Videos

Peter Dear, Cornell University

"Darwin’s Sleepwalkers: Taxonomic Evidence in the Presentation of Darwin’s Species Theory"

February 11, 2014

Peter Dear is a professor of history and of science and technology studies at Cornell University. The recipient of Guggenheim, National Science Foundation, and National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships, he is...

Cary Nelson, University of Illinois

The Problem with Judith Butler: The Political Philosophy of the Movement to Boycott Israel

February 10, 2014

A talk in The Benjamin (Yale 1962) and Barbara Zucker Lecture Series, co-sponsored by the Program in Judaic Studies

Kathleen Higgins

"‘Thoughts That Come on Doves’ Feet’: Philosophy as Experience in the Work of Friedrich Nietzsche"

November 7, 2013

Kathleen Higgins is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas Austin. Her lecture “‘Thoughts That Come on Doves’ Feet’: Philosophy as Experience in the Work of Friedrich Nietzsche” was given as part of the...

Dr. Ross Posnock

"On the Pleasures of Self-Misunderstanding: ‘How One Becomes What One Is’ in Nietzsche and Emerson"

October 3, 2013

Dr. Ross Posnock is Anna Garbedian Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University. He delivers a lecture titled “On the Pleasures of Self-Misunderstanding: ‘How One Becomes What One Is’ in Nietzsche and Emerson...

Dr. David Mikics

"Emerson, Nietzsche, and the Romantic World"

September 26, 2013

Dr. David Mikics is John and Rebecca Moores Distinguished Professor in English and the Honors College at the University of Houston. His lecture “Emerson, Nietzsche, and the Romantic World” was given as part of the...

Alberto Manguel

"Borges and the Impossibility of Writing"

February 3, 2010

Alberto Manguel, author of A Reader on Reading and The Library at Night delivers the 2010 Finzi-Contini Lectures at Yale University, Whitney Humanities Center.