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Damián Fernández undertakes a reassessment of how historians and modern political theorists have approached the question of government and the formation of polities during the transitions from Antiquity to the Middle Ages – focusing specifically on the Visigothic Kingdom of Toledo (507-711 CE).

In this lecture, David Kennedy investigates the current global role of law.

Ariella Aïsha Azoulay questions the double disappearance of Jews from North Africa and the history of French colonization in Algeria.

Lawrence Douglas explores how the competing understandings of the core crimes of the criminal state has worked to form--and deform--the emerging fabric of international criminal law.

In this lecture, Michael J. Abramowitz discusses why protecting democracy and combating authoritarianism must be a shared responsibility.

Lawrence Douglas offers a synthetic understanding of law’s response to the worst human rights violations.

Lauren Benton traces the history of representations of “endless war” to patterns of violence in European empires, arguing that various kinds of chronic violence were structural features of the age of empire.

Sir Ronald Cohen discusses the leadership potential of Germany's corporate sector -- and his vision for its future.

Olafur Eliasson discusses some of his prominent and lesser-known artworks.

In this talk, Kimmelman discusses his hopes to enlist a wide public, across political, social, and geographic spectrums, to help to define progress, how we measure and make it, and to imagine, collectively, a future we can hope to build.