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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.

Ursula K. Le Guin, Writer

Avenali Lecture: "What Can Novels Do?"

Wendell Berry, Avenali Chair in the Humanities, 2012

Reading and Discussion

A Conversation with Wendell Berry

"An Agro-Ethical Aesthetic"

Una's Panel Discussion with Vikram Seth

Una's Lecture: A Conversation with Vikram Seth

Litquake: Language & Politics: The Discourse of Power

Lisbet Rausing: Una Panel Discussion

Lisbet Rausing, Senior Research Fellow, Imperial College

"Who Guards the Guardians? Professors, Publishing, and the Public"

Svetlana Boym, Slavic & Comparative Literature, Harvard University

"Freedom and the Arts of Dissent"

Francine Prose, Writer

"How I Became an Art Critic"

"Desdemona: Dialogues Across Histories, Continents, Cultures"

Peter Sellars, Toni Morrison, Rokia Traoré

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”