend No lecture
May 10 Commencement Weekend No lecture