Scribner Seminar Archives

Below is a list of Scribner Seminars that have been offered since 2005. This list includes all of the Scribner Seminars that will be offered Fall 2025 as well.

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• 20th Century Apparel in the United States
• Across the Bridge: Turkey
• Adirondacks: Forever Wild
• Africa Through Its Changing Cinema
• African Arts
• Africa in Stereotypes
• Afterlives
• Almodóvar Dialogues
• American Buddhism
• American Dreams
• American Founding Principles
• The American (In)Justice System
• American Liberty
• American Memories
• American Musical Theater
• American Political and Activist Theater
• American Taste
• American Time Travels
• American Utopias
• Analysis of the 7 Deadly Sins
• Ancient Genes/Land of Plenty
• Ancient Medicine
• Animals in History
• Antarctica
• Are We in the Anthropocene?
• Asimov, Science and Fiction
• Awake, Sleeping or Dreaming? (London)
• "Bad" Science
• Being Your Self
• Beliefs about Social Identity
• Biotech Revolution
• Blacks in Film
• Brasilidade: Contestations and Culture in Brazil
• British Grand Tour
• British Past in Film (London)
• Broadway Musical
• Bloomsbury and Its Surroundings (London)
• Bodies and Identities
• Buddhism, Travel, Trade
• Bullock Carts to BMWs
• The Business of Food
• Buzz: The Art and Design of Caffeine
• Can Literature Save the Environment?
• Can Machines Think?
• Capitalist Aesthetics
• Care of the Heart
• Challenges of Migration
• Challenges to Global Health
• Changing Our Minds
• Chaos Finds a Voice
• Children's Literature Revisited
• China and the West
• Chinese Wisdom
• Class, Race & Labor History
• Classless Society
• Classics on Film
• Climate, Science & History
• The Color of Justice
• Comics, Jesters, Satirists and Hacks: Locating British Humor (London)
• Coming of Age
• Coming of Age in London (London)
• Competition
• Contemporary British Politics from an Outsider's Perspective (London)
• Connecting Threads
• Creative Minds
• The Cultures of Climate Change
• Cycles of Marriage and Divorce
• Dangerous Earth
• Darwin, Dickens, Marx (London)
• Dead (Wo)Men Do Tell Tales
• The Debate About Women in the Middle Ages
• The Deep Seafloor
• Defense Against the Dark Arts (Technology Edition)
• Democracy Inaction
• Den of Antiquities
• Den of Antiquities (London)
• Designing a Mind
• Designing London: 1750-2050 (London)
• Detective Fictions, Dark Designs (London)
• Diabesity
• Digital Acting
• Digital Life
• Digital Security
• Disney's America
• Dissolving the Political Bands
• Drug Discovery
• Durable Objects
• Dynamics of Chaos
• Earth Elegies
• Earth System Evolution
• Eating and Being
• Educating Citizens for the American Republic
• Ekphrasis: Creative Writing About Visual Art
• Endurance: Long Distance Running through the Majors
• Emerging Diseases
• Empire and Knowledge in Chinese History
• Empire Strikes Back: Imperial Ambitions of Greece, Rome, Britian and the US  (London)
• Endurance: Running
• Environmental Advocacy
• Environmental Problems. Economic Solutions?
• Eros and Belonging
• The Ethics of Design
• Ethics of Tobacco & Alcohol
• European Integration
• Extraordinary Bodies
• Eyes Wide Open
• Faces of Capitalism
• The Federal Reserve
• Family Connections
• Famine, Warfare, and Plague in 14th-Century England (On- Campus and London)
• Film, Truth & Value
• Floods, Hurricanes and Forest Fires
• Food and Society
• Food Future
• Food, Groups and Mates
• Food, Self, and Society
• Forensic Science & Criminal (In)Justice
• Forest, Garden and Meaning of Life
• Forging Utopia
• Freedom Dreamers: Black Radical Thought and the Power of Imagination
• From Chocolatl to Chocolate
• From the Big Smoke to the Green City: London’s Role in Global Environmental Action (London)
• Galaxies and the Cosmic Web
• Gender and Family in Medieval and Renaissance Europe (London)
• Gendering God and "God Talk"
• Gender Benders
• Genes and Generation
• Global Health
• Gods and Monsters
• The Good Life
• The Good Life in Greek Literature and Philosophy
• The Good War
• Graven Images
• Hip Hop, Hamilton, History
• Hard Times in the Big Easy
• Head Games: Concussion Crisis
• Heretics & Visionaries
• History and Science of British Food (London)
• Hollywood's Portrayal of Science
• The Holocaust
• How Computers See
• How Do Women Look?
• How Do You Know?
• How to Change the World in 15 Weeks
• Hudson River in American Life
• The Hudson: Science, Society, and Art
• The Human Body—From Science to Society
• Human Colonization of Space
• Human Dilemmas
• Human/Machine
• Human - Nature
• Human Origins
• Humor & Laughter, Seriously
• The Idea of Freedom
• Ideal Worlds
• If the Elements Could Talk
• Images of Education
• Images of Work
• Imagination, Innovation, and the Impossible
• Imagine That!
• Imagined London (London)
• Imagining Memory: Memoir, Movies, Storytelling
• Imagining the Future
• Incarceration Nation
• In Light of Death
• Industry and Innovation
• In the Lab and on the Screen
• In the News: Science Sound Bites
• Intercultural/Global Understanding and You: Why Does Skidmore Care?
• The Intersection of Social Identity and Sport
• Ireland: Myth, Reality, Conflict, Identity
• Italian Cinema
• Italian Food & Fiction
• Italy, Fascism, and Jews
• Jane Austen, Inc.
• Japanese Animation
• Japanese Popular Culture Studies
• Jones, Croft and Ancient Aliens
• Jewish - Christian Relations
• The Killing State
• K-Pop
• Latin American Cinema and Social Change
• Latin American Cities
• Latin American Image/Reality
• LatinX Expression
• LatinX Identities
• Law, Religion, and Society
• Leather, Paper, and Lead
• Liberalism
• The Liberally Educated Leader
• Life in the North Woods
• Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Capitalism
• Liquid History: The Thames River (London)
• Lives of the Hudson
• Living in a Green World
• Location and GIS
• Love and Lust
• Made in God's Image
• Making Mathematics
• Making of the Hudson
• Making Theater in a Digital Age
• Making Things Right (On-Campus and London)
• Mapping the Social World
• Mathematics and the Art of M. C. Escher
• Media and British National Identity (London)
• Mediating the Great War (London)
• Medieval Technology
• Mind Design
• The Mind's I
• Minority Rights in Majority Driven Democracy
• Mixed Race on Stage and Film
• Modern Family, Human Bonds
• Molecular Frontier
• Molecules That Matter
• Money Matters
• Mother Russia's Daughters & Sons
• Movers & Shakers 
• The Music Between Use
• Music: Mix and Remix
• Music on the Move
• Music, Race & Class
• Musical Aesthetics, Technology & Copyright
• My Online Friends
• My So Called Life
• Myth and Modernity
• Myth Conceptions
• Narcocultures
• Nature With and Without Us
• The Nature/Nurture Myth
• The Nature of Comedy (London)
• No Place to Hide
• Nonhuman Worlds
• Non-Euclidean Revolution
• Nothing Doing: The Space of Modern Thought
• Novels in the Grip of History
• Nuclear Legacy
• Numb3rs in L0nd0n
• Our Planet, Our Business
• Our Things, Our Selves
• Our World on the Move
• Outside the Box
• A Pact with the Devil
• Paint, Potential, and Power: The London Experience for American Artists (London)
• The Painters' Convention: Landscape, Still Life, Figure
• Perception and Reality
• Philosophic Basis of the American Founding
• Picturing Time
• Pixelated: The new photography
• Plagues and Their Power on Human Society
• Plastic Fantastic?
• Political Economy and Her Poor
• Political Economy and Poverty
• Politics & Eros
• Pollinators in Peril
• Popular Kabbalah and Contemporary Culture
• Power, Protest, Embodied Resistance
• Projecting History: Post-Wall German Cinema
• Psyching  Out the Stock Market
• Psychological Theories of Social Justice
• Welfare & Politics
• Queenship and Change: Wisdom From China
• Queer Notions: Thinking to Move Beyond Binaries
• Queer Performance
• Race in the Obama Era
• Radical Children's Writers
• Randomness: Logic and the Universe
• Reading Minds
• Reading British Identity in London's Museums (London)
• Reading the Cosmos
• Real Democracy
• Remaking the Hudson
• Representations of the Holocaust
• Resisting Hitler
• Rich, Free, and Miserable
• Riddles of Culture
• Ring of the Nibelungs
• River Goddesses of India
• Robot Design
• Sailing the Seas with Captain Cook
• Saratoga: People & Place, Past & Present
• Science Fiction and Religion
• Science Sound Bites
• The Search for Pattern and Symmetry
• Secrets, Codes, and Ciphers
• The Seductive Figure
• Seduction of the Strange
• Self and Desire
• Serious Games: Conflict, Voting and Power
• Sex and the Ancient City
• Sexing Politics
• Sextants, Nutmeg, Maps, and Muskets
• Sexualities/Textualities
• Shakespeare was Jewish?
• Shakespeare's Ecologies
• Shocked: WWI and Modern Culture
• Sleep: A to ZZZ
• Social Class in America
• Soldiers, Diplomats and Spies
• Sound, Speech, Story, Song
• Speculative Fiction/New Plays
• Speech! Speech!
• Sport, Self, and Society
• Sports Analytics
• Statesmen and Tyrants
• Stress and the Human Brain
• Sustainability and Social Justice
• "Swinging London": 1966 (London)
• Technology and Education
• Technology and Psychotherapy
• Tech, Environment and Society
• There's No Place Like Home
• Theater and Technology
• Thinking for Yourself
• Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Painting
• This Place, These Things
• Timely
• Transnational Women of Color Feminisms
• Travel Writing and Gender
• Truth and Value in Cinema
• An Unsettled Place: 400 Years of Remaking the Hudson
• Under the Influence
• Unexpected Math
• Urban Latin America: Aztec Spaces to Modern Places
• Vanity: From Narcissus to Nike
• Visions of the City
• Virtual Republic
• Waging War, Making Peace
• Wagner's Ring of the Nibelungs
• Walking Saratoga
• War and Peace and Eugene Onegin
• Warfare Today
• Water: Society, Science and the Arts
• Ways of Seeing
• We Can Work it Out
• Weird Books
• Welfare & Politics
• What's the Big Idea?
• What is Noir?
• What to Eat?
• Where Are We? (London & Campus)
• Who Are You? The Danger & Promise of "Identity"
• Who Governs Saratoga Springs?
• Why We Eat What We Eat
• Without Bound
• Word and Image
• World in A Town
• World Through Maps
• World Turned Upside Down
• Writing America: The Contemporary Essay