The First Modern Jew: Spinoza and the History of an Image
Daniel B. Schwartz discusses his new book, "The First Modern Jew: Spinoza and the History of an Image." Speaker Biography: Daniel B. Schwartz is an ...
Library of Congress
The Congress of Vienna: Crash Course European History #23
The end of the Napoleonic Wars left the great powers of Europe shaken. Judging from the destruction that had been wrought across the continent, it seemed to ...
CrashCourse
Modern and Medieval Languages at Cambridge
Undergraduate students and staff talk about studying Modern and Medieval Languages at the University of Cambridge. To find out more about this course, see ...
Cambridge University
Kings and Slaves: Diplomacy, Sovereignty, and Black Subjectivity in the Early Modern World
Noted historian of the African Diaspora, Herman Bennett, delivered an evening lecture in honor of the 75th anniversary of the founding of the John Carter Brown ...
Brown University
Virgil's Aeneid and the Destiny of Italy
A lecture by Alessandro Barchiesi, Professor of Classics, NYU In his lecture, Professor Barchiesi discusses various reactions and appropriations of the Aeneid in ...
CasaItalianaNYU
Greek Mythology 3500 BC to AD 2014
http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/classics Professor Ken Dowden delivers the Birmingham and Midlands Classical Association's New Year lecture. Where do Greek ...
University of Birmingham
Michael Hardt : Globalization and Democracy - Politics of Multitude
lecture held at Academy of Dramatic Art Zagreb _ February 27, 2002 *** Organized by Multimedia Institute, performing arts magazine Frakcija and Subverzije.
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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
King's College London: Comparative Literature
Watch the Comparative Literature subject talk from the 2013 Open Day.
kingscollegelondon
Will science kill God? - Dan Brown
A keynote address by Dan Brown, author of the best selling novel ' The Da Vinci Code', exploring the intersection of technology and spirituality. Purchase tickets ...
Web Summit
We Are Overheating | Thomas Hylland Eriksen | TEDxTrondheim
In a world of more, faster, bigger and warmer, we are overheating on both the personal level and the global level. This brilliant talk from renowned Norwegian ...
TEDx Talks
Architecture, Images and Image-Making under the Stuarts
Simon Thurley looks at how cultural ambition was an integral part of the political events of the Stuart era, and how Stuart patrons were more aware of the effects ...
Gresham College
Lecture 1, Introduction to History Painting
For six centuries, history painting—pictures based on stories from myth, scripture, and ancient and modern history—was the most prestigious work a painter ...
YaleCourses
Slavoj Žižek: "Why I Am Still A Communist". The 2019 Holberg Debate with Slavoj Žižek & Tyler Cowen.
00:15:45 Event starts 00:23:00 Slavoj Žižek's keynote speech 01:07:28 Slavoj Žižek is interviewed by Tyler Cowen 01:59:25 Q &A At the 2019 Holberg Debate, ...
Holberg Prize
Black Feminist Theory, Cultural Work, and Disrespectability
How has respectability traveled beyond the field of black women's history to black women's studies and black feminist theory? How have historians mobilized ...
Brown University
Chatham House Primer: Modern Authoritarianism
An authoritarian regime, broadly defined, is a form of government characterized by dominant central power and the subordination of individual rights and ...
Chatham House
The Revolt Against the Masses: How Liberalism Has Undermined the Middle Class
In his new book, Fred Siegel rewrites the history of modern American liberalism. He posits that what we think of liberalism today began not with Progressivism or ...
The Heritage Foundation
Knights and Kings at Play: Festive Martial Traditions in Late Medieval and Early Modern Spain
Visit: http://www.uctv.tv/) An internationally recognized historian whose work focuses on medieval Spain and Europe, Professor Teofilo F. Ruiz discusses ...
University of California Television (UCTV)
Colin Burrow: Fiction and the Age of Lies
The line between making a fiction and telling a lie has been blurry at least since Homer, and liars – from Odysseus and Iago to Austen's Wickham and beyond ...
London Review of Books (LRB)
Chris Hedges at Moravian College: The Myth of Human Progress and the Collapse of Complex Societies
Christopher Lynn "Chris" Hedges, a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist specializing in politics and society, spoke at Moravian College on Tuesday, ...
Moravian College
10 Philosophical Works I'd Bring To A Desert Island
In this more personal talk, I respond to a frequently asked kind of questions about top 5 / top 10 lists I'd create about philosophers or philosophical texts. Support ...
Gregory B. Sadler
Prof. Agustín Fuentes - Who are we? Belief, evolution, and our place in the world
Professor Agustín Fuentes, the Edmund P. Joyce C.S.C, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Notre Dame, delivers the Gifford Lecture entitled "Who are ...
The University of Edinburgh
Age of Anger: Pankaj Mishra
For more on this event, visit: http://bit.ly/2lHiE3r For more on the Berkley Center, visit: http://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu March 2, 2017 | Political systems ...
Berkley Center
British Prime Ministers from Attlee to Blair - Professor Vernon Bogdanor
A lecture to mark the publication of Vernon Bogdanor's book based on the series of lectures delivered at Gresham College during 2006 and 2007, 'Leadership ...
Gresham College
Hate and Its Impact: Nazi Ideology and Racism in the Jim Crow South
On March 12, the Museum presented the second program in the "Hate and Its Impact" series: "Nazi Ideology and Racism in the Jim Crow South” at the Museum.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Postmodernism Part 2
Postmodernism became the leading intellectual movement in the late twentieth century. It has replaced modernism, the philosophy of the Enlightenment.
Atlas Society
Salman Rushdie: "The Enchantress of Florence" | Talks at Google
The Enchantress of Florence is the story of a woman attempting to command her own destiny in a man's world. It is the story of two cities, unknown to each other, ...
Talks at Google
David Wellbery: "Who is Faust?"
"Who is Faust?" Keynote Address, 2009 University of Chicago Humanities Day October 24, 2009 David Wellbery, LeRoy T. and Margaret Deffenbaugh Carlson ...
UChicago Division of the Humanities
Jeffrey Brenzel: The Essential Value of a Classic Education | Big Think
Jeffrey Brenzel: The Essential Value of a Classic Education Watch the newest video from Big Think: https://bigth.ink/NewVideo Join Big Think Edge for exclusive ...
Big Think
Leo Strauss on Nietzsche: A Conference at the University of Chicago
Panel speakers Richard Velkley (Tulane University), Mark Blitz (Claremont McKenna College), Paul Franco (Bowdoin College), and Robert Pippin (The ...
The University of Chicago
A Lecture by Slavoj Zizek
Slovenian-born Slavoj Zizek, a postmodern philosopher and cultural critic, addresses perception, identity, and the "other" in an engaging lecture titled Fear Thy ...
Boston University
Capital Is Dead: Is This Something Worse?
McKenzie Wark in conversation with Natasha Lennard, for the book launch of Wark's “Capital Is Dead: Is This Something Worse?” Filmed at Verso Books in ...
Verso Books
Slavoj Žižek. The Buddhist Ethic and the Spirit of Global Capitalism. 2012
http://www.egs.edu/ Slavoj Žižek, contemporary philosopher and psychoanalyst, discusses Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki, Western Buddhism, the West, capitalism, ...
European Graduate School Video Lectures
Carlo Ginzburg: Looking at Europe from the Orient
CEU Department of History presents "Looking at Europe from the Orient (1704-1706): An Exercise in Slow Reading" a public lecture by Carlo Ginzburg, ...
Central European University
Paul North: “The Yield: Kafka’s Atheological Reformation”
Paul North is a Professor of Germanic Language and Literature at Yale. He has written numerous articles and books, including The Problem of Distraction.
YaleUniversity
The Origins of Romanticism
"What is 'Romanticism'? Jonathan Bate goes in search of what Isaiah Berlin described as 'the greatest single shift in the consciousness of the West'. A lecture by ...
Gresham College
Rediscovering Leonardo da Vinci
Laurence Kanter Thursday, September 20, 2018, 5:30 pm Currently on view at the Gallery, the exhibition Leonardo: Discoveries from Verrocchio's Studio ...
Yale University Art Gallery
Robert Pippin- The Humanities and Ethical Knowledge
April 27, 2016 The Humanities and Ethical Knowledge Robert Pippin, PhD Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social ...
MacLean Center
Cannibalism in the minds and imaginations of Early Modern Europeans and Americans
A lecture delivered on 24 April at the Warburg Institute, University of London, School of Advanced Study, by Alison Coudert, Professor of Religious Studies, ...
WarburgInstitute
The Sociology of W. E. B. Du Bois: Racialized Modernity and the Global Color Line
Join co-authors Jose Itzigsohn and Karida L. Brown for a discussion of their new book, The Sociology of W. E. B. Du Bois: Racialized Modernity and the Global ...
Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs
Jeremy Rifkin - The Empathic Civilisation
Bestselling author, political adviser and social and ethical prophet Jeremy Rifkin investigates the evolution of empathy and the profound ways that it has shaped ...
The RSA
The Thirty Years War
http://www.tomrichey.net The Thirty Years' War was fought from 1618-1648 (Thirty Years!) in the Holy Roman Empire. It began as a conflict between Catholics ...
Tom Richey
