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Voices from the Past: the Townsend Center Audio Archive

In celebration of the Townsend Center's 25th year, we are posting our audio archive highlighting past lectures, conversations, and notable events that the Center has supported throughout the years.

Mary Louise PrattEnglish Only vs. National Security: Language & Contemporary Geopolitics
March 2004

Mary Louise Pratt, Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures, New York University

Donna HarawayFrom Cyborgs to Companion Species: Dogs, People, and Technoculture
September 2003

Donna Haraway, Theorist

Michael PollanCannabis, the Importance of Forgetting, and the Botany of Desire
November 2002

Michael Pollan, Journalist

Nicholson BakerBombs & Bibliographies: The Secret Life of the Library of Congress
April 2002


Nicholson Baker, Writer

Sebastião SalgadoMigrations: Humanity in Transition
February 2002


Sebastião Salgado, Photographer

N. Katherine Hayles How to do Things with Codes: Rethinking Processes of Signification in Digital Media
March 2011

N. Katherine Hayles, English, UCLA

N. Katherine HaylesPanel Discussion: How to do Things with Codes: Rethinking Processes of Signification in Digital Media
March 2011

N. Katherine Hayles, English, UCLA

Bruno LatourBringing the Sciences into Democracy
April 2000

Bruno Latour, Sociologist and Anthropologist

Bruno LatourPolitics of Nature
April 2000

Bruno Latour, Sociologist and Anthropologist

Bruno LatourThe End of Nature as a Way to Organize our Polity
April 2000

Bruno Latour, Sociologist and Anthropologist

Wendy DonigerAre Carnal Ignorance and Carnal Knowledge Cross-Cultural Categories?
October 1999

Wendy Doniger, History of Religions, University of Chicago Divinity School

Seamus HeaneyPoetry Reading
February 1999

 

Seamus Heaney, Poet

Seamus HeaneyOpening the Word Hoard: Readings from Beowulf
February 1999

 

Seamus Heaney, Poet

Seamus HeaneyGetting the Picture: Reflections on Art and Artists in Ireland
February 1999

 

Seamus Heaney, Poet

J.M. CoetzeeA Reading
November 1998

 

J.M. Coetzee, Novelist

J.M. CoetzeeThe Novel in Africa
November 1998

 

J.M. Coetzee, Novelist

Text ImageThe Future of Scholarly Communication
September 1997

Catherine Gallagher, English, UC Berkeley
Don Lamb, Chair, W.W. Norton, UC Berkeley
Peter Lyman, School of Information, UC Berkeley
Geoffrey Nunberg, School of Information, UC Berkeley
Pamela Samuelson, Law, UC Berkeley
Hal Varian, School of Information, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley

Mike DavisThe Literary Destruction of L.A.
September 1997

 

Mike Davis, Social Commentator and Professor of Creative Writing, UC Riverside

Natalie Zemon DavisMoors, Christians, and Africans in a Muslim Traveler’s Account of the Renaissance
February 1997

Natalie Zemon Davis, History, University of Toronto

Natalie Zemon DavisAfricans and Jews in the Plantation Culture of 18th-century Suriname
February 1997

Natalie Zemon Davis, History, University of Toronto

Michael IgnatieffCivilizing Warfare
February 1997


Michael Ignatieff, Broadcaster and Critic

Gerald EarlyMartin Luther King and the Reinvention of Christian Leadership in the United States
March 1996

Gerald Early, English and African American Studies, Washington University in St. Louis

Gerald EarlyDante's Inferno
December 1994

 

Robert Pinsky, U.S. Poet Laureate 1997-2000
Michael Mazur, Artist

Kwame Anthony AppiahIdentity Against Culture
September 1994

 

Kwame Anthony Appiah, Philosopher, cultural Theorist, and Novelist

Alan RyanLiberal Education and Liberal Anxieties
March 1994


Alan Ryan, Politics, Princeton University

Marshall SahlinsSeminar
March 1988


Marshall Sahlins, Anthropology, University of Chicago