He was inspired by the lectures of Maurice Bowra, Warden of Wadham, who, he told me, sparked an enduring interest in antiquity.
Inspired by the lectures of Roland Barthes, Anne Carson, and Jorge Luis Borges, Kate Zambreno's Appendix Project collects eleven talks and essays written in the course of the year following the publication of Book of Mutter, Zambreno's book on her mother that took her over a decade to write.
Wenzel was inspired by the lectures of circuit theorist Ernst Guillemin.
She has also been inspired by the essays of Alice Walker and a lecture by James H. Cone, the leading exponent of black liberation theology, about the lynching tree being the crucifix of African-American Christianity.
The idea was inspired by the University of Graz in Austria, which offers lectures for free to anyone who can attend.
A key scene involving a large 3D hologram star map, dubbed the Orrery, was inspired by the 1766 Joseph Wright painting A Philosopher Lecturing on the Orrery, in which a scientist displays a mechanical planetarium by candlelight.
Each entry below includes a complete video recording of the lecture and the full text of the published paper inspired by the presentation.
In 2001, inspired by the open source and open access movements, MIT launched OpenCourseWare to make the lecture notes, problem sets, syllabuses, exams, and lectures from the great majority of its courses available online for no charge, though without any formal accreditation for coursework completed.
Each entry below includes a complete video recording of the lecture and, when possible, the full text of the published paper inspired by the presentation.
These correspond to lectures he gave on Ancient Greek sculpture and were inspired by the Pennsylvania Academy's casts of Phidias' Pan-Athenaic procession from the Parthenon marbles.
"ISLAMIC ART AND ITALY" Inspired by the Metropolitan Museum's new exhibition "Venice and the Islamic World, 828-1797," the Italian Cultural Institute is presenting two lectures.
