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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.

William Kentridge, Artist

“Learning from the Absurd”

Adam Phillips, Psychoanalyst & Author

"Freud's Helplessness"

Anna Deavere Smith, Actress & Playwright

“We Are What We Say”

Quentin Skinner, Modern History, University of Cambridge

“A Genealogy of Liberty”

David Simon, Writer and Creator of "The Wire"

"The Audacity of Despair"

Homi Bhabha, English, Harvard University

"On Global Memory: Thoughts on the Barbaric Transmission of Culture"

Leon Fleisher, Pianist & Conductor

"In Conversation"

Greil Marcus, Cultural Critic

“Blackface Then and Now”

Robert Lepage, Playwright & Director

“Performing Past and Present”

Hélène Cixous,Université de Paris VIII

"The Flying Manuscript"

Joan Acocella, Dance Critic

"Ballet and Sex"

Donna Haraway, History of Consciousness, UC Santa Cruz

"From Cyborgs to Companion Species: Dogs, People, and Technoculture"

Michael Pollan, Journalist and Author

“Cannabis, the Importance of Forgetting, and the Botany of Desire”

Sebastião Salgado, Photographer

“Migrations: Humanity in Transition”