(59:43) Join David Steiner, Professor and Executive Director of the Institute for Education Policy at Johns Hopkins, as he shares a portrait of America’s K-12 Education system and suggests that it suffers from fundamental fragmentation. Steiner will then consider if there is a way – in our wonderfully diverse society – of building a more effective approach to ensure real equality of opportunity for our children. Perhaps, we may conclude, COVID-19 might just offer a moment for crucial change. To learn more about upcoming live lectures, visit https://www.jhu.edu/hopkinsathome/

(58:55) Johns Hopkins Technology Ventures Executive Director Christy Wyskiel has led a successful five-year campaign to reinforce and expand the Johns Hopkins innovation ecosystem. In this session, JHU Carey Business School Associate Professor Jim Liew talks to Christy about the pipeline and path forward for faculty inventions, a surge in student entrepreneurship activity, and what JHTV and other parts of the university are doing to ensure maximum impact in the COVID-19 era. Visit www.jhu.edu/hopkinsathome to see more lectures and mini-courses.

(55:54) How do we assign responsibility or blame for a pandemic? Who is deserving or undeserving of government assistance during a public health crisis? Who do we trust to provide us with information about the risks associated with coronavirus? There is no single ‘right’ answer to these questions. Instead, it is through the political process that we assign responsibility, decide who is deserving, or who we trust. In this lecture, Adam Sheingate, Professor of Political Science, explores several ways the work of Political Science addresses these questions in ways that can provide insight into the current Covid-19 crisis and the struggle over a government response. Visit www.jhu.edu/hopkinsathome to see more lectures and mini-courses.

(41:33) Join KT Ramesh, founding director of the Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute (HEMI), on a visual exploration of the story of shocks in materials and in systems. We study impact craters, earthquakes, nuclear events, and the life and death of asteroids. Finally, we explore creative extensions into the visual arts, the collapse of societies, and even your morning commute. Visit https://www.jhu.edu/hopkinsathome to learn more.

(44:48) Join KT Ramesh, founding director of the Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute (HEMI), on a visual exploration of the story of shocks in materials and in systems. We study impact craters, earthquakes, nuclear events, and the life and death of asteroids. Finally, we explore creative extensions into the visual arts, the collapse of societies, and even your morning commute. Visit https://www.jhu.edu/hopkinsathome to learn more.

(1:00:25) Nuclear weapons have long played a central but often unappreciated role in American grand strategy. In spite of the unimaginable consequences of their use in war, we know far less about how the bomb shapes U.S. national security and world politics than we should. In this lecture, Francis J. Gavin -- the Giovanni Agnelli Distinguished Professor and the inaugural director of the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs at Johns Hopkins SAIS -- seeks to disturb this complacency about the role of nuclear weapons in U.S. grand strategy to explore important questions: What is the rationale for these weapons, and how do they advance America’s interests in the world? Visit www.jhu.edu/hopkinsathome to see more lectures and mini-courses.

(56:46) From toilet paper to hand sanitizer, as the COVID19 outbreak grew into a pandemic people began sweeping the shelves, both physically and virtually, of these necessities. For some, these items were for their personal use, but for others, a financial opportunity had presented itself. Mario Macis - Associate Professor of Economics at the Carey Business School - explores the economic and ethical impacts of these decisions in a time of crisis. Visit www.jhu.edu/hopkinsathome to see more lectures and mini-courses.

(29:04) Thomas Dolby - the Homewood Professor of the Arts and head of the Peabody Conservatory’s Music for New Media program - answers the question: "Why use music in films?" in this detailed explanation of the history and conventions of musical scoring for films and TV, with a look into the future of interactive music for games and VR. Visit www.jhu.edu/hopkinsathome for more lectures and mini-courses.

(54:58) Evelyne Ender - Senior Lecturer in the Department of Comparative Thought and Literature - delves into Persuasion, through which Austen provides a line-up of characters who are forced by circumstances or illness to watch and experience life from the sidelines. Visit www.jhu.edu/hopkinsathome to see more lectures and mini-courses.

(54:58) Evelyne Ender - Senior Lecturer in the Department of Comparative Thought and Literature - explores how novels such as Emma and Persuasion can do more than nourish an attraction towards romance. In exploring such volatile entities as beauty, wit, secret loves, or fatal attractions, they invite an exploration of social configurations that do not necessarily lead to happiness. Visit www.jhu.edu/hopkinsathome for more lectures and mini-courses.

(1:00:16) Join Jeffrey Brooks, Professor of History in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, as he introduces you to "The Firebird and the Fox: Russian Culture under Tsars and Bolsheviks." Dr. Brooks emphasizes three insights readers might take away from the book, related to the cultural ramifications of the political, economic, social, and technological changes that Russia experienced between 1850 and 1950. He focuses on the ways that these changes reverberated through both high culture and commercial work, through symbols such as firebirds, foxes, and fools. Visit www.jhu.edu/hopkinsathome to see more lectures.

(51:52) Join Betsy Bryan, the Alexander Badawy Chair in Egyptian Art and Archaeology, as she shares artifacts and discoveries from twenty years of "Investigating the Temple of the Goddess Mut at South Karnak." Session 4 involves "Interpreting the ancient New Kingdom temple and the rituals of the goddess Mut." Go to www.jhu.edu/hopkinsathome to see more lectures and mini-courses.

(57:43) In Session 2, Hanna Pickard - a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Bioethics cross-appointed to the William H. Miller III Department of Philosophy and the Berman Institute of Bioethics - defines the puzzle of addiction along with the choice in addiction moving beyond the debate between moral and disease models; why do people use drugs; how to solve the puzzle in terms of brain, mind, identity, society; and understanding individual differences and the heterogeneity of addiction. Visit www.jhu.edu/hopkinsathome to see more lectures and mini-courses.

(50:55) In Session 1, Travis N. Rieder - a philosopher and bioethicist at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, where he directs the Master of Bioethics degree program - covers the simultaneous under treatment and overtreatment of pain; the history of pain medicine and opioid misuse in America; how understanding this history helps to understand American medicine’s mistake of he "opioid dilemma;" and how we can responsibly use opioids even against the backdrop of a drug overdose crisis. Visit www.jhu.edu/hopkinsathome to see more lectures and mini-courses.

(1:00:59) Luis Quintero, Assistant Professor at the Carey Business School, explores how the COVID19 and climate change crises are similar in many ways, how they are directly connected, and how the pandemic can change the prospects of our abilities to become more sustainable and avoid address the threat of irreversible damage to our climate. Visit https://www.jhu.edu/hopkinsathome to learn more.

(1:01:20) In Session 3, recorded as a live webcast, Hanna Pickard - a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Bioethics cross-appointed to the William H. Miller III Department of Philosophy and the Berman Institute of Bioethics - and Travis N. Rieder - a philosopher and bioethicist at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, where he directs the Master of Bioethics degree program -- tackle trends, causes, and potential solutions related to drugs and addiction. Visit www.jhu.edu/hopkinsathome to see more lectures and mini-courses.

(19:27) For musicians hoping to get experience in a professional recording studio, or those wanting to hone their home recording chops—or just music fans!—here is a primer on how a recording session is conducted, how to prepare and rehearse for it, and the roles of the musicians, producer and sound engineer. Thomas Dolby - the Homewood Professor of the Arts and head of the Peabody Conservatory’s Music for New Media program - leads this discussion about "What happens in the recording studio?" Visit www.jhu.edu/hopkinsathome to see more mini-courses and lectures.

(1:02:05) Join Yitzhak Melamed, the Charlotte Bloomberg Professor of Philosophy, as he leads you through his research in which he attempts to distinguish between facts and myths in the various narratives surrounding the Herem issued against Spinoza by the Portuguese Jewish Community in Amsterdam. Yitzhak will argue that (1) the description of the event as ‘excommunication’ is highly misleading, and that (2) so far we have very poor knowledge as to the reasons for the Herem since the explanations suggested thus far are mostly ideological myths. Visit www.jhu.edu/hopkinsathome to see more lectures.

(30:33) If you’re a singer or instrumentalist that learned about music using "conventional" notation, sight reading and ear training, this presentation on "How do computers think about music?" will teach you the fundamentals of computer music software such as MIDI sequencers and digital audio workstations. Thomas Dolby - the Homewood Professor of the Arts and head of the Peabody Conservatory’s Music for New Media program - leads this session encouraging viewers to dive in and get creative with Garageband, Logic Pro, or Cakewalk, as well as plug-ins and sample libraries. Visit www.jhu.edu/hopkinsathome to see more mini-courses and lectures.

(1:00:40) What is the future of world order? The international system built out of the Second World War is showing signs of strain, if not crisis. Francis Gavin, the Giovanni Agnelli Distinguished Professor and the inaugural Director of the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs at SAIS, explores questions about the material, political, and intellectual foundations of the current world order and its likely future direction. Visit www.jhu.edu/hopkinsathome to see more lectures.