Video Archive - Humanities Lecture Series

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2011-2012

Louis Menand, Cultural critic & author
"A Man is Shot: The Cold War Meaning of a Cinematic Technique"
November 17, 2011, Spencer Museum of Art Auditorium
*This video can be viewed for educational purposes only and is password protected. Contact the Hall Center at 785-864-4798 to request access.

Louis Menand, Cultural critic & author
"Reform and Resistance in the American University: A Conversation with Louis Menand"
November 18, 2011, Hall Center Conference Hall
*This video can be viewed for educational purposes only and is password protected. Contact the Hall Center at 785-864-4798 to request access.

Diane Ravitch, Education historian & policy analyst
"Will School Reform Improve the Schools?"
October 18, 2011, Woodruff Auditorium

2010-2011

Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University
“African American Lives: Genealogy, Genetics, and Black History”
April 14, 2011, Woodruff Auditorium

Mae Ngai, Professor of History and Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies at Columbia University
"Illegal Immigration: Origins and Consequences"
March 10, 2011, Woodruff Auditorium

Susan Harris, Hall Distinguished Professor of American Literature and Culture at the University of Kansas
"Pious Hypocrisies: Mark Twain, the Philippines, and America's Christian Mission"
February 9, 2011, Alderson Auditorium

Joseph O'Neill, Critically Acclaimed Novelist and Author of Netherland
"An Evening with Joseph O'Neill"
November 16, 2010, Woodruff Auditorium
*Archive video available for viewing by appointment at the Hall Center, or for class use through EGARC.

Ross Douthat, Co-author of Grand New Party: How Republicans Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream
"The Obama Presidency in the Shadow of the Midterms"
October 19, 2010, Woodruff Auditorium

Elizabeth Kolbert, Journalist and Author
"Science, Politics, and Climate Change"
September 13, 2010, Woodruff Auditorium
*This video can be viewed for educational purposes only and is password protected. Contact the Hall Center at 785-864-4798 to request access.

2009-2010

Mary Oliver, Award Winning Poet
“An Evening with Mary Oliver”
May 5, 2010, Lied Center
*Audio recording available at the Hall Center by appointment only.

Rory Stewart, Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy and author     
"Afghanistan: Rhetoric and Reality"    
March 29, 2010 Woodruff Auditorium  

Chris Abani, Nigerian author of the bestselling Graceland, and recipient of the PEN USA Freedom-to-Write Award
"Stories of Struggle, Stories of Hope: Art, Politics and Human Rights"
November 17, 2009, Woodruff Auditorium
*Archive video available for viewing by appointment at the Hall Center, or for class use through EGARC.

T. R. Reid, Healthcare critic and commentator for NPR’s "Morning Edition"
“We're Number 37! Why Other Countries Have Better, Fairer, and Cheaper Health Care than the USA”
October 22, 2009, Woodruff Auditorium

Lewis Hyde, Richard L. Thomas Professor of Creative Writing, Kenyon College
"Culture as Commonwealth"
August 25, 2009, Woodruff Auditorium

2008-2009

Dipesh Chakrabarty, Faculty Fellow of the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory
"The Decline and Prospect of Universal History"
April 20, 2009, Woodruff Auditorium

Anthony Corbeill, Professor of Classics, University of Kansas
"Androgynous Gods, Androgynous Nouns, and the Invention of Heterosexuality in Ancient Rome"
February 5, 2009, Alderson Auditorium

Jeannette Walls, author
"The Glass Castle: Hunting Demons and Other Life Lessons"
November 18, 2008, Woodruff Auditorium

Susan Estrich, Robert Kingsley Professor of Law and Political Science, University of Southern California
"The 2008 Election: What's at Stake?"
September 23, 2008, Woodruff Auditorium

2007-2008

Carol Ann Carter, Professor of Art, University of Kansas
"Art @ Work: Mapping Transformation"
April 24, 2008, Alderson Auditorium

Ian Buruma, 2008 winner of the Erasmus Prize
"Among the Unbelievers: Muslims in Europe"
April 2, 2008, Woodruff Auditorium

Paul Muldoon, poet and 2003 Pulitzer Prize Winner
"The Eternity of the Poem"
February 27, 2008, Woodruff Auditorium

Sara Ahmed, Professor in Race & Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths College, University of London
“The Promise of Happiness”
October 23, 2007, Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas Union


2006-2007

Maria Carlson, Professor of Slavid Languages and Literatures, University of Kansas
"Culture and History Matter: Russia's Search for Identity after the Fall"
April 10, 2007, Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas Union

Kwame Anthony Appiah, Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University
“Making Sense of Moral Conflict”
March 1, 2007, Kansas Union Ballroom

Nancy Cott, Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History at Harvard University and Pforzheimer Foundation director of the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
"Grooming Citizens: Marriage and Civic Status in U.S. History"
November 2, 2006, Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas Union

Richard Dawkins, Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science, Oxford University
"The God Delusion"
October 16, 2006, Lied Center

Nuruddin Farah, author and winner of the 1998 Neustadt International Prize for Literature
"The Fork in the Fork of the Road"
September 12, 2006, Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas Union

Andrei Codrescu, MacCurdy Distinguished Professor of English, Louisiana State University
"An Evening with Andrei Codrescu"
August 28, 2006, Lied Center Auditorium

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