NBN Seminar

In the information age, knowledge is power. Hence, facilitating the access to knowledge to wider pub

Brian Greene is a Professor of Mathematics and Physics at Columbia University in the City of New Yor

Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies (University of Georgia Press, 2019), edited by Le

Paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick. A magician's purpose is to create the appearance of

How does the world of book reviews work? In Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain

If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be

We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re

As you may know, university presses publish a lot of good books. In fact, they publish thousands of

The things that make people academics -- as deep fascination with some arcane subject, often borderi

Much of the debate about the roles of nature vs. nurture in the development of individual people has

McKenzie Wark’s new book offers 21 focused studies of thinkers working in a wide range of fields who

Steven Shaviro’s book Discognition (Repeater Books, 2016) opens with a series of questions: What is

We are arguably living in the midst of a form of economy where attention has become a key resource a

Are we good people? Or do we just think we are? In his new book The Character Gap: How Good Are We?

Kate Manne is an assistant professor of philosophy at Cornell University. As a feminist and moral ph

If you’ve ever wondered how your favorite writers go about crafting their written works, or if you’v

The categories religion and race share a common genealogy. The modern understanding of these terms e

In a career spanning several decades, James L. Kugel has illuminated the Hebrew Bible from the persp

How does a book come into being? In Under the Cover: The Creation, Production, and Reception of a No

When undergraduate students look through a course catalog and see the title World Religions they pro