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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.

Avenali Lecture with Joseph Leo Koerner

Art in a State of Siege

Una's Lecture with Ben Ratliff

Mere Virtuosity

A Conversation on Music & Virtuosity

Panel Discussion

Robert Reich

On Writing

Avenali Lecture with Christopher Bollas

Mental Pain

Avenali Lecture with David Shulman

The Inner Life of Dust: A Bottom-Up View of South Asia

Una's Lecture with Beatriz Sarlo

Borges and Post-pop Populism

Una's Lecture with Jane Taylor

Balancing Acts: Truths, Boasts, and Videotape

Alberto Manguel Lecture

Tongue-Tied: The Prince of Sansevero and the Secret Language of the Incas

Avenali Lecture with Eelco Runia

The Theory of the Accomplished Fact

Avenali Lecture with Marilynne Robinson

Shakespeare: The Question of Audience

Avenali Panel with Marilynne Robinson

Religion and the Art of the Novel

Avenali Panel with Eelco Runia, Hayden White, Martin Jay, Harry Harootunian, and Ethan Kleinberg

Tears in the Fabric of the Past: New Theories of Narrative and History

Una's Lecture with Catherine Malabou

Odysseus' Changed Soul

Lawrence Weschler, Avenali Lecture 2

A Typology of Convergences: Towards a Unified Field Theory of Cultural Transmission