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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.

"Who Guards the Guardians? Professors, Publishing, and the Public"
"Freedom and the Arts of Dissent"
"How I Became an Art Critic"
Peter Sellars, Toni Morrison, Rokia Traoré
"Desdemona Takes the Microphone: Toni Morrison and Shakespeare’s Hidden Women"
Michael Roth, President, Wesleyan University
“Why Liberal Education Matters”
“‘Life’: Neovitalism and Biopolitical Thought”
“Of Storms, Frontiers, and Master Plans: Claims for the Future of Higher Education”
“From Capricho to Fatal Consequences: Goya’s Imagery of War 1809-1814”
“How America Invented the Humanities”