Videos

Claire Colebrook, Pennsylvania State University

Fragility, Globalism, and the End of the World

November 6, 2017

Claire Colebrook is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English, Philosophy, and Women’s and Gender Studies at Pennsylvania State University. She has written extensively on contemporary European philosophy, literary...

Alyson Shotz, Artist

The Shape of Space

October 11, 2017

Alyson Shotz is one of the most innovative contemporary multi-media artists. Deeply inspired by science, she has the remarkable ability to translate abstract scientific and mathematical concepts into...

Jacques Lezra, University of California Riverside

"Atomic Sex: Lucretius's Material Republic"

September 18, 2017

Jacques Lezra is Professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of California Riverside. He has taught at Yale, the University of Wisconsin Madison, and NYU and held visiting positions in comparative literature at...

Anne Harrington, Harvard University

"Mindful Minds, Different Brains: Historical Reflections on America’s Love Affair with Meditation"

April 26, 2017

Anne Harrington is the Franklin L. Ford Professor of the History of Science and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University. She is also Faculty Dean of...

Rüdiger Campe and Joanna Radin in conversation with Rosi Braidotti

"Posthuman, All Too Human"

March 3, 2017

Philosopher Rosi Braidotti of Utrecht University in the Netherlands will deliver the 2017 Tanner Lectures on Human Values this spring at the Whitney Humanities Center.  Her talks are jointly titled “Posthuman, All...

Rosi Braidotti, Utrecht University

"Aspirations of a Posthumanist"

March 2, 2017

Philosopher Rosi Braidotti of Utrecht University in the Netherlands will deliver the 2017 Tanner Lectures on Human Values this spring at the Whitney Humanities Center.  Her talks are jointly titled “Posthuman, All...

Rosi Braidotti, Utrecht University

"Memoirs of a Posthumanist"

March 1, 2017

Philosopher Rosi Braidotti of Utrecht University in the Netherlands will deliver the 2017 Tanner Lectures on Human Values this spring at the Whitney Humanities Center.  Her talks are jointly titled “Posthuman, All...

Peter Godfrey-Smith, CUNY/University of Sydney

"Paths to the Evolution of Consciousness"

February 22, 2017

Peter Godfrey-Smith grew up in Sydney, Australia, and taught at Stanford, Harvard, the Australian National University, and the CUNY Graduate Center before moving to his current position as professor of the history...

Harold Augenbraum, American writer, editor, and translator

"What Translation Means: The Extent and Impact of Translation in America"

February 21, 2017

For twelve years, Augenbraum was Executive Director of the National Book Foundation, presenter of the National Book Awards. He has translated, among other works, Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca’sChronicle of...

Alexandra Horowitz, Barnard College

"What Is It Like to Be a Dog"

February 15, 2017

Alexandra Horowitz is the author of the New York Times bestseller Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know (2009), On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes (2013), and Being a...