Recording of a lecture delivered on February 11, 2022, by Ange Mlinko as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Recording of a lecture delivered on September 23, 2022, by Mary Townsend as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Ms. Townsend is an assistant professor of philosophy at St. John’s University in New York. She is the author of The Woman Question in Plato’s Republic (2017) and a graduate of Tulane University (PhD, 2015) and St. John’s College (BA, 2004).

Recording of a lecture delivered on November 2, 2012, by David Stephenson as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

A typescript of Mr. Stephenson's lecture is available in the College's Digital Archives: https://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/show/58.

Recording of a lecture delivered on February 8, 2013, by Dylan Casey as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Recording of a lecture delivered on April 1, 2011, by Douglas Casson as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Recording of a lecture delivered on January 13, 2023, by

He offers this description of his lecture: "In the Symposium, Plato staged a contest in which the philosopher, Socrates, competes with the poets, Aristophanes and Agathon, concerning their respective claims to wisdom. However, the medium through which they all compete is logoi (speeches), or more specifically, a kind of epideictic speech, the encomium. In other words, rhetoric is the medium through which philosophy and poetry compete for the prize of wisdom. This talk will focus on the contest between Agathon and Socrates because,  I will argue, Agathon represents the most significant danger to Athenian society and is the clearest threat to Socrates' claim to wisdom."

Recording of a lecture delivered on November 6, 2015, by Annapolis tutor Peter Kalkavage as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

A typescript of the lecture is available on the college's Digital Archives.

Recording of a lecture delivered on September 9, 2005, by Thomas May as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Recording of a lecture delivered on November 7, 1997, by Samuel S. Kutler as part of the Formal Lecture Series.