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Videos of our lecture series and more. Selected videos are also available for viewing on the Townsend Center for the Humanities' YouTube channel.

Lawrence Weschler, Avenali Lecture 1

Art and Science as Parallel and Divergent Ways of Knowing

The Townsend Center's 25th Anniversary

A Commemorative Video

Regents' Lecture Panel Discussion with Shirin Neshat

Shirin Neshat, Visual Artist

"Regents' Lecture: From Photography to Cinema"

Eddie Palmieri, Pianist and Bandleader

"The Sun of Latin Music: An Evening with Eddie Palmieri"

Ursula K. Le Guin, Writer

Avenali Lecture: "What Can Novels Do?"

Wendell Berry, Avenali Chair in the Humanities, 2012

Reading and Discussion

A Conversation with Wendell Berry

"An Agro-Ethical Aesthetic"

Una's Panel Discussion with Vikram Seth

Una's Lecture: A Conversation with Vikram Seth

Litquake: Language & Politics: The Discourse of Power

Lisbet Rausing: Una Panel Discussion

Lisbet Rausing, Senior Research Fellow, Imperial College

"Who Guards the Guardians? Professors, Publishing, and the Public"

Svetlana Boym, Slavic & Comparative Literature, Harvard University

"Freedom and the Arts of Dissent"

Francine Prose, Writer

"How I Became an Art Critic"