Video & Audio

Helen Siu explores the crucial layers of maritime historical connections across Asia and how these encounters are expressed in everyday life among stakeholders who have traversed the continental divides.

Gary Kuehn discusses his work in the context of the radically changing art world in the 1960s-70s.

Amy Kurzweil shares her approach to the graphic memoir.

Bertrall Ross traces competing conceptions of self-government that evolved over two centuries of English and American political thought, culminating in the adoption of the Fifteenth Amendment in 1869.

Channing Joseph talks about his narrative biography of William Dorsey Swann, a formerly enslaved African-American man who became the world’s first self-described “drag queen” and the leader of the earliest-known LGBTQ+ resistance group in the United States.

Joy Milligan probes the origins and implications of U.S. national policies and practices of racial segregation during the twentieth century.

Lan Samantha Chang discusses her forthcoming novel "The Family Chao."

In this talk, Eswar Prasad predicts that the era of cash is drawing to an end while cryptocurrencies evolve unpredictably.

In this talk, Channing Joseph examines the far-reaching influence of William Dorsey Swann, the earliest-known self-described “drag queen," on U.S. history and culture.

In this talk, Yanni Kotsonis addresses the question when the Greeks became Greek.