center for global humanities

Learn about UNE's Center for Global Humanities Seminar Series

00:53

James R. Doty, M.D. - The Power of Compassion to Change Lives

1:17:40

Inderpal Grewal - The Global Politics of Gender

53:38

Jonathan Israel - Radical Enlightenment and the Making of the French Revolution (1750-1800)

1:27:42

Jeremy Gunn - Seeking the Truth in the Kennedy Assassination

1:32:51

Thomas Fisher - Designing Our Way to a Better World

1:12:16

Patrick Deneen - Why Liberalism Failed

55:49

Noam Chomsky - Arab Spring, American Winter

1:46:26

Jason Brennan - Is Democracy Just?

47:23

Arthur Kleinman - Enduring Caregiving: The Moral Transformation of Ordinary People

1:08:09

Joanna Moncrieff - The Myth of the Chemical Cure: The Politics of Psychiatric Drug Treatment

1:27:58

Guy Rogers - The Jewish Revolt Against Rome

1:00:49

Catherine Wilson - How To Be an Epicurean

43:08

Collins O. Airhihenbuwa - Global Health and You: Why Culture Matters

1:25:33

Gregory Cajete - Native Science: The Indigenous Mind Rising

1:22:34

David Rohde - The American "Deep State"

1:25:57

Walter Scheidel - Economic Inequality from the Stone Age to the Future

52:54

Mark Bauerlein - Dumbest Generation: Young Americans in the Digital Age

29:31

Neal Barnard, M.D. - Power Foods for the Brain

1:16:23

Catherine Sanderson - The Science of Happiness

1:30:41

Ayesha Jalal - The Struggle for Pakistan

1:26:04

Chris Hedges - Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle

1:38:47

Graham Dunkley - A Case Against Free Trade and Over-Globalization

1:09:33

Michael T. Klare - The Race for What's Left

1:25:38

Catherine Besteman - Are We Entering a New Age of Global Apartheid?: The Immigration Debate in Maine

42:30

David P. Barash - A General Biocultural Theory of Why People Have So Many Problems

1:25:59

Zizi Papacharissi - Reimagining Democracy

1:01:14

Steven Smith - Patriotism, Our Most Contested Virtue

41:40

Emily Martin - Bipolar Expeditions: Mania and Depression in American Culture

1:28:59

Carl J. Richard - Greeks and Romans Bearing Gifts: How the Ancients Inspired the Founding Fathers

1:03:59

Mark Moffett - The Human Swarm: How Our Societies Arise, Thrive, and Fall

1:03:31

Stuart Banner - What is the Difference between Investing, Speculating, and Gambling?

1:03:07

Branko Milanovic - The Future of Capitalism

1:00:40

Hugo Mercier - Not Born Yesterday: Why Humans Are Less Gullible Than We Think

47:35

M. Susan Lindee - The Third Atomic Bombing of Japan

1:15:53

Françoise Hamlin - Acknowledging Black Trauma and Its National Effects

1:36:37

Benjamin Powell - Sweatshops: Improving Lives and Economic Growth

1:03:12

Richard Reeves - The Peculiar Condition of the Human Male

45:45

David M. Freidenreich - Food and Identity in Judaism, Christianity and Islam

1:09:29

Janet Jakobsen - Religious Freedom, Sexual Freedom

38:55

Colleen Eren - Reform Nation? The Movement Against Mass Incarceration

1:07:59

Kirsten Fischer - Rethinking Freethought in the Early United States

52:35

Edward Berenson - The Statue of Liberty: Symbol of Global America

1:15:52

Ali Ahmida - The Forgotten Genocide in Libya

57:52

Jacques Berlinerblau - What is Secularism?

1:16:38

Global Humanities Institute Conference: PASSPORT TO INDIA

1:58:04

Shaping the Future of Portland (Full Event)

2:05:50

Kathleen Brown - How Abolitionists Put the Body at the Center of the Fight Against Slavery

45:34

Khalid Amine - Shakespeare in the Arab World

43:07

Pauline Maier - Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788

1:36:31

Barry Costa-Pierce - How Climate Change is Reshaping Maine’s Ocean Economy

1:02:05

Peter Swirski - Ars Americana, Ars Politica: Of Democracy and Its Deficits

1:26:34

Joseph Dumit - Maximum Prescriptions: Growing Health and Happiness through Facts and Pharmaceuticals

1:23:04

Sarah Conly - Personal Liberty in the Contemporary World

27:54

Peter Ditto - The Psychology of Political Polarization

1:01:26

Jonathan Marks - Conservatives on the Quad

43:50

Richard McNally - What Is Mental Illness?

1:05:53

Christina Hoff Sommers - Gender and Freedom in America

1:00:07

Laura Browder - "Communism is Twentieth Century Americanism," or the Odyssey of Earl Browder

47:52

Gordon Wood - Why America Has Wanted to Spread Democracy Everywhere

1:42:20