Videos

	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...
	Anupama Rao, Barnard College Social Abstraction, Historical Comparison: Thinking Caste, Race, and Gender in the Time Capital April 9, 2019 Anupama 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...
	Gyanendra Pandey, Emory University Modernity in the Home: A Reflection on 20th Century India April 2, 2019 Gyanendra 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...
	lona Katzew, Los Angeles County Museum of Art The Invention of Casta Painting: Race and Science in the Age of Enlightenment February 26, 2019 Ilona 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...
	Paul Edwards, Stanford University "Truth Under Siege: Making Climate Knowledge in an Age of Transparency, Skepticism, and Science Denial" February 25, 2019 Paul 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,...
	Deborah Thomas, University of Pennsylvania "Political Life in the Wake of the Plantation: Affect, Witnessing, Repair" February 12, 2019 Deborah 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...
	Deborah Thomas, University of Pennsylvania Political Life in the Wake of the Plantation: Affect, Witnessing, Repair February 12, 2019 Deborah 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...
	Paul Frosh, Hebrew University of Jerusalem “The Saturation of Media” February 4, 2019 Paul Frosh is a professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research spans visual culture, media aesthetics, consumer culture, media witnessing, and cultural...
	Steven Crowell, Rice University Methodological Atheism: An Essay in Second-Person Phenomenology December 4, 2018 Steven Crowell is Joseph and Joanna Nazro Mullen Professor of Humanities and Professor of Philosophy at Rice University, where he has taught since receiving his PhD in philosophy from Yale in 1981. Crowell’s research...