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Key Conversations with Phi Beta Kappa

Key Conversations with Phi Beta Kappa

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 Key Conversations with Phi Beta Kappa is a podcast from The Phi Beta Kappa Society's Visiting Scholars program, featuring leading scholars across multiple disciplines in conversation with Fred Lawrence, PBK's Secretary and CEO.

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Episodes
  • Laura Brown Traces Our Love of Animals Through Literature

    Laura Brown Traces Our Love of Animals Through Literature
    Feb 28 2020
    Professor Laura Brown’s endeavors as a literature reader and critical writer have provided a window into humans’ relationships with various species throughout history. She reveals to host Fred Lawrence what alterity, monkeys, feminist portrayal, and imperialism have to do with each other and what she considers to be the status of the humanities in academia.

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    24 mins
  • Alfred Spector: Envisioning the Synergies between the Liberal Arts and Computer Science

    Alfred Spector: Envisioning the Synergies between the Liberal Arts and Computer Science
    Jan 31 2020
    In this episode, Dr. Alfred Spector offers an optimistic take on the evolving relationship between the liberal arts and computer science. Reflecting on his career experiences in creating a company, working for Google and IBM, and now diving into economic modeling, Spector provides a fascinating account of the evolution of computer science both inside and beyond the academy.

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    29 mins
  • 2019 Book Awards Dinner Keynote Roundtable

    2019 Book Awards Dinner Keynote Roundtable
    Jan 3 2020
    The Phi Beta Kappa book awards are given annually to three outstanding scholarly books published in the United States. 2019’s winners are Imani Perry for Looking for Lorraine: the Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry; Adam Frank, for Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth; and Sarah Igo for The Known Citizen: A History of Privacy in Modern America. They revealed their thinking behind the works we celebrated and shared stories of unmatched discovery, spoke of love beyond adversity, and fueled our collective imagination with examples of unbound human curiosity.

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    37 mins
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