Byron and the Age of Sensation
Jonathan Bate explores the life and work of the original celebrity poet Lord Byron. Byron was simultaneously a Romantic and an anti-Romantic. A lecture by Sir ...
Gresham College
What is Latin? CONTINUED: New Vocabulary, Word Choice, Synonyms
What is Latin? CONTINUED. When it comes to neologisms, what words are better than others? Is a lemon "līmō" or "mālum citreum"? Is France "Gallia" or ...
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PHILOSOPHY - Nietzsche
Nietzsche believed that the central task of philosophy was to teach us to 'become who we are'. You can find out more about him and other great thinkers in our ...
The School of Life
Mr. Osborne - British Literature Unit Preview 3 - The Restoration & Enlightenment
Mr. Osborne takes us through the troubled Interregnum, the joyous Restoration, and into the Age of Enlightenment, previewing titles such as The Diary of Samuel ...
PALCSTeachers
“Ukraine and the Future of Europe”, Timothy Snyder
On June 20 2019, Timothy Snyder, the Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in ...
Victor Pinchuk Foundation
The Global Significance of Arabic Language and Literature - 1st Annual
Professor Carl Ernst (UNC-Chapel HIll) delivers the inaugural Arabic Majors Distinguished Lecture, "THe Global Significance of Arabic Language and LIterature"
John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University
Jurji Zaidan: His Contributions to Modern Arab Thought and Literature (Afternoon Session)
Scholars from the Arab world, Europe and North America presented papers and discussed the life and work of the noted Arab novelist, journalist and publisher.
Library of Congress
When Did Modern Architecture Actually Begin? | ARTiculations
Did modern architecture really begin in the 1920s with the founding of the Bauhaus school? Perhaps. But perhaps the changing landscape of architectural ...
ARTiculations
80th Anniversary of the Oxford English Dictionary
Yale University Library and Oxford University Press sponsored a panel lecture on October 1, 2008 to celebrate the 80th birthday of the Oxford English Dictionary, ...
YaleUniversity
Thinking about Mothers and Others through Literature and Social Science
24/26-10-13 Institute of Modern Languages Research & Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women's Writing http://www.sas.ac.uk/ ...
SchAdvStudy
Steven Pinker: The Sense of Style
The APS-David Myers Lecture on the Science and Craft of Teaching Psychology, delivered at the 27th Annual APS Convention, New York City, May 2015.
PsychologicalScience
Representing the Gothic: Dr Jak Peake
In this video, Dr Jak Peake defines the gothic and discusses how contemporary gothic characters compare to gothic characters in 18th century British literature.
University of Essex
The Objects of Houghton Library: Past, Present and Future. A lecture by Ann Blair
Ann Blair is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor at Harvard University, where she specializes in the cultural and intellectual history of early modern Europe ...
Harvard University
noc18-hs31-Lecture 08-Literature and Romanticism (I)
IIT Kanpur July 2018
Emotional Life in a Neurobiological Age: On Wonder
In the light of the most recent neurobiological research on the emotional brain, Catherine Malabou, professor of Modern European Philosophy at Kingston ...
Cornell University
Ellen Prokop: "The Father of Modern Painting? El Greco's Critical Fortunes"
Ellen Prokop, Associate Photoatchivist at The Frick Art Reference Library, presents her lecture, "The Father of Modern Painting? El Greco's Critical Fortunes," ...
The Frick Collection
The Guide into Tongues, John Minsheu John Locke's Copy. First Edition,1617. Peter Harrington Rare
The Guide into Tongues, John Minsheu John Locke's Copy. First Edition, London: And are to be sold at John Brownes shop, 1617. You can view our first edition ...
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Rambler 2 & Johnson's Dictionary
At a meeting of the Washington area group for print culture studies, Anthony Lee discussed paratextual and intertextual entaglements with Pope, Statius, Dryden, ...
Library of Congress
Celebrating 100 Years of Finnish Independence: The History & Future of the Finnish Language
In celebration of 100 years of Finnish independence, the Library co-sponsored with the Embassy of Finland a symposium on the history and future of the Finnish ...
Library of Congress
Conversation with Alexis Tsipras: A lesson from Greece
This event will launch Sciences Po's new Chair on Sovereign Debt, hosted by the Sciences Po Paris School of International Affairs and supported by Global ...
Sciences Po
Linguistics, Style and Writing in the 21st Century - with Steven Pinker
Does writing well matter in an age of instant communication? Drawing on the latest research in linguistics and cognitive science, Steven Pinker replaces the ...
The Royal Institution
Ways of Reading and Teaching World War I Literature - Robert Evans
Robert Evans, Auburn University at Montgomery This session will discuss roughly twenty different ways in which practically any piece of literature can be ...
National WWI Museum and Memorial
noc18-hs31 Lecture 32-Modernism and Postmodernism
IIT Kanpur July 2018
David Crystal
A lecture by the world-famous linguist David Crystal, commemorating 425 years of continuous printing and publishing at Cambridge University Press.
Cambridge University
The Resurgence of Anti-Semitism in Europe
Bernard-Henri Lévy, one of the most highly acclaimed philosophers, journalists, activists and best-selling authors in Europe today, gives a fascinating public ...
University of California Television (UCTV)
Special Presentation: History of the Modern Dictionary
Peter Sokolowski, editor at large for Merriam-Webster, has a plethora of knowledge about dictionaries, past and present. During Champions Week, when the ...
Scripps National Spelling Bee
Scottish Enlightenment of the 18th Century
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History of English Language and Literature
Political Concepts: Patricia Ybarra • Debt
Presenter: Patricia Ybarra (Brown University) The 2019 conference of the Political Concepts Initiative, subtitled “Retouch,” addresses questions related to ...
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Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities: http://www.essex.ac.uk/cish/ American Studies:http://www.essex.ac.uk/cish/american/ Liberal ...
University of Essex
Anglo Norman Period | History of English Literature | Major Writers & Works
Welcome to another interesting video on History of English Literature. In this video, I am going to take you through the Middle English Period commonly known ...
Arpita Karwa
Languages: Anglo-Saxon - The History of English (1/10)
Take a look at what words the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings bought to the English language. (Part 1 of 10) Playlist link ...
OpenLearn from The Open University
Vladimir Skultety - Story of a 20-Language Life
Vladimir Skultety tells his story of growing up with three native languages in a town in southeastern Czechoslovakia, speaking five languages at a native level by ...
Polyglot Conference
Free Speech and the Study of History - Professor Timothy Garton Ash
Professor Timothy Garton Ash discusses the difficulty of memory laws and free speech: ...
Gresham College
NYU Florence: Translating the Untranslatable
NYU FLORENCE Translating the Untranslatable: A Comparative Approach to Problems in Early Modern Literature Jacques Lezra Chair, Comparative Literature, ...
NYU Florence
Kamal al Mulk & the Invention of the Modern Iranian Landscape
Layla Diba spoke about Kamal al Mulk, Iran's first modern painter in the 19th century Qajar dynasty and the modernizing trends in Iranian contemporary painting ...
Library of Congress
Lecture by Theo van den Hout: A is for Anatolia. Writing and Literacy in the Hittite Kingdom
Theo van den Hout is Professor of Hittite and Anatolian Languages in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago.
Brown University
Prof. Francesca Orsini Inaugural Lecture, Literature in a Multilingual Society, SOAS
How does literature work in a multilingual society? And how can we know? Do separate language communities live in their sealed worlds, aware of each other ...
SOAS University of London
Reviewing the Lewis & Short Latin Dictionary
A review of the Lewis & Short Latin Dictionary, explaining its publication history and its usefulness for medievalists. The companion video, unboxing and ...
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Simon Horobin: "A Very Short Introduction to the English Language" | Talks at Google
Simon Horobin, professor of English Language and Literature at Oxford University, talks about the evolution of the English language. Simon contrasts the ...
Talks at Google
How to read Russian literature fluently
Prof. Arguelles on reading literature in a foreign language: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUqME-RTtIs "Canon in D Major" Kevin MacLeod ...
deka glossai
In-comparative Literature: On the Problem of Untranslatability in Literary Studies
Presented by Emily Apter for Rehumanizing the University: New Perspectives on the Liberal Arts, a speaker series, Gainesville, Florida, 2011. Also in UF Digital ...
UFlibraries
The White Plague: A Social History of Tuberculosis - Professor Sir Richard J. Evans
Of all diseases tuberculosis is the most widely represented in literature, opera and drama. The disease has been present in humans since prehistory and hence ...
Gresham College
