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The Founders of Modern Physics
The Founders of Modern Physics
Yale’s Whitney Humanities Center presents “The Founders of Modern Physics,” a panel discussion among eminent scientists ... Read more
21 Dec 2010
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1hr 5mins
Ranked #2
“emergent(cies)…,”
“emergent(cies)…,”
Ms. Nordstrom’s principal areas of interest are the anthropology of war andpeace, illegal economies and power, gender, g... Read more
8 Sep 2010
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51mins
Ranked #3
“The Sainte-Chapelle in Paris: Kingship, Crusading, and Legacy of Louis IX”
“The Sainte-Chapelle in Paris: Kingship, Crusading, and Legacy of Louis IX”
In her 2010 Franke Lecture, Alyce Jordan speaks about the Sainte-Chapelle as an activated liturgical and royal space and... Read more
17 Nov 2010
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44mins
Ranked #4
Painting Music in Renaissance Venice
Painting Music in Renaissance Venice
Prof. David Rosand, Emeritus of Columbia University, delivers a lecture on representations of music and music making by ... Read more
16 Jul 2013
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50mins
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"Michael Pollan ‘Raw’: A Conversation with Michael Pollan and Jack Hitt about cooking, eating, and writing”
"Michael Pollan ‘Raw’: A Conversation with Michael Pollan and Jack Hitt about cooking, eating, and writing”
Michael Pollan, critically acclaimed author and journalist, sits down with writer Jack Hitt to discuss the former’s rece... Read more
15 Jul 2013
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59mins
Ranked #6
Combat Trauma and the Tragic Stage: Ancient Drama and Modern Catharsis
Combat Trauma and the Tragic Stage: Ancient Drama and Modern Catharsis
Prof. Peter Meineck of New York University delivers a lecture on the depiction of war trauma in Ancient Greek drama, exp... Read more
15 May 2013
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1hr 4mins
Ranked #7
Romancing Spinoza
Romancing Spinoza
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, a novelist, biographer, and professor of philosophy, delivers the Franke Lecture in the Fal... Read more
14 May 2013
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55mins
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Bollingen Prize
Bollingen Prize
Celebrating the Bollingen Prize for Poetry at Yale, nearly all the living winners of this prestigious prize are brought ... Read more
23 Jul 2012
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1hr 52mins
Ranked #9
Adapted to a Symbolic Niche: How Less became more in Human Evolution
Adapted to a Symbolic Niche: How Less became more in Human Evolution
Terrence W. Deacon delivers a lecture on the neuroscience and development of the human capacity for language and musical... Read more
23 Jul 2012
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1hr 10mins
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The Alignment and Synchronization of Brain States Through Music
The Alignment and Synchronization of Brain States Through Music
In this lecture, cognitive neuroscientist Jamshed Bharucha discusses the ways that music creates emotion and how these e... Read more
15 Mar 2012
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42mins
Ranked #11
Galileo, Mathematics, and the Arts
Galileo, Mathematics, and the Arts
Mark A. Peterson discusses Galileo’s study of mathematics in relation to the arts. Prof. Peterson argues that Galileo t... Read more
15 Mar 2012
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45mins
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Can a Novelist Write Philisophically? Panel Discussion
Can a Novelist Write Philisophically? Panel Discussion
In this discussion, Rebecca Goldstein, Harry Frankfurt, and Michael Cunningham discuss the ways in which novelists do an... Read more
9 Dec 2011
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1hr 21mins
Ranked #13
Sexual Selection and the Brain: An Origin of Evolutionary Aesthetics
Sexual Selection and the Brain: An Origin of Evolutionary Aesthetics
In this lecture, Michael Ryan discusses the relationship between animal aesthetic preferences, sexual selection, and evo... Read more
9 Dec 2011
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1hr 5mins
Ranked #14
The Ancient Quarrel: Philosophy and Literature, Part One
The Ancient Quarrel: Philosophy and Literature, Part One
In the first of her two tanner lectures, Rebecca Goldstein discusses the overlap and conflict between philosophy and the... Read more
17 Nov 2011
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1hr 5mins
Ranked #15
The Ancient Quarrel: Philosophy and Literature, Part Two
The Ancient Quarrel: Philosophy and Literature, Part Two
In the second of her two Tanner lectures, Rebecca Goldstein discusses the overlap and conflict between philosophy and th... Read more
17 Nov 2011
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1hr 4mins
Ranked #16
The Power of Hospitality
The Power of Hospitality
Danny Meyer discusses the role and concept of hospitality in the context of the restaurant industry, and how hospitality... Read more
17 Nov 2011
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57mins
Ranked #17
Naming Nature: A Conversation on the Nature, Use and Limitations of Biological Taxonomies
Naming Nature: A Conversation on the Nature, Use and Limitations of Biological Taxonomies
A multi-disciplinary panel of evolutionary biologists, joined by a philosopher and an artist, discuss how and why we ord... Read more
15 Nov 2011
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1hr 30mins
Ranked #18
Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza
Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza
In this lecture, writers Adina Hoffamn and Peter Cole discuss the recovery of a cache of Hebrew manuscripts from a Cairo... Read more
15 Nov 2011
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1hr 9mins
Ranked #19
Art, Aesthetics, and Evolution
Art, Aesthetics, and Evolution
Noel Carroll discusses art as socio-emotional contagion: how the emotional arousal brought about by the arts provides im... Read more
7 Nov 2011
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1hr 8mins
Ranked #20
A Good Soup Holds History and Culture
A Good Soup Holds History and Culture
Critically acclaimed food writer Claudia Roden, the 2010 Franke Visiting Fellow at the Whitney Humanities Center, shares... Read more
7 Nov 2011
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52mins
