The Power of Hospitality
Danny Meyer discusses the role and concept of hospitality in the context of the restaurant industry, and how hospitality contributes to an excellent dining experience and thus to a successful restaurant business.
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Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza
Writers Adina Hoffamn and Peter Cole discuss the recovery of a cache of Hebrew manuscripts from a Cairo geniza (repository for sacred text), whose discovery and analysis have shed light on 900 years of Jewish life.
Inscribing Food/Talking Life: New Orleans Past
Susan Tucker, Curator of Books and Records at the Newcomb Center for Research on Women, Tulane University, gives the third Franke lecture in the series “History of Food and Cuisine.” Her talk is entitled “Inscribing Food/Talking Life: New Orleans Past.”
Banquets and Politics in China
Joanna Waley-Cohen of New York University delivers the first Franke lecture in the 2011 series, “History of Food and Cuisine.” Her talk is titled “Banquets and Politics in China.”
The Sainte-Chapelle in Paris: Kingship, Crusading, and Legacy of Louis IX
In her 2010 Franke Lecture, Alyce Jordan speaks about the Sainte-Chapelle as an activated liturgical and royal space and how and why Louis the Ninth’s chapel proved such a successful vehicle for the articulation of his own monarchic agenda.
“The Sainte-Chapelle in Paris: Kingship, Crusading, and Legacy of Louis IX”
In her 2010 Franke Lecture, Alyce Jordan speaks about the Sainte-Chapelle as an activated liturgical and royal space and how and why Louis the Ninth’s chapel proved such a successful vehicle for the articulation of his own monarchic agenda.
"Guibert de Nogent and His Demons"
Jay Rubenstein discusses the 11th century monk and autobiographer, Guibert de Nogent, and works to place him in the particular intellectual and built environments of his time and location, though only fragmentary evidence from these environments survive.
Spatial Thinking
In her 2009 Franke Lecture, Prof. Barbara Tversky will speak on space and how it is accessed by many modalities. Prof. Tversky demonstrates how spatial knowledge is essential for survival and primary among the things in spaces is our body.
“emergent(cies)…,”
In her 2008 Franke Lecture, anthropologist Carolyn Nordstrom examines invisible networks of social spaces and interactions, especially the dangerous extra-state and extra-legal interactions that we are meant not to see. Paul Farmer responds to this talk.
“Hagia Sophia: An Alternative Biblical Architecture of Light”
In his 2010 Franke Lecture, Robert Nelson introduces Constantinople’s Hagia Sophia and discusses how Biblically resonant uses of light and darkness contribute to making the cathedral one of the great monuments of world architecture.
“Romanesque and Gothic as Biblical Architecture”
Walter Cahn, Carnegie Professor Emeritus of the History of Art at Yale, delivers the first Franke Lecture in the 2010 series, “The Age of Cathedrals.” Mr. Cahn discusses Romanesque and Gothic as self-consciously biblical architectural forms.