Matthew Israel

May 21, 2014.

Matthew Israel (VC'00), Director of the Art Genome Project, talks about the Project, Artsy, and taxonomies of the history of art.

"The Art Genome Project's search technology is the product of an ongoing art-historical study—undertaken by a team of contributors with art-historical backgrounds—seeking to define the characteristics which distinguish and connect works of art, architecture, ancient artifacts and design."

30:30 minutes.

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Robert DeMaria, Jr.

March 5, 2014.

Robert DeMaria, Jr., Henry Noble McCracken Professor of English at Vassar College, talks about the paragon of eighteenth-century English scholarship and letters Samuel Johnson, Johnson's reading habits, his monumental Dictionary of the English Language, scholarly editing, and the final installments of the Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson.

33:42 minutes.

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