Videos

Dipesh Chakrabarty

"Climate Change as Epochal Consciousness"

February 18, 2015

Dipesh Chakrabarty is the Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, and Law at the University of Chicago. His lecture “Climate Change as Epochal...

David Pizarro, Cornell University

"Understanding the Moral Mind"

February 9, 2015

David Pizarro is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Cornell University. His primary research interest is in how and why humans make moral judgments, such as what makes us think certain...

Seo-Young Chu

"Utopias Misplaced: The Cost of Outsourcing Dystopian Poetics to North Korea"

November 20, 2014

Seo-Young Chu is Assistant Professor of English at Queens College, CUNY. Her lecture “Utopias Misplaced: The Cost of Outsourcing Dystopian Poetics to North Korea” was given as part of the Fall 2014 Franke Lectures in...

Christopher Kendrick

"Marx, Winstanley, and Morris: Utopian Thinking and Practice in the Communist Manifesto, the Law of Freedom, and News from Nowhere"

October 30, 2014

Christopher Kendrick is Professor of English at Loyola University Chicago. His lecture “Marx, Winstanley, and Morris: Utopian Thinking and Practice in the Communist Manifesto, the Law of Freedom, and News from...

Troubling Legacies: Anti-Judaism in Antiquity and its Aftermath, Panel 4

September 8, 2014

The theme of this year’s YPSA Annual Conference is “Troubling Legacies: Anti-Judaism in Antiquity and Its Aftermath.” Co-organized by Harold Attridge (Yale Divinity), Dale Martin (Religious Studies), and Hindy...

Troubling Legacies: Anti-Judaism in Antiquity and its Aftermath, Panel 3

September 8, 2014

The theme of this year’s YPSA Annual Conference is “Troubling Legacies: Anti-Judaism in Antiquity and Its Aftermath.” Co-organized by Harold Attridge (Yale Divinity), Dale Martin (Religious Studies), and Hindy...

Reality Check: An Examination of Anti-Semitism in 2014

June 26, 2014

The U.S. Department of State and the Yale Program for the Study of Anti-Semitism sponsored a discussion “Reality Check: An Examination of Anti-Semitism in 2014”. The event covered the current trends...

Hans-Ulrich Gumbrecht, Stanford University

"All That Matters Is Invisible: How Latency Dominates Our Present"

April 8, 2014

Hans-Ulrich Gumbrecht is the Albert Guérard Professor in Literature at Stanford University. He teaches Romance and Comparative Literatures.

His lecture “All That Matters Is Invisible: How Latency Dominates Our...

Michael Kimmelman

"The Politics of Public Space"

April 2, 2014

Michael Kimmelman is an American author, critic, New York Times columnist, and pianist and was the 2014 Franke Visiting Fellow at the Whitney Humanities Center. In the lecture “The Politics of Public Space...

How Better to Register the Agency of Things: A Roundtable Discussion with Bruno Latour, Daniel Kevles, Joanna Radin, Adam Tooze, and Philip Gorski

March 28, 2014

In this roundtable discussion with Yale faculty, moderated by Daniel Kevles, panelists and audience members discuss ideas from Bruno Latour’s two Tanner lectures, together titled “How Better to Register the Agency of...