Videos

	Lia Brozgal (UCLA), Adam Shatz (LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS), Tyler Stovall (Fordham University), Alice Kaplan (Director of the Whitney Humanities Center) A Celebration of William Gardner Smith’s THE STONE FACE May 3, 2021 The Whitney Humanities Center at Yale brought together—via Zoom—three cultural critics and specialists of t...
	Rachel Sagner Buurma (Swarthmore College) and Laura Heffernan (University of North Florida)—authors of The Teaching Archive—along with Caleb Smith (Yale). Moderated by Alice Kaplan (Director of the Whitney Humanities Center). THE TEACHING ARCHIVE April 5, 2021 A roundtable discussion of Rachel Sagner Buurma and Laura Heffernan’s new book The Teaching Archive...
	Hernan Diaz, author of IN THE DISTANCE The Heart of Fiction March 16, 2021 Why dwell on made-up stories? Why make them up in the first place? Can fiction, that pack of lies, aspire t...
	Stephanie Smallwood, University of Washington Centering the Transatlantic Slave Trade in the Critique of Capital: Marx, Slavery, and the Problem of “Primitive Accumulation” November 4, 2020 Stephanie Smallwood is Associate Professor of History and Comparative History of Ideas at the University of...
	Massimiliano Tomba, University of California, Santa Cruz Bringing His Own Skin to Market and Has Nothing to Expect but a Tanning: Dramatis Personae and Their Bodies October 21, 2020 Massimiliano Tomba is Professor in the History of Consciousness Department at the Universi...
	Tithi Bhattacharya, Purdue University What Did Marx Have to Say about Cooking Dinner? Social Reproduction Theory and the Labor Theory of Value October 14, 2020 Tithi Bhattacharya is Professor of South Asian History and Director of Global Studies at Purdue University....
	Lucia Pradella, King’s College London Capital, a Book of Labor September 30, 2020 Lucia Pradella is Senior Lecturer in International Political Economy at King’s College Lon...
	Marcello Musto, York University, Toronto Marx’s Concept of Alienation September 23, 2020 Marcello Musto is Professor of Sociology at York University, Toronto, and has published worldwide in more t...
	Terrell Carver, University of Bristol, UK Das Kapital: Critique, History, Knowledge September 16, 2020 Terrell Carver is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Bristol, UK. He has published widely o...
	Ross Andersen, Deputy Editor of The Atlantic Writing at the Intersection of Science and the Arts February 24, 2020 In this talk, Ross Andersen discusses what he has learned about bringing the humanities to bear on the scie...