Audio Recordings

Here you may stream or download audio recordings, in mp3 format, from past lectures from the scholars and writers of The New York Public Library's Research Study Rooms (the Wertheim Study and the Allen Room).

David LaRocca - Everybody's Autobiography: Remarks on Anxiety and Pseudonymity in the work of Soren Kierkegaard and Charlie Kaufman - February 16, 2012

Johannes Burgers - From the Dreyfus Affair to the Holocaust: The Emergence of Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theory - February 7, 2012

Rosemary Wakeman - Tomorrowland: Space Age Cities of the 1960s - January 25, 2012

Elizabeth Powers - Freedom of Speech: The History of an Idea - August 4, 2011

Tony Perrottet talks about The Sinners' Grand Tour, May 25, 2011

Shakespeare

• Scott Trudell, Hamlet: Poetry That Doesn't Matter, April 15, 2011
• Naomi Liebler and Estelle Parsons: Reading (Between) the Lines: Shakespeare's Old Ladies, April 14, 2011
• Gavin Hollis: Shakespeare's Mappery, April 13, 2011
• Bernice W. Kliman: Hamletworks.org for Everyone!, April 12, 2011
• Matthew Zarnowiecki (with Dana Ivey) : The End of Shakespeare's Sonnets, April 11, 2011

Elizabeth Livingston - A [Wedding] Dress in the Attic - March 24, 2011

Michael Krondl - Sweet, Sacred and Profane: Dessert in Kolkata - March 10, 2011

Joel S. Schwartz - Darwin's Disciple, George John Romanes - March 3, 2011

David Meskill - The Unmaking of the German Working Class: Shy Class Conflict Ended after 1945 - January 26, 2011

Daniel Walkowitz - Country Dance and the Transatlantic Politics of Folk Revivals - January 24, 2011

Christine Folch - Stakes of a Triple Frontier City: the Untold History of Ciudad del Este - January 21, 2011

Lia Paradis - Gordon's Ghost: Imagining the Sudan after the Fall of Khartoum - January 7, 2011

Radical Women Artists of New York City

• Barbara Moore: Charlotte Moorman and Her 15 Avant-Garde Festivals, December 21, 2010
• Aseel Sawalha: Feminist Art Collectives in New York: An Anthropological Perspective, December 14, 2010
• Kathleen Wentrack: The Posters and Wall Collages of Mary Beth Edelson, December 7, 2010

• Six Facets of Ireland
• Celtic Tigresses: Postfeminism in Ireland, by Claire Bracken, November 17
• Israelites in Erin: the Politics of Exocus in Irish Writing, by Abby Bender, November 17
• Nineteenth-century Irish Landscape Painting and the Sublime in the Works of Francis Danby, James Arthur O'Connor, and George Petrie, by Elizabeth Martin, November 17
• Irish and Irish-American Collections at The New York Public Library, by Mary Jones, November 16, 2010
• Menacing Women: Sebastian Barry's Exposition of Ireland's Mental Asylums in The Secret Scripture, by Tara Harney, November 16, 2010
• Where are Ireland's Counter-Monuments?, by Anne O'Byrne, November 16, 2010