Videos and Recorded Programs

Sonya Posmentier, associate professor of English at New York University, invites audience members to consider Civil Rights Movement activism as instances of both civic and poetic education.

We often think of learning to read poetry as something that happens through classroom lectures and textbooks. Instead, a parallel pedagogy was unfolding during the Mississippi summer project of 1964. In this lecture, Posmentier offers a...

Join Helen Thompson, Northwestern University Professor of English and The Huntington’s Dibner Distinguished Fellow in the History of Science & Technology, for a lecture on Jane Austen’s commentary on cosmetics.

How does the history of science help us interpret Jane Austen? How do Austen’s marriage plots, balls, and carriage rides relate to the domain of flasks, distillation apparatus, and laboratory techniques? This talk explores...