Recording of a lecture delivered on February 15, 2013, by Annapolis tutor Daniel Harrell as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Mr. Harrell describes his lecture: "We talk - and think - about music as if it moved, in an elementary and thoroughgoing sense. This is the sense in which we might say, of a rhythm, that it quickens and slows; or of a melody, that it rises and falls; or of a harmony, that it departs and returns. Our talking this way about music has a point. For if we didn't hear music move, would we hear music at all? Without movement, music would seem no more than a succession of sounds. But there is also a problem with our talking this way, despite its point. And it is this problem that I wish to discuss in my lecture, explaining what I take the problem to be, and why I take the problem to be important - even for those of us with little interest in music."

Recording of a lecture delivered November 30, 2007, by Annapolis tutor Brendon Lasell as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Recording of a lecture delivered on January 31, 1975, by Annapolis tutor Eva Brann as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Videorecording of a lecture delivered on August 28, 2020, by Annapolis Dean Joseph Macfarland as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

The lecture was the first formal lecture of the academic year, previously referred to as the "Dean's Lecture," now called the "Christopher B. Nelson Lecture."

Audio recording of a lecture delivered on September 16, 2005, by Nelson Lund as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Dr. Lund is an alumnus of St. John's College who serves as Distinguished University Professor at the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University.

Recording of a lecture delivered on April 29, 1977, by Peter Quint as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Dr. Quint's lecture was the basis of a longer and more formal article in the Duke Law Journal: Peter E. Quint, "The Separation of Powers under Nixon: Reflections on Civil  Liberties and the Rule of Law," volume 1981, number 1 (February 1981).

Recording of a lecture by Annapolis tutor Daniel Harrell, on July 3, 2024, as part of the Graduate Institute

Mr. Harell describes his lecture: "One can envision a St. John’s College where we study technology as explicitly and seriously as we study mathematics or laboratory science, while also refusing to adopt innovations in technology in the same way we have renounced educational innovations such as electives and majors. Imagine a St. John's, for example, where all college business is still done on paper—circa 1937, or even 1997—while there is nonetheless a required semester-long class on computation. The actual St. John’s

One way to put the question of my lecture is therefore this: Which college—the St. John’s of my imagination or the actual thing—is the better example of what liberal education is?"

Recording of a lecture delivered on April 22, 1977, by David Eisenbud as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

The recording begins amid a speaker introducing Eisenbud.

Recording of a panel discussion between Brendan Boyle, Associate Dean for Graduate Programs, Jonathan Badger, and Patrick Coleman, St. John's College Tutors, on June 19, 2024, as part of the Graduate Institute Summer Lecture Series.

Recording of a lecture delivered on November 14, 2008, by Robert Bernasconi as part of the Formal Lecture Series.