Most of the St. Anselm Institute public lectures from 2016 through 2024 are available below in a medium-resolution video format. In addition, here is a link to a low-resolution video copied from a VHS videotape of a 2002 panel discussion covering the origin and nature of the Institute.
2023-24 Public Lecture Series Videos
Paul Scherz, Catherine Moon, and Joseph Davis, “Why the Church and the World Need to Discuss Artificial Intelligence Now,” February 28, 2024
Gavin Flood, “Evolutionary Science, Religion, and Our Human Future,” November 9, 2023
2022-23 Public Lecture Series Videos
Joseph Davis and Sr. Maria Gonzalo, “Our Troubled Minds, Our Anxious Age, and the Ancient Alternative of Cistercian Spirituality: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue,” March 18, 2023
Fr. Ambrose Little, O.P., “Can Rule by AI Be Like Rule by a God?,” March 2, 2023
Meghan Sullivan, “The Good Life Method,” October 13, 2022
Fr. Jason Catania, “Why the Ordinariate?,” September 23, 2022
2021-22 Public Lecture Series Videos
John Dobbins, “Henri Matisse’s Rosary Chapel,” March 24, 2022
Fr. Michael Niba, “Ecclesia in Africa: Africa as ‘Light of the World‘”, December 2, 2021
Jonathan Lunine, “From Mendel to Pope Francis: Evolution from a Catholic Perspective,” November 17, 2021
Ross Douthat, “The Home After the Plague: Family in post-Covid America,” September 22, 2021
2019-20 Public Lecture Series Videos
Mary Hirschfeld, “The Trouble with Money: Aquinas on Desire, Economics, and the Good Life,” January 23, 2020
Denis McNamara, “How to Make a Church ‘Look like’ a Church: Architecture as an Image of Heaven,” October 24, 2019
Fr. John W. O’Malley, “Vatican I: What It Was and Why It Still Matters 150 Years Later,” October 3, 2019
2018-19 Public Lecture Series Videos
Robert Louis Wilken, “Liberty in the Things of God: The Christian Origins of Religious Freedom,” April 26, 2019
Richard Kearney, “St. Teresa of Avila’s Many Mansions,” April 5, 2019
Rusty Reno, “Christianity in Public Life,” cosponsored with Thomistic Institute and Center for Christian Studies, Feb. 7, 2019
Sr. Prudence Allen, RSM, “The Concept of Women: Newman and the Proof of the Integral Complementarity of Woman and Man,” Jan. 31, 2019
Roberta Ervine, “St. Gregory of Narek: The Newest Doctor of the Church!,” Nov. 29, 2018
Fr. John McNerney, “The Wealth of Persons: Rethinking Economics in Light of the Human Person,” Nov. 8, 2018
2017-18 Public Lecture Series Videos
Reinhard Huetter, “Newman, The University, and its Counterfeit,” A Roundtable Discussion with Tal Brewer, and Alison Weber, April 6, 2018
Fr. Augustine Thompson, O.P., “Dominican Brothers: Conversi, Lay, and Cooperator Friars,” Jan. 25, 2018
Fiona Hughes and Peter Walker, “Monteverdi: The Man and His Music,” Nov. 3, 2017
Most. Rev. Wilton Gregory, “We are ALL the Lord’s,” Oct. 23, 2017
David Walsh, “Who and What is a Person?,” Oct. 19, 2017
Kate Hennessy, “Dorothy Day: The World Will be Saved by Beauty,” Sept. 22, 2017