Every spring and fall, SAS faculty take a minute out on Locust Walk to share their perspectives on topics ranging from human history and the knowable universe, to fractions and fly-fishing. While not every speaker makes it under the one-minute mark, they all deal with their chosen subjects with intellectual agility and wit.
Browse through the speaker archive below to enjoy past lectures from this series.
A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I-J, K, L, M, N, O-P, R, S, T, U-V, W, Y-Z
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Vijay Balasubramanian
Merriam Term Assistant Professor of Physics
"The Knowable Universe"
September 28, 2005
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Karen Beckman
Elliot and Roslyn Jaffe Assistant Professor of Film Studies,
Department of History
"Crash"
October 5, 2005
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Charles
Bernstein
Professor of English
"What Makes
a Poem a Poem?"
April 21, 2004
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Cristina Bicchieri
Professor, Department of Philosophy
“Social Norms”
April 20, 2005
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Rebecca Bushnell
Dean
of the College at Penn and Professor of English
"The Nature of Nature"
September 24, 2003
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Camille Charles
Associate Professor of Sociology
"An Open Letter to Mister Rogers"
April 25, 2007
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Dennis DeTurck
Evan C Thompson Endowed Term Professor for Excellence in Teaching
"Down with Fractions!"
September 22, 2004
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Jamal J. Elias
Class of 1965 Term Professor of Religious Studies
"Death and Body Fluids (or Why Religion is Important)"
September 26, 2007
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Martha Farah
Bob and Arlene Kogod Term Professor in Psychology
"The Human Brain 2.0"
April 12, 2006
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Michael Gamer
Associate Professor of English
"Major Matters"
September 12, 2007
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David Grazian
Assistant
Professor of Sociology
"The Difference between
Blues and Jazz"
September 17, 2003
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Paul Hendrickson
Senior Lecturer, Creative Writing Program
"Why
Fly-Fishing Is a Zen Experience"
April 14, 2004
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Renata Holod
Professor, History of Art
"Site of Sight, Right of Sight, and Rite of Sight: Exploring the Cultures
of Seeing"
September 29, 2004
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Benjamin Horton
Assistant Professor, Earth and Environmental Science
"Climate in Crisis"
April 4, 2007
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John L. Jackson, Jr.
Richard Perry University Associate Professor of Communications and Anthropology
"Ethnography in the Age of Supercrunching"
April 23, 2008
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Daniel H. Janzen
Thomas G. and Louise E. DiMaura Endowed Term Professor in Conservation Biology
"How
to Read Wild Biodiversity: Barcode It"
September 15, 2004
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Suvir Kaul
Professor of English
"The Humanities are in Crisis!
No, the Humanities are the Crisis!"
April 5, 2006
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Donald F. Kettl
Stanley I Sheerr Endowed Term Chair in the Social Sciences and Professor of Political Science
"Is American Government Obsolete? Lessons from Hurricane Katrina"
April 19, 2006
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Alan Charles Kors
George H. Walker Endowed Term Professor of History
"Human History"
April 19, 2006
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Bruce Kuklick
Jeannette P. and Roy F. Nichols Professor of History
"John F. Kennedy’s Sex Life"
September 3, 2003
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Demie Kurz
Co-Director, Women’s Studies Program
"How Women’s
Studies Can Save Your Life"
September 10, 2003
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Robert Kurzban
Assistant Professor of Psychology
"Hypocrisy: How Evolution Guarantees Human Inconsistency"
April 2, 2008
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William Labov
John H. and Margaret B. Fassitt Professor of Linguistics
"Language Change in Philadelphia"
September 20, 2006
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Heather Love
M. Mark and Esther K. Watkins Assistant Professor in the Humanities
"Brokeback Nation"
April 18, 2007
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Kathy Peiss
Roy F. and Jeanette P. Nichols Professor of American History
"Beyond the Founding Fathers"
September 27, 2006
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Eve Trout Powell
Associate Professor of History
Imperialism in the Modern Middle East
October 10, 2007
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Samuel H. Preston
Frederick J. Warren Professor of Demography
"U.S. Military Mortality in Iraq"
September 27, 2006
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Guthrie Ramsey
Associate Professor of Music History
“Can the Musical Object Speak?”
April 11, 2007
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Philip A. Rea
Professor of Biology
“Intracellular Landfills”
September 13, 2006
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Gino Segre
Professor of Physics
Faust in Copenhagen:
A 60 Second Tour of Quantum Mechanics, Politics, and Science Humor
September 19, 2007
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Susan Schneider
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
"The Fundamental Nature of Consciousness"
April 16, 2008
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Rogers Smith
Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political
Science
"How to Protect Civil Liberties
While Protecting Against Terrorism"
April 28, 2004
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Wendy Steiner
Richard L. Fisher Professor of English
"Beauty"
September 21, 2005
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Peter Struck
Assistant Professor, Department of Classics
“The Unknown”
April 6, 2005
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Liliane Weissberg
Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor in the Arts
and Sciences, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
“Freudian Time”
April 13, 2005
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Tukufu Zuberi
Lasry Family Professor of Race Relations, Department of Sociology
"Divided and Dangerous: Human History from a Different
Angle"
September 14, 2005
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