Did you attend St. John’s College for at least one semester? Then you’re a member of the Alumni Association and we invite you to attend our online events!
While we definitely adore and appreciate the Undergraduate Alumni, Tutors, Faculty & Staff (and invite you to attend our meetings, if you’d like), this Chapter is for the Graduate Institute Alumni at Annapolis and Santa Fe in Liberal Arts, Eastern Classics and Middle Eastern Classics. We gather to continue the spirit and fellowship of our St. John’s education through open seminars and readings groups.
OPEN SEMINARS.
For the 2025-2026 season, our open-to-all online seminars will focus on the texts that are included in the Undergraduate program, but are not in the MALA program in Annapolis or Santa Fe. We hold two meetings: Every other week on Monday nights at 8 pm est / 6 pm mtn and every other week on Thursdays at noon est / 10 mtn. They’re designed to be drop-in and enjoy! You can come once a month, every week, every other week, once a quarter, once a year, or even just once. It’s not a reading group, it’s an open “gosh-I-miss-intellectuals-who-ask-questions-and-want-to-be-with-Johnnies” sort of group. YOU BELONG! Room Johnnie, Bard Johnnie, Greek Johnnie, Geek Johnnie. All Johnnies are welcome whether you axolotl questions or just want to listen.
While up to 100 Johnnies can come, don’t worry … we break into groups of 10 in order to enjoy a real Johnnie discussion.
Meeting Agenda
1) We start with brief announcements in a big room, and then be broken into smaller rooms of 10 people, if needed.
2) Breakout Room Kick Off. Introductions in alphabetical order by Last Name. Please change your zoom name to include your honorific and last name. Introduce yourself with your honorific, geolocation, year of graduation, program and campus.
3) Opening Question. There’s no tutor in your seminar. An Opening Question will be in your chat, you can choose to start with it, or start with something else.
4) Discuss! We follow David Townsend’s Suggestions for Seminars and Robert Drucker’s advice to “aim for average participation.”
5) Fifteen Minutes of Chatter. You’ll get a notification about 15 minutes before the meeting is ending. Your group can move away from the text, ditch the rules and talk about whatever you’d like for that last 15 minutes.