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2023-2024 Lectures:
Thursday, February 29, 2024- "How You Say It: The Development of Language as a Social Category"
Katie Kinzler, Vice Provost for Academic Career Advancement and Professor of Psychology
Wednesday, October 4, 2023- "Good Cholesterol"
Ted Steck, Professor Emeritus, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
2022-23 Lectures:
Tuesday, May 30, 2023 - “Cosmology with the Cosmic Microwave Background: Recent Results and the Observatories of the Future.”
Jeff McMahon, Associate Professor, Departments of Astronomy and Astrophysics and Physics; Enrico Fermi Institute and the College
Tuesday, March 28, 2023 - “Islam's Origins: How Much Do We Know?”
Fred Donner, Peter B. Ritzma Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern History in the Oriental Institute and the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
November 16, 2022 - "On Obscenity: A window into society, history, and grammar"
Victor Friedman, Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Humanities, Department of Linguistics
October 27, 2022 - "Turning the Inside Out: Does Digital Research change the library paradigm?"
Torsten Reimer, University Librarian and Dean of the University Libraries
2021-22 Lectures:
John Boyer, Dean of the College and Martin A. Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor of History
2019-20 Lectures:
January 8, 2020 - "A thought about how NOT to handle living at the end of the world"**
Jonathan Lear, John U. Nef Distinguished Service Professor, Committee on Social Thought, the Department of Philosophy, and the College; Roman Family Director of the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society
**No recording made available at request of the speaker.
November 13, 2019 - "Shakespearean Happiness"
Richard Strier, Frank L. Sulzberger Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, Department of English and the Divinity School, and the College
2018-19 Lectures :
May 9, 2019 - "Reflections on NASA's Parker Solar Probe"
Robert Rosner, William E. Wrather Distinguished Service Professor in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Physics, the Enrico Fermi Institute, the Computation Institute, and the College
April 10, 2019 - "Observing the Beginning of Time"
Craig Hogan, Professor in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, the Enrico Fermi Institute, and the College
February 13, 2019 - "Aristotle's Theory of the Relation Between Justice and Civic Friendship"
Gabriel Richardson Lear, Professor in the Department of Philosophy, the Committee on Social Thought, and the College
January 9, 2019 - "Dead Shells Talking: A New Way to Assess Coastal Ecosystem Health"
Susan Kidwell, William Rainey Harper Professor in the Department of Geophysical Sciences and the College
November 14, 2018 - "Erwin Schrödinger's Alarming Phenomenon"
Edward W. "Rocky" Kolb, Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, the Enrico Fermi Institute, and the College
October 10, 2018 - "Self, Society, Individual and Person in Roman Law"
Clifford Ando, David B. and Clara E. Stern Professor of Classics and History, Chair of the Classics Dept., and Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Ancient Religions