Videos
Wendy Brown, University of California, BerkeleyPolitics and Knowledge in Nihilistic Times: Thinking with Max Weber. The first, “Politics” October 22, 2019Wendy Brown is Class of 1936 First Chair at UC Berkeley, where she teaches political theory. Drawing from Freudian, Weberian, Marxist, and Foucauldian angles of vision, she writes about the powers operating beneath... |
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David Spergel, AstrophysicistOctober 14, 2019When cosmologists map the universe, they are imaging its past. Our measurements of the cosmic microwave background fluctuations map the universe’s condition only a few hundred thousand years after the big bang. These... |
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Brian Scassellati, YaleMapping the Frontier between Man and Machine September 4, 2019People divide the world into objects (like rocks and toasters) and agents (like people and dogs). How do we decide where robots should fall along this divide? In this talk, Professor Brian Scassellati discusses... |
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Steven Strogatz, MathematicianApril 26, 2019Steven Strogatz is an applied mathematician who works in the areas of nonlinear dynamics and complex systems, often on topics inspired by the curiosities of everyday life–and often finding math... |
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Gary Tomlinson, YaleThe Third Algorithm: The Evolution of Human Culture April 18, 2019How did human culture take on the complexity manifest in all societies today? Gary Tomlinson adopts a long perspective to answer this question, looking back across the last 500,000 years. Joining capacities of early... |
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Anupama Rao, Barnard CollegeSocial Abstraction, Historical Comparison: Thinking Caste, Race, and Gender in the Time Capital April 9, 2019Anupama Rao is Associate Professor of History at Barnard College, Senior Editor of Comparative Studies in South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, and Acting Director of the Institute for Comparative... |
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Gyanendra Pandey, Emory UniversityModernity in the Home: A Reflection on 20th Century India April 2, 2019Gyanendra Pandey is Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor and Director of the Interdisciplinary Workshop on Colonial and Postcolonial Studies at Emory University. A founding member and leading... |
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lona Katzew, Los Angeles County Museum of ArtThe Invention of Casta Painting: Race and Science in the Age of Enlightenment February 26, 2019Ilona Katzew is Department Head and Curator of Latin American Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Her exhibitions include New World Orders; Inventing Race: Casta Painting and Eighteenth-Century... |
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Paul Edwards, Stanford UniversityFebruary 25, 2019Paul Edwards is William J. Perry Fellow in International Security at Stanford University and Professor of Information and History (Emeritus) at the University of Michigan. He writes and teaches about the history,... |
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Deborah Thomas, University of Pennsylvania"Political Life in the Wake of the Plantation: Affect, Witnessing, Repair" February 12, 2019Deborah Thomas is the R. Jean Brownlee Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Experimental Ethnography at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Exceptional Violence: Embodied... |