Lectures tagged "Renaissance"

Lost in Learning
Lost in Learning
Eva Timothy
February 13, 2009
00:40:32
Eva Timothy discusses her photography project, Lost in Learning, which explores the idea of a modern educational Renaissance through a visual investigation of the previous one. Timothy asks if genius could be less a matter of genetics than of passion and perspective.
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Satyr Square: A Year, A Life in Rome
Leonard Barkan
October 12, 2006
00:51:55
Leonard Barkan discusses Satyr Square, which is part memoir, part literary criticism, part culinary and aesthetic travelogue, and overall a poignant and hilarious narrative about an American professor spending a magical year in Rome.