38 episodes

Conversations with visionary scholars and thinkers from the Harvard PhD community

Colloquy Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

    • Science

Conversations with visionary scholars and thinkers from the Harvard PhD community

    African American Encounters with Property and the Long Shadow of Slavery

    African American Encounters with Property and the Long Shadow of Slavery

    African Americans' relationship to wealth and property--and their efforts to claim their humanity in a society that treated them like objects

    • 25 min
    Meditation Changes Your Brain. Here's How.

    Meditation Changes Your Brain. Here's How.

    It fights anxiety and depression, increases focus, and amplifies awareness: how meditation changes the brain.

    • 28 min
    What Abraham Means to Jews, Christians, and Muslims

    What Abraham Means to Jews, Christians, and Muslims

    Many who work for religious understanding between Muslims, Christians, and Jews use the biblical figure of Abraham as a point of commonality. But Harvard University Jewish studies scholar, Jon Levenson, PhD ’75 says that Abraham--the figure and his story--means very different things to adherents of the three different traditions distinguishing them from one another as much as it binds them.

    • 30 min
    Glide Path: How to Get the Most from ChatGPT

    Glide Path: How to Get the Most from ChatGPT

    Tufts University Professor James Intriligator, PhD '97, a human factors engineer, has some tips for getting the most out of large language models like ChatGpt.

    • 29 min
    How Slavery's Legacy Lives on in the Racial Wealth Gap

    How Slavery's Legacy Lives on in the Racial Wealth Gap

    This month, Princeton's Ellora Derenencourt breaks down new research on how the racial wealth gap has evolved since emancipation, why it's been so stubbornly persistent over the past 160 years, and the role this country's original sin of slavery continues to play in its perpetuation.

    • 27 min
    How Universities Can Address the Crisis in Democracy

    How Universities Can Address the Crisis in Democracy

    Dame Louise Richardson, PhD ’89, formerly the head of the universities of Oxford and St. Andrews, says institutions of higher learning can model a fairer and more representative society

    • 43 min

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