Defining the Humanities: Poetics
Stanford Professor of English and Comparative Literature Roland Greene talks about poetics and how it helps us understand poetry.
From playlist Defining The Humanities
Love in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
In this lecture, Professor Helen Smith (University of York) explores the presentation of love in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, focusing in particular on: (i) the ways in which Shakespeare engages with contemporary love poetry; (ii) Shakespeare’s engagement with the ‘bookishness’ of love
From playlist English Literature
Defining the Humanities: African American Theater
Stanford Professor of Drama Harry Elam discusses African American theater and its use as a form of social protest.
From playlist Defining The Humanities
We Love Opera! What is a libretto in an opera?
A quick definition of the "libretto" in an opera. Pick one up ahead of time if you want to know the story going in! Want to go to the opera, but you're not sure you'll understand what's going on? "We Love Opera" is a video series from Socratica that will help you understand what opera
From playlist Opera Glossary
We Love Opera! What is a recitative in an opera?
A quick definition of the opera term "recitative." It's a little break from the more complicated singing. Want to go to the opera, but you're not sure you'll understand what's going on? "We Love Opera" is a video series from Socratica that will help you understand what opera is all abo
From playlist Opera Glossary
Jules Hedges - compositional game theory - part I
Compositional game theory is an approach to game theory that is designed to have better mathematical (loosely “algebraic” and “geometric”) properties, while also being intended as a practical setting for microeconomic modelling. It gives a graphical representation of games in which the flo
From playlist compositional game theory
Mod-05 Lec-34 Classical Criticism
English Language and Literature by Dr. Liza Das & Dr. Krishna Barua,Department of Humanities and Social Sciences,IIT Guwahati.For more details on NPTEL visit http://nptel.ac.in
From playlist IIT Guwahati: English Language and Literature | CosmoLearning.org English Language
What Is Theater? Crash Course Theater #1
Welcome to Crash Course Theater with Mike Rugnetta! In this, our inaugural week, we're going to ask the two classic questions about theater. 1.What is theater? And 2. Is it spelled -re or -er? Well, there's a clue to question two in the title of the video. The first question is a little tr
From playlist Crash Course Theater and Drama
Shakespeare on Stage – Parts and Rehearsals
In this module, Professor Tiffany Stern explores the tendency for actors in the Elizabethan period to be given their parts only, with a few cue words to let them know when to speak. The fact that actors only had access to their own parts gave them some insight which is perhaps lost today,
From playlist English Literature
Mod-03 Lec-19 Modern Literature
English Language and Literature by Dr. Liza Das & Dr. Krishna Barua,Department of Humanities and Social Sciences,IIT Guwahati.For more details on NPTEL visit http://nptel.ac.in
From playlist IIT Guwahati: English Language and Literature | CosmoLearning.org English Language
Expressive Intelligence: AI, Games and New Media
October 20, 2006 lecture by Michael Mateas for the Stanford University Human Computer Interaction Seminar (CS547). "Expressive AI (Artificial Intelligence)", a process occurring when AI research and art mutually inform each other, is discussed using the interactive drama Facade (downloada
From playlist Course | Human-Computer Interaction Seminar (2006-2007)
Derived de Rham Cohomology - Bhargav Bhatt
Bhargav Bhatt University of Michigan; Member, School of Mathematics September 25, 2012 For more videos, visit http://video.ias.edu
From playlist Mathematics
Intelligent Narratives: the Stories We Tell Ourselves through Digital Media
From the Interactive Media & Games Seminar Series; Sherol Chen, Independent Game Designer and PhD Candidate at the UCSC discusses how we create and receive narratives through procedural and interactive spaces. Sherol also examines the foundations of narrative and storytelling and introduce
From playlist Interactive Media & Games Seminar Series
Thespis, Athens, and The Origins of Greek Drama: Crash Course Theater #2
This week on Crash Course Theater, Mike is acting like theater started in Greece. Well, for the western theater, this is true. The earliest recorded drama in the west arose in Athen, and these early plays grew out or religious ritual. Namely, they evolved from the worship of Dionysus, god
From playlist Back to School - Expanded
Samuel Raskin: Spectral decomposition of the principal series category
Find this video and other talks given by worldwide mathematicians on CIRM's Audiovisual Mathematics Library: http://library.cirm-math.fr. And discover all its functionalities: - Chapter markers and keywords to watch the parts of your choice in the video - Videos enriched with abstracts, b
From playlist Algebraic and Complex Geometry
RailsConf 2022 - Keynote: A tech görl origin story by Crystal Tia Martin
Keynote: A tech görl origin story by Crystal Tia Martin
From playlist RailsConf 2022
In this lecture, Professor Catherine Steel (University of Glasgow) provides an introduction to the genre of Roman oratory, focusing in particular on: (i) the importance of oratory compared to other genres (e.g. poetry, philosophy) to the elite of Rome; (ii) the importance of oratory as wor
From playlist Classics & Ancient History
Defining the Humanities: Normativity
Philosophy Professor Ken Taylor talks about the concept of normativity and what makes human beings "norm-mongering" creatures.
From playlist Defining The Humanities
The Importance of Form in 'An Inspector Calls'
Today we look at the importance of form in 'An Inspector Calls'. Books referred to: 1) ''Theatre Outlook' by JB Priestley 2) 'The Theory and Analysis of Drama' by Manfred Pfister 3) 'JB Priestley' by Maggie B Gale Buy my revision guides in paperback on Amazon*: Mr Bruff’s Guide to ‘An In
From playlist 'An Inspector Calls' by J.B Priestley