This lecture at Yale University introduces students to the theories of Sigmund Freud, including a brief biographical description and his contributions to the field of psychology. The limitations of his theories of psychoanalysis are covered in detail, as well as the ways in which his conception of the unconscious mind still operate in mainstream psychology today.
Relativity, Quantum Physics, and Graphene
In this presentation Professor Kim at Harvard University discuses the brief history of graphene research and its implications in science and technology.
Advanced Algorithms
Сomputer science lecture at Harvard University
Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior
In this lecture at the midpoint of the course Professor Hungerford at Yale University takes stock of the syllabus thus far and to come by laying out her guiding thesis of the Identity Plot, a rubric for understanding novels in the twentieth century as, she argues, the Marriage Plot is a rubric for understanding novels in the nineteenth century. Referring to examples throughout the syllabus, but especially Maxine Hong Kingston’s Woman Warrior, Hungerford describes the overriding tendency of American novels written after 1945 to explore the tension between individual and collective identities and to interrogate the artistic and political stakes of competing notions of authenticity.
Richard Wright, Black Boy
Professor Amy Hungerford at Yale University continues her discussion of Richard Wright’s classic American autobiography, Black Boy. Through a close analysis of key passages, she demonstrates an oscillation in the narrative between the socioeconomic deprivations and racial jeopardy confronting its characters, and the compensations to be found in sensual experience, the imagination, and in particular, the power of words. Dramatizing the editorial struggle evident in letters between Wright and Book-of-the-Month-Club-President Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Professor Hungerford shows the high stakes of Wright’s uncompromising portrait of America’s failed ideals at a time when those ideals are being tested during the Second World War.
Valley Civilizations 8000-1500 BC
History lecture “Valley Civilizations” at Columbia University
Introduction to World History
History lecture “Introduction to World History” at Columbia University