Discovery & Inspiration

Discovery & Inspiration


Latest Episodes

Thomas M. Lekan, “Our Gigantic Zoo: A German Quest to Save the Serengeti”
September 29, 2022

Thomas M. Lekan (NHC Fellow, 2009–10; 2010–11; 20…

Kim F. Hall, “Othello Was My Grandfather”
September 29, 2022

Kim F. Hall (NHC Fellow, 2016–17), Lucyle Hook Pr…

Tsitsi Ella Jaji, “Mother Tongues: Poems”
September 29, 2022

Tsitsi Ella Jaji (NHC Fellow, 2017–18), Associate…

Mark Evan Bonds, “Breaking Music’s Fourth Wall”
September 27, 2022

Contemporary audiences may be familiar with the p…

John D. Wong, “A City in Flux: Commercial Aviation and the Story of Modernity in Hong Kong”
September 20, 2022

The emergence of commercial aviation in the early…

Timothy L. Stinson, “The Evolution of Medieval Vengeance Narratives”
September 13, 2022

In 70 CE, the destruction of Jerusalem by the Rom…

Jacob M. Baum, “Disability and Autobiography in the Sixteenth Century”
September 06, 2022

Prior to the modern era, autobiographical narrati…

Gregg Mitman, “Bloodborne: Invasion and the Politics of Disease”
July 03, 2021

For the past several decades, authorities have be…

Jordynn Jack, “Training the Brain: Rhetoric, Neuropolicy, and Education”
June 27, 2021

Over the past several decades, neuroscientific st…

Lester Tomé, “Movement and Modernism: Carpentier’s Transatlantic Ballet”
June 18, 2021

Though modernist ballet is often associated with …