Videos

The program features talks by the recipients, Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, Co-Directors of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well as a panel discussion with Margaret Levi, Institute...

Briony Fer, Professor of History of Art at University College London, looks at Malevich's systemic method, as it was elaborated in his work, writings, and teachings, and its ongoing relevance for subsequent generations of artists

One of the most amazing things we discovered in science is that everything is made of small particles. It's the properties of these molecules, atoms, nuclei, and elementary particles that allow us to answer ­simple questions like: why is grass green...

Historians have debated for centuries the magnitude, nature, and impact of population movements from the borders of the Roman Empire into its heart between the fourth and seventh centuries. In recent years, geneticists have begun to attempt to...

Quentin Skinner, Barber Beaumont Professor of the Humanities at Queen Mary University of London, discusses the concept of individual freedom, arguing that the usual practice of defining it in negative terms as “absence of interference” is in need of...

Yve-Alain Bois, Professor of Art History in the School of Historical Studies, discusses the work of artist Ellsworth Kelly. The talk explores how things that look apparently simple in the artist’s work are in fact much more complex than they seem.

Kenneth Roth, Executive Director of Human Rights Watch, discusses how the increasing use of drones has become the most controversial aspect of the U.S. “war” on terrorism—more so than even the failure to close Guantanamo.

On January 4, 1955, Edward R. Murrow visited the Institute for Advanced Study to interview J. Robert Oppenheimer, the Institute’s third Director. 

In the public lecture “Gone with the Wind: Black Holes and their Gusty Influence on the Birth of Galaxies,” sponsored by the Association of Members of the Institute for Advanced Study (AMIAS), Nadia Zakamska, former John N. Bahcall Fellow and Member...

Politics is not merely a series of policy battles, but an ongoing struggle for the primacy of our favored understandings about both how the world is and how it ought to be. In this way, politics is a contest between diverse meanings that political...