| Project Renaissance Fall Semester 1996. | Ricardo Nirenberg Lectures |
- Week of 9/3/96: "The Axiomatic Method." Excerpts from Euclid's Elements.
- Week of 9/26/96: "Language." Excerpt from Roland Barthes' "Inaugural Lecture, Collège de France"
- Week of 10/15/96: "Myths of the Otherworld: Love, Guilt and Memory."
- Week of 10/22/96: "Greek Tragedy: Aeschylus, Weaving and Birth."
- Week of 10/24/96: "The Presocratics: Being, Not-Being and Becoming"
- Heraclitus and Parmenides.
- Week of 10/29/96: "Space and Time"
- Week of 11/20/96: "The Astronomical Revolution & the Birth of Modern Science."
- Week of 12/2/96: "The Birth of Modern Science: Galileo and Descartes."