Past Book Talks

Fall 2025

The Welfare Workforce: Why Mental Health Care Varies Across Affluent Democracies (Isabel Perera)
The Remaking of Memory in the Age of Social Media and the Internet (Qi Wang and Andrew Hoskins)
Peace by Design (Mardelle Shepley)
Humanities in the Time of AI (Laurent Dubreuil)
The Ocean’s Menagerie: How Earth’s Strangest Creatures Reshape the Rules of Life (Drew Harvell)
Firesign: The Electromagnetic History of Everything as Told on Nine Comedy Albums (Jeremy Braddock)

Spring 2025

Expanding Verse: Japanese Poetry at the Edge of Media (Andrew Campana) Video
George Masa: A Life Reimagined (Janet McCue) Video
Biochar for Environmental Management Science, Technology and Implementation (3rd edition) (Johannes Lehmann) Video
Community Development and Schools: Conflict, Power and Promise (Mildred E. Warner and contributing author Dr. John Sipple) Video
Köchel-Verzeichnis Thematic Catalog of the Musical Works of W. A. Mozart (Neal Zaslaw)
Slaves of God: Augustine and Other Romans on Religion and Politics (Olaoluwatoni Alimi)
Land into Landscape Art, Environment, and the Making of Modern France(Kelly Presutti)

Fall 2024

Piping Hot Bees and Boisterous Buzz-Runners: 20 Mysteries of Honey Bee Behavior Solved (Tom Seeley) Video
The Activist Humanist: Form and Method in the Climate Crisis (Caroline Levine) Video
The Social Lives of Land (Wendy Wolford) Video
Futures After Progress: Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore (Chloe Ahmann) Video
The Colonial Construction of Indian Country Native American Literatures & Federal Indian Law (Eric Cheyfitz) Video
Wildlife Disease and Health in Conservation (Robin Radcliffe with coauthor David Jessup) Video
Beyond Borders: Exploring the History of Cornell’s Global Dimensions (Royal D. Colle, Heike Michelsen, Elaine D. Engst, Corey Ryan Earle) Video
The Future of India’s Social Safety Nets: Focus, Form, and Scope(Andaleeb Rahman and Prabhu Pingali) Video

Spring 2024

Growing Pains: The History of Human Development and The Future of The Field (Eleanor Gibson) Video
Racial Blackness and Indian Ocean Slavery: Iran’s Cinematic Archive (Parisa Vaziri) Video
The Mechanical Tradition of Hero of Alexandria (Courtney Ann Roby) Video
Subjunctive Aesthetics: Mexican Cultural Production in the Era of Climate Change (Carolyn Fornoff) Video
Unknowing and the Everyday: Sufism and Knowledge in Iran (Seema Golestaneh) Video
The Consciousness Revolutions: From Amoeba Awareness to Human Emancipation (Shimon Edelman) Video
Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos (Lisa Kaltenegger) Video

Fall 2023

In This Together: Connecting with Your Community to Combat the Climate Crisis (Marianne Krasny) Video
Nature on the Doorstep: A Year of Letters (Angela Douglas) Video
Madama Butterfly/Madamu Batafurai: Transpositions of a ‘Japanese Tragedy'(Arthur Groos) Video
Seeking Truth and Hiding Facts (Jeremy Wallace) Video
Making Camp (Martin Hogue) Video
Adventure Capitalism: A History of Libertarian Exit, from the Era of Decolonization to the Digital Age (Raymond Craib) Video
The Demands of Justice: Enslaved Women, Capital Crime, and Clemency in Early Virginia, 1662-1865 (Tamika Nunley) Video