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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
Angelak?-Rouk, Katerina (1983-11-07)Anghelaki-Rooke's poems recall her Greek ancestry. -
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. lectures about his work
Vonnegut, Kurt (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
Benítez Rojo, Antonio, 1931-2005 (1983-03-17)Benitez-Rojo describes the Caribbean influence on Cuban culture. -
Language, literature, and national consciousness
Anderson, Benedict R. O'G, (Benedict Richard O'Gorman), 1936-2015; Weiss, John Hubbel; Kramnick, Isaac; Cohen, Walter, 1949- (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
Fuentes, Carlos (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
Fuentes, Carlos (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
Mari Bras, Juan (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
Hartigan, Grace (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
Meier, Richard (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
Chartier, Roger, 1945- (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
Denes, Agnes (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
Grundberg, Andy (1984-11-14)Grundberg defines postmodernism and describes its importance. -
Mass culture and artistic autonomy
Hays, K. Michael (1990-10-15) -
McCarthyism.
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Meir Kahane speaks at Cornell
Kahane, Meir (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
Colomina, Beatriz (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
Hite, Molly, 1947-; Muratori, Fred, 1951- (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
Appiah, Anthony (1992-04-13) -
Names, novels and histories
Fuentes, Carlos (1979-10-16)Discusses the unequaled importance of language in the perception of history.