Podcasts by Key Conversations with Phi Beta Kappa
Key Conversations with Phi Beta Kappa is a podcast from The Phi Beta Kappa Society
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Amy Cheng Vollmer: The Unofficial Ambassador for Good Bacteria from 2022-02-21T04:44:20.669574
In this episode, Fred Lawrence, Secretary and CEO of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, welcomes professor Amy Cheng Vollmer from Swarthmore College. A microbiologist whose research centers on how bacteri...
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SPECIAL EXTENDED EPISODE: What Should We Make of the College Admissions Scandal? from 2022-02-21T04:44:20.666679
In this special extended episode, Phi Beta Kappa Secretary and CEO Fred Lawrence invites two experienced colleagues to a frank discussion about the unfolding college admission scandal that has rock...
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Middle East Scholar Lisa Anderson on Leading a University in Cairo During the Arab Spring from 2022-02-21T04:44:20.665831
Her passion for Middle East studies was ignited during a college course with an intense teacher. She immersed herself in the region’s history and language--and has never looked back. For this episo...
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REPLAY: Economist Paula Stephan on Incentives and Gender Biases from 2022-02-21T04:44:20.663236
As a college student, Professor Paula Stephan fell in love with economics as a way to understand and influence systems that impacted many people's lives. Years of documenting and analyzing the role...
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Celebrated Author Edwidge Danticat Retraces the Arc of Her Literary Genius from 2022-02-21T04:44:20.661380
While promoting her new book, an accomplished short story collection called Everything Inside, the PBK member and noted writer talks about her formative experiences, like imagining herself not a...
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Two Philosophers Ponder What It Means to Act Together from 2022-02-21T04:44:20.660600
Philosophers Michael E. Bratman, from Stanford University, and Margaret P. Gilbert, from UC Irvine, are this year’s recipients of the Lebowitz Prize for Philosophical Achievement and Contributio...
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2020 Book Awards Keynote Roundtable from 2022-02-21T04:44:20.647529
The Phi Beta Kappa Book Awards are presented annually to three outstanding scholarly books published in the United States. The 2020 winners are Leah Price for What We Talk about When We Talk ...
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Princeton’s Doug Massey Unpacks U.S. Migration and Housing Segregation from 2022-01-27T05:00
The multidisciplinary scholar’s wide-ranging interests led him to demography and population research early on. He speaks with Fred about what people generally misunderstand about immigration int...
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2021 Book Awards Keynote Roundtable from 2021-12-22T05:00
2021 Book Awards Keynote Roundtable
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How Biophysicist Karen Fleming Explores the Rules of Life, Evolution, and Disease from 2021-11-25T05:00
The biophysicist has been running a discovery research lab for two decades at Johns Hopkins. She speaks with Fred about the randomness underlying all molecular processes, computer models that en...
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Bro Adams Knows What the Humanities Can Do Beyond Campuses from 2021-10-29T04:00
William "Bro" Adams Knows What Good the Humanities Can Do Beyond Campuses
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Yale’s Tracey Meares Deconstructs Our Relationship with the Police from 2021-09-24T04:00
She’s a nationally recognized expert on policing. She speaks with Fred about the need to reimagine public safety and reform, the distinct American policing experience in a global context, and wh...
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Anthropologist Elizabeth Cullen Dunn on Why Geography Is a Way of Thinking from 2021-08-27T04:00
She has spent years studying displaced people living in refugee camps around the world. And has sometimes even been claimed by residents thanks to her ability to acclimate with her research subj...
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Biophysicist Martin Gruebele on the Future of Scientific Discovery from 2021-07-30T04:00
He studies a broad range of fundamental problems in chemical and biological physics, and thinks deeply about the course of scientific inquiry. And finds fascinating ways to explain things to Fred i...
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Philosopher Susan Wolf on Meaningfulness as a Dimension of a Good Life from 2021-06-25T04:00
The moral philosopher ponders why being happy and acting morally may not be enough to satisfy us. She believes we need a vocabulary of meaning in public discourse, and suggests we strive for vit...
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Paul Robbins on How to Save Biodiversity in the Planet from 2021-05-28T04:00
His research focuses on human interactions with nature and the politics of natural resource management. The professor and dean at the University of Wisconsin speaks with Fred about how the natur...
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Lebowitz Award Winners on How We Reason in Moments of Transformation from 2021-04-30T04:00
The Lebowitz Award is presented each year to a pair of outstanding philosophers who hold contrasting views on a topic of current interest in the field. The 2020 winners, University of Chicago’s ...
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Roger Guenveur Smith Makes the Sublime and the Profane Artful from 2021-03-26T04:00
The writer, actor and director creates characters that resonate in the moment and speak compellingly to the day's dilemmas. From his collaboration with Spike Lee, to his portrayal of Frederick D...
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Poet Evie Shockley on Why Poems Are an Analysis Genre from 2021-01-29T05:00
The Rutgers professor, who left a career in law to pursue literature, speaks with Fred about the role of poetry in social justice, documenting and analyzing our lived experiences through poems, ...
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Former Obama Advisor Joseph Aldy on How Climate Change Policies Can Bolster the Economy Post COVID-19 from 2020-11-27T05:00
Former Special Assistant to President Obama for Energy and Environment, Professor Joseph Aldy is an expert in thinking creatively about how climate change-friendly policies can bolster the econo...
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Political Scientist Corey Brettschneider on Why We Should Distrust Our Presidents from 2020-10-30T04:00
Brown University’s Corey Brettschneider has spent years studying constitutional law and the purpose and limits of the presidency. As the 2020 election draws near, he speaks with Fred about the l...
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Latin American Scholar Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel Connects Latin American Identities Across Geography and Literature from 2020-09-25T04:00:04
As a critical reader and writer, Professor Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel at the University of Miami contextualizes colonial literature and contemporary Caribbean and Latino narratives, exploring i...
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Classics Scholar Peter Meineck on How Greek Theater Trains Better Citizens from 2020-08-28T04:00:11
The NYU's professor elaborates on how to better understand and live through today's social and moral turmoil by learning from the great theater works of antiquity. Meineck illustrates what Greek...
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REPLAY: Celebrated Author Edwidge Danticat Retraces the Arc of Her Literary Genius from 2020-07-24T04:00:01
While promoting her new book, an accomplished short story collection called Everything Inside, the PBK member and noted writer talks about her formative experiences, like imagining herself not a...
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College Admissions Field Welcomes a New Leader, Dr. Angel B. Pérez, Who Sees Its Strengths and Faults from 2020-06-26T04:00:06
As a high school student, a college counselor created what Dr. Angel B. Pérez calls his “pivotal moment”—one that would set him on a path to college, a career in higher education, and now the ch...
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Math Professor Ken Ono Is Connecting Swimming, Ramanujan, and Hollywood from 2020-05-28T04:00:06
He got a call to consult on the Hollywood film The Man Who Knew Infinity, starring Jeremy Irons and Dev Patel. The director was so impressed with his knowledge of the life and work of Indian mat...
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Dan Simon on the Intersection of Law and Psychology from 2020-04-24T04:00:25
While writing his dissertation, Dan Simon began to wonder how judges make decisions not from a legal, sociological, or economic perspective but rather from a psychological one. Today, the USC la...
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Middle East Scholar Jamsheed Choksy Retraces the Roots of the Western Belief in Good and Evil from 2020-03-27T04:00:07
Much of Western culture and religious beliefs are grounded in a bifurcated notion of an epic power struggle between dueling forces, often defined as “good” and “evil.” This underlying premise in...
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Laura Brown Traces Our Love of Animals Through Literature from 2020-02-28T05:00:03
Professor Laura Brown’s endeavors as a literature reader and critical writer have provided a window into humans’ relationships with various species throughout history. She reveals to host Fred L...
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Alfred Spector: Envisioning the Synergies between the Liberal Arts and Computer Science from 2020-01-31T05:00:10
In this episode, Dr. Alfred Spector offers an optimistic take on the evolving relationship between the liberal arts and computer science. Reflecting on his career experiences in creating a compa...
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Why Dr. Dava Newman Will Be Among the People to Get Humans to Mars from 2019-11-29T05:00:15
Dava Newman has spent her career figuring out how to get humans to space, and helping them not only to survive there, but also to thrive. She is the Apollo Program Professor of Aeronautics and A...
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How Neuroscientist Susan Birren Is Mapping New Pathways from the Brain from 2019-08-29T16:00:07
The human brain has 100 billion cells, and there’s still so much to discover about it. Brandeis University neuroscientist Susan Birren has dedicated her distinguished career to decoding the myst...
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REPLAY: We Ask Literature Professor Ayanna Thompson “What Would Shakespeare Say?” from 2019-06-28T04:01
Ayanna Thompson specializes in Renaissance drama and issues of race in performance. She discusses the universality of Shakespeare while honing in on how he would have reacted to racialized readings...
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REPLAY: Former Diplomat Harold Koh Is Worried from 2019-05-31T04:01
In our first episode, Fred Lawrence, Secretary and CEO of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, chats with his longtime friend, professor Harold Hongju Koh from Yale Law School. Professor Koh is a distinguis...
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Historian Ed Larson Takes a Critical Look at the Presidency from 2019-02-25T05:01
A Pulitzer Prize winner, Larson tears the pages of history to offer insight into what made these presidents tick. And what today's leaders can learn from them.
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Economist Paula Stephan on Incentives and Gender Biases from 2019-01-14T13:52:36
As a college student, Professor Paula Stephan fell in love with economics as a way to understand and influence systems that impacted many people's li...
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We Ask Literature Professor Ayanna Thompson “What Would Shakespeare Say?” from 2018-10-22T04:01
Fred Lawrence, Secretary and CEO of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, welcomes professor Ayanna Thompson<...
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Legal Scholar Harold Hongju Koh Talks International Law and College Cafeterias from 2018-09-10T04:01
In our first episode, Fred Lawrence, Secretary and CEO of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, chats with his longtime friend, professor Harold Hongju Koh from Yale Law School. Professor Koh is a disting...
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Key Conversations with Phi Beta Kappa Trailer from 2018-08-30T16:06:29
A podcast that features intimate and in-depth conversations with scholars and experts across many fields, including international law, Shakespeare, microbiology, economics of science, and astron...
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Key Conversations with Phi Beta Kappa Trailer from 2018-08-30T16:06:29
A podcast that features intimate and in-depth conversations with scholars and experts across many fields, including international law, Shakespeare, microbiology, economics of science, and astron...
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Key Conversations with Phi Beta Kappa Trailer from 2018-08-30T16:06:29
A podcast that features intimate and in-depth conversations with scholars and experts across many fields, including international law, Shakespeare, microbiology, economics of science, and astron...
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