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Browsing Cornell University Lecture Tape Collection by Title
Now showing items 96-115 of 234
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Katerina Anghelaki-Hook reads her own poetry
(1983-11-07)Anghelaki-Rooke's poems recall her Greek ancestry. -
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. lectures about his work
(1983-04-17)Vonnegut describes life as a Cornell undergraduate and the way to become a successful writer. -
La cultura caribena en la Cuba actual: continuidad versus reptura
(1983-03-17)Benitez-Rojo describes the Caribbean influence on Cuban culture. -
Language, literature, and national consciousness
(1984-09-21)Panel members discuss the interrelationship between language, literature and nationalism. -
Latin America and the West: historical origins and cultural contexts--#4: The West we knew
(1986-02-24)Fuentes looks at the Spanish legacy of Latin America and the situation at the end of the 15th century and beginning of the 16th century. -
Latin America and the West: historical origins and cultural contexts--#8: The revolutions of independence
(1986-03-31)Fuentes describes the turmoil and reforms of 18th century Spain and how they contributed to a loss of power over Spanish lands in the New World, resulting in the wars leading to the independence of Latin America from Spain. -
Lecture on current Latin American politics
(1984-04-11)Bras discusses the United States' dominance of Puerto Rico and its resistance to granting independence to the island. -
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Lecturing on her work
(1982-03-23)Hartigan discusses her background as an artist and gives a slide show of her works, discussing the history of each painting. -
Light, space and form: the heart of architecture
(1992-10-29)Meier discusses the role of light in arhictecture, citing his own architecture in particular. He discusses the different aspects of architecture for different kinds of buidlings, focusing especially on museums. He analyzes ... -
Luigi Einaudi: between politics and history
(1988-04-06)Einaudi Inaugural Lecture; Chartier, the first recipient of the Einaudi professorship in European and International Studies, discusses the life of Luigi Einaudi and his contributions to Italian intellectual history. -
Mapping the invisible
(1992-10-14)In this lecture, delivered during a retrospective of her work at the Johnson Art Museum at Cornell, Fall 1992, Denes reflects on themes of her work as a visual artist such as mapping the invisible, mapping thoughts, the ... -
Masking and unmasking of photography in post-modernism
(1984-11-14)Grundberg defines postmodernism and describes its importance. -
Mass culture and artistic autonomy
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McCarthyism.
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Meir Kahane speaks at Cornell
(1987-11-09)Kahane tells stories of Jews being killed in Israel, stories which he claims are never heard in the popular press. He speaks of a contradiction between zionism and Western democracy noting that the development of a Jewish ... -
Modern architecture and the mass media
(1993-10-26)Colomina examines the interplay between high and mass culture, and the influence of that interaction, along with the advertising techniques of the technological revolution, on modern architecture. -
Molly Hite and Fred Muratori read from their works
(1989-03-16)Muratori discusses and reads his poems which reflect on perfection v. reality as well as the urgency of time. Hite reads from her new book of fiction, Acquired Immunity. -
My father's house
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Names, novels and histories
(1979-10-16)Discusses the unequaled importance of language in the perception of history.
