November 11, 2008--A conversation with Vinton Cerf, Vice President and "Chief Internet Evangelist" at Google about the future of the internet and Google

November 4, 2008--Guest host Joshua Landy, Professor of French at Stanford University, speaks with Lera Boroditsky, Professor of Psychology about language and thought.

October 28, 2008--A conversation with physician and author Abraham Verghese about internal medicine, the sociology of infectious diseases, the rehumanization of the doctor-patient relationship, and Dr. Verghese's literary career

October 21, 2008--A conversation with Italianist Heather Webb and educator Connie Solari about the physiology, theology, and poetics of the medieval heart, as well as the career of French Saint Madeleine Sophie Barat, the 19th century founder of the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and their international network of schools

October 14, 2008--A conversation with scholar Dick Davis about the history, culture, and poetry of ancient and medieval Persia

October 7, 2008--A conversation with scholar Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht about the philosophy of moods

September 30, 2008--A conversation with literary historian Nicholas Jenkins about the life and work of poet W.H. Auden

September 24, 2008--A conversation with Paul Robinson about the field of intellectual history, Freud, opera, and gay autobiography

April 10, 2008--Erwin Schrödinger on Mind and Matter: A Coda by Robert Harrison

April 1, 2008--A monologue by Robert Harrison about Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron