In this public lecture, Thomas Piketty, Professor at École des
Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris (EHESS) and the École
d’économie de Paris/Paris School of Economics, presents new
findings and reflections on global inequality dynamics as
part...
In this public lecture, held at the Institute on May 5, 2017,
Yve-Alain Bois, Professor in the School of Historical Studies,
focuses on Matisse's use of the bamboo stick in large-scale works
and the bodily conception of scale it entails. In a...
We should not assume that making sense of post-Soviet Russia was
ever going to be easy. Great Powers that lose empires bear grudges
and the speed with which an empire is lost can exacerbate the
problem. No one can expect that a powerful country run...
Robbert Dijkgraaf presents an overview of Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity, one of the great pillars of modern physics, and its enduring influence.