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
Speaker Series Recordings
Black “Protest Politics” in the 1980s and 1990s
G. Derek Musgrove | December 8, 2024
Oak Hill Cemetery
Laura Lavelle | November 17, 2024
Welcoming our Refugee Neighbors
The Rev. Christine Dunn | October 27, 2024
The Novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald
Maureen Corrigan | October 13, 2024
Clean and Sustainable Energy
Scott Sklar | October 6, 2024
The 2024 Presidential Election
Carroll Doherty | September 22, 2024
Past Speaker Series
G. Derek Musgrove
Black “Protest Politics” in the 1980s and 1990s
December 8, 2024
10:00am
Vice Admiral Frank “Trey” Whitworth
The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency
November 3, 2024
10:00am
Ann Compton
My Career at ABC News, and Thoughts on Media and Politics Today
September 29, 2024
10:00am
The Hon. Alejandro Mayorkas
The State of Homeland Security Today
September 8, 2024
10:00am
Columba Stewart
Voices of the Ancestors: Saving the World’s Manuscripts from Destruction
May 19, 2024
10:00am
America’s Story Lives Here
Mark Hudson, Tudor Place Historic House & Garden
May 5, 2024
10:00am
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