Key Conversations with Phi Beta Kappa

By The Phi Beta Kappa Society

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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.

Episode Date
2023 Lebowitz Prize: A Discussion on the “Norms of Attention” by Two Philosophers
Apr 08, 2024
Why Professor Corey D.B. Walker Looks to the Past to Understand Today’s Complex World
Mar 04, 2024
Professor Emily Yeh Advocates for Environmental Protection for Tibetan’s Cultural Legacy
Feb 05, 2024
2023 Phi Beta Kappa Book Awards
Jan 08, 2024
Exploring the Muddled Middle with Cathleen Kaveny
Dec 04, 2023
Exploring Disability as an Identity with Professor Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
Nov 06, 2023
How Natalia’s Experience as a First-Gen Allows her to Connect to the Humanities—and her Students
Oct 04, 2023
REPLAY: Professor Ed Ayers on Teaching a Morally Engaging History
Aug 21, 2023
REPLAY: Sociologist Marta Tienda on Why Demography is Not Destiny
Jul 24, 2023
REPLAY: Biologist Victoria Sork on What Trees Teach Us
Jun 26, 2023
Why Harvard History Professor Maya Jasanoff Studies the Past to Understand the Present
May 29, 2023
Understanding the Intricacies of Life Expectancy with Professor Mark Hayward
May 01, 2023
2022 Lebowitz Prize: What Is Wrong With Democracy and What We Should Do According to These Two Philosophers
Apr 03, 2023
Why Professor Kay E. Holekamp’s Research into Animal Behavior is Beneficial to Humans
Feb 27, 2023
Kathryn Lofton Thinks About Religion Through Unique Systems of Worship
Jan 30, 2023
Ricardo Padrón is Mapping Spanish Exploration of the Pacific
Dec 12, 2022
Why Geographer Bill Moseley Grounds His Work in Real Life
Nov 14, 2022
Laurence Smith Knows the Many Stories Rivers Tell Us
Oct 17, 2022
Buddhist Scholar Donald Lopez on the Staying Power of Ancient Questions
Sep 19, 2022
Howard Bloch Sees Human Choices in Medieval History
Aug 22, 2022
Biologist Victoria Sork on What Trees Teach Us
Jul 11, 2022
Sociologist Marta Tienda on Why Demography is Not Destiny
Jun 13, 2022
Professor Ed Ayers on Teaching a Morally Engaging History
May 16, 2022
Editor Bob Wilson Celebrates A Career of Literary Journalism
Apr 18, 2022
2021 Lebowitz Award Winners on How We Perceive Our Selves
Mar 22, 2022
Professor Joan Waugh Debunks the “Easy Stereotypes of History”
Feb 24, 2022
Princeton’s Doug Massey Unpacks U.S. Migration and Housing Segregation
Jan 27, 2022
2021 Book Awards Keynote Roundtable
Dec 22, 2021
How Biophysicist Karen Fleming Explores the Rules of Life, Evolution, and Disease
Nov 25, 2021
Bro Adams Knows What the Humanities Can Do Beyond Campuses
Oct 29, 2021
Yale’s Tracey Meares Deconstructs Our Relationship with the Police
Sep 24, 2021
Anthropologist Elizabeth Cullen Dunn on Why Geography Is a Way of Thinking
Aug 27, 2021
Biophysicist Martin Gruebele on the Future of Scientific Discovery
Jul 30, 2021
Philosopher Susan Wolf on Meaningfulness as a Dimension of a Good Life
Jun 25, 2021
Paul Robbins on How to Save Biodiversity in the Planet
May 28, 2021
Lebowitz Award Winners on How We Reason in Moments of Transformation
Apr 30, 2021
Roger Guenveur Smith Makes the Sublime and the Profane Artful
Mar 26, 2021
Genetics Researcher Janet Westpheling on Inspiring the Next Generation of Scientists
Feb 26, 2021
Poet Evie Shockley on Why Poems Are an Analysis Genre
Jan 29, 2021
2020 Book Awards Keynote Roundtable
Jan 01, 2021
Former Obama Advisor Joseph Aldy on How Climate Change Policies Can Bolster the Economy Post COVID-19
Nov 27, 2020
Political Scientist Corey Brettschneider on Why We Should Distrust Our Presidents
Oct 30, 2020
Latin American Scholar Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel Connects Latin American Identities Across Geography and Literature
Sep 25, 2020
Classics Scholar Peter Meineck on How Greek Theater Trains Better Citizens
Aug 28, 2020
REPLAY: Celebrated Author Edwidge Danticat Retraces the Arc of Her Literary Genius
Jul 24, 2020
College Admissions Field Welcomes a New Leader, Dr. Angel B. Pérez, Who Sees Its Strengths and Faults
Jun 26, 2020
Math Professor Ken Ono Is Connecting Swimming, Ramanujan, and Hollywood
May 28, 2020
Dan Simon on the Intersection of Law and Psychology
Apr 24, 2020
Middle East Scholar Jamsheed Choksy Retraces the Roots of the Western Belief in Good and Evil
Mar 27, 2020
Laura Brown Traces Our Love of Animals Through Literature
Feb 28, 2020
Alfred Spector: Envisioning the Synergies between the Liberal Arts and Computer Science
Jan 31, 2020
2019 Book Awards Dinner Keynote Roundtable
Jan 03, 2020
Why Dr. Dava Newman Will Be Among the People to Get Humans to Mars
Nov 29, 2019
Two Philosophers Ponder What It Means to Act Together
Nov 01, 2019
Celebrated Author Edwidge Danticat Retraces the Arc of Her Literary Genius
Oct 04, 2019
How Neuroscientist Susan Birren Is Mapping New Pathways from the Brain
Aug 29, 2019
REPLAY: Economist Paula Stephan on Incentives and Gender Biases
Aug 02, 2019
REPLAY: We Ask Literature Professor Ayanna Thompson “What Would Shakespeare Say?”
Jun 28, 2019
REPLAY: Former Diplomat Harold Koh Is Worried
May 31, 2019
Middle East Scholar Lisa Anderson on Leading a University in Cairo During the Arab Spring
May 03, 2019
SPECIAL EXTENDED EPISODE: What Should We Make of the College Admissions Scandal?
Apr 01, 2019
Historian Ed Larson Takes a Critical Look at the Presidency
Feb 25, 2019
Economist Paula Stephan on Incentives and Gender Biases
Jan 14, 2019
Amy Cheng Vollmer: The Unofficial Ambassador for Good Bacteria
Dec 03, 2018
We Ask Literature Professor Ayanna Thompson “What Would Shakespeare Say?”
Oct 22, 2018
Legal Scholar Harold Hongju Koh Talks International Law and College Cafeterias
Sep 10, 2018
Key Conversations with Phi Beta Kappa Trailer
Aug 30, 2018