The Whitney Humanities Center
Education Podcasts
The Whitney Humanities Center is an interdisciplinary institution that reflects Yale's longstanding commitment to the humanities. As well as promoting research and scholarly exchange, the Whitney hosts a wide array of public events, many of which are...
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The Whitney Humanities Center is an interdisciplinary institution that reflects Yale's longstanding commitment to the humanities. As well as promoting research and scholarly exchange, the Whitney hosts a wide array of public events, many of which are recorded and presented as podcasts. Highlights include the prestigious Tanner Lectures on Human Values, the Franke Lectures in the Humanities, the Schulman Lectures in Science and the Humanities, and the Finzi-Contini Lectures on European Literature. The whitney also offers podcasts from our occasional series of public readings and talks by noted authors and concerts featuring Yale's outstanding undergraduate musicians.
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English
Episodes
“Some Strange Region of the Universe: Material Things in the Gothic Cathedral”
11/2/2015
: In her lecture, Jacqueline Jung talks about the material aspects of Gothic art and architecture and how they made the church precisely not a pure and abstract vision of heaven but a strange space partaking of both earthly and heavenly worlds.
Duration:00:53:30
Carrying Off the Colosseum: British Architectural Encounters with Rome in the 1770s
8/20/2013
Dr. Frank Salmon, Lecturer in the History of Art and Fellow of St. John’s College, Cambridge, delivers a lecture on the connections between the Classical architecture of antiquity and British architectural production in the eighteenth century. Aug 20, 2013
Duration:00:58:40
The Psychobiology of Parenting and Attachment
8/20/2013
Linda Mayes and Helena Rutherford, of the Child Study Center at Yale University, deliver a lecture on the mechanisms of influence between children and parents in the processes of development, especially with regard to psychoanalysis. Aug 20, 2013
Duration:01:03:27
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence has Declined
8/15/2013
Steven Pinker, Harvard College Professor and Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, delivers a lecture on the phenomenon of statistic decline in violence throughout human history. Aug 15, 2013
Duration:00:51:55
Antisemitism in the Ancient Mediterranean? Early Christianity and Anti-Judaism
8/5/2013
In fulfilling its mission to examine the whole history of Antisemitism, the Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism hosts a panel discussion examining the philosophical and social origins of Anti-Judaism in Early Christianity. Aug 05, 2013
Duration:01:30:38
Painting Music in Renaissance Venice
7/16/2013
Prof. David Rosand, Emeritus of Columbia University, delivers a lecture on representations of music and music making by Venetian painters in the Renaissance. As a guest speaker giving a public lecture to accompany the Franke Seminar on Art and Music in Venice in the Fall of 2011, Prof. Rosand’s presentation examines the depictions of music in Venetian Renaissance painting, including personifications of music itself, musicians, concerts, and instruments in the art of Titian, Tintoretto,...
Duration:00:50:37
Music and Architecture in Renaissance Venice
7/16/2013
Prof. Deborah Howard of Cambridge University delivers a lecture on her groundbreaking research on the acoustics of Renaissance churches and other concert venues in Venice. Intended to accompany the Franke Seminar entitled "Art and Music in Venice." Prof. Howard's lecture considers the acoustical needs of various composers and performers in the architectural spaces of Renaissance Venice. Her important research explores the performance possibilities in the various churches and concert venues...
Duration:00:55:07
"Michael Pollan ‘Raw’: A Conversation with Michael Pollan and Jack Hitt about cooking, eating, and writing”
7/15/2013
Michael Pollan, critically acclaimed author and journalist, sits down with writer Jack Hitt to discuss the former’s recent work and other topics related to food and cooking. Jul 15, 2013
Duration:00:59:16
Sappho, Lincoln, and the Senate: Picturing Nineteenth-Century Female Desire
7/15/2013
Simon Goldhill, Professor of Greek Literature and Culture and Fellow in Classics at King’s College, Cambridge, delivers a lecture on depictions of Sappho in the nineteenth century America, especially with regard to the female artist in the period. Jul 15, 2013
Duration:00:47:01
How the Mind Models the World: New Ideas from MRI Findings
7/15/2013
Dr. Andrew Gerber, Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Columbia University, delivers a lecture on the use of fMRI in the study of physchopathology and psychotherapy. Jul 15, 2013
Duration:00:56:06
Combat Trauma and the Tragic Stage: Ancient Drama and Modern Catharsis
5/15/2013
Prof. Peter Meineck of New York University delivers a lecture on the depiction of war trauma in Ancient Greek drama, exploring the idea of “nostos” (homecoming) and its relevance to the experience of contemporary veterans. In addition to texts by the major Greek dramatists, Prof. Meineck considers non-dramatic works from the history and philosophy of the period, as well as the history of Athenian stagecraft, as part of a culture for which the scars of war were a factor of everyday life....
Duration:01:04:50
Music and Architecture in Renaissance Venice
5/15/2013
May 15, 2013
Duration:00:55:07
Romancing Spinoza
5/14/2013
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, a novelist, biographer, and professor of philosophy, delivers the Franke Lecture in the Fall of 2012 on the influences of the philosopher Baruch Spinoza upon literature and the enlightenment. Goldstein challenges a cultural portrait of Spinoza as distant from aesthetic concerns, and meditates upon Spinoza’s imprint upon writers including Melville, Goethe, George Eliot, Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Heine. Granted a prestigious “genius award” by the MacArthur...
Duration:00:55:44
“Slamlet” featuring Kate Tempest and Yale’s Teeth Slam Poets
5/10/2013
Teeth Slam Poets, a spoken word poetry team at Yale University, present an evening of poems inspired by the works of William Shakespeare. The event features a guest performance by Kate Tempest, a London based spoken word artist. “Slamet” was presented as part of Shakespeare at Yale, a semester of events celebrating Shakespeare’s history and continued influence on contemporary culture. Ms. Tempest has performed extensively in Europe and the United States, and her work has received wide...
Duration:01:05:21
How the Victorians Learned about Darwin's Theories: Popularizing Evolution
4/12/2013
Bernard Lightman’s research focuses on the cultural history of Victorian science. In speaking about the popularization of and attacks upon Darwin’s theories of evolution and natural selection, he draws on his 2007 study Victorian Popularizers of Science. Jul 29, 2010
Duration:00:50:03
Darwin and the Challenge of Biography
4/12/2013
Janet Browne is a leading specialist on Charles Darwin and his life’s work. An associate editor of the early volumes of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, she is also the author of a definitive two-volume biography, Charles Darwin: Voyaging (1995) and Charles Darwin: The Power of Place (2002). Hailed for its innovative examination of how scientific knowledge was gathered and disseminated in the nineteenth century, her study was awarded the James Tait Black Award for Nonfiction, the W. H....
Duration:00:56:19
The Epistemology of Physics and Scientific Revolutions
4/12/2013
Steven Chu is a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and the director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and professor of physics and of molecular and cell biology at the University of California-Berkeley. He was previously at Stanford and Bell Laboratories. At Stanford, he helped start Bio-X, a multidisciplinary initiative linking the physical and biological sciences with engineering and medicine. In 2009 Prof. Chu was appointed the 12th United States Secretary of Energy. Prof. Chu's...
Duration:01:18:18
Cross-Cultural Reflections on Religion and Science
4/12/2013
Joseph Prabhu, a Professor at California State University, Los Angeles, speaks on cross-cultural reflections on religion and science at the third Shulman Lecture of 2008 at the Whitney Humanities Center. He reflects philosophically on the concept of cosmology, and asks about ideas about the beginning and end of the universe. Jul 29, 2010
Duration:00:52:13
Heaven or Heat Death? Christian and Scientific Perspectives on the End of the Universe
4/12/2013
Brother Guy Consolmagno SJ, distinguished guest and planetary scientist at the Vatican Observatory, discusses religious and scientific views of the end of the Universe at the second Shulman Lecture of 2008 at the Whitney Humanities Center. Jul 29, 2010
Duration:01:06:15
A Universe of One's Own: Cosmology, Theology and Atheology
4/12/2013
Prof. Taede Smedes explores cosmology, theology and atheology in his talk as first lecturer for the Shulman Lectures at the Whitney Humanities Center. In "A Universe of One's Own", Prof. Smedes weighs the many different views of the big bang theory, from the perspective of the evolutionists, scientists, creationists and the church. Jul 29, 2010
Duration:00:51:20