Lectures from 2024
Fourth Lecture of the 2024 First-Year Studies Lecture Series, Bill Carrothers, Janet Planet, Mark Urness, Jose Encarnacion, Greg Riss, Marcia Bjornerud, Claire Kervin, and Kurt Wilson
Third Lecture of the 2024 First-Year Studies Lecture Series, Bill Carrothers, Preston Ezekiel Parker, Janet Planet, Greg Riss, Mark Urness, and Betsy Schlabach
Second Lecture of the 2024 First-Year Studies Lecture Series, Martyn Smith, Preston Ezekiel Parker, and Charles Austin Segrest
First Lecture of the 2024 First-Year Studies Lecture Series, Bill Carrothers, Jose Encarnacion, Janet Planet, Bart De Stasio, Jessica Ryan, and Emily Tyner
Kind of Blue, Mark Urness
Communication and Collective Goods - Jeremy Waldron: The Harm in Hate Speech, Mark Phelan
Eric Scerri: The Periodic Table, Allison Fleshman
Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, Part 1: Millennium Approaches, Copeland Woodruff
Using a Sociological Imagination to Understand Evicted, Jesús Smith
Lectures from 2023
Jaya Semara, Sonja Downing
Knowing the Strangers in the Shogun's City, Brigid E. Vance
An Expressive Way to Document New York: Berenice Abbott's Tri-Boro Barber School Photograph, Beth Zinsli
Plato’s Republic: There and Back Again, Chloe Armstrong
Kind of Blue, Mark Urness
Communication and Collective Goods - Jeremy Waldron: The Harm in Hate Speech, Mark Phelan
Eric Scerri: The Periodic Table, Allison Fleshman
Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, Part 1: Millennium Approaches, Copeland Woodruff
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, Jesús Smith
Lectures from 2022
Jaya Semara, Sonja Downing
Knowing the Strangers in the Shogun's City, Brigid E. Vance
An Expressive Way to Document New York: Berenice Abbott’s Tri-Boro Barber School Photograph, Beth Zinsli
Plato’s Republic: There and Back Again, Chloe Armstrong
Native Guard and the Power of Limitation, Charles Austin Segrest
Kind of Blue, Mark Urness
Doing More Good Better: Poor Economics, Dylan Fitz
Eric Scerri: The Periodic Table, Allison Fleshman
Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, Part 1: Millennium Approaches, Copeland Woodruff
Communication and Collective Goods - Jeremy Waldron: The Harm in Hate Speech, Mark Phelan
Lectures from 2021
Knowing the Strangers in the Shogun's City, Brigid E. Vance
An Expressive Way to Document New York: Berenice Abbott’s Tri-Boro Barber School Photograph, Beth Zinsli
Plato’s Republic: There and Back Again, Chloe Armstrong
From Appledore to Appleton: Unexpected Lessons from Seeley's Honeybee Democracy, Alyssa Hakes
More Than a Moment's Monument: Sonnets in Native Guard, Melissa Range
Kind of Blue, Mark Urness
The Arabian Nights, Martyn Smith
Periodic Table: A Perpetual Discovery, Allison Fleshman
Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, Part 1: Millennium Approaches, Copeland Woodruff
Banerjee and Duflo’s Poor Economics, Dylan Fitz
Lectures from 2020
An Expressive Way to Document New York: Berenice Abbott’s Tri-Boro Barber School Photograph, Beth Zinsli
Housekeeping: A Book of Ruth for 1950s America, Catherine Gunther Kodat
Plato’s Republic: There and Back Again, Chloe Armstrong
From Appledore to Appleton: Unexpected Lessons from Seeley's Honeybee Democracy, Alyssa Hakes
More Than a Moment's Monument: Sonnets in Native Guard, Melissa Range
Davis: Kind of Blue, Mark Urness
Banerjee & Duflo: Poor Economics, Ameya Balsekar
Kushner: Angels in America, Copeland Woodruff
The Arabian Nights, Martyn Smith
Bhagavad-Gita: Krishna's Counsel in Time of War, Constance Kassor
Lectures from 2019
Plato: The Republic, Chloe Armstrong
Robinson: Housekeeping, Catherine Kodat
Seeley: Honeybee Democracy, Alyssa Hakes
Trethewey: Native Guard, Melissa Range
Davis: Kind of Blue, Mark Urness
The Arabian Nights, Martyn Smith
Banerjee & Duflo: Poor Economics, Ameya Balsekar
Bhagavad-Gita: Krishna's Counsel in Time of War, Lavanya Proctor
Seeley: Honeybee Democracy, Alyssa Hakes
Lectures from 2018
Robinson: Housekeeping, Catherine Kodat
Bruegel: Landscape With the Fall of Icarus, Ben Tilghman
Trethewey: Native Guard, Melissa Range
Davis: Kind of Blue, Mark Urness
Banerjee and Duflo: Poor Economics, Ameya Balsekar
The Arabian Nights, Martyn Smith
Feynman: The Character of Physical Law, Douglas Martin
Bhagavad-Gita: Krishna's Counsel in Time of War, Lavanya Proctor
Lectures from 2017
Bechdel: Fun Home, Helen Boyd Kramer
Mintz: Sweetness and Power, Mark Jenike
Bruegel: Landscape With the Fall of Icarus, Ben Tilghman
Plato: The Republic, Chloe Armstrong
Trethewey: Native Guard, Melissa Range
Davis: Kind of Blue, Mark Urness
Banerjee and Duflo: Poor Economics, Ameya Balsekar
Borges: Collected Fictions, Madera Allan
Feynman: The Character of Physical Law, Douglas Martin
Bhagavad-Gita: Krishna's Counsel in Time of War, Lavanya Proctor
Lectures from 2016
Bechdel: Fun Home, Helen Boyd Kramer
Bruegel: Landscape With the Fall of Icarus, Benjamin Tilghman
Brecht: The Life of Galileo, Timothy Troy
Plato: The Republic, Mark Phelan
Trethewey: Native Guard, Melissa Range
Davis: Kind of Blue, Mark Urness
Pontecorvo: The Battle of Algiers, Martyn Smith
Borges: Collected Fictions, Madera Allan
Feynman: The Character of Physical Law, Douglas Martin
Lectures from 2015
Bechdel: Fun Home, Helen Boyd Kramer
Schelling: Micromotives and Macrobehavior, David Gerard
Brecht: The Life of Galileo, Timothy Troy
Plato: The Republic, Mark Phelan
Trethewey: Native Guard, Melissa Range
Adams: Doctor Atomic, Gene Biringer
Borges: Collected Fictions, Madera Allan
Feynman: The Character of Physical Law, Jeff Collett
Pontecorvo: The Battle of Algiers, Martyn Smith
Bhagavad-Gita: Krishna's Counsel in Time of War, Dirck Vorenkamp
Lectures from 2014
Bechdel: Fun Home, David McGlynn
Lange: Migrant Mother, Beth Zinsli
Schelling: Micromotives and Macrobehavior, David Gerard
Plato: The Republic, Mark Phelan
Brecht: The Life of Galileo, Timothy Troy
Adams: Doctor Atomic, Gene Biringer