How Literature Can Change Your Life | Joseph Luzzi | TEDxAlbany
In my talk, I hope to change the way people feel about literature. My aim is to show that literature is not just an elitist collection of “classics, something you are ...
TEDx Talks
Jane Austen, Persuasion: Irony and the Mysterious Vagaries of Narrative - Professor Belinda Jack
Austen handles irony brilliantly and systematically exploited new ways of narrating, including free indirect discourse. This lecture explores why Austen's way of ...
Gresham College
Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft & Mary Shelley
Award-winning author Charlotte Gordon discussed her biography of Mary Shelley and her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, entitled "Romantic Outlaws: The ...
Library of Congress
PHILOSOPHY - Hegel
The German philosopher Hegel believed that strange and alien bits of history have much to teach us. He believed story and civilisation do not move in a straight ...
The School of Life
The Scientific Revolution: Crash Course History of Science #12
So, what exactly is a scientific revolution? And are they more than just moments in time Historians use to mark the beginning and ending of things through time?
CrashCourse
POLITICAL THEORY - Adam Smith
Adam Smith was no uncritical apologist for capitalism: he wanted to understand how capitalism could be both fruitful and good. If you like our films take a look at ...
The School of Life
An Introduction to Quantum Biology - with Philip Ball
In this guest curated event on quantum biology, Jim Al-Khalili invited Philip Ball to introduce how the mysteries of quantum theory might manifest themselves at ...
The Royal Institution
Biography and Literary Theory
Elisabeth Sifton (No Ordinary Men), moderator. Evelyn Barish (The Double Life of Paul de Man), Caryl Emerson (Mikhail Bakhtin: Creation of a Prosaics).
The Graduate Center, CUNY
A short critical life history of life history, auto/biographical and narrative research methodology
Part III of III Part I https://youtu.be/GiA2geZP0Sc Part II https://youtu.be/utOqU3puP18 Professor Linden West has been a major figure in the world of Life history ...
Canterbury Christ Church University
Mahatma Gandhi – dying for freedom | DW Documentary
Indian freedom fighter Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated on 30 January 1948. Why was Gandhi killed and what events occurred before and after Gandhi's ...
DW Documentary
Dostoyevsky Discovered: A Biography
A biography of the 19th century Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky. We also explore his continued influence, his predictions about the future and his ...
BrassReel Brothers
5 Facts about Coleridge every UGC NET Aspirant should know (UGC NET English)
UGC NET English aspirants are you also confused between Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and Samuel Taylor Coleridge? If you're like me, when you heard the ...
Arpita Karwa
Annie Jacobsen, "Operation Paperclip"
Founded by Carla Cohen and Barbara Meade in 1984, Politics & Prose Bookstore is Washington, D.C.'s premier independent bookstore and cultural hub, ...
Politics and Prose
Language, Voice, and Holden Caulfield - The Catcher in the Rye Part 1: CC English Literature #6
In which John Green examines JD Salinger's novel The Catcher in the Rye. John pulls out the old school literary criticism by examining the text itself rather than ...
CrashCourse
Clausewitz: His Life and Work | Donald Stoker | Talks at Google
Carl von Clausewitz's On War, is generally considered the greatest text on military theory ever written. Clausewitz is a touchstone for the field today, and is read ...
Talks at Google
Why should you read Virginia Woolf? - Iseult Gillespie
How best can we understand the internal experience of alienation? In both her essays and her fiction, Virginia Woolf shapes the slippery nature of subjective ...
TED-Ed
Contemporary Jewish literature on Jewish Identity in the Netherlands and France
The problem of Jewish identity and its place in an ever more culturally diverse world has become an important inspiration for many Jewish writers and also ...
Social Science Research / University of Amsterdam
John Ghazvinian | America and Iran: A History, 1720 to the Present
Recorded February 4, 2021 In conversation with Ambassador John Limbert, US Deputy Secretary of State for Iran (2009-10); former hostage in the US Embassy ...
Author Events
Chomsky, les médias et les illusions nécessaires (Manufacturing Consent)– Long métrage, documentaire
Ce documentaire examine la vie politique et les idées du réputé linguiste, intellectuel et militant Noam Chomsky. Ce film vingt-deux fois primé de Mark Achbar et ...
Encore +
The Age of Alexander Pope | English Literature | UGC NET 2021 Exam | Gradeup | Neerja Raheja
"UGC NET: Watch this session on English Literature : The Age of Alexander Pope, for UGC NET Paper. In this session Gradeup expert, would cover important ...
Gradeup: UGC NET JRF, CSIR & Other SET Exams Prep
EMPEROR QIANLONG DOCUMENTARY PART 2 - QIANLONG BIOGRAPHY
Emperor Qianlong was the longest living Emperor of Chinese history. In this History of China video, 7th of the Qing Emperors Series, I expose Qianlong ...
History of China
Who IS Sherlock Holmes - Neil McCaw
More than a century after first emerging into the fogbound, gaslit streets of Victorian London, Sherlock Holmes is universally recognizable. And yet many of his ...
TED-Ed
The secrets of learning a new language | Lýdia Machová
Want to learn a new language but feel daunted or unsure where to begin? You don't need some special talent or a "language gene," says Lýdia Machová.
TED
The History of Colonial America
The video describes characteristics of the the three main groups of the 13 colonies: New England, Middle and Southern. Students will learn about geography, ...
Flocabulary
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media - Feature Film
Manufacturing Consent explores the political life and ideas of world-renowned linguist, intellectual and political activist Noam Chomsky. Through a collage of ...
Encore +
Dr. John Henrik Clarke - A Great And Mighty Walk (1996)
Controversial scholar and activist John Henrik Clarke first appeared on the Harlem scene in the 1930's. He was an advisor to Kwame Nrumah, the first president ...
reelblack
Plato’s Allegory of the Cave - Alex Gendler
Twenty four hundred years ago, Plato, one of history's most famous thinkers, said life is like being chained up in a cave forced to watch shadows flitting across a ...
TED-Ed
George Patton: An Animated Biography of a World War 2 General
This video is an animated biography of George Patton's life. Though a summary, it provides a fascinating look into some of the greatest moments in the life of ...
Captivating History
Political correctness: a force for good? A Munk Debate
The resolution? "What you call political correctness, I call progress…" On May 18th, the redoubtable Stephen Fry (self-admitted soft leftie) and I debated the duo ...
Jordan B Peterson
Who Was The Real Queen Victoria? | A Monarch Unveiled | Timeline
Biographer A.N. Wilson uncovers the intriguing personal life of Queen Victoria through her journals and letters in this psychological portrait of Britain's longest ...
Timeline - World History Documentaries
Wallis in Love: The Untold Life of the Duchess of Windsor
Journalist and celebrity biographer Andrew Morton presents a talk on his latest book, Wallis in Love, that chronicles the tumultuous and controversial ...
GBH Forum Network
Churchill's Secret Son (Winston Churchill Documentary) | Timeline
Meet the man who inspired the character of Big Brother in George Orwell's “1984”; the man who Churchill's family would have liked history to bury; the man so ...
Timeline - World History Documentaries
Life, Freedom & Ethics: Kropotkin Now! — Sunday Session 2B: Javier Sethness
An international conference to commemorate the anarchist thinker and geographer Peter Kropotkin, a century since his death. - "Pëtr Kropotkin ...
Black Rose Books
PHILOSOPHY - Heidegger
FURTHER READING “The field is not without other distinguished contestants, but in the competitive history of incomprehensible German philosophers, Martin ...
The School of Life
English Literature - The Age of Johnson (The Novel) | UGC NET 2021 Exam | Neerja Raheja
"UGC NET: Watch this session on English Literature - The Age of Johnson (The Novel), for UGC NET Paper. In this session Gradeup expert, would cover ...
Gradeup: UGC NET JRF, CSIR & Other SET Exams Prep
Did Queen Victoria Find Love After Albert? | A Monarch Unveiled | Real Royalty With Foxy Games
Biographer A.N. Wilson uncovers the intriguing personal life of Queen Victoria through her journals and letters in this psychological portrait of Britain's longest ...
Real Royalty
Walter Benjamin: The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
An introduction to the art critic Walter Benjamin and his most influential essay, the Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. Including David Douglas's ...
Then & Now
The First Secret Agents of The O.S.S | Secrets Of War | Timeline
The story of the formation of the Office of Strategic Services, the predecessor to the CIA. From the recruitment and training of secret agents to undercover ...
Timeline - World History Documentaries
PHILOSOPHY - René Descartes
Rene Descartes is perhaps the world's best known-philosopher, in large part because of his pithy statement, 'I think therefore I am.' He stands out as an example ...
The School of Life
Victor Hugo Biography in English
biography, #biographies, #bio, #facts, #famouspeople, #lifestyle, #lifestory, #unknownfacts.
Famous People Bio
Noam Chomsky's Language Theory: Best explanation you will ever hear (UGC NET English)
The list of prominent writers for UGC NET English holds the name of Noam Chomsky as well among various other writers. To summarize, Chomsky was ...
Arpita Karwa
Brontë Country: The Story of Emily, Charlotte & Anne Brontë
Brontë Country tells a fascinating tale full of passion, romance and tragedy, giving the viewer a real flavour of life in Victorian Britain as well as a delightful ...
The Great British Channel
