Virtual Roundtables Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/pbseries/virtual-roundtables/ a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship Sat, 17 Jan 2026 02:20:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.publicbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-favicon-2-300x300.png Virtual Roundtables Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/pbseries/virtual-roundtables/ 32 32 Virtual Roundtable on “The Ego and the Id” https://www.publicbooks.org/virtual-roundtable-on-the-ego-and-the-id/ Tue, 01 Oct 2019 15:00:17 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=30637 Freud’s ideas have long been absorbed by popular culture, but what role do they continue to play in the academy, in the ...

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]]> Virtual Roundtable on Fairness in College Admissions https://www.publicbooks.org/virtual-roundtable-on-fairness-in-college-admissions/ Fri, 22 Mar 2019 17:30:30 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=27191 The college admissions scandal exposed criminal and unethical actions that undermine the promise of the American university system. To get ... [none-for-homepage]

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]]> Virtual Roundtable on “The Mana of Mass Society” https://www.publicbooks.org/virtual-roundtable-on-the-mana-of-mass-society/ Wed, 01 Aug 2018 15:00:26 +0000 http://www.publicbooks.org/?p=22586 Many of anthropology’s terms of art are taken from afar. Especially in the half century after 1870 ...

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]]> Virtual Roundtable on Presidential First Use of Nuclear Weapons https://www.publicbooks.org/virtual-roundtable-on-presidential-first-use-of-nuclear-weapons/ Mon, 26 Feb 2018 16:00:32 +0000 http://www.publicbooks.org/?p=18610 Is it legal? Is it constitutional? Is it just?

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]]> Virtual Roundtable on “Compression” https://www.publicbooks.org/virtual-roundtable-compression/ Fri, 13 Oct 2017 15:00:36 +0000 http://www.publicbooks.org/?p=15960 The mass of objects lead quiet lives awaiting activation. On shelves or in boxes, as papers or digital files, storage furnishes an ever-present ...

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]]> Virtual Roundtable on Engaged Scholarship and Teaching https://www.publicbooks.org/virtual-roundtable-engaged-scholarship-teaching/ Mon, 18 Sep 2017 15:00:49 +0000 http://www.publicbooks.org/?p=15014 With political divisiveness and gaps in access to higher education intensifying, the imperative for universities to interact meaningfully with local and global communities has perhaps never been greater ...

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]]> Virtual Roundtable on “Get Out” https://www.publicbooks.org/virtual-roundtable-on-get-out/ Tue, 23 May 2017 15:00:00 +0000 http://www.publicbooks.org/?p=12744 In the weeks immediately following its release, Jordan Peele’s Get Out quickly established itself as the crossover film ...

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]]> Virtual Roundtable on “Future Sex” https://www.publicbooks.org/virtual-roundtable-future-sex/ Fri, 24 Mar 2017 15:00:37 +0000 http://www.publicbooks.org/?p=11181 On Emily Witt’s smart and sometimes menacing study of 21st-century intimacy.

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]]> Virtual Roundtable on“Description in the Novel” https://www.publicbooks.org/virtual-roundtable-ondescription-in-the-novel/ Tue, 15 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.publicbooks.org/virtual-roundtable-ondescription-in-the-novel/ This roundtable on description in the novel took place on May 3, 2016, at the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University. Concluding the inaugural year of the Novel Theory Seminar, the roundtable featured presentations by Wai Chee Dimock, Heather Love, William Mills Todd III, J. Keith Vincent, and Cynthia Wall. To solicit brief position papers […]

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]]> Virtual Roundtable on “UnREAL” https://www.publicbooks.org/virtual-roundtable-on-unreal/ Thu, 02 Jun 2016 05:00:00 +0000 http://www.publicbooks.org/virtual-roundtable-on-unreal/ Leading up to the launch of its second season this week, Sarah Gertrude Shapiro and Marti Noxon’s UnREAL has garnered both critical acclaim and scintillating buzz, especially since it was revealed that season 2’s “suitor” on the Bachelor-esque reality show-within-the-show is African American. To date, such a casting decision still hasn’t come to fruition in […]

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