Episodes
Award-winning playwright Tom Stoppard talks about the role of diversity in theatre Award-winning playwright and Humanitas Visiting Professor in Drama 2015-2016 Tom Stoppard discusses the role of diversity in theatre and the power of art to change people's attitudes.
Published 07/19/16
Award-winning playwright and screenwriter Tom Stoppard Q&A with Professor Dame Hermione Lee. Award-winning playwright and screenwriter Tom Stoppard Q&A with Professor Dame Hermione Lee (President of Wolfson College). Professor Dame Hermione Lee asks Tom Stoppard about his past and they explore memories of his working life as part of his Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Drama 2015-2016.
Published 07/11/16
Award-winning playwright Tom Stoppard delivers a public lecture Award-winning playwright Tom Stoppard delivers a lecture on theatre. He explores the differences between attitudes in German and English theatre and playwrights, discusses Oscar Wilde's work, and talks about the satisfaction that is gained through collaboration. Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/
Published 07/05/16
What does hip hop have in common with Herodotus? In this lecture celebrated historian Simon Schama explores the tradition of public history drawing on Walter Scott, Thomas Carlyle, Winston Churchill and Lin-Manuel Miranda. http://media.podcasts.ox.ac.uk/humdiv/humanitas/2016-05-01-humdiv-torch-schama-past-publics-2.mp4 http://media.podcasts.ox.ac.uk/humdiv/humanitas/2016-05-02-humdiv-torch-schama-public-history-2.mp4
Published 05/20/16
Simon Schama, Craig Clunas and Margaret MacMillan tackle the thorny question of how the past should interact with the public, or publics, who consume it. Simon Schama (Professor of Art History and History at Columbia University), Craig Clunas (Professor of the History of Art, University of Oxford) and Margaret MacMillan (Professor of International History, University of Oxford)
Published 05/20/16
Part of the Christian Thielemann Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Opera Studies 2015-2016 Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Opera Studies 2015-2016 Christian Thielemann in conversation with Roger Allen.
Published 02/23/16
Part of the Christian Thielemann Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Opera Studies 2015-2016 Roundtable discussion with Roger Allen, Matthew Reese, Peter Franklin, Barry Millington, Christian Thielemann, and Barbara Eichner.
Published 02/23/16
Part of the Christian Thielemann Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Opera Studies 2015-2016 Roundtable discussion with Peter Franklin, Barry Millington, and Suzanne Aspden as part of the Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Opera Studies 2015-2016.
Published 02/23/16
A lecture by Christian Thielemann Humanitas Visiting Professor in Opera Studies 2015-2016 Christian Thielemann discusses the commonalities and differences between Wagner and Strauss at a lecture on 21 January 2016.
Published 02/22/16
Humanitas Visting Professor Stephen Greenblatt discusses whether humanities are important. Humanitas Visiting Professor in Museums, Galleries, and Libraries 2015-2016, Stephen Greenblatt, discusses whether humanities are important in a time when they are most pervasive in society, and when there seems to be a shrinking of public support for them.
Published 11/17/15
A lecture by celebrated artist Maya Lin Celebrated artist Maya Lin discusses the relationship between her art, architecture and memorials; the inspiration behind her work; her experiments with scale; and her engagement with the natural world.
Published 08/06/15
Professor Ute Frevert discusses rationality vs emotionality with a response from Professor Barbara Rosenwein Professor Ute Frevert talks "Rationality versus emotionality in the centry of extremes"
Published 05/19/15
Professor Barbara Rosenwein explores the history of emotions Humanitas Visiting Professor Barbara Rosenwein explores the history of emotions, with a response from Professor Ute Frevert
Published 05/19/15
Professor John McLaughlin discusses Challenges facing American Intelligence
Published 05/19/15
Professor John McLaughlin looks at Terrorism in the 21st Century Humanitas Visiting Professor in Intelligence Studies John McLaughlin discusses Terrorism: Where it's been and his views on where it is heading.
Published 05/19/15
Barbara Rosenwein discusses the generations of feeling Humanitas Visiting Professor Barbar Rosenwein concludes her series on the "History of Emotions" with this lecture on the generation of feeling
Published 05/18/15
A symposium with Vik Muniz and Michael Govan (Chief Executive Officer and Wallis Annenberg Director, Los Angeles County Museum of Art) Chaired by Paul Hobson (Director, Modern Art Oxford)
Published 08/11/14
A lecture by Vik Muniz, Humanitas Visiting Professor in Contemporary Arts
Published 08/11/14
Humanitas Visiting Professor in Opera Studies Renée Fleming, in conversation with Edward Seckerson. Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/
Published 07/10/14
Filmmaker and Humanitas Visiting Professor in Film and Television, Kelly Reichardt, in conversation about her films. American landscapes and narratives of the road are themes that run throughout Reichardt’s five feature films: River of Grass (Strand Releasing, 1994), Old Joy (Kino International, 2006), Wendy and Lucy (Oscilloscope Pictures, 2008), Meek’s Cutoff (Oscilloscope Pictures, 2010) and Night Moves (Cinedigm, 2013); and the short narrative Ode (1999). Kelly has taught at School of...
Published 06/12/14
A roundtable discussion with Lynn Hunt (Humanitas Visiting Professor in Historiography), Lyndal Roper (Regius Professor of History) and Elleke Boehmer (Professor of World Literature in English).
Published 05/29/14
A lecture by the Humanitas Visiting Professor in Historiography, Lynn Hunt.
Published 05/29/14
Lynn Hunt (Humanitas Visiting Professor in Historiography) in discussion with Sandra Fredman (Rhodes Professor of Law & Co-Director of the Oxford Martin Programme on Human Rights for Future Generations)
Published 05/29/14
The Director of the Los Angeles County Museum gives a talk for the Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Museums, Galleries and Libraries. Chaired by Christopher Brown (Director, Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford).
Published 05/28/14
Former Director of the National Security Agency and Central Intelligence Agency General Hayden gives a talk for the Humanitas visiting professorship in Intelligence Studies and Islamism
Published 02/25/14