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Key Conversations with Phi Beta Kappa — 96 episodes
2025 Lebowitz Prize: A Discussion on "What Beauty Promises"
REPLAY: Understanding the History and Political Identity of Latinos with Geraldo Cadava
REPLAY: How Mathematics can Solve Real-World Mysteries with Ingrid Daubechies
REPLAY: Changing the Conversation in Music Education with Tammy L. Kernodle
How Nature Communicates Through Eavesdropping with Ximena Bernal
How Dr. Mark Palmer Sustains Indigenous Stories Through Geography
Fighting for Civil Rights Using the Power of Law With Margo Schlanger
How We Actively Shape a “Well-Grounded Brain” with Kelly Lambert
2025 Phi Beta Kappa Book Awards
Understanding the History and Political Identity of Latinos with Geraldo Cadava
How Mathematics can Solve Real-World Mysteries with Ingrid Daubechies
Discovering How Generosity Impacts Economy with Daniel Hungerman
Changing the Conversation in Music Education with Tammy L. Kernodle
REPLAY: Exploring the Evolution of Animal Weapons and How it Relates to Arms Races in Military Technologies With Professor Doug Emlen
REPLAY: How Professor Kendra McSweeney uses Geography to Protect Forests in Indigenous Homelands
REPLAY:How Dr. Shawkat Toorawa Uses Music and Pop Culture to Make Arabic Literature Accessible
Unraveling the Mysteries of Ancient China: Looking at Classical Texts, Nationalism, and Comparative Antiquity with Martin Kern
2024 Lebowitz Prize: A Discussion on the "Dehumanization and its Discontents"
Exploring the Evolution of Animal Weapons and How it Relates to Arms Races in Military Technologies With Professor Doug Emlen
Unearthing the Voices of the Marginalized Through Medieval Studies with Professor Kristina Richardson
2024 Phi Beta Kappa Book Awards
How Professor and Journalist Corey Robin Interprets Political Theory in and Beyond the Classroom
How Professor Kendra McSweeney uses Geography to Protect Forests in Indigenous Homelands
How Dr. Shawkat Toorawa Uses Music and Pop Culture to Make Arabic Literature Accessible
From Dinosaurs to Birds: The Science and Language of Evolution with Dr. Julia Clarke
REPLAY: Professor Emily Yeh Advocates for Environmental Protection for Tibetan’s Cultural Legacy
REPLAY: Exploring Disability as an Identity with Professor Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
REPLAY: How Natalia’s Experience as a First-Gen Allows her to Connect to the Humanities—and her Students
Why Dr. Talitha Washington’s Determined to Make Science More Equitable
2023 Lebowitz Prize: A Discussion on the “Norms of Attention” by Two Philosophers
Why Professor Corey D.B. Walker Looks to the Past to Understand Today’s Complex World
Professor Emily Yeh Advocates for Environmental Protection for Tibetan’s Cultural Legacy
2023 Phi Beta Kappa Book Awards
Exploring the Muddled Middle with Cathleen Kaveny
Exploring Disability as an Identity with Professor Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
How Natalia’s Experience as a First-Gen Allows her to Connect to the Humanities—and her Students
REPLAY: Professor Ed Ayers on Teaching a Morally Engaging History
REPLAY: Sociologist Marta Tienda on Why Demography is Not Destiny
REPLAY: Biologist Victoria Sork on What Trees Teach Us
Why Harvard History Professor Maya Jasanoff Studies the Past to Understand the Present
Understanding the Intricacies of Life Expectancy with Professor Mark Hayward
2022 Lebowitz Prize: What Is Wrong With Democracy and What We Should Do According to These Two Philosophers
Why Professor Kay E. Holekamp’s Research into Animal Behavior is Beneficial to Humans
Kathryn Lofton Thinks About Religion Through Unique Systems of Worship
Ricardo Padrón is Mapping Spanish Exploration of the Pacific
Why Geographer Bill Moseley Grounds His Work in Real Life
Laurence Smith Knows the Many Stories Rivers Tell Us
Buddhist Scholar Donald Lopez on the Staying Power of Ancient Questions
Howard Bloch Sees Human Choices in Medieval History
Biologist Victoria Sork on What Trees Teach Us
Sociologist Marta Tienda on Why Demography is Not Destiny
Professor Ed Ayers on Teaching a Morally Engaging History
Editor Bob Wilson Celebrates A Career of Literary Journalism
2021 Lebowitz Award Winners on How We Perceive Our Selves
Professor Joan Waugh Debunks the “Easy Stereotypes of History”
Princeton’s Doug Massey Unpacks U.S. Migration and Housing Segregation
2021 Book Awards Keynote Roundtable
How Biophysicist Karen Fleming Explores the Rules of Life, Evolution, and Disease
Bro Adams Knows What the Humanities Can Do Beyond Campuses
Yale’s Tracey Meares Deconstructs Our Relationship with the Police
Anthropologist Elizabeth Cullen Dunn on Why Geography Is a Way of Thinking
Biophysicist Martin Gruebele on the Future of Scientific Discovery
Philosopher Susan Wolf on Meaningfulness as a Dimension of a Good Life
Paul Robbins on How to Save Biodiversity in the Planet
Lebowitz Award Winners on How We Reason in Moments of Transformation
Roger Guenveur Smith Makes the Sublime and the Profane Artful
Genetics Researcher Janet Westpheling on Inspiring the Next Generation of Scientists
Poet Evie Shockley on Why Poems Are an Analysis Genre
2020 Book Awards Keynote Roundtable
Former Obama Advisor Joseph Aldy on How Climate Change Policies Can Bolster the Economy Post COVID-19
Political Scientist Corey Brettschneider on Why We Should Distrust Our Presidents
Latin American Scholar Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel Connects Latin American Identities Across Geography and Literature
Classics Scholar Peter Meineck on How Greek Theater Trains Better Citizens
REPLAY: Celebrated Author Edwidge Danticat Retraces the Arc of Her Literary Genius
College Admissions Field Welcomes a New Leader, Dr. Angel B. Pérez, Who Sees Its Strengths and Faults
Math Professor Ken Ono Is Connecting Swimming, Ramanujan, and Hollywood
Dan Simon on the Intersection of Law and Psychology
Middle East Scholar Jamsheed Choksy Retraces the Roots of the Western Belief in Good and Evil
Laura Brown Traces Our Love of Animals Through Literature
Alfred Spector: Envisioning the Synergies between the Liberal Arts and Computer Science
2019 Book Awards Dinner Keynote Roundtable
Why Dr. Dava Newman Will Be Among the People to Get Humans to Mars
Two Philosophers Ponder What It Means to Act Together
Celebrated Author Edwidge Danticat Retraces the Arc of Her Literary Genius
How Neuroscientist Susan Birren Is Mapping New Pathways from the Brain
REPLAY: Economist Paula Stephan on Incentives and Gender Biases
REPLAY: We Ask Literature Professor Ayanna Thompson “What Would Shakespeare Say?”
REPLAY: Former Diplomat Harold Koh Is Worried
Middle East Scholar Lisa Anderson on Leading a University in Cairo During the Arab Spring
SPECIAL EXTENDED EPISODE: What Should We Make of the College Admissions Scandal?
Historian Ed Larson Takes a Critical Look at the Presidency
Economist Paula Stephan on Incentives and Gender Biases
Amy Cheng Vollmer: The Unofficial Ambassador for Good Bacteria
We Ask Literature Professor Ayanna Thompson “What Would Shakespeare Say?”
Legal Scholar Harold Hongju Koh Talks International Law and College Cafeterias
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