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The Whitney Humanities Center — 57 episodes
“Some Strange Region of the Universe: Material Things in the Gothic Cathedral”
Carrying Off the Colosseum: British Architectural Encounters with Rome in the 1770s
The Psychobiology of Parenting and Attachment
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence has Declined
Antisemitism in the Ancient Mediterranean? Early Christianity and Anti-Judaism
Painting Music in Renaissance Venice
Music and Architecture in Renaissance Venice
"Michael Pollan ‘Raw’: A Conversation with Michael Pollan and Jack Hitt about cooking, eating, and writing”
Sappho, Lincoln, and the Senate: Picturing Nineteenth-Century Female Desire
How the Mind Models the World: New Ideas from MRI Findings
Combat Trauma and the Tragic Stage: Ancient Drama and Modern Catharsis
Music and Architecture in Renaissance Venice
Romancing Spinoza
“Slamlet” featuring Kate Tempest and Yale’s Teeth Slam Poets
How the Victorians Learned about Darwin's Theories: Popularizing Evolution
Darwin and the Challenge of Biography
The Epistemology of Physics and Scientific Revolutions
Cross-Cultural Reflections on Religion and Science
Heaven or Heat Death? Christian and Scientific Perspectives on the End of the Universe
A Universe of One's Own: Cosmology, Theology and Atheology
Doctor Faustus and His Composition: Reflections on Thomas Mann's Fictional Composer
Doctor Atomic and His Gadget: Composing the American Mythology
Poetry Reading
Spatial Thinking
Map of a Vanished Town: Recollecting the Palestinian Past through Biography
“Romanesque and Gothic as Biblical Architecture”
Golden Eras of Scientific Institutions
“emergent(cies)…,”
"Guibert de Nogent and His Demons"
“The Sainte-Chapelle in Paris: Kingship, Crusading, and Legacy of Louis IX”
William Bailey and Mark Strand in Conversation
The Founders of Modern Physics
Science Building(s) Collaboration
Adonis visits the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale University
Shake, Rattle, and Roll!
The First Vienna Circle
Sublime Science in the Late Enlightenment: Adam Walker and the Eidouranion
Inscribing Food/Talking Life: New Orleans Past
Banquets and Politics in China
Paleolithic Formalism and the Emergence of Music
Why Books Still Matter
A Good Soup Holds History and Culture
Art, Aesthetics, and Evolution
Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza
Naming Nature: A Conversation on the Nature, Use and Limitations of Biological Taxonomies
The Power of Hospitality
The Ancient Quarrel: Philosophy and Literature, Part Two
The Ancient Quarrel: Philosophy and Literature, Part One
Sexual Selection and the Brain: An Origin of Evolutionary Aesthetics
Can a Novelist Write Philisophically? Panel Discussion
Galileo, Mathematics, and the Arts
The Alignment and Synchronization of Brain States Through Music
For the Record: A Conversation Reflecting on Thirty Years of the Whitney Humanities Center
Adapted to a Symbolic Niche: How Less became more in Human Evolution
Bollingen_Prize
Public Life and Festivals in Eighteenth-Century Venice
A Translator's Confession