AUDIO LIBRARY

What Makes a Film "Un-Watchable"?
Jonathan Rosenbaum – Film critic for the Chicago Reader
Jonathan Miller – Professor of Film Studies at the Illinois Institute of Technology

The Meanings of Nature
Jennifer Price – Author of Flight Maps: Adventures with Nature in Modern America
Daniel Botkin – President of the Center for the Study of the Environment in Santa Barbara, California
Michael Pollan – Contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine

Information Processing as Theory and Metaphor
Clark Glymour – Professor of philosophy at Carnegie Mellon University and Senior Research Scientist with the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition at the University of Western Florida
Leo J. Irakliotis – Associate chairman of the department of computer science at the University of Chicago
Leo P. Kadanoff – Professor of physics and the University of Chicago

Friendship as a Social Structure
Sarah Cole – Assistant professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University
Michael Pakaluk – Associate Professor of philosophy at Clark University

Congress and Interpreting the Constitution
Christopher H. Schroeder – Director of the Program in Public Law and co-chair of the Center for the Study of Congress at the Duke University School of Law
Charlie Geyh – Professor at the Indiana University School of Law
Chai Feldblum – Director of the Federal Legislation Clinic at the Georgetown University Law Center

Psychosomatic Illness
Drew Leder – Professor of philosopher at Loyola College in Baltimore
Edward Shorter – Historian of Medicine at the University of Toronto
Joshua Straus – teaches and practices psychiatry at Northwestern University Hospital

Music Industry
Greg Kot – rock music critic for the Chicago Tribune
Siva Vaidhyanathan – author of Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How it Threatens Creativity
David Sanjek – Director of the BMI Archives in New York

Confessional Writing
John Akin – English Professor at Indiana University
Lee Gilmore – English Professor at Ohio State University
David Bromwich – Professor of English at Yale University

Marriage and the State
Don Browning – Professor of Ethics and the Social Sciences at the University of Chicago
Nancy Cott – Professor of History at Harvard University
Linda McClain – Professor of Law at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York

The Aesthetic of Beauty
James Conant – Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Chicago
Wendy Steiner – Richard L. Fischer Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, and author of Venus in Exile: The Rejection of Beauty in 20th Century Art
Arthur Danto – Art critic for The Nation, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy at Columbia University in New York City, and author of Embodied Meanings: Critical Essays and Aesthetic Meditations
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Film Forum: Bollywood and Foreign Cinema
Priya Joshi – Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley
Corey Creekmur – Professor in the Cinema and Comparative Literature Department at the University of Iowa
Shujen Wang – Professor in the Department of Visual and Media Arts at Emerson College in Boston

Representations of Teen Girls
Mary Celeste Kearney – Professor in the Department of Radio Television and Film at the University of Texas at Austin
Sharon Thompson – an independent scholar based in New York City

Museums In Public Life
Steven Conn – Author of "Museums and American Intellectual Life, 1876-1926"
Ivan Karp – Editor of "Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display"
Kimerly Rorshach – Director of the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago
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Sports and National Identity
Andrei Markovits – Political Scientist at the University of Michigan
Bill Buford – Fiction editor at The New Yorker Magazine
Steven Reiss – historian at Northeastern Illinois University

Comparing the Cold War with the War on Terrorism
Steve Lubet – Professor of law and director of the Program on Advocacy and Professionalism at Northwestern University
Colleen Doody – Visiting Professor in the department of History at DePaul University
Robert Garfield – Professor in the Department of History at DePaul University

Cold War Literature
Deborah Nelson – Professor in the English and Gender Studies at the University of Chicago
Morris Dickstein – Professor in the Ph.D program in theatre at the City University of New York Graduate Center
Michael Davidson - Professor Davidson teaches in the Department of Literature at The University of San Diego California

Defining Life
Kenneth Nealson – Professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Southern California
Norman Pace – Professor in the Department of Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology at the University of Colorado at Boulder
Michael LaBarbera – Professor in the Division of the Biological Sciences at the University of Chicago

Africa and Economic Aid
Howard Stein – Professor of economics in the School of Policy Studies at Roosevelt University in Chicago
Jeffrey Winters – Professor of Political Economy at Northwestern University

The Poetry of William Blake
Gerald Stern – poet, whose collection, This Time: New and Collected Poems, won the National Book Award
Nancy Willard – author of the Newberry prize-winning children’s book A Visit to Blake's Inn
Phillip Levine – Pulitzer Prize winning poet, author of The Mercy, The Simple Truth, and What Work Is

State Sovereignty
John Pellisero – Chair of the Political Science department at Loyola University
Martin Reddish – Professor in Northwestern University’s School of Law
Mark Gordon – Associate Professor in the Practice of Public Affairs at Columbia University