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Listening to the Last Speakers
Posted on August 1, 2011
Linguist K. David Harrison travels the world to document endangered languages and the knowledge they contain. more »
The Rhythms of Ghana
Posted on October 20, 2011
Watch: Sharon E. Friedler celebrates dance as a means of developing meaningful conversations between diverse individuals and communities in this digital story. more »
Listen: Old Quiver, New Arrows
Posted on August 1, 2011
Listen: "I think every book of poems tells a story," says Professor of English Literature Nathalie Anderson. Here, she reads from Quiver, her latest collection. more »
Courses of Study
Faculty Videos
Watch: History as Cultural Work: The President's House Project in Philadelphia
Louis Massiah, the 2010-11 Lang Visiting Professor for Issues of Social Change, speaks about the five-channel video installation at the President's House site in Philadelphia that opened in December 2010. more
Faculty Lectures
Listen: Apollo Dancing
Associate Professor of Classics and Philosophy Grace Ledbetter discusses (4:15) her current work, an examination of how George Ballenchine's ballet Apollo, with a score by Igor Stravinsky, provided a new foundation for ballet in the 20th century by transforming the Greek myth of Apollo and merging ballet with Greco-Roman classicism. This discussion is drawn from her larger study of the role classical antiquity has played in the development of classical ballet. more
Academic News
Watch: Art Students Reproduce Eakins Masterpiece
Video captures the first-year students in Logan Grider's Making Art seminar as they work to recreate Thomas Eakin's The Gross Clinic painting in three dimensions. more
Sources & Experts
Philip Jefferson
Have questions about what impact that extending the tax cuts set to expire at the end of the year would have? Economist
Philip Jefferson can provide expert commentary on the Federal Reserve and the monetary policy making process.
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