Nina Maria Gorrissen Lecture
Creativity and Resilience: Prison Art in Ming China, 1368-1644
In this talk, Ying Zhang examines the relationship between imprisonment and religious freedom....
Berthold Leibinger Lecture
Accountable Democracy? Representative Politics in America
In this lecture, Alma Steingart investigates how changing computational practices insinuated themselves into the most basic definitions of “fairness” in the American electorate in the twentieth ce...
John P. Birkelund Lecture
The Idea and Image of Slavery in Plato’s Phaedo
Jackie Murray focuses on the significance of Phaedo's role as she explores the function of the slavery analogy in Plato's famed dialogue....
Mary Ellen von der Heyden Reading
Sweetmeats: A Novel
Can violence ever be generative? Rather than a simple agent of destruction, could it ever create something new?...
Dirk Ippen Lecture
In the Mean-Time
Rankine examines questions regarding the perception of time to illustrate the concept of “The Mean-time” in art....
Holtzbrinck Lecture
The Savage Mind: Understanding Violence in America
David Treuer describes America’s "savage mind" in its past and present incarnations and aims to reframe its causes and effects—and, ultimately, to change it....