Events

Annapolis, Formal Lecture Series

Lectures are held most Fridays at 8:15 p.m. in Francis Scott Key Auditorium. They are free and open to the public. For more information on the lecture series, please call (410) 626-2539.

Date Speaker Title
August 27, 2010 Ms. Pamela Kraus
Dean
St. John's College
Annapolis
The Beginning of the Beginning: Reflections on Cartesian Method
September 3, 2010 Mr. Daniel Harrell
Tutor
St. John's College
Annapolis
Does Beauty Have a Place in Liberal Education?
September 10, 2010 Mr. James Carey
Tutor
St. John's College
Santa Fe
Some Reflections on the Phenomenon of the Beautiful
September 17, 2010 Mr. William Braithwaite
Tutor
St. John's College
Annapolis
On Reading the U.S. Constitution as a Great Book
September 24, 2010
(Homecoming)
Mr. Laurence Berns
Tutor Emeritus
St. John's College
Annapolis
Dialectic, Virtue and Recollection in Plato's Meno
October 1, 2010 Mr. Peter Pesic
Tutor
St. John's College
Santa Fe
Hearing the Irrational: Music and the Development of the Modern Concept of Number
October 8, 2010 Long Weekend No lecture
October 15, 2010
(Steiner Lecture)
Mr. David Ferry
Cambridge, MA
Tears of the Hero, Gilgamesh and Aeneas: Experiences with Translation
October 22, 2010 Mr. Richard McCombs
Tutor
St. John's College
Santa Fe
An Introduction to the Reading of Kierkegaard
October 29, 2010 Awadagin Pratt Piano Concert - Music of Liszt, Schumann, Chopin
November 5, 2010 All College Seminar No lecture
November 12, 2010
(Parents Weekend)
Mr. Wilfred McClay The Tocquevillean Moment
November 19, 2010 The Western Wind
Vocal Sextet
The Happy Journey: An American Music Celebration
November 26, 2010 Thanksgiving Holiday No lecture
December 3, 2010 Professor Joan Crist (Bonaventure as a theologian)
December 10, 2010 King William Players Performance
December 17, 2010 - January 9, 2010 Winter Vacation No lectures
January 14, 2011 Mr. S. Ramachandran The Value of Life
January 21, 2011 Mr. Lauren Brubaker
Tutor
St. John's College
Santa Fe Campus
Wealth, Virtue and Corruption: Adam Smith's Moral Philosophy
January 28, 2011 Professor Christian Moevs
Notre Dame
The Metaphysics of Dante's Commedia
February 4, 2011 Long Weekend No lecture
February 11, 2011 Ms. Patricia Locke
Tutor
St. John's College
Annapolis
(Proust)
February 18, 2011 Parker String Quartet Concert
February 25, 2011 All College Seminar No lecture
March 4, 2011 -
March 20, 2011
Spring Vacacation No lectures
March 25, 2011 Barbara Hanning Italian Opera
April 1, 2011 Professor Doug Casson
St. Olaf College
(Locke)
April 8, 2011 Professor Marina McCoy
Boston College
(Philoctetes)
April 15, 2011 Professor Diana Schaub
Loyola University
Baltimore
(Frederick Douglass)
April 22, 2011 Mr. Dylan Casey
Tutor
St. John's College
Annapolis
(Fields)
April 29, 2011 King William Players Performance
May 6, 2011 Reality Weekend No lecture
May 13, 2011 Commencement Weekend No lecture