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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.

Diana Taylor, Performance Studies and Spanish, NYU

"SAVE AS... Memory and the Archive in the Age of Digital Technologies"

"Nine Classic Paintings Revisited"

With Avenali Lecturer Peter Greenaway

Peter Greenaway, Filmmaker

"New Possibilities: Cinema is Dead, Long Live Cinema"

Garrick Ohlsson, Pianist

"Why Chopin? and Other Questions"

Terry Eagleton, Literary Critic & Theorist

"The Death of Criticism?"

Wole Soyinka: Avenali Panel Discussion

Richard Sennett, Sociologist

"The Decline of the Skills Society"

Bill Viola, Video Artist

"The Movement in the Moving Image"

Tzvetan Todorov, Theorist

"Memory, a Remedy for Evil?”

Rebecca Solnit, Writer, Historian, & Activist

“If Gardens are the Answer, What is the Question?”

William Kentridge: Avenali Panel Discussion

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”