In this lecture, Professor Donnalyn Pompper addresses the importance of an intersectionalities approach to understanding how people embody more than a single dimension of age, class, culture, ethnicity, faith/spirituality, gender, physical/psychological ability, sexual orientation, and more.… →
University Lecture Series
A collection of lectures featuring particularly prominent speakers, many of whom are guests to the university.
Jon-Paul Dyson, the Director of the International Center for the History of Electronic Games, discusses games as cultural, historical, and aesthetic artifacts.… →
Dr. Philip Cohen is a professor at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine and Chief of the Section of Rheumatology.… →
In this talk, “Stewardship in Financial Services”, John Taft explores the unethical behavior that caused the 2008 financial crisis portrayed in the movie The Big Short, arguing that fines, regulations, and the threat of jail will not reform the industry—the only hope is a return to stewardship.… →
Glenn Gerhard discusses the “Genetics of Obesity and Weight Loss”, reasoning that, although diet, exercise, and other aspects of modern living play important roles, there also is strong evidence indicating that genetics is a major factor behind the worldwide epidemic of obesity. … →
Barry Schwartz, a Swarthmore psychology professor and author, explores how excessive consumer choice can damage people’s psychological and emotional well-being in this lecture.… →
Hear from Dr. Anuradha Paranjape, Professor of Medicine, in this lecture titled, “Multi-Institutional Research Using Health Records: PCORnet”.… →
In this lecture titled, “The Politics of ‘Passion Projects’: Gender and Aspirational Labor in the Social Media Age”, Dr.… →
Sean Yom presents ongoing research from a larger project on monarchism in the Middle East, and reveals strategies of “diffusion-proofing” undertaken by royal autocracies as disparate as Morocco, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia.… →
