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Browsing Cornell University Lecture Tape Collection by Title
Now showing items 122-141 of 234
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On being half romantic
Woodring, Carl, 1919-2009 (1983-03-17)Woodring defines the age of romanticism. -
On the rhetoric of racism in literature
LaCapra, Dominick, 1939-; Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. (1988-04-15)Tape includes introductory remarks by La Capra; Gates presents an overview of the state of black education in the United States today and opens the conference Race and the Humanities. -
One culture: creative modes common to the arts and sciences
Hoffmann, Roald (1985-02-06)Hoffmann discusses the rift between scientists and humanists. He presents three case studies of chemistry, poetry, and visual arts and describes the similarities common to these fields. -
Outward glance and inward retreat: ambivalence in African arts and literature
Soyinka, Wole (1985-11-11)Soyinka provides a detailed analysis of African art and discusses Western attitudes toward it. -
Philip Glass discusses his work in theater and opera
Glass, Philip (1995-04-19) -
Polish poetry under martial law
Baranczak, Stanislaw, 1946-2014 (1983-09-12)Baranczak discusses the effect of martial law on poetry in Poland. -
Political and moral consequences of science
Weizsäcker, Carl Friedrich, Freiherr von, 1912-2007 (1987-11-20)Weizsacker holds that scientists should feel responsible for the social, political and ecological consequences of modern science and technology and should act accordingly. -
Popular support and the stability of the liberal democratic party regime in Japan
Kabashima, Ikuo, 1947- (1985-03-11)Kabashima discusses the processes which helped maintain the power of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) for the last 30 years, particularly in reference to political corruption and the political system's reaction to it. -
Practices of laughter
Allen, Stan (1992-04-05) -
Presidential forum: George McGovern
McGovern, George S. (George Stanley), 1922-2012 (1983-09-29)McGovern describes his plans if elected in 1984 and discusses some of the problems facing the Reagan administration. -
Prison reform.
Hoffa, James R. (James Riddle), 1913- (1975-04-08) -
Producing, directing, writing movies
Dubelman, Richard (1984-03-07)Dubelman gives a professional's perspective on writing, producing, and directing for the motion picture and television industry. -
Protagonists, victims and sexual diference
Spero, Nancy, 1926-2009 (1989-04-08)The lecture consists in a roughly chronological slide presentation and explanation of the artist's work. Some of Spero's series and periods covered are her Paris black paintings, Artaud paintings, the war series, the Torture ... -
Provincial Stalinism: scenes from the Great Purge 1937
Fitzpatrick, Sheila (1988-10-20)Fitzpatrick reviews the Moscow and provincial trials, emphasizing the latter's role in the Great Purge of 1937 and the struggles of peasants to testify against officials on trial. -
Race, writing and difference
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. (1983-12-15)Gates discusses black writing styles. -
Rationalism: rationalist architecture
Krier, Rob (1978-03-01) -
Re-vision: a feminist perspective
MacIntosh, Peggy (1988-04-27)MacIntosh discusses pedagogy as a means of allowing students to adaopt an adjacent position in relation to subject matter. This approach is an alternative to the lateral, take a position point of view. -
Reaganomics and women
Steinem, Gloria (1981-11-15)Steinem criticizes the Reagan administration for its stance on issues concerning women, abortion, and minorities. She discusses the need for the more unified organization of women in politics. -
Recent developments in feminist theory: women's oppression today reconsidered
Barrett, Michèle (1988-10-19)Barrett describes a new feminist interest in the body which varies significantly from the work of Foucault and from recent discussions of cyborgs. She suggests that this new interest is tied to the broader feminist concern ... -
Relativity, pulsars and atomic time
Taylor, Joseph H. (Joseph Hooton) (1988-12-01)Taylor discusses the mechanisms involved in measuring time with an atomic clock, and covers related aspects of pulsars and relativity.