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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.

Peter Sellars, Director of "Desdemona"

"Desdemona Takes the Microphone: Toni Morrison and Shakespeare’s Hidden Women"

"Trauma, Shame & Photography: Guilty Thoughts of an Emotional Teacher"

Michael Roth, President, Wesleyan University

Michael Roth, President, Wesleyan University

“Why Liberal Education Matters”

Cary Wolfe, English, Rice University

“‘Life’: Neovitalism and Biopolitical Thought”

Pauline Yu, President, ACLS

“Of Storms, Frontiers, and Master Plans: Claims for the Future of Higher Education”

Janis Tomlinson, Art Historian

“From Capricho to Fatal Consequences: Goya’s Imagery of War 1809-1814”

Joyce Carol Oates: Avenali Panel Discussion

Geoffrey Harpham, Director, National Humanities Center

“How America Invented the Humanities”

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"