Videos

	Hilton Als, Pulitzer Prize-winning author The Walk: a reading November 20, 2019 Als is a staff writer and chief theater critic at The New Yorker. He is the author of two acclaimed works of nonfiction that explore gender, race, and identity: The Women (1996) and White Girls...
	Galen Joseph-Hunter, Executive Director of Wave Farm and Tom Roe, Director at Wave Farm Radio Out of Bounds: Artist Experiments with the Electromagnetic Spectrum November 11, 2019 Galen Joseph-Hunter has served as Executive Director of Wave Farm, a nonprofit arts organization driven by experimentation with broadcast media and the airwaves, since 2002. Wave Farm’s programs—Transmission Arts,...
	David Goren, Journalist Tracing Neighborhoods in the Sky: Pirate Radio in New York City October 28, 2019 David Goren is a radio producer and audio archivist based in Brooklyn. He has created programming for the BBC, Jazz at Lincoln Center Radio, The Wall Street Journal Magazine, and NPR’s Lost and Found Sound...
	Kathryn Lofton and Paul North in conversation with Wendy Brown Politics and Knowledge in Nihilistic Times: Thinking with Max Weber October 24, 2019 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 the...
	Wendy Brown of the University of California, Berkeley Politics and Knowledge in Nihilistic Times: Thinking with Max Weber. The second, “Knowledge" October 23, 2019 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 the...
	Wendy Brown, University of California, Berkeley Politics and Knowledge in Nihilistic Times: Thinking with Max Weber. The first, “Politics” October 22, 2019 Wendy 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...
	David Spergel, Astrophysicist Mapping the Universe October 14, 2019 When 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...
	Brian Scassellati, Yale Mapping the Frontier between Man and Machine September 4, 2019 People 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...
	Steven Strogatz, Mathematician The Beauty of Calculus April 26, 2019 Steven 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...
	Gary Tomlinson, Yale The Third Algorithm: The Evolution of Human Culture April 18, 2019 How 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...