Townsend Center Webcasts

Webcasts

Selected webcasts are also available for vieweing at UCTV.

		Who Guards the Guardians? Professors, Publishing, and the Public April 2012 Lisbet Rausing, Senior Research Fellow, Imperial College			Freedom and the Arts of Dissent March 2012 Svetlana Boym, Slavic & Comparative Literature, Harvard University

		The Aesthetics of Singularity February 2012 Fredric Jameson, Literary Theorist and Critic			How I Became an Art Critic November 2011 Francine Prose, Writer

		Dialogues: Across Histories, Continents, Cultures October 2011 Peter Sellars, Director Toni Morrison, Writer Rokia Traoré, Musician			Desdemona Takes the Microphone: Toni Morrison and Shakespeare’s Hidden Women October 2011 Peter Sellars, Director

		Why Liberal Education Matters October 2011 Michael Roth, President, Wesleyan University			Trauma, Shame & Photography: Guilty Thoughts of an Emotional Teacher October 2011 Michael Roth, President, Wesleyan University

		‘Life’: Neovitalism and Biopolitical Thought August 2011 Cary Wolfe, English, Rice University			Of Storms, Frontiers, and Master Plans: Claims for the Future of Higher Education April 2011 Pauline Yu, President, American Council of Learned Societies

		From Capricho to Fatal Consequences: Goya’s Imagery of War 1809-1814 March 2011 Janis Tomlinson, Art Historian			Panel Discussion February 2011 Joyce Carol Oates, Author

		How America Invented the Humanities January 2011 Geoffrey Harpham, Director, National Humanities Center			SAVE AS... Memory and the Archive in the Age of Digital Technologies September 2010 Diana Taylor, Performance Studies and Spanish, NYU

		New Possibilities: Cinema is Dead, Long Live Cinema September 2010 Peter Greenaway, Filmmaker			Nine Classic Paintings Revisited September 2010 Peter Greenaway, Filmmaker

		Why Chopin? and Other Questions May 2010 Garrick Ohlsson, Pianist			The Death of Criticism? April 2010 Terry Eagleton, Literary Critic and Theorist

		Notes on Sontag February 2010 Phillip Lopate, Essayist			Panel Discussion February 2010 Wole Soyinka, Writer, Playwright, and Poet

		The Decline of the Skills Society December 2009 Richard Sennett, Sociologist			The Movement in the Moving Image September 2009 Bill Viola, Video Artist

		Memory, a Remedy for Evil? May 2009 Tzvetan Todorov, Theorist			If Gardens are the Answer, What is the Question? April 2009 Rebecca Solnit, Writer

		In An Age of Depoliticization April 2009 Wang Hui, Political Theorist			Learning from the Absurd March 2009 William Kentridge, Artist


		When the Sun Goes Down: A Pre-Copernican Turn of Remembrance February 2009 Michael Taussig, Anthropologist			Freud's Helplessness February 2009 Adam Phillips, Psychoanalyst and Author


		We Are What We Say November 2008 Anna Deavere Smith, Actress, Playwright, and Author			A Genealogy of Liberty September 2008 Quentin Skinner, Modern History, University of Cambridge

		The Audacity of Despair September 2008 Dave Simon, Writer and Creator of "The Wire"			In Conversation April 2008 Leon Fleisher, Pianist and Conductor

		On Global Memory April 2008 Homi Bhabha, English, Harvard University			Blackface Then and Now March 2008 Greil Marcus, Cultural Critic

		Performing Past and Present November 2007 Robert Lepage, Playwright and Director			The Flying Manuscript February 2006 Hélène Cixous, Université de Paris VIII

		Ballet and Sex February 2005 Joan Acocella, Dance Critic			From Cyborgs to Companion Species September 2003 Donna Haraway, UC Santa Cruz

		Cannabis, the Importance of Forgetting, and the Botany of Desire November 2002 Michael Pollan, Journalist			Migrations February 2002 Sebastião Salgado, Photographer