Webcasts of Past Lectures

January 28, 2009
Discovering Oneself Through the Great Books
John Silber, President Emeritus, Boston University and former UT Dean of Arts and Sciences

March 28, 2008
How to Understand Politics; What the Humanities Can Say to Science
Harvey C. Mansfield, William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Government at Harvard University

March 3, 2008
Our First Revolution--and Beyond (On Britain's Glorious Revolution, 1688)
Michael Barone, Senior writer for "U.S. News and World Report and principal coauthor of "The Almanac of American Politics"

February 8, 2008
On a Certain Manner of Reading Cases: The Reasoning We've Forgotten, the Law We've Lost.
Hadley P. Arkes, Edward N. Ney Professor of Jurisprudence and American Institutions at Amherst College

Webcasts from before 2008 are in streaming MP4 format. To view them, you will need to download the Envivio TV plugin for RealPlayer, available as a free download for Windows, Mac OSX, and Intel Mac.

December 6, 2007
The Struggle for the Curriculum
Herbert I. London, President of the Hudson Institute, former dean of the Gallatin School of Individualized Study, NYU

November 8, 2007
On Becoming One's Idea of a Free Person
Danielle S. Allen, Dean of Humanities, University of Chicago

October 11, 2007
Somebody Killed Something, That's Clear at Any Rate: Jabberwocky and the Western Canon
Michael Berube, Paterno Family Professor of English, Pennsylvania State University

September 20, 2007
Liberty of Conscience: In Defense of America's Tradition of Religious Equality
Martha Nussbaum, Ernst Freund Distinguished Professor of Law and Ethics, University of Chicago Law School

February 15, 2007
The Ancient Greeks and Western Civilization: Then and Now
Victor Davis Hanson, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution; Professor Emeritus, California State University, Fresno

January 18, 2007
Civic Education in the Academy: The Challenges Before Us
Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, Princeton University; Director, James Madison Center