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The Naked City Through the Camera’s Eye
July 1, 2008Arthur Fellig, better known as Weegee, was the proto-paparazzo, introducing wartime America to the pleasures of gawking at crime scenes and misbehaving rich people. The first photojournalist to be granted permission to carry… more>
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More in Common Than You Think
June 1, 2008Did dolphins and apes develop complex societies because they have big brains or did they develop big brains because of their complex societies? “The answer might inform us about ourselves,” said Craig Stanford, a… more>
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An Opus for the Ages
July 1, 2007Ranked in the top half-percent of the world’s most cited scientists, University Professor Caleb Finch studies the genes that control aging in mammals. In his latest book, The Biology of Human Longevity: Inflammation,… more>
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A Study of Atrocity with a Dream of Peace
April 1, 2007It’s surprising, but one of the world’s leading experts on the topic of terrorism doesn’t like the word. “It’s a biased term,” said Richard Dekmejian, a scholar who has served as a… more>
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Inside the Academics Studio
February 1, 2007To view the Webcast, click here. On Feb. 21, the third installment of the College's "Inside the Academics Studio" series featured Cynthia Herrup, professor of history and law, interviewed by historian Peter Mancall. Herrup… more>
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Building People Out of Paper
September 1, 2006If you’re looking for Salvador Plascencia, you can find him around page 103 of his debut novel, The People of Paper (McSweeney’s, 2005). It’s there that a character named Smiley pulls at a rough spot in the… more>
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The Dust of Confusion
September 1, 2006For decades, ideologues have vilified the Paris Commune of 1871 as a hotbed of madness, anarchy and confusion. The Communards — who overtook the French government and ruled France for a brief 70 days before dying in a… more>
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Conversation With T.C. Boyle
July 7, 2006In his wildly successful books and short stories, Thomas Coraghessan Boyle has a restless imagination, but in his personal life, he is unfailingly loyal. He’s known his best friend since he was 3½, has remained… more>
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Painting Words on a Canvas
July 1, 2006It was a morning graced with that October light that loves proximity to water, and the high sky over the Tennessee bounced the river’s shimmer back through every cranny in the city. So writes Professor Marianne Wiggins… more>
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Memory: The Long and Short
March 1, 2006New book explores memories made, stored and lost By Eva Emerson March 2006 “Memory is the most amazing phenomenon in nature. The fact that we can remember literally billions of bits of information — facts,… more>
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