Listen and learn from influential minds
St. John’s Speaker Series is a popular adult education offering held between services at 10:00 AM on select Sundays from September to May. Nationally noted individuals, from scholars and poets to world leaders and faith leaders, present on pressing issues of the day and impactful historical events to expand our knowledge as individuals and as a community.
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Upcoming Speaker Series
America’s Story Lives Here
Mark Hudson, Tudor Place Historic House & Garden
Sunday, May 5, 2024
10:00am
Columba Stewart
Voices of the Ancestors: Saving the World’s Manuscripts from Destruction
Sunday, May 19, 2024
10:00am
Maureen Corrigan
The Great American Novelist: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sunday, May 26, 2024
9:30am
Past Speaker Series
The Presidency of Calvin Coolidge
February Presidential Series
February 11, 18, & 25, 2024
10:00am
All In for DC Kids
Communities in Schools of the Nation’s Capital
January 21, 2024
10:00am
Simon Johnson
Power and Progress: The History and Economics of Major Technological Transformations
December 10, 2023
10:00am
Fiona Hill
Senior Fellow in the Center on the United States and Europe
November 19, 2023
10:00am
Thomas B.F. Cummins
Dumbarton Oaks Professor of the History of Pre-Columbian and Colonial Art
November 12, 2023
10:00am