Yale Humanities
by Yale University
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Description
Yale has long been recognized as a leader in humanities scholarship. Top University faculty and distinguished visitors in literature, language, history, political science and other disciplines share insights concerning their research and teaching.
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The Role of the Humanities in Globalization | Karin Gosselink, lecturer in English at Yale, speaks about the interconnectedness of the humanities—especially writing and literature—and globalization. She talks about how she brings the two together in her classes. | 8/9/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Humanities Tomorrow | Marie Borroff, Sterling Professor of English, delivers a lecture entitled "Humanities Tomorrow" as part of the Yale Tomorrow campaign launch. | 8/15/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Gloria Steinem Visits Yale | Gloria Steinem currently studies the shared origins of sex- and race-based caste systems, gender roles and child abuse as roots of violence, non-violent conflict resolution, the cultures of indigenous peoples and organizing across boundaries for peace and justice. | 10/5/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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"2010 Bouchet Leadership Award Keynote Lecture on Diversity in Higher Education" | Dean Jon Butler urges Bouchet conference attendees to consider two milestones in African American history as models for their own commitment to shaping academic institutions that look more like America and the world—W.E.B. DuBois’s, The Souls of Black Folk, and the resolve of the Fisk Jubilee Singers whose tours helped keep Fisk University alive in its infancy. | 9/27/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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John Darnell Professor of Egyptology | "Lost" city is oldest in region, which was thought to have been uninhabited. Dates to Second Intermediate Period. Functioned as administrative center and industrial bakery. Suggests a previously unknown group, maybe allied with Thebes. | 1/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Rediscovery of Monkeys' Moon | Richard Deming, lecturer in the Department of English at Yale University, describes the 1929 silent film "Monkeys' Moon" assumed to be lost until the Beinecke Library acquired a copy in 2008. | 1/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Happy Birthday Charles Dickens | Janice Carlisle explains why we should celebrate the birthday of Charles Dickens, how his novels reflected his views on social conditions, why he was popular in his lifetime, and why he continues to be an important figure in popular culture the world over. | 2/9/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 7 Episodes |
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