Listen: Mathematician Keith Devlin on "Leonardo of Pisa and the First Personal Computing Revolution"
May 10th, 2016
In the annual Kaori Kitao lecture, Devlin argues that the first personal computing revolution did not take place in Silicon Valley in the 1980s, but in Pisa in the Thirteenth Century.
Listen: Classicist Marilyn B. Skinner Presents the Sixteenth Annual Helen F. North Lecture
April 22nd, 2016
Earlier this semester, Professor of Classics Emerita at the University of Arizona Marilyn B. Skinner delivered the annual Helen F. North Lecture.
Listen: Medical Anthropologist Mark Padilla Delivers Jerry Wood Memorial Lecture
April 1st, 2016
Padilla discusses the complexities of migration, tourism, drugs, and AIDS in the Dominican Republic.
Listen: Tasha Lewis '12 on Art Beyond Critical Study
March 7th, 2016
Lewis discusses her project to illustrate each page of James Joyce's Ulysses, which was motivated by a close study of the text and surrounding critical studies.
Listen: Michael Cholbi '94 on Achieving Self-Knowledge
January 29th, 2016
In this lecture, Cholbi, a philosophy professor at California State Polytechnic University, discusses the distinctive value of self-knowledge.
Listen: Chemist Bryant Nelson on NanoGenotoxicology
January 27th, 2016
Bioanalytical chemist Nelson makes the case for the accurate measurement of oxidatively induced DNA damage, which potentially will allow us to understand the biological consequences of these interactions.
Listen: Raghu Karnad '05 on "The Farthest Field: An Indian Story of the Second World War"
December 11th, 2015
In this talk, Karnad describes the process of historical research that informed his writing, as well as the events that led him to undertake his project.
Listen: Classicist Ralph Rosen '77 on Greek Comedy, Aesthetics, and 'Popular' Culture
November 5th, 2015
Rosen focuses on the comic drama of Classical Athens, a genre often described as "popular," and argues that the basic aesthetic and socio-cultural dynamics underlying our own theorizing of the "popular" were also operative in strikingly similar ways in Classical antiquity.
Listen: Economist Eban Goodstein on Climate Protection
October 27th, 2015
The economist, author, and public educator discusses climate protection.
Listen: Patricia Park '03 Reads from Her Acclaimed Debut Novel
October 23rd, 2015
Park returned to campus to read from Re Jane, a Korean-American retelling of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre.
Listen: Mathematician Jordan Ellenberg on "Uncertainty and Contradiction: Mathematics in the Liberal Arts"
July 6th, 2015
Ellenberg argues that thinking like a mathematician is especially useful in domains of uncertainty, ambiguity, and apparent paradox.
Listen: Maya Schenwar ’05 on Why Prison Doesn't Work and How We Can Do Better
June 4th, 2015
Schenwar is the editor-in-chief of truth-out.org and the author of a new book which depicts the shortcomings of America’s prison system through stories of prisoners and their families.
Listen: Edward Gardner '81 on "The Euro Area and the Perils of Monetary Union"
May 8th, 2015
Gardner, an international economist at the IMF, presents a narrative of the Euro Area crisis and its ongoing resolution for the 2015 Bernie Saffran Lecture.
Listen: Author Jamie Stiehm '82 on "Alice Paul and the Woman's Suffrage Movement"
April 7th, 2015
Stiehm '82 discusses Paul, a member of the Class of 1905 and one of Swarthmore’s most influential alums.
