Lectures by John Lobell

Engaging and entertaining lectures on art, architecture, technology, and destinations.
Lectures that are fascinating, provide new insights, and open new worlds.

John Lobell’s Background And A List Of His Lectures

The videos shown provide brief summaries of John Lobell’s cruise ship lectures. Each video is from five to twenty minutes long and describes from one to nine lectures.

John Lobell

Venice

Adriatic

Technology & the Future

Creativity

Myths & Movies

Architecture & Culture

Modern Architecture

Art

Videos of the Complete Lectures

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VENICE

  • The City of Venice
  • The Architecture of Venice
  • Venetian Painting
  • Venice in Romantic Movies

THE ADRIATIC

  • Our Adriatic Ports of Call and the Balkans: World Divide

TECHNOLOGY & THE FUTURE

  • The Future is Now: New Technologies
  • Technological Optimism
  • The Singularity: When We Merge with Artificial Intelligence
  • Marshall McLuhan: The Message of Today’s Media
  • Genomics: Beyond DNA

CREATIVITY

  • You Becoming Creative

MYTHS AND MOVIES

  • The Hero Journey in Movies: Star Wars and Lots More Movies; Clint Eastwood: A Buddhist Knight; Groundhog Day: The New Mythology
  • The Phantom of the Opera: A Movie of Archetypes

ARCHITECTURE AND CULTURE

  • Gothic Cathedrals: The Birth of the West
  • Baroque Architecture
  • The Culture and Architecture of Japan
  • Pre Columbian Architecture
  • Buddhism in Architecture

MODERN ARCHITECTURE

  • Frank Lloyd Wright
  • The Beaux Arts and the Bauhaus
  • What Was Post Modern Architecture?
  • The Architecture of Louis Kahn
  • The Radical Architecture of the ’60s

ART

  • The Art of the Western World
  • The Art and Culture of the East
  • The Art and Culture of the ’60s