By Topic
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Fredrick Douglas Opie, associate professor of history and director of the African Diaspora Studies Program at Marist College, discusses his book, Hog and Hominy: Soul Food from Africa to America. Opie’s... -
Lectures curated around the Brain Fitness Trilogy that looks at the frontiers of brain neuroscience and plasticity. Hosted by actor Peter Coyote, this program explores how the brain is basically an organ that is built to change. Given the right set of circumstances, the right exercises and the right “mindful” hard work,... -
Azadeh Moaveni, an American-born Time magazine journalist, discusses her new memoir, Honeymoon in Tehran. The book tells the story of Moaveni's attempt to start a family in Tehran during the... -
Lectures curated around This Emotional Life, that explores ways to improve our social relationships, cope with emotional issues, and become more positive, resilient individuals. Hosted by Daniel Gilbert, Harvard psychologist and best-selling author of Stumbling on Happiness, this three-part series that takes viewers on an in-depth tour of the science of human emotions in an... -
Journalist and best-selling author Carl Hiaasen reads from and explores his thriller, Star Island. Having worked as a reporter, investigative journalist, and columnist for newspapers in Florida (he... -
Philosophers, provocateurs, poets, and pundits examine the philosophical and religious questions of good and evil, of moral judgement and free will.
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Intelligent Television Lectures
New York, NY
Intelligent Television produces innovative films, television, and online video; conducts research in the future of media; and provides strategic planning and consulting services, all in close association with leading cultural and educational institutions and renowned directors and cinematographers, and all to make educational and cultural material more widely accessible worldwide.
Intelligent Television works with many of world's leading directors, producers, and cinematographers in its productions, joining them together with leading historians, scientists, journalists, policymakers, librarians, curators, and other scholars and activists committed to education worldwide.
Funding for Intelligent Television productions comes from philanthropic foundations, government agencies, corporate underwriters, corporate advertisers, and investors. With this support, Intelligent Television has also begun building a nonfiction studio and production network for cultural and educational institutions keen to engage with the moving image.
Intelligent Television is producing programs on the history of the American South; the nature of memory; the history of American comedy; the American labor movement; war and foreign policy; communications policy; open access to science and medicine; and other projects in association with leading cultural and educational institutions.
