The Vault Podcast
1) Timothy Snyder on Tony Judt
In this week’s episode from the Vault, we revisit a 2013 presentation by the Yale historian, Timothy Snyder, about the book he wrote with the historian, Tony Judt. Judt was diagnosed with ALS in 2008 ...Show More
2) Rebuild by Design: A Talk by Eric Klinenberg
In October 2010, Eric Klinenberg, NYU professor of Sociology and Director of the Institute for Public Knowledge, spoke about his work on Rebuild by Design. Klinenberg has been studying cities and clim...Show More
3) The Epic Story of America's Great Migration: A Talk by Isabel Wilkerson
In 2010, Isabel Wilkerson spoke to the Institute about the fifteen years she spent reporting and writing her book, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Knopf, 2010). ...Show More
4) On Michael Jackson: A Lecture by Margo Jefferson
In September 2006, Margo Jefferson spoke to the Institute about her book, On Michael Jackson (Vintage, 2007). Jefferson received the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for criticism when she was at the New York Time...Show More
5) Christianity and the Transformation of the Book: A Lecture by Anthony Grafton
Anthony Grafton is the Henry Putnam University Professor of History at Princeton, where he has taught since 1975. He is an historian of early modern Europe, and the author and co-author of over a doze...Show More
Christianity and the Transformation of the Book: A Lecture by Anthony Grafton
42:27 | Jun 22nd, 2024
6) "America: Now and Here": A Lecture by Artist Eric FIschl
Artist Eric Fischl was born in 1948 in New York City and grew up in the Long Island suburbs. His paintings first received critical attention for depicting the dark, disturbing undercurrents of mainstr...Show More
7) The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present
Eric Kandel was born in Vienna in 1929. In 1938 he and his family fled to Brooklyn, where he attended the Yeshiva of Flatbush. He studied history and literature at Harvard, and received an MD from NYU...Show More
8) Shakespeare in America
James Shapiro spoke at the Institute in 2014 about Shakespeare in America, the anthology he edited for the Library of America. He is the Larry Miller Professor of English and Comparative Literature at...Show More
9) The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's Secret FBI
In this 2014 episode from the Institute’s Vault, we hear from Betty Medsger. Medsger was a Washington Post reporter in March 1971, and received a cache of stolen FBI files that detailed the elaborate ...Show More
10) Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity
In this episode from the Institute’s Vault we hear from Rebecca Goldstein, an American philosopher, novelist, and public intellectual. She holds a Ph.D. in philosophy of science from Princeton Univers...Show More