Audio recording of a lecture delivered by Agness Callard on January 11, 2019, as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Audio recording of a lecture delivered on March 24, 2017, by Chester Burke as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Mr. Burke describes his lecture: "In The Assayer (1623), Galileo Galilei famously proclaimed that 'Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.' In this lecture, I propose to consider this statement from the perspective of the history of the book. In examining early modern learning as a bookish enterprise, we come to see the sciences as active, interventionist processes through which knowledge about the world was constructed, book and pen in hand."

Audio recording of a lecture delivered on July 10, 2019, by William Braithwaite as part of the Graduate Institute Summer Lecture Series.

Audio recording of a lecture delivered by Brendan Boyle on February 22, 2019, as part of the Formal Lecture Series. The beginning of the lecture was not recorded.  

Audio recording of a lecture delivered by Karol Berger on February 15, 2019, as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Audio recording of a lecture delivered on July 26, 2017, by Naomi Baron as part of the Graduate Institute Summer Lecture Series.

Audio recording of a lecture delivered on September 9, 2016, by Robert Charles Abbott, Jr. as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Video recording of a lecture delivered by Chris Arnade, Ph.D. on October 30, 2020, as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Audio recording of a lecture delivered by Ronna Burger, Professor of Philosophy at Tulane University, on November 8, 2019, as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Audio recording of a lecture delivered on April 19, 2017, by Dr. Angelo Codevilla as part of the LCDR Erik S. Kristensen Lecture Series.

The lecture is part of a joint lecture series between St. John's College and the U.S. Naval Academy to honor the memory of Lieutenant Commander Erik S. Kristensen. An alumnus of the United States Naval Academy and the St. John's College Graduate Institute, Kristensen, a Navy SEAL, was killed in the line of duty in Afghanistan in 2005. This lecture series aims to create even greater ties between the two schools, as well as to educate the public about civil-military relations and the place of the liberal arts in the education of naval and military professions.