St. John's College A Year of Classics Seminars

09/09/2019

Agency, Authority, and Gender

What are the sources of agency and authority in human communities, large and small, and what roles might gender play in our understanding of agency and authority? How might gender shape the ways we acknowledge or exercise authority? What forms does agency take in the life of different human communities, and do the various kinds of agency aim at a common view of the good, regardless of gender? What influence might gender have on our conceptions of divine agency and authority?

06/27/2019

The September 2019 reading for A Year of Classics is Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice".

06/27/2019

The theme for the 2019-2020 A Year of Classics seminar is "Women and Authority"

06/27/2019

Online registration for the 2019 -2020 A Year of Classics seminars is now open:

St. John's College Year of Classics program offers the public a series of seminars based on readings taken from the core of St. John's distinctive curriculum.

06/06/2017

Register on Monday, June 12th for the 2017-2018 seminars!
The tutors chose the theme of Nine Essential Moments. To learn more about why and for a complete list of readings, locations and dates, visit
https://www.sjc.edu/annapolis/programs/community-seminars/year-classics

St. John’s Seminars offer nine profound, rich, and resonant readings taken from the core of the college’s distinctive curriculum. This constellation of high magnitude stars illuminates the soul, invigorates the heart, and challenges the intellect. We offer a once-a-month experience in the life of th...

05/09/2017

Wrapping up "Body and Soul" with Marilynne Robinson's When I Was a Child I read Books.

We are excited to announce that the theme for 2017-2018 is "Nine Essential Moments" which will include readings from Montaigne, Descartes and Darwin. Registration will be available on June 12.

Thanks for a great year!!

01/12/2017

We have less than a month until we celebrate President Christopher Nelson with seminars on some of his favorite texts. Don't forget to register!

https://www.sjc.edu/news/discuss-presidents-favorite-works

The Saturday Seminars program at St. John’s College​ in Annapolis on February 11 will honor outgoing campus President Chris Nelson.

01/09/2017

The month of January we will be reading "The Over-Soul" by Ralph Waldo Emerson.

American philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson finds the soul of each of us resonates with a universal Over-Soul. Is it best to think of this claim as the relation of parts to whole, in the harmony of tones to their chords, or as a negative or positive immersion in the eternal Now or One, such as Nietzsche and Kierkegaard recognized in him?

12/12/2016

This holiday season, give the gift of great discussions!

Join SJC for a day, a weekend or a weekly seminar. Registration for the spring semester starts on Friday.
For a list of offerings, dates and to register visit:

Enrich your life with continuing education classes, open to the public and offered at St. John’s College since the early days of the New Program.

12/05/2016

On February 11th we will honor our retiring President, Christopher Nelson, with an afternoon of seminars on his favorite texts!

Seminars will include Plato’s Apology, James Joyce's “The Dead”,
Martin Luther King. Jr.’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail and
Italo Calvino’s The Non-Existent Knight.

For a complete list of seminars, more information and to register, please visit:

Spend a Saturday reading and discussing timeless works of literature, poetry, history, and philosophy.

11/30/2016

A big thank you to Eric Salem's morning seminar group in Annapolis for sharing the table with Tim Pratt, our Web Content Specialist, so he could experience a seminar and write this great piece to help promote them!

https://www.sjc.edu/news/curriculum-community