# Videos ## The Center’s video archive presents recordings from series including the Norton and Tanner Lectures, the Hauser Forum, Writers Speak, Migration and the Humanities, and the Environment Forum. ## Featured Recordings ![Viet Thanh Nguyen](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/mahindra/files/mhch_web_nguyen_banner_900x600px_01.jpg?h=d4d5951b&itok=Oua2XDAB) [### Viet Than Nguyen’s Norton Lectures ](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtxVM47qfVNAMrUnIPo5SjdWVPV0fIArh)We are pleased to announce that all six of Viet Thanh Nguyen's Norton Lectures are now captioned and permanently available on the Mahindra Humanities Center website and YouTube channel. ![Michael Pollan](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/mahindra/files/pollan_600x400.png?itok=5_oWcmk_) [### A Conversation with Michael Pollan ](https://youtu.be/S4KpLWu-pBs)Kicking off the new Study of Psychedelics in Society and Culture, Michael Pollan discusses how psychedelics research can benefit from humanistic inquiry. ![Robert J. Oppenheimer](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/mahindra/files/oppie_600x400.png?itok=JYSF4uJN) [### Kai Bird on Oppenheimer ](https://youtu.be/u8QrGTlCKXE)Author of *American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer* is joined in conversation by Harvard Professors Peter Galison and Elaine Scarry. ## Browse Videos [### Writers Speak | Katie Kitamura in conversation with Claire Messud ](https://youtu.be/s27nSrbztkA) ![Katie Kitamura](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-04/Kitamura_Banner_1920x1080_WEB.jpg?itok=FkWkdJiv) [### Marlon Peterson in conversation with Matthew Ichihashi Potts ](https://youtu.be/2eekM0vvHPc) ![Marlon Peterson](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-04/Peterson_Banner_1350x1080_WEB.jpg?h=77fb8e01&itok=wJz02T31) [### The Tanner Lectures with Ruha Benjamin | Lecture Two: Dystopia, Utopia, or UStopia? From Artificial Intelligence to Abundant Imagination ](https://youtu.be/UYIi_OjcotM) ![Three hands with the palms facing up against a coral pink background. Matrix-like swirls with different patterns are above the hands.](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-03/MHCH_Tanner_Ruha_1920x1080.jpg?itok=zuqvcMvt) [### The Tanner Lectures with Ruha Benjamin | Lecture One: Who Owns the Future? The Artificial Intelligentsia & the New Eugenics ](https://youtu.be/ZseJigkUhuE) ![Three hands with the palms facing up against a coral pink background. Matrix-like swirls with different patterns are above the hands.](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-03/MHCH_Tanner_Ruha_1920x1080.jpg?itok=zuqvcMvt) [### Writers Speak | Patricia Lockwood in conversation with Tara K. Menon ](https://youtu.be/_Q_0mBZi1ic) ![Patricia Lockwood](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-01/Patricia%20Lockwood%20%28credit%20Grep%20Hoax%29%5B2%5D.jpeg?h=79cac4a2&itok=9u-dOvt5) [### Werner Sollors in conversation with Daniel G. Williams | "The Werner Sollors Reader" ](https://youtu.be/Vtzq2zcF4tM) ![Cover of "The Werner Sollos Reader"](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/mahindra/files/werner_sollos_banner.png?h=f93a037a&itok=0JaF8GwZ) [### The Environment Forum | A Conversation with Elizabeth Kolbert ](https://youtu.be/rqBFrQaUrOk) ![Elizabeth Kolbert](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-01/Kolbert_client_2024.jpg?h=2679a0df&itok=canWebR5) [### The Environment Forum with Emanuele Coccia | Metropolitan Nature: How Different Species Build Cities ](https://youtu.be/XViBkLJ7IBk) ![mhch_web_coccia_banner_1350x486px.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/mahindra/files/mhch_web_coccia_banner_1350x486px.jpg?itok=TPT2AJ6l) [### Tanner Lectures with Margaret Redsteer | Lecture One | On Resilience: A Capacity to Absorb Disturbances and Shocks ](https://youtu.be/MrPSDsM2mxs) ![tanner_thumbnail.png](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/mahindra/files/tanner_thumbnail.png?itok=JTmfSBHa) [### Laila Lalami in conversation with James Wood ](https://youtu.be/x2gho1cX_1s) ![Laila Lalami](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/mahindra/files/lalami_thumbnail.png?itok=pv4V2KJt) [### Ernesto Londoño on "Trippy," in conversation with Ellen Barry ](https://youtu.be/mzHewyEnKjI) ![trippy_video_icon.png](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/mahindra/files/trippy_video_icon.png?itok=JEITPbjy) [### Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah in conversation with Laura van den Berg ](https://youtu.be/0OliOYN4VrQ) ![Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/mahindra/files/nana_kwame_900x600.png?itok=889g9qfV) [### The Environment Forum with Ranjan Ghosh | Plastic Nature ](https://youtu.be/Mdhp4vTA5fo) ![A white fish with a body that shifts into a plastic bag, underwater against a blue background.](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/mahindra/files/ghosh_ef_thumbnail.png?itok=2z6sYx7s) [### Rachel Cohen in conversation with Claire Messud ](https://youtu.be/dpBwz4sj8Hs) ![cohen_gazette_900x600.png](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/mahindra/files/cohen_gazette_900x600.png?itok=yzTCrI9u) [### The Tanner Lectures with Hahrie Han | Lecture Two: From Belonging to Building ](https://youtu.be/6ep8x0Y9lts) ![tanner_new_900x600.png](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/mahindra/files/tanner_new_900x600.png?itok=vk-N2DRb) [### The Tanner Lectures with Hahrie Han | Lecture One: Becoming ](https://youtu.be/cHQOIPO7ZEk) ![tanner_new_900x600.png](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/mahindra/files/tanner_new_900x600.png?itok=vk-N2DRb) [### The Eybler Quartet: "All the Feelings: The Embodiment of Passion in the String Quartet in the 18th Century" ](https://youtu.be/8FcDFkvV6V4) ![The Eybler Quartet](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/mahindra/files/eybler_900x600_gazette.png?itok=I-QR4XcF) [### Norton Lecture Six: On the Joy of Otherness | Viet Thanh Nguyen | To Save and to Destroy: On Writing as an Other ](https://youtu.be/YfL0iYTkmhE) ![Viet Thanh Nguyen](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/mahindra/files/mhch_web_nguyen_banner_video_600x400px.jpg?itok=RfB2_TWm) [### Chigozie Obioma in conversation with Maya Jasanoff ](https://youtu.be/C5cG0ua4lvY) ![Chigozie Obioma](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/mahindra/files/obioma_gazette_900x600.png?itok=Zy1GCSUo) [### The Environment Forum with Hiʻilei Hobart | What Returns, What Remains: A Story about Hawaiian Landscape and Dis/Possession ](https://youtu.be/JgrR_nltPhM) ![hobart_gazette_900x600.png](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/mahindra/files/hobart_gazette_900x600.png?itok=sm4Wh6Zu) [### Norton Lecture Five: On Being Minor | Viet Thanh Nguyen | To Save and to Destroy: On Writing as an Other ](https://youtu.be/AT6PmFJSWfM) ![Viet Thanh Nguyen](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/mahindra/files/mhch_web_nguyen_banner_900x600px.jpg?itok=3ruGzQHK) [### Sara J. Grossman: The Data of Climate Crisis ](https://youtu.be/IIp7-2r9f5Q) ![grossman_ef_video.png](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/mahindra/files/grossman_ef_video.png?itok=nQOcP5dX) [### Kai Bird on Oppenheimer, in conversation with Peter Galison and Elaine Scarry ](https://youtu.be/u8QrGTlCKXE) ![Robert J. Oppenheimer](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_scale_small/public/mahindra/files/oppie_600x400.png?itok=dnZEolXv) [### Creativity, Art, and Leadership in Prison and Beyond ](https://youtu.be/hssZmm9g08M) ![Last One Done in a Cell, by Vincent Nardone](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/mahindra/files/creativity_art_leadership_600x400.png?itok=sDoZx9tj) [### Norton Lecture Four: On Crossing Borders | Viet Thanh Nguyen | To Save and to Destroy: On Writing as an Other ](https://youtu.be/4AhzxqF7L9c) ![Viet Thanh Nguyen](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/mahindra/files/mhch_web_nguyen_banner_video_600x400px.jpg?itok=RfB2_TWm) [### Norton Lecture Three: On the Death of Asian Americans | Viet Thanh Nguyen | To Save and to Destroy: On Writing as an Other ](https://youtu.be/CePIdZ5Rnro) ![Viet Thanh Nguyen](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/mahindra/files/mhch_web_nguyen_banner_video_600x400px.jpg?itok=RfB2_TWm) [### Geoff Dyer in conversation with Maya Jasanoff ](https://youtu.be/oIUQeocNaVo) ![Geoff Dyer](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/mahindra/files/dyer_600x400.png?itok=rK5AiWhn) [### Heather Houser: Rethinking Reproduction in Climate Crisis ](https://youtu.be/GYeSyNpc3G4) ![untitled-1.png](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/mahindra/files/untitled-1.png?itok=OfW6CnHq) [### Psychedelics in Society and Culture: A Conversation with Michael Pollan ](https://youtu.be/S4KpLWu-pBs) ![Michael Pollan](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_scale_small/public/mahindra/files/pollan_600x400.png?itok=ni2rHnI6) [### Raven Leilani in conversation with Jesse McCarthy ](https://youtu.be/csdwdez17Lw) ![Raven Leilani](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/mahindra/files/leilani_thumbnail.png?itok=RyAErsnJ) - Previous page chevron\_left - [1](?page=0 "Current page") - [2](?page=1 "Go to page 2") - [3](?page=2 "Go to page 3") - [4](?page=3 "Go to page 4") - [5](?page=4 "Go to page 5") - [ Next page chevron\_right ](?page=1 "Go to next page")