Mastering Style: The Learning and Teaching of Writing
The Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching (HILT), in collaboration with the Harvard Writers at Work Lecture Series, welcomed Professor Steven Pinker ...
Harvard University
Introduction to the Vedic Period | World History | Khan Academy
From the Vedas, the oldest known Hindu scriptures, scholars have learned about the existence of the Vedic period in ancient Indian history that followed the ...
Khan Academy
The Cold War
Let's look at a map and retrace a summary of the history and evolution of the Cold War, a conflict that pitted the United States against the USSR for nearly 45 ...
Geo History
The Forest Unseen: Biology, Literature and Contemplative Practice
In this Franke lecture on January 29th, 2014, David Haskell, Professor of biology at Sewanee: The University of the South, gives a talk on biology, literature and ...
YaleUniversity
Fat Chance: Fructose 2.0
(4:30 - Main Presentation) Dr. Robert Lustig, UCSF Division of Pediatric Endocrinology, updates his very popular video “Sugar: The Bitter Truth.” He argues that ...
University of California Television (UCTV)
Douglas Adams: Parrots the Universe and Everything
Douglas Adams was the best-selling British author and satirist who created The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. In this talk at UCSB recorded shortly before his ...
University of California Television (UCTV)
Prof. Steven Pinker - The Better Angels of Our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity
Professor Pinker explores ideas drawn from his book entitled The Better Angels of our Nature: Why Violence has Declined. This lecture discusses the notion that ...
The University of Edinburgh
On Progress - John Gray
John Gray, one of Britain's most provocative and stimulating philosophers, visits the RSA to discuss the ideas raised in 'The Silence of Animals' - the ...
RSA
Dipesh Chakrabarty’s The Calling of History: Book Launch & Panel Discussion
At the UChicago Center in Delhi, historian Dipesh Chakrabarty was joined by a distinguished panel at the launch of his book The Calling of History: Sir Jadunath ...
The University of Chicago
The Sense of Style | Steven Pinker | Talks at Google
Steven Pinker visited Google LA to discuss his book: "The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century." This talk took place on ...
Talks at Google
New Books in the Arts & Sciences: Celebrating Recent Work by Wael Hallaq
October 17, 2018 http://heymancenter.org/events/celebrating-recent-work-by-wael-hallaq/ Restating Orientalism: A Critique of Modern Knowledge By: Wael ...
SOFHeyman
Cornel West: "Speaking Truth to Power"
A discussion on Institutional Provincialism with Dr. Cornel West and the MIT community from February 8, 2018. Program: Welcome & Introduction: Mr. Ty Austin ...
MIT School of Architecture & Planning
What Can 'The History of White People' Teach Us About Race in America?
Each Spring, the Johnson Institute sponsors the annual James Weldon Johnson Distinguished Lecture, a major address by a distinguished race scholar and ...
Emory University
Amitav Ghosh, "Fiction I," Lecture 1 of 4, 9.29.15
The 2015 Berlin Family Lectures with Amitav Ghosh "The Great Derangement: Literature, History, and Politics in the Age of Global Warming" Lecture one: ...
UChicago Division of the Humanities
