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
In the 21st Century Does Latin America Matter?
The Timothy Dwight College Chubb Fellowship is honored to present President Leonel Fernandez as the Spring 2013 Chubb Fellow. Fernandez is the, former ...
YaleUniversity
Rob Riemen: To Fight Against This Age: On Fascism and Humanism
Rob Riemen explores the theoretical weaknesses of fascism, which depends on a politics of resentment, the incitement of anger and fear, xenophobia, the need ...
Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs
Liberalism in the Age of Trump: George Packer
In this year's Irving Howe Memorial Lecture, acclaimed author and journalist George Packer argues that the decline of liberal values helped to create the Trump ...
The Graduate Center, CUNY
The 36th Annual W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography
BFA Photography and Video presents the 36th annual W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography and Howard Chapnick Grant for the Advancement of ...
School of Visual Arts
Steven Pinker | Enlightenment Now: Reason Science Humanism Progress | SXSW 2018
Harvard Psychology Professor and New York Times bestselling author Steven Pinker claims marrying hard data to a keen understanding of the human mind ...
SXSW
Will Durant---The Renaissance
Will Durant---The Renaissance.
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The Future of Humankind
In his 2014 bestseller, "Sapiens", author Yuval Noah Harari looked at the 75000 year history of humankind. His new book, "Homo Deus", focuses on what might ...
The Agenda with Steve Paikin
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow with Yuval Noah Harari
(6:09 - Main Presentation) Historian Yuval Noah Harari has taken the world on a tour through the span of humanity, from apes to rulers of the world. Harari ...
University of California Television (UCTV)
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
The Evolution of Consciousness - Dr Mark Vernon
Get early access to our latest psychology lectures:http://bit.ly/new-talks It's been noted that the human experience of life has changed over time, and that during ...
The Weekend University
Critical Pedagogy and Revolutionary Praxis in the Age of Imperalism
Critical Pedagogy and Revolutionary Praxis in the Age of Imperialism", Professor McLaren discusses critical pedagogy and revolutionary praxis, paying ...
UC Berkeley Events
Democracy, Diversity and Social Justice: Education in a Global Age
James Banks gives the 29th annual faculty lecture entitled 'Democracy, Diversity and Social Justice: Education in a Global Age.' Banks has been a researcher ...
UW Video
What is Enlightenment? (Immanuel Kant)
http://www.tomrichey.net In 1784, the Enlightenment had been going strong for decades, prompting Immanuel Kant to publish an essay attempting to clarify ...
Tom Richey
Enlightenment Now | Steven Pinker | RSA Replay
With each new dispiriting headline, it's hard not to feel that the world is sinking deeper into chaos, hatred and irrationality. But is modernity really failing? Or have ...
RSA
Yuval Noah Harari: A History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari, lecturer in the Department of History, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and author of "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind," joins Piya ...
The Agenda with Steve Paikin
Sudipta Kaviraj ─ Must we say what we don't mean? On the language of Indian social science
Skip ahead to main speaker at 4:15 Sudipta Kaviraj is Professor of Indian Politics and Intellectual History at Columbia University. He works on two fields of ...
Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs
Prof. Martha Nussbaum on "Humanistic Education & Global Justice"
The Seymour Fox Memorial Lecture: Sunday, 16 December 2007 Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics, The University of Chicago ...
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Terry Eagleton: "The Death of Criticism?"
One of Britains most influential literary critics, Terry Eagleton is Distinguished Professor of English Literature at the University of Lancaster, and Visiting Professor ...
UC Berkeley Events
Creativity in the Face of Climate Change
Human society is at a crossroads. Todays decisions will determine if human culture will continue to impose catastrophic effects on the earths climate, oceans, ...
University of California Television (UCTV)
Home as Elsewhere
Humanist geographer Yi-Fu Tuan explores the Tao of "home" and the interplay that coexists between emotional attachment and the nature of humans to migrate.
University of California Television (UCTV)
"Why Free Speech is Fundamental," with Steven Pinker
ASU SCETL
Encontro "Ética, Valores e Política" - Michael Sandel e Steven Pinker
Debate sobre Ética, Valores e Política com os reconhecidos filósofo Michael Sandel e psicólogo Steven Pinker, no Encontro da Fundação, 1 de Junho de 2019.
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Why the rise of AI makes "mental resilience" so important
Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari explored the past and future of humanity in his books "Sapiens" and "Homo Deus." They became international bestsellers ...
CBS This Morning
Russia: Empire to revolution (Oct. 6 class)
Watch video of Frank Wcislo, Dean of The Commons and associate professor of history at Vanderbilt University, leading an Oct. 6, 2010, class at the Osher ...
Vanderbilt University
Terry Eagleton in conversation with Roger Scruton
Want to join the debate? Check out the Intelligence Squared website to hear about future live events and podcasts: http://www.intelligencesquared.com. This ...
Intelligence Squared
Freeman Dyson - Presidential Science and Humanism Award Lecture
Renowned physicist and author Freeman Dyson traces the history, and possible future, of cultural and biological evolution through the work of six seminal ...
American University of Beirut
Yuval Noah Harari Speaking with Mathias Döpfner - BDZV Conference 2018
Prof. Yuval Noah Harari in conversation with Dr. Mathias Döpfner, President of BDZV and CEO of Axel Springer SE. Filmed at the annual conference organized ...
Yuval Noah Harari
Yuval Noah Harari: Humans behind Machines - Davos 2020
Yuval Noah Harari participates in a panel discussion with Pierre Habbard, Doris Leuthard, E. Glen Weyl, moderated by Patrizia Laeri. This panel was in ...
Yuval Noah Harari
HUMANISM AND NUMISMATICS IN 19TH CENTURY PREHISTORIC ARCHAEOLOGY
Conventional historiography would have us believe that the transition from (old-fashioned) antiquarianism to (modern) archaeology, over the 19th century, took ...
European Association of Archaeologists
Confucianism, Ritual, and Society in Joseon Dynasty Korea
John Duncan, Director for Korean Studies, UCLA, gives a talk on Joseon dynasty (1392-1910) Korea at the Asian Art Museum.
Asian Art Museum
Introduction to Existentialism
Become a Supporting Member and get access to exclusive videos: https://academyofideas.com/members/ ======== Recommended Readings on ...
Academy of Ideas
The Value of the Essay in the 21st Century
(Oct. 11, 2009) A panel discussion exploring the past, present, and future of this important genre of writing with Stanford professors Andrea Lunsford, Dan ...
Stanford
Is liberalism soulless?
Aleksandr Dugin, Nelofer Pazira, Leon Wiesltier, Michael Zantovsky and others on freedom, liberalism and democracy. Nexus Conference 2017 - The Last ...
TheNexusInstitute
TEDxWarwick - Jay Lakhani - 2/28/09
Jay Lakhani, Head of the Hindu Academy, Education Director for the Hindu Council UK and a Theoretical Physicist, explores the findings at the cutting edge of ...
TEDx Talks
Introduction to 17th Century England
This Lecture talks about Introduction to 17th Century England.
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Robert Putnam And Shaylyn Romney Garrett: How America Can Come Together Again
Join us for the 2020 Commonwealth Club Virtual Gala. More info here: http://commonwealthclub.org/virtualgala Twenty years ago, eminent Harvard political ...
Commonwealth Club of California
Human-centered AI: a Case for Cognitively Inspired Machine Intelligence - Fei-Fei Li
Fei-Fei Li's main research areas are in machine learning, deep learning, computer vision and cognitive and computational neuroscience.
Stanford
MPL Talks: Napoleon Bonaparte & the Age of Imagination
MPL Reference Librarian Dr. John Foster talks about the impact Napoleon Bonaparte had on global politics. See how Bonaparte's code and wars helped end ...
MentorPublicLib
Virtual Public Lecture: David Joselit, “Heritage and Debt: Art in Globalization”
Globalization has generated a new model of regional museums of modern and contemporary art whose purpose, Joselit argues, is to develop an alternative to ...
Harvard GSD
Rethinking Education: Towards a global common good? - long version
In a world of increasing uncertainty, complexity and contradiction we need to better understand and anticipate the changing learning landscape. In doing so, we ...
UNESCO
Confucianism and Liberal Education for a Global Era: Lectures with Tu Weiming
For more on this event, visit: http://bit.ly/14E3PhH For more on the Berkley Center, visit: http://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu October 1, 2013 | A core goal of ...
Berkley Center
