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The Whitney Humanities Center
by YaleUniversity
The Whitney Humanities Center is an interdisciplinary institution that reflects Yale's longstanding commitment to the humanities. As well as promoting research and scholarly exchange, the Whitney hosts a wide array of public events, many of which are recorded and presented as podcasts. Highlights include the prestigious Tanner Lectures on Human Values, the Franke Lectures in the Humanities, the Schulman Lectures in Science and the Humanities, and the Finzi-Contini Lectures on European Literature. The whitney also offers podcasts from our occasional series of public readings and talks by noted authors and concerts featuring Yale's outstanding undergraduate musicians.
Episodes
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“Some Strange Region of the Universe: Material Things in the Gothic Cathedral”
: In her lecture, Jacqueline Jung talks about the material aspects of Gothic art and architecture and how they made the church precisely not a pure and abstract vision of heaven but a strange space partaking of both earthly and heavenly worlds.
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Carrying Off the Colosseum: British Architectural Encounters with Rome in the 1770s
Dr. Frank Salmon, Lecturer in the History of Art and Fellow of St. John’s College, Cambridge, delivers a lecture on the connections between the Classical architecture of antiquity and British architectural production in the eighteenth century. Aug 20, 2013
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The Psychobiology of Parenting and Attachment
Linda Mayes and Helena Rutherford, of the Child Study Center at Yale University, deliver a lecture on the mechanisms of influence between children and parents in the processes of development, especially with regard to psychoanalysis. Aug 20, 2013
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The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence has Declined
Steven Pinker, Harvard College Professor and Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, delivers a lecture on the phenomenon of statistic decline in violence throughout human history. Aug 15, 2013
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Antisemitism in the Ancient Mediterranean? Early Christianity and Anti-Judaism
In fulfilling its mission to examine the whole history of Antisemitism, the Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism hosts a panel discussion examining the philosophical and social origins of Anti-Judaism in Early Christianity. Aug 05, 2013
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Painting Music in Renaissance Venice
Prof. David Rosand, Emeritus of Columbia University, delivers a lecture on representations of music and music making by Venetian painters in the Renaissance. As a guest speaker giving a public lecture to accompany the Franke Seminar on Art and Music in Venice in the Fall of 2011, Prof. Rosand’s...
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Music and Architecture in Renaissance Venice
Prof. Deborah Howard of Cambridge University delivers a lecture on her groundbreaking research on the acoustics of Renaissance churches and other concert venues in Venice. Intended to accompany the Franke Seminar entitled "Art and Music in Venice." Prof. Howard's lecture considers the acoustical...
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"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 recent work and other topics related to food and cooking. Jul 15, 2013
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Sappho, Lincoln, and the Senate: Picturing Nineteenth-Century Female Desire
Simon Goldhill, Professor of Greek Literature and Culture and Fellow in Classics at King’s College, Cambridge, delivers a lecture on depictions of Sappho in the nineteenth century America, especially with regard to the female artist in the period. Jul 15, 2013
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How the Mind Models the World: New Ideas from MRI Findings
Dr. Andrew Gerber, Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Columbia University, delivers a lecture on the use of fMRI in the study of physchopathology and psychotherapy. Jul 15, 2013
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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, exploring the idea of “nostos” (homecoming) and its relevance to the experience of contemporary veterans. In addition to texts by the major Greek dramatists, Prof. Meineck…
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Music and Architecture in Renaissance Venice
May 15, 2013
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Romancing Spinoza
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, a novelist, biographer, and professor of philosophy, delivers the Franke Lecture in the Fall of 2012 on the influences of the philosopher Baruch Spinoza upon literature and the enlightenment. Goldstein challenges a cultural portrait of Spinoza as distant from…
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“Slamlet” featuring Kate Tempest and Yale’s Teeth Slam Poets
Teeth Slam Poets, a spoken word poetry team at Yale University, present an evening of poems inspired by the works of William Shakespeare. The event features a guest performance by Kate Tempest, a London based spoken word artist. “Slamet” was presented as part of Shakespeare at Yale, a semester of...
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How the Victorians Learned about Darwin's Theories: Popularizing Evolution
Bernard Lightman’s research focuses on the cultural history of Victorian science. In speaking about the popularization of and attacks upon Darwin’s theories of evolution and natural selection, he draws on his 2007 study Victorian Popularizers of Science. Jul 29, 2010
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Darwin and the Challenge of Biography
Janet Browne is a leading specialist on Charles Darwin and his life’s work. An associate editor of the early volumes of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, she is also the author of a definitive two-volume biography, Charles Darwin: Voyaging (1995) and Charles Darwin: The Power of Place (2002)....
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The Epistemology of Physics and Scientific Revolutions
Steven Chu is a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and the director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and professor of physics and of molecular and cell biology at the University of California-Berkeley. He was previously at Stanford and Bell Laboratories. At Stanford, he helped start Bio-X…
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Cross-Cultural Reflections on Religion and Science
Joseph Prabhu, a Professor at California State University, Los Angeles, speaks on cross-cultural reflections on religion and science at the third Shulman Lecture of 2008 at the Whitney Humanities Center. He reflects philosophically on the concept of cosmology, and asks about ideas about the...
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Heaven or Heat Death? Christian and Scientific Perspectives on the End of the Universe
Brother Guy Consolmagno SJ, distinguished guest and planetary scientist at the Vatican Observatory, discusses religious and scientific views of the end of the Universe at the second Shulman Lecture of 2008 at the Whitney Humanities Center. Jul 29, 2010
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A Universe of One's Own: Cosmology, Theology and Atheology
Prof. Taede Smedes explores cosmology, theology and atheology in his talk as first lecturer for the Shulman Lectures at the Whitney Humanities Center. In "A Universe of One's Own", Prof. Smedes weighs the many different views of the big bang theory, from the perspective of the evolutionists,...
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Doctor Faustus and His Composition: Reflections on Thomas Mann's Fictional Composer
Known for moving American concert music away from academic modernism and toward a more expansive humanist musical language, Adams brings wide ranging creative insight to his Tanner Lectures. As well as his renowned orchestral and choral work and politically charged operas, Adams’ recent memoir,...
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Doctor Atomic and His Gadget: Composing the American Mythology
Known for moving American concert music away from academic modernism and toward a more expansive humanist musical language, Adams brings wide ranging creative insight to his Tanner Lectures. As well as his renowned orchestral and choral work and politically charged operas, Adams’ recent memoir,...
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Poetry Reading
In his 2009 poetry reading at the Whitney Humanities Center, award-winning poet and translator Peter Cole reads poems by medieval poets writing in Spanish and Hebrew, as well as from his own recent work, some of which also draws on medieval sources. Sep 07, 2010
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Spatial Thinking
Tversky taught at Hebrew University and at Stanford University, where she is emerita professor of psychology. Much of her work involves human perception of space and explores topics such as memory, categorization and language; the metaphorically spatial, especially time and event perception and...
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Map of a Vanished Town: Recollecting the Palestinian Past through Biography
Adina Hoffman is the author of House of Windows: Portraits from a Jerusalem Neighborhood and My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet's Life in the Palestinian Century, a biography of Taha Muhammad Ali, published by Yale University Press. Her essays and criticism have appeared in The...
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“Romanesque and Gothic as Biblical Architecture”
Mr. Cahn is the author of The Romanesque Wooden Doors of Auvergne; Masterpieces: Chapters on the History of an Idea; and Romanesque Bible Illumination; and numerous articles. He has been the recipient of Fulbright and Guggenheim Fellowships, and is a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America.…
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Golden Eras of Scientific Institutions
Steven Chu is a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and the director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and professor of physics and of molecular and cell biology at the University of California-Berkeley. He was previously at Stanford and Bell Laboratories. At Stanford, he helped start Bio-X…
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“emergent(cies)…,”
Ms. Nordstrom’s principal areas of interest are the anthropology of war and peace, illegal economies and power, gender, globalization, and culture theory. She has conducted extensive fieldwork in warzones worldwide, with long-term interests in Southern Africa and South Asia. Her academic books...
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"Guibert de Nogent and His Demons"
Prof. Rubenstein is a historian of medieval intellectual and cultural life in Europe during the 11th and 12th centuries. He is the author of "Guibert of Nogent: Portrait of a Medieval Mind" and co-editor of "Teaching and Learning in Northern Europe, 1000-1200," among other works. Prof. Rubenstein...
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“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 how and why Louis the Ninth’s chapel proved such a successful vehicle for the articulation of his own monarchic agenda. Professor Jordan’s research focuses on medieval stained...
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William Bailey and Mark Strand in Conversation
The Whitney Humanities Center presents William Bailey and Mark Strand in conversation. The artist and the poet joined in discussion to celebrate the opening of the exhibition “William Bailey Works on Paper: Temperas, Drawings, and Prints” at the Gallery at the Whitney. One of the country’s…
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The Founders of Modern Physics
Yale’s Whitney Humanities Center presents “The Founders of Modern Physics,” a panel discussion among eminent scientists exploring the revolution in quantum mechanics and its intellectual milieu. This panel was part of “Intellectual Circles and Twentieth-Century Science,” a conference organized in...
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Science Building(s) Collaboration
Yale’s Whitney Humanities Center presents “Science Building(s) Collaboration,” a panel discussion considering Louis Kahn’s Salk Institute and what makes buildings work for science. This panel was part of “Intellectual Circles and Twentieth-Century Science,” a full-day conference organized in...
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Adonis visits the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale University
Adonis (born Ali Ahmad Said Esber) is a Syrian poet and essayist who led the modernist movement in Arabic poetry in the second half of the 20th century. He has written more than 20 books in his native Arabic, including the pioneering work An Introduction to Arab Poetics. He is visiting the US to...
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Shake, Rattle, and Roll!
Music at the Whitney and Yale College New Music present chamber works composed by Yale College students and faculty, performed with members of the Yale Percussion Group. This program features an interesting sonic variety and several different percussion setups: mallet keyboard, suitcase…
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The First Vienna Circle
Music at the Whitney presents songs and chamber music by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert performed by Yale undergraduate music students in conjunction with the 2008 Tanner Lectures on Human Values and a series of events on intellectual circles. The program features Haydn’s La Roxelane;...
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Sublime Science in the Late Enlightenment: Adam Walker and the Eidouranion
Jan Golinski discusses how early 19th century popular science lecturers evoked the discourse of the sublime, thereby continuing to advance Enlightenment claims about progress in human reason and culture, despite the rise of conservative Regency values. Professor Golinski has taught at the...
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Inscribing Food/Talking Life: New Orleans Past
Susan Tucker, Curator of Books and Records at the Newcomb Center for Research on Women at Tulane University, gives the third Franke lecture in 2011 series, “History of Food and Cuisine.” Her talk is entitled “Inscribing Food/Talking Life: New Orleans Past.” Ms. Tucker is the author of Telling...
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Banquets and Politics in China
Joanna Waley-Cohen delivers the first Franke lecture in the 2011 series, “History of Food and Cuisine.” Her talk is titled “Banquets and Politics in China.” Ms. Waley-Cohen is currently chair of the History Department at NYU, where she has taught the history of China since 1992. Ms. Waley-Cohen…
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Paleolithic Formalism and the Emergence of Music
Gary Tomlinson discusses the complex co-evolution of human music making in relation to language, technology, and cognitive and imaginative development. Professor Tomlinson is a musicologist and cultural theorist known for his interdisciplinary breadth. His teaching, lecturing, and scholarship…
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Why Books Still Matter
John Donatich, director of Yale University Press, delivers the keynote address of “Why Books Still Matter,” a conference commemorating the one-hundredth anniversary of the Press. The conference brought together university press publishers and scholars for a variety of panel discussions on the...
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A Good Soup Holds History and Culture
Critically acclaimed food writer Claudia Roden, the 2010 Franke Visiting Fellow at the Whitney Humanities Center, shares the ingredients of her successful career chronicling, memorializing, and reconstructing cultural worlds through cooking. Ms. Roden has a particular interest in the historical,...
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Art, Aesthetics, and Evolution
Noel Carroll discusses art as socio-emotional contagion: how the emotional arousal brought about by the arts provides important forms of social and emotional education that justify the social costs of the arts over the course of human history. Mr. Carroll is a Distinguished Professor of…
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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 geniza (repository for sacred text), whose discovery and analysis have shed light on 900 years of Jewish life. NEA, NEH, Guggenheim and McArthur award-winning poet and...
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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 order and describe the natural world the way that we do now and possible alternatives. The featured speakers from Yale are Michael Donoghue, the G. Evelyn Hutchinson Professor of...
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The Power of Hospitality
Danny Meyer discusses the role and concept of hospitality in the context of the restaurant industry, and how hospitality contributes to an excellent dining experience and thus to a successful restaurant business. Mr. Meyer is the CEO of Union Square Hospitality Group, which includes Union Square...
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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 the literary arts, and whether novels can be philosophically justified. Ms. Goldstein’s career bridges the divides between the humanities, the arts, and the sciences. Equally...
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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 literary arts, and whether novels can be philosophically justified. Ms. Goldstein’s career bridges the divides between the humanities, the arts, and the sciences. Equally...
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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 evolutionary biology. Dr. Ryan is the Clark Hubbs Professor of Zoology at the University of Texas at Austin. His research involves animal behavior, focusing on mechanisms of...
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Can a Novelist Write Philisophically? Panel Discussion
In this discussion, Rebecca Goldstein, Harry Frankfurt, and Michael Cunningham discuss the ways in which novelists do and do not write philosophically. The panel is chaired by Amy Hungerford. The featured speakers are novelist and philosopher Rebecca Goldstein, professor of philosophy Harry...
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The Whitney Humanities Center is an interdisciplinary institution that reflects Yale's longstanding commitment to the humanities. As well as promoting research and scholarly exchange, the Whitney hosts a wide array of public events, many of which are recorded and presented as podcasts. Highlights include the prestigious Tanner Lectures on Human Values, the Franke Lectures in the Humanities, the Schulman Lectures in Science and the Humanities, and the Finzi-Contini Lectures on European Literature. The whitney also offers podcasts from our occasional series of public readings and talks by noted authors and concerts featuring Yale's outstanding undergraduate musicians.
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