Curated Video
Speaking Gendered Languages
David Bellos, Director of the Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication at Princeton University, muses on the differences between native speakers of non-gendered and gendered languages.
Curated Video
How Queer Communities Created Secret Languages
Across the globe, queer communities have relied on secret lexicons known as "argots" to communicate safely, which have developed over the years into what some call "verbal jazz."
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Noliwe Rooks - 'Yet Do I Marvel' by Countee Cullen
Noliwe Rooks is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work explores how race and gender both impact and are impacted by civic culture, social history and political life in the United States. She is the author of four books, the most recent...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Noliwe Rooks - Teachers Make a Difference - Gloria Wade Gayles
Noliwe Rooks is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work explores how race and gender both impact and are impacted by civic culture, social history and political life in the United States. She is the author of four books, the most recent...
Soliloquy
How would the UK House of Commons look under MMP?
The UK House of Commons uses the first past the post voting system. This system doesnât proportionally represent the votes cast by the population as there is only one winner in each seat. Hypothetically if one party gained 51% of the...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Floyd Cheung - Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Floyd Cheung, Vice President for Equity and Inclusion at Smith College and a professor of English and American Studies, welcomes new students to the community. He emphasizes the importance of acknowledging the diversity within ourselves,...
PBS
Defying Convention | Little Women
Jo's decision not to marry her childhood friend Laurie broke the hearts of many readers—but it also represented Little Women's successful break from traditional nineteenth-century gender roles. A short clip illustrates Jo's desire to...
Crash Course
Ophelia, Gertrude, and Regicide - Hamlet II
In Part Two of a video course in Hamlet, narrator John Green looks at the gender dynamics in the play. He presents Ophelia and Gertrude as powerful characters and argues that these women do have options that affect the course of the...
Crash Course
To Kill a Mockingbird, Part I
Harper Lee’s 1961 Pulitzer prize-winning novel To Kill A Mockingbird gets the Crash Course treatment in two short videos. The first quickly summarizes the plot and the conventions of Southern Gothic Fiction before examining what the...
Crash Course
When is Thanksgiving? Colonizing America
Discover the first attempts made to colonize and establish the first permanent English colonies in the North American region, from Sir Walter Raleigh's colony at Roanoke and settlement at Jamestown, Virginia to colonies in Maryland and...
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Meiosis
Sex chromosomes determine gender, but how? An informative video presentation discusses meiosis with an emphasis on the structure of the sex cells. Viewers learn why the X and Y chromosomes are so important.