Videos

Judith Butler, University of California Berkeley

"Legal Violence: An Ethical and Political Critique"

March 31, 2016

Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Program of Critical Theory at the University of California Berkeley. She served as founding director of the Critical Theory...

Judith Butler, University of California Berkeley

"Why Preserve the Life of the Other?"

March 30, 2016

Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Program of Critical Theory at the University of California Berkeley. She served as founding director of the Critical Theory...

Young-Kee Kim, University of Chicago

"An Atom as an Onion"

March 10, 2016

Young-Kee Kim is the Louis Block Professor of Physics at the University of Chicago. She has devoted much of her research work to understanding the origin of mass for fundamental particles by studying the two most...

Jonathan Butterworth, University College London

"Research at the Energy Frontier: What, Why, and How?"

February 3, 2016

Jonathan Butterworth, an experimental particle physicist, is head of the Physics and Astronomy Department at University College London. His current research is on the ATLAS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron...

Angela Duckworth, University of Pennsylvania and James Gross, Stanford University

"Matter Over Mind: Situational Strategies for Self-Control"

March 30, 2015

Angela Duckworth is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania and a 2013 MacArthur Fellow. She studies non-IQ competencies, including self-control and grit, which predict...

Susan Goldin-Meadow, University of Chicago

"Gesture as a Mechanism of Change"

March 2, 2015

Susan Goldin-Meadow is the Beardsley Ruml Distinguished Service Professor of Psychology and Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago.  Her focus is on the ways that the body can affect learning––how...

Dipesh Chakrabarty, Gary Tomlinson, Wai Chee Dimock, Daniel Lord Smail, Michael Warner

The Human Condition in the Anthropocene, Roundtable Discussion

February 20, 2015

In this roundtable discussion moderated by Gary Tomlinson, panelists and audience members discuss ideas from Dipesh Chakrabarty’s two Tanner lectures, together titled “The Human Condition in the Anthropocene.” This...

Dipesh Chakrabarty

"Decentering the Human? Gaia"

February 19, 2015

Dipesh Chakrabarty is the Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, and Law at the University of Chicago. His lecture “Decentering the Human? Gaia” was...

Dipesh Chakrabarty

"Climate Change as Epochal Consciousness"

February 18, 2015

Dipesh Chakrabarty is the Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, and Law at the University of Chicago. His lecture “Climate Change as Epochal...

David Pizarro, Cornell University

"Understanding the Moral Mind"

February 9, 2015

David Pizarro is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Cornell University. His primary research interest is in how and why humans make moral judgments, such as what makes us think certain...