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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |