Recording of a lecture delivered on April 9, 2014, by Francis J. "Bing" West as part of the LCDR Erik S. Kristensen Lecture Series.

The lecture is the second in a series of joint lectures 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 education of naval and military professions.

Recording of a lecture delivered by Santa Fe tutor Grant H. Franks on February 6, 1998, as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Recording of a lecture delivered on February 7, 2025, by Annapolis tutor Mary Elizabeth Halper as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

She offers the following description of her lecture: "There are two kinds of speech: the speech we speak and the speech we read. This lecture is on the latter. By way of comparison with spoken speech, and with help from Plato'sTheaetetus, Phaedo,andPhaedrus, the lecture will reflect on written speech as such, what it offers us and what it asks from us." 

Recording of a lecture delivered on March 18, 2005, by Dylan Casey as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Recording of a lecture delivered on January 10, 2025, by Annapolis tutor Greg Recco as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Recording of a lecture delivered by Annapolis tutor Paul Ludwig on November 5, 2004, as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Recording of a lecture delivered on February 18, 2005, by Dr. Harvey C. Mansfield as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Recording of a lecture delivered on November 19, 2004, by Stephanie Nelson as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Recording of a lecture delivered on September 17, 2004, by Gisela Berns as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Audio recording of a lecture delivered on October 23, 1981, by Leon Kass as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Dr. Kass is Addie Clark Harding Professor Emeritus in the Committee on Social Thought and in the College at The University of Chicago, the Hertog Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and the Dean of the Faculty at Shalem College in Jerusalem. He was a tutor at St. John's College from 1972 to 1974.