New Lectures

Inequality and Instability: A Study of the World Economy Just Before the Great Crisis
Inequality and Instability: A Study of the World Economy Just Before the Great Crisis
James K. Galbraith
May 8, 2012
00:58:43
Economist James K. Galbraith discusses his latest book, Inequality and Instability: A Study of the World Economy Just Before the Great Crisis. As the reach of financial markets extended across the U.S.
Paul Krugman: End This Depression Now!
Paul Krugman: End This Depression Now!
Paul Krugman
May 7, 2012
Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize–winning economist and New York Times columnist discusses his latest book, End This Depression Now! The Great Recession is more than four years old—and counting.
Lulu in the Sky: A Daughter of Cambodia Finds Love, Healing, and Double Happiness
Lulu in the Sky: A Daughter of Cambodia Finds Love, Healing, and Double Happiness
Loung Ung
May 4, 2012
01:03:02
Loung Ung discusses her memoir, Lulu in the Sky: A Daughter of Cambodia Finds Love, Healing, and Double Happiness.
Representing the Race: The Creation of the Civil Rights Lawyer
Representing the Race: The Creation of the Civil Rights Lawyer
Kenneth Mack
May 4, 2012
00:50:34
Kenneth Mack discusses his book Representing the Race: The Creation of the Civil Rights Lawyer.
Alison Bechdel: Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama
Alison Bechdel: Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama
Alison Bechdel
May 2, 2012
00:45:23
Memoirist and cartoonist Alison Bechdel discusses her new memoir, Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama. Alison Bechdel’s memoir about her father, Fun Home, was a pop culture and literary phenomenon. Now, she presents a second tale of filial sleuthery, this time about her mother.
Culinary Chemistry: Adventures in Chocolate
Culinary Chemistry: Adventures in Chocolate
Naveen Sinha
April 26, 2012
00:38:09
As part of the 2012 Cambridge Science Festival, the MIT Museum presented a lunchtime series of talks, Culinary Chemistry. Soft matter physicist Naveen Sinha provides a fun and educational talk about the physical properties of chocolate that affect the experience of eating it.
Wealth Inequality: The Gilded Road to Ruin?
Wealth Inequality: The Gilded Road to Ruin?
Linda McQuaig
April 25, 2012
01:20:53
Chuck Collins, director of the Institute for Policy Studies Program on Inequality and the Common Good, and journalist Linda McQuaig explore the impact of the growing wealth gap, and suggest ways to reverse the increase in economic inequality.
Culinary Chemistry: Rising to the Occasion
Culinary Chemistry: Rising to the Occasion
Rob McQueen
April 24, 2012
00:49:17
As part of the 2012 Cambridge Science Festival, the MIT Museum presented a lunchtime series of talks, Culinary Chemistry.
Culinary Chemistry: (Chick)peas on Earth
Eliad Shmuel
April 23, 2012
00:31:38
As part of the 2012 Cambridge Science Festival, the MIT Museum presented a lunchtime series of talks, Culinary Chemistry.
Creativity and Stress
Creativity and Stress
Debra Wise
April 22, 2012
01:20:30
In Terezin, the concentration camp in which Jewish artists, writers, and musicians were imprisoned, the opportunity to practice art—to draw, to write, to perform—provided a kind of spiritual or emotional sustenance for the prisoners.