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Yale University: Humanities — 93 episodes
"Great Books of Medicine"
Adapted to a Symbolic Niche: How Less became more in Human Evolution
Yale, A place for poetry: The Bollingen Prize for Poetry at Yale, 1949-2002
For the Record: A Conversation Reflecting on Thirty Years of the Whitney Humanities Center
Galileo, Mathematics, and the Arts
The Alignment and Synchronization of Brain States Through Music
Is Liberalism a Parasite on Tradition?
Preserving Endangered Languages and Oral Literature
Machiavelli's Mistake
Moral Sentiments and Material Interests
Islam and the Secular State
Nonintervention and Intervention: The Use of Force Across Borders
Overriding Nonintervention: National Security and Humanitarian Concern
Disregarding Nonintervention: National Liberation and Imperial Paternalism
Can a Novelist Write Philisophically? Panel Discussion
Sexual Selection and the Brain: An Origin of Evolutionary Aesthetics
Community Wealth and Public Education
Early Child Development: Putting Science to Action
The Ancient Quarrel: Philosophy and Literature, Part One
The Ancient Quarrel: Philosophy and Literature, Part Two
The Power of Hospitality
Zigler Center-All Our Kin: Creating Family Child Care Programs
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 Teaching Pyramid for Preschool Children
Zigler Center-Laying an Evidence-based Foundation for a National Early Childhood Development Program in Kosovo
Paleolithic Formalism and the Emergence of Music
A Good Soup Holds History and Culture
Why Books Still Matter
Inscribing Food/Talking Life: New Orleans Past
Banquets and Politics in China
Sublime Science in the Late Enlightenment: Adam Walker and the Eidouranion
The First Vienna Circles
The Sainte-Chapelle in Paris: Kingship, Crusading, and Legacy of Louis IX
Some Strange Region of the Universe: Material Things in the Gothic Cathedral
The Genesis and Inception of French in Action
Teaching and Learning with French in Action: A Panel Discussion
Yale Presidential Commendation Presented to Pierre Capretz
French in Action: A Discussion of the Third Edition Textbooks and Workbooks
Journalism, Archtitecture and the Role of Criticism
Shake, Rattle, and Roll!
The Founders of Modern Physics
Science Building(s) Collaboration
The First Vienna Circle
William Bailey and Mark Strand in Conversation
“Some Strange Region of the Universe: Material Things in the Gothic Cathedral”
“The Sainte-Chapelle in Paris: Kingship, Crusading, and Legacy of Louis IX”
John Darnell Professor of Egyptology
"2010 Bouchet Leadership Award Keynote Lecture on Diversity in Higher Education"
"Guibert de Nogent and His Demons"
Map of a Vanished Town: Recollecting the Palestinian Past through Biography
Golden Eras of Scientific Institutions
Spatial Thinking
“emergent(cies)…,”
Poetry Reading
Doctor Faustus and His Composition: Reflections on Thomas Mann's Fictional Composer
“Hagia Sophia: An Alternative Biblical Architecture of Light”
Doctor Atomic and His Gadget: Composing the American Mythology
“Romanesque and Gothic as Biblical Architecture”
The Epistemology of Physics and Scientific Revolutions
Sublime Science in the Late Enlightenment: Adam Walker and the Eidouranion
How the Victorians Learned about Darwin’s Theories: Popularizing Evolution
Darwin and the Challenge of Biography
A Universe of One's Own: Cosmology, Theology and Atheology
Heaven or Heat Death? Christian and Scientific Perspectives on the End of the Universe
Cross-Cultural Reflections on Religion and Science
Infidel on Stage
CNN Anchor and Special Correspondent Soledad O'Brien
How to Build Emotionally Healthy Schools
UN Covention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities-US Response
Robert Stepto, Elizabeth Alexander
Penelope Laurans on Elizabeth Alexander
Play and Pastimes in Sixteen Countries
Connecticut School Readiness Program: Strengths and Challenges
The Role of Play in an Overly-Academic Curriculum
Three Yale Historians Discuss the Election of Barack Obama
Election 2008: New Perspective
Teaching the Way Children Learn
(Pt.1) Education for All
(Pt.2) Education for All
Election 2008: Economic Model for Predicting Outcome
Election 2008: Voter Turnout
Food: The History of Taste
Bioethics and the Media
Hidden Kitchens
Playwright Huzir Sulaiman
Gloria Steinem Visits Yale
Language Study in High School and College
The Importance of the Humanities throughout the Middle Ages
The Role of the Humanities in Globalization
Perspectives on Freedom: An African-American Anecdote
Humanities Tomorrow
Art of Reading a Poem