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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.

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

Lawrence Weschler, Avenali Lecture 1

Art and Science as Parallel and Divergent Ways of Knowing

The Townsend Center's 25th Anniversary

A Commemorative Video

Regents' Lecture Panel Discussion with Shirin Neshat

Shirin Neshat, Visual Artist

"Regents' Lecture: From Photography to Cinema"

Eddie Palmieri, Pianist and Bandleader

"The Sun of Latin Music: An Evening with Eddie Palmieri"

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"