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Freedom

Expressions of Freedom

Explore the role that music, art, and literature have played in the preservation and pursuit of liberty over the past three centuries. From the French Revolution to Romanticists, Abolitionists, and Imperialists, to Germany between the two World Wars and America in the 1960s. Together we celebrate and examine human expression as the creative force of freedom.

 

ALL VIDEO AUDIO SLIDESHOW TALKS
Lecture
Blacks, Jews, and the Comedy of Subversion
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David Levering Lewis: God's Crucible
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Geoffrey Stone: Perilous Times
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Robert Edsel: Is Art Worth a Life?
Lecture
Richard Sennett: Craftsmanship
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Dig Deeper

  • leaders & thinkers

    Orhan Pamuk Interview in The Believer with the author who inspired a freedom-of-expression controversy in his native Turkey by uttering a single phrase
    Vaclav HavelThe former president of the Czech Republic, famous dissident, and noted playwright

  • good reads

    Live to Paint/Paint to Live: Jackson PollockAs Pollock lunged, stepped into, circled and swooped around his canvas, was his work an expression of human freedom?

 

  • online resources

    The Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics An interdisciplinary consortium of institutions, artists, scholars, and activists that explores performance as a vehicle for the creation of new meaning and the transmission of cultural values, memory, and identity
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