October 2025 Vinzenz Hediger: Insurgent Archives and the Future of Cinema
A conversation with Vinzenz Hediger.

July 2025 Orit Halpern: AI, Neo-Liberal Economics and Reactionary Politics
Orit Halpern '94 discusses the historical convergence between neo-liberal economic thought, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence, leading her to interrogate the implications this history holds for contemporary politics and society. 

April 2025 Martha Pollack: AI and the Mission of Higher Education
Martha Pollack focuses on situating AI’s impact on higher education within the context of the mission and core values of higher education and with an eye to concerns that AI raises and opportunities that we, as educators and scholars, may want to pursue.

February 2025 Luciano Floridi: AI and the Future of Content
Luciano Floridi explores AI's role in content creation, dissemination, and consumption. He examines AI's potential, analytical models, and personalized content, leading to advocacy for responsible AI management to foster diversity and democratization.

April 2024 Vinzenz Hediger: African Giants and the American Hegemon
Vinzenz Hediger discusses how artists from megacities like Lagos or Seoul challenge the century-old global ascendancy of US cultural industries with Nollywood films, Afrobeats, K-Pop, and K-Drama.

October 2023 Hortense Spillers: Fabrics of History: The Rhetoric of Sermons and the Problem of Black Culture
How—and to what degree—does the black sermon emerge as one of the hallmark features of African-American culture within the sociopolitical context of the United States?

July 2023 Cal Newport: How Worried Should We Be About AI?
Computer scientist Cal Newport '04 draws from his recent reporting on this topic for The New Yorker to explain how the latest innovations in AI actually work, separating the impacts we really should worry about from those that are mainly hype.

April 2023 Hoda Barakat: Writing from the Borderlands
Hoda Barakat reflects on the role of literature in times of historical and political turmoil.

February 2023 Phil Klay: Literature in a Time of Crisis
After every war come authors who shape and reshape our understanding of who we are and where we should go next. How can literature help us respond to our current situation where violence, done in our name, is both invisible and unending? 

October 2022 Pico Iyer and David Silbersweig: Travel, Stillness, & Everything Between
How can we meet the planet first-hand, in all its glorious complexity, and also sit still enough to remember what we love?

September 2022 David Silbersweig: Mapping Mental Illness
Recent advances in brain imaging have opened a window onto the human mind in health and disease.

November 2021 Charles Musiba: Conservation of the Laetoli Footprints: What Went Wrong?
A native of Tanzania, Musiba navigates modern questions of conservation and sustainable use of ancient cultural heritage.

November 2021 C. Brian Rose: Archaeology, Museums, and War: Strategies for the 21st Century
A talk with C. Brian Rose, the James B. Pritchard Professor of Archaeology at the University of Pennsylvania and the curator-in-charge of the Mediterranean Section of the University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.

October 2021 Phil Klay: Roundtable Discussion with Dartmouth Veterans
Phil Klay speaks with Nathan Bruschi '10 (Navy), Diane Cammarata '21 (National Guard), Brad Carney '20 (Army), Colson Palage '22 (Air Force), and Kate Sullivan '13 (Marines).

October 2021 Phil Klay: Accounts of War, Ancient and Modern: A Conversation with Roberta Stewart
Phil speaks with Roberta Stewart, Dartmouth Professor of Classics and creator and teacher of "War Stories: Modern Vets Meet Ancient Texts."

October 2021 Salima Ikram: Displaying Egypt in Egypt: A Brief Overview of Museums in Egypt
A talk with Salima Ikram, Distinguished Professor of Egyptology, American University in Cairo.

September 2021 Joe Watkins: Co-opting the Past, Re-creating the Present: Politics and Archaeology
A talk with Joe Watkins, the Designated Campus Colleague, School of Anthropology, University of Arizona, and Past President, Society for American Archaeology.

August 2021 Phil Klay: Marine Memoirs and Civilian Life
Phil Klay speaks with Nate Fick, Dartmouth Class of 1999; USMC veteran; author of One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer; general manager of Elastic Security.

August 2021 Phil Klay: American Culture and Military Culture
Phil Klay spoke with Dartmouth President Emeritus and USMC veteran Jim Wright, and both men engaged in a spirited Q&A in front of a live audience.

November 2019 Jake Sullivan: Considering Impeachment, Foreign Policy, and the Way Forward in 2021
A discussion between Jake Sullivan and Dickey Center Director Daniel Benjamin.

October 2019 Frido Mann: "Democracy Will Win"
Frido Mann addresses the current crisis in the American and European democracies and the need for their restoration, on the basis of transatlantic dialogue.

January 2019 In Conversation with Jake Sullivan
Jake Sullivan is the former Director of Policy Planning at the US State Department and National Security Advisor to Vice President Joe Biden.

January 2015 In Conversation with Jake Sullivan
A wide-ranging discussion on current international events between Jake Sullivan and Dickey Center Director Daniel Benjamin.