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The Unanswered Question. (lecture series) The Unanswered Question is a lecture series given by Leonard Bernstein in the fall of 1973. This series of six lectures was a component of Bernstein's duties as the Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry for the 1972/73 academic year at Harvard University, and is therefore often referred to as the ...
These lectures illustrate a radical turning point in Foucault's work at which a shift to the problematic of the government of self and others occurred. Foucault's challenge to himself in these series of lectures is to try and decipher the genealogical split between power in ancient and Medieval society and late modern society, such as our own ...
MNIF Public Lecture Series at Montana Neuroscience Institute Foundation. Neuroscience Lecture Series at University of Wisconsin–Madison. NRC Lecture Series at Neuroscience Research Center, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. NUIN Lecture Series at the Northwestern University Institute for Neuroscience.
The Tanner Lectures on Human Values is a multi-university lecture series in the humanities, founded in 1978, at Clare Hall, Cambridge University, by the American scholar Obert Clark Tanner. [1] In founding the lecture, he defined their purpose as follows: [2] I hope these lectures will contribute to the intellectual and moral life of mankind.
214282391. The Birth of Biopolitics is a part of a lecture series by French philosopher Michel Foucault at the Collège de France between 1978 and 1979 and published posthumously. [1][2][3][4] In it, Foucault develops further the notion of biopolitics introduced in a previous lecture series, Security, Territory, Population. [5]
The Character of Physical Law is a series of seven lectures by physicist Richard Feynman concerning the nature of the laws of physics. Feynman delivered the lectures in 1964 at Cornell University, as part of the Messenger Lectures series. The BBC recorded the lectures, and published a book under the same title the following year; [1] Cornell ...
Named for British philosopher John Locke, the Locke Lectures are the world's most prestigious lectures in philosophy, and are among the world's most prestigious academic lectures. They were established in 1950 by the bequest of Henry Wilde. Another comparable lecture series is the Gifford Lectures, which are delivered annually at several ...
Growing Up in the Universe was a series of televised public lectures given by British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins as part of the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, in which he discussed the evolution of life in the universe. [1] The lectures were first broadcast on the BBC in 1991, in the form of five one-hour episodes.