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2017-18 Annapolis Campus Lecture Schedule

Lectures will be held in the Francis Scott Key Auditorium at 8 p.m. They are free and open to the public. For more information on the lecture series, please call 410-626-2539.

Download the 2017-18 Annapolis Campus Lecture Schedule.

Lectures are archived in the Greenfield Library and on the SJC Digital Archives site.

Fall Semester

Fall Semester Lecture Series
Date Speaker Title
August 25 Joseph Macfarland
Dean
St. John’s College
Annapolis		 Plutarch’s Swarm
September 1 All-College Art Conversations  
September 8
(Homecoming Weekend)		 Jason Vieaux
Classical Guitar		 Concert
September 15 Diana Schaub
Professor of Political Science
Loyola University		 “Abraham Lincoln and the Daughters of Dred Scott: A Reflection on the Declaration of Independence”
September 22 Margaret Kirby
Tutor
St. John’s College
Annapolis		 “Recognizing Odysseus”
September 29 Gregory Freeman
Tutor
St. John’s College
Annapolis		 "Music and the Problem of Human Desire"
October 6 Long Weekend No Lecture
October 13 The Parker Quartet Concert
October 20 All-College Seminar  
October 27 Henry Higuera
Tutor
St. John’s College
Annapolis		 “God and Philosophy in Descartes’ Meditations”
November 3
(Parents’ Weekend)		 Louis Petrich
Tutor
St. John’s College
Annapolis		 The Student, by Anton Chekhov: A Story About Us Told and Glanced At by Louis Petrich
November 10 Tom May
Tutor
St. John’s College
Annapolis		 “Be a sinner and sin boldly” – Martin Luther and Christian Freedom
November 17 Gregory Fried
Professor & Chair
Department of Philosophy
Suffolk University Boston		 "At the Crossroads of the Cave: Plato and Heidegger on History and Nihilism”
November 24 Thanksgiving Holiday No Lecture
December 1 Bernhardt Trout
Professor of Chemical Engineering
MIT		 On Quantum Physics
December 8 King William Players Performance
December 15 – January 7 Winter Vacation No Lectures

Spring Semester

Spring Semester Lecture Series
Date Speaker Title
January 12, 2018 Jim Carey
Tutor
St. John’s College
Santa Fe		  
January 19 Aaron Garrett
Department of Philosophy
Boston University		 Hume’s Animals
January 26 André Barbera
Tutor
St. John’s College
Annapolis		 On Aquinas
February 2 Long Weekend No Lecture
February 9 Nordic Voices Concert
February 16 All College Seminar  
February 23 Matthew Davis
Dean
St. John’s College
Santa Fe		  
March 2 – 18 Spring Break No Lectures
March 23 Johanna Drucker
Department of Information Studies
UCLA		 Technology
March 30
(Good Friday)		 Reviel Netz
Stanford University
Steiner Lecture		  
April 6 Dan Harrell
Tutor
St. John’s College
Annapolis		  
April 13 Kristensen Lecture  
April 20 Hannah Hintze
NEH Chair
Tutor
St. John’s College
Annapolis		 On Aristotle and Leibniz
April 27 King William Players  
May 3 Reality Show  
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