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The Townsend Center’s audio archive highlights past lectures, conversations, and notable events that the Center has supported throughout the years.

Adam Hochschild

The Moral Drama of the Spanish Civil War

Mark Bittman

Writing and the Food Revolution

Katrina Dodson

Clarice Lispector, "Brazil's Kafka"

Robert Alter

The Bible at Its Most Unorthodox

Fredric Jameson, Literary Theorist & Critic

"The Aesthetics of Singularity"

Mary Louise Pratt

"English Only vs. National Security: Language & Contemporary Geopolitics"

Donna Haraway

“From Cyborgs to Companion Species: Dogs, People, and Technoculture”

Michael Pollan, Journalist and Author

"Cannabis, the Importance of Forgetting, and the Botany of Desire"

Nicholson Baker, Writer

“Bombs and Bibliographies: The Secret Life of the Library of Congress”

Sebastião Salgado, Photographer

“Migrations: Humanity in Transition”

N. Katherine Hayles: Avenali Panel Discussion

N. Katherine Hayles, Literature, Duke University

“How to do Things with Codes: Rethinking Processes of Signification in Digital Media” (incomplete recording)

"Bringing the Sciences into Democracy"

With Avenali Lecturer Bruno Latour

Bruno Latour, Sociologist & Anthropologist

“The End of Nature as a Way to Organize our Polity”

"Politics of Nature"

With Avenali Lecturer Bruno Latour