Johnnie Week Online Seminars

Sunday, April 16 | Monday, April 17 | Thursday, April 20

We are pleased to host a variety of virtual seminars to celebrate Johnnie Week 2023.

The offerings include several special Dean’s Seminars on the customary Monday and Thursday nights, with opportunities to participate in seminar concurrently with St. John’s seniors, who will be reading
W. E. B. Du Bois’ The Souls of Black Folk in class on the same evenings.

Seminars will last 2 hours, will be held on Zoom, and are limited to the first 16 registrants.

Seminar registration is closed.

Johnnie Week events are sponsored in part by the Carol J. Worrell Annual Lecture Series on Literature and your donations to St. John’s Annual Fund.

Sunday, APRIL 16, 2023 | Morning

11 a.m. ET | 9 a.m. MT
Michael Golluber
Selected poems by Emily Dickinson: “Because I Could Not Stop for Death,” “Safe in Their Alabaster Chambers,” and “The Soul Selects Her Own Society”
Link to “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” on poets.org
Link to “Safe in Their Alabaster Chambers” on poets.org
Link to “The Soul Selects Her Own Society” on poets.org

11 a.m. ET | 9 a.m. MT (Sold Out!)
David Townsend
Plato’s Phaedrus
Link to text on Project Gutenberg

11 a.m. ET | 9 a.m. MT
Krishnan Venkatesh
Clarice Lispector’s “Beauty and the Beast, or The Enormous Wound”
Link to text on Literary Hub
Link to text on JSTOR

Sunday, APRIL 16, 2023 | Afternoon

3 p.m. ET | 1 p.m. MT
David Carl
Selections from Nietzsche’s The Will to Power (Aphorisms 466-522)
Link to text on PDF

3 p.m. ET | 1 p.m. MT
Patricia Greer
“The Grand Inquisitor” from Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov
Link to text on PDF

3 p.m. ET | 1 p.m. MT
Ian Moore and Topi Heikkero
Meister Eckhart, Selected Sermons (Sermons 7, 13, and 22)
Link to recommended text on Amazon.com

3 p.m. ET | 1 p.m. MT
Louis Petrich and Judith Adam
Anton Chekhov’s Ward No. 6
Link to text on PDF

Monday, APRIL 17, 2023

7:30 p.m. ET | 5:30 p.m. MT
Annapolis Dean Joe Macfarland
W. E. B. Du Bois’ The Souls of Black Folk (The Forethought, Chapters I-VII)
Read by seniors in seminar the same evening
Link to text on Project Gutenberg

7:30 p.m. ET | 5:30 p.m. MT
Ron Haflidson
Nikolai Gogol’s “The Nose”
Link to recommended text on Amazon.com
Link to text on PDF

Thursday, April 20, 2023

7 p.m. ET | 5 p.m. MT (Sold Out!)
Santa Fe Dean Walter Sterling
Selections from Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism (Ch. 12, section iii, “Total Domination;” Ch. 13, “Ideology and Terror”)
Link to text on PDF

7:30 p.m. ET | 5:30 p.m. MT
Incoming Annapolis GI Dean Brendan Boyle
W. E. B. Du Bois’ The Souls of Black Folk (Chapters VIII-XIV, The Afterthought)
Read by seniors in seminar the same evening
Link to text on Project Gutenberg

Friday, April 21, 2023

6:30-8 p.m. ET | 4:30-6 p.m. MT
Alumni Association Community Seminar led by Amritpal Singh (A15)
The St. John’s College Alumni Association is sponsoring a seminar on the life and work of C.H. Turner, a pioneer in the field of animal cognition and behavior. Seminar participants will read C. H. Turner's short scientific paper “The Behavior of a Snake,” along with a biographical sketch of Turner’s career and ideas.
Sponsored by the Alumni Association Board
Link to “The Behavior of a Snake” on PDF
Link to “A Study in Inspiration: Charles Henry Turner (1867-1923) and the Investigation of Insect Behavior” on PDF