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Chaos in Space, Catastrophe on Earth - November 17, 2007

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 17, 2010 76:22


If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Peter Vandervoort, Professor in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics and the College at the University of Chicago

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Plato, Socrates, and the Sophists - July 21, 2007

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 17, 2010 68:34


If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Herman Sinaiko, Professor in the Division of the Humanities and the College at the University of Chicago

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Mourning the past: Nostalgia and the burdens of modernity - July 15, 2006

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 17, 2010 59:15


If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Bertram Cohler, William Rainey Harper Professor, Social Sciences Collegiate Division, and Professor in the Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry, and the Divinity School at the University of Chicago

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Amnesia and Self-Imitation in Ancient India and Hollywood - January 12, 2008

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 17, 2010 80:04


If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Wendy Doniger, Mircea Eliade Professor in the Divinity School, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, Committee on Social Thought, and the College at the University of Chicago

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Liberal Education: The "Naissance" to the Renaissance to Modern Times - August 11, 2007

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 17, 2010 56:53


If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Raymond Ciacci, Dean of Students and Director of the Master of Liberal Arts Program and Lecturer in the Humanities Collegiate Division at the University of Chicago

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Old Shamanism and the New Animism - January 17, 2009

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 17, 2010 149:06


If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Raymond Fogelson, Professor in the Departments of Anthropology and Comparative Human Development in the College and at the University of Chicago

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The Trial and Death of Socrates - November 1, 2008

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 17, 2010 36:58


If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. James Redfield, Edward Olson Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Classical Languages and Literatures and the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago

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Why I Could Not Think About the Olympic Games Without Knowing Marx, Weber, Durkheim, and Freud - June 28, 2008

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 17, 2010 47:18


If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. John J. MacAloon, Professor and Academic Associate Dean of the Social Sciences Division and Professor in the College at the University of Chicago

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Mysteries of the Dark Universe - January 16, 2010

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 17, 2010 54:30


If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Edward 'Rocky' Kolb, Howard L. Willett Professor in the College, the Committee on Social Thought, and the Departments of Classics and Anthropology at the University of Chicago. Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Service Professor and Chair of the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Chicago.

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Rewriting Hindu History: Including Women, Dogs and Horses - November 7, 2009

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 17, 2010 55:36


If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Wendy Doniger, Mircea Eliade Professor in the Divinity School, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, Committee on Social Thought, and the College at the University of Chicago

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