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Key Conversations with Phi Beta Kappa is a podcast from The Phi Beta Kappa Society's Visiting Scholars program, featuring leading scholars across multiple disciplines in conversation with Fred Lawrence, PBK's Secretary and CEO.
A rat gets driving lessons; you get Fred Lawrence asking how a neuroscientist got there.
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A measured neuroscience conversation about experience-based neuroplasticity, rat driving, and the human side of lab work.
Kelly Lambert and Fred Lawrence shape the conversation around experience-based neuroplasticity, Lambert's teaching, and the books and public lectures that extend her work beyond the lab.
An awards-night discussion that moves from autobiography to Enlightenment questions and keeps its focus on careful public argument.
This annual Phi Beta Kappa Book Awards conversation with Fred Lawrence and the Book Award winners treats writing as a kind of autobiography before moving into Enlightenment-era attempts to make sense of what people still cannot explain.
A careful case for taking democracy's limits seriously.
Christina LaFont and Alex Guerrero make a steady case that democratic theory can drift away from the way political power actually operates. The discussion stays focused on rule by the few, limited voter choice, and the distance between elections and real control over elected…
Careful conversations on drugs, treatment, and recovery.
Buddhist practice for the predictive brain.
Long conversations with people who think in systems.
Psychedelics, treated with care and context.
Behavioural science with a commercial pulse.
Mark Palmer tells Fred Lawrence how thunderstorms, Eastern European travel, and Professor Neil Salisbury’s pipe-on-a-map demonstrations shaped his path from environmental geography to Indigenous geographies.
Margo Schlanger tells Fred Lawrence how Yale Law School clinics led her toward civil-rights work involving people excluded from shared institutions.
Fred Lawrence opens the conversation with Kelly Lambert.
The episode opens with thanks to two anonymous donors.
An interview with Professor Geraldo Cadava about his work on Latino political identity and history.
A replay episode introducing a conversation with Professor Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, a disability justice and bioethics scholar.
Fred Lawrence interviews Professor Kathleen Kaveny about her work at the intersection of law, religion, and ethics in a pluralistic society.
An interview with disability justice scholar Rosemarie Garland-Thompson about her work and the Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholars program.
An interview with a health demographer about his research on mortality trends and cognitive aging.
Fred Lawrence welcomes two philosophers who received the 2022 Leibowitz Prize.