143 Lecturers and counting…
LLCLS is a community-building lecture series.
We invite people to become lecturers on any topic outside of their core field of expertise.
We encourage talks about anything else - obsessions, off-the-cuff curiosities, personal anecdotes, amateur ‘research’, guilty pleasures, Wikipedia wormhole findings…
Painters talk macro-economics. Techies talk royal family gossip. Carpenters talk their favorite poet.
After the lecture, we mingle and chat over pizza.
Season Eight - 2024
Episode 4
Andy Boay - TBD
Mary Simpson - TBD
Annie Yuan Zhuang - TBD
Episode 3
Sideara St. Claire - Unexpected Combinations + www.archive.org
Phil Ballman - Easter Island & Rapamycin
Episode 2
Coco Núñez - Sex Positivity
Anabelle Pang - Is the World a Simulation?..Consider Precious Moments™Dolls
Episode 1
Elæ Moss - Scale Figures: Reclaim, Rebirth, and Retrofit
Dagner Segura - The Infinite Power of The Energy
Season Seven - 2023
Episode 9
Lena Hawkins - My Obsession with ‘333’
Steven Thompson - Anecdotes + Consciousness
Episode 8
co-curated by Resham Mantri
Lucia Harmon - ‘Play’ is in my DNA
Felipe Galganni- Makeup: The First 30 Times I Applied Drag Makeup
Episode 7
Ahmed Zaid - “The Onlyest Thing” - ‘The Now’, & Consciously Choosing Who One Becomes Through Identifying One’s Own 'Motifs’
Anabella Zubillaga - A Story about My Jacket, “The Edgar” , & the Metaphors Leading to Dignity.
Episode 6
co-curated by Laura Rivera-Ayala
Jennifer Medina - The Proust Effect: Scent, Emotion, and Memory
Sebastián Meltz-Collazo - Eternal Flames and Human Combustion
Episode 5 - Denver, CO at D3 Arts
co-curated by Ryan Conarro
Luis Antonio Perez - La Bamba
Andrew Kramer - Vegan Cheese
Brooke Tomiello - Linking My Friend’s Interests
Episode 4 - Albuquerque, NM at Old Walls Gallery
co-curated by Jessica Krichels
Michelle Holdt // GPS & Moving through the World as a Goddess
Caleb Esquivel // Dance Dance Revolution and Me
Janice Noehulani // Dementia
Episode 3 - Baton Rouge, LA at Yes We Cannibal
Damien Mitchell // ‘South’s Got Somethin’ to Say’ - Brief History of Southern Rap
Court Holden // Nostalgia
Episode 2
co-curated by Renado Tozer
Kim Macharia // Blue Mind Theory
Maureen Catbagan // AI and the Future of Freedom
Episode 1
Elise Pepple // Psychodrama
Dr. Pat // Southernisms to Language to Language in Baseball to Baseball
Ezra Sun Wallace // TikTok: Nostalgia and Spacetime
Season Six - 2020
Episode 9
Amber Later // I Want to Believe
Ellen Reid // The History of Shoulder Pads
Episode 8
Alisa Guera // Saturn's Revolutionary Retrograde
Jean Coleman // Amy Fisher
Episode 7
Nick Ruppel // Grilled Cheese + My Grandmother
Wayne Cornwall Jr. // Coding and Problem Solving
Episode 6
Manuela Viera Gallo // The Green Gold (aka Avocado)
Tamara Gayer // Why thinking about school is driving me insane. And what can we do about it together.
Episode 5
Peter BD // How to be Average
Violet Monsour // Joan Quigley
Episode 4
Shelby Knauss // Rosanne Barr
Maíra Senise // Tecno Brega
Episode 3
Grace Pozniak // Ode to the Fan Girl
Renado Tozer // Unconditional Love/Interracial Adoption
Episode 2
Jason Grisell // Wildland Firefighting as an Inmate Firefighter
Max Buckner // Camping / Look Good, Feel Good, Do Good
Episode 1
Lauren Sandler // Dora Maar
Daniel DeBiasio // A Copy of a Copy of a Comic
Season Five - 2019
Episode 9
Myriah Towner // Public Libraries Saved My Life
Shayna Dunkelman // Female Representation in the Music World (especially in the classical music scene)
Episode 8
Maria Elena Pombo // Irene Sáez: Miss Universe to (Almost) President
Hollis Witherspoon // Women Cult Leaders
Episode 7
Aliya Bonar // Eating Food Together is Important
Lydia Brawner // What I know about Professional Wrestling...so far
Episode 6
Christian Joy // Otzi the Iceman
Carvell Wallace // People In Love On Love
Episode 5
Khalilah Beavers // Seeing people in your dreams
Arjun Ram Srivatsa // Basketball (comedically)
Episode 4
Lily Roche // Horse Girls
Gigi Ruppel // How to Make Friends
Episode 3
Cat Tyc // How I see contemporary female pop stars as avatars of intersectional feminism
Luciana Achugar // What is ‘not my job’?
Episode 2
Zefrey Throwell // Charles Mingus
Jason Coombs // Escape from Analysis Paralysis: Apophenia, Evolution, & Metafiction (or How I learned to stop worrying & love Link-Link Club)
Episode 1
Molly Be // Stand Up Comedy & Depression
Ashanti Albert // Coming to America - My Story Immigrating from Guyana
Season Four - 2018
Episode 9
Jordi Borras // Circular Economy
Angela Luna // Ghosts & Energy Wavelengths
Episode 8
Fiamma Seda // Waste Management
John Mercer Moore // Microdosing
Episode 7
Resham Mantri // Love
Joe Ahearn // Rubberband Neurons
Episode 6
Tony Lowe // Meditation is Chill, But Why?
Samantha Moeller // Fortnight
Episode 5
J G Zimmerman // WWII aviation & subsequent influences on counterculture
T M Kennedy // Personal Space
Episode 4
Micah Andrew Moore // Learning a New Language
Ryan Conarro // Kayak
Episode 3
Melanie Frazza // You Can Pivot & It’s Not Failure
Jeff Tobias // How We (or I) Understand Politics
Episode 2
Laura Rivera Ayala // Derek Walcott
José Miguel López // The Concorde
Episode 1
Simon Lee // Hillsborough Disaster in 1989
Jesse Hlebo // convenience culture and the unwitting enslavement of devices
Season Three - 2017
Episode 9
Mariangela López // Shit
Mandisa Wright // Touch Each Other
Episode 8
Margo Demarco // Fremont Arts Council
Grace Lilly // Good Clean Fun
Episode 7
Claudia Mauro // Saudade
Zannie Owens // Feminism in the age of information technology
Episode 6
JH Phrydas // Poetry (in the 21st Century?)
Dawn Kim // Drones are everywhere and nowhere
Episode 5
Romy Cenerizio // Sleep Cycles
Leah Ordonia // Ancient & Native Plant Medicine Practices...and Ayahuasca Ceremonies
Episode 4
Lauren Willson // Nutrition
Gary Upay'aq Beaver // Kasigluk Tour
Episode 3
Hang Pham // Cuisine from Hanoi
Elizabeth Collins // The Enneagram of Personality
Episode 2
Joe Kubler // The Birth of Disco
Kate Barney // Poetry and the Path to the Divine
Episode 1
Chandi Lancaster // The Negro Traveler’s Greenbook ***link to resources***
Oliver Jones // Traditionalism, Elitism, Fascism ...Delving into history & context
Season Two - 2016
Episode 9
Mika Mason // Nuances of Language & Names within Databases
John Crowe // Three Body Problem
Episode 8
Javier Barboza // Tortillas & Religious Symbols
D.V. Caputo // Japanese Pop Music History (80s - now)
Episode 7
Sarah Babin // Amanda Knox
Cathy de la Cruz // Being a Woman Over 30 and Making It
Episode 6
Liz New // Knitting & The Story of My Birth
Julian Bozeman // Random Technology Words & Their Origins
Episode 5
Geoff Edlins // Heroclitis
Elizabeth Collins // I Ching
Episode 4
Patrick Bozeman // Housing Bubble
Chelsea Avery // Secret Language of Utility Workers
Episode 3
Nat Roe // Chinese Economy
Kelie Bowman // My hike with my dad up Kilimanjaro
Episode 2
McDavid Moore // Mardi Gras (I’ve never been)
Anna Lockhart // Reiki
Episode 1
Charles Broskoski // Bohm Methodology
Ofri Cnaani // ‘Having it all’...glossary of Kibbutz
Season One - 2015
Episode 9
Jack Henry // Elmyr de Hory, art forger
Erin Barnhart // Nonverbal Communication
Episode 8
Jordan Michael Ianucci // Professional Wrestling: History, etc
Michelle Ishikawa // Plants Are People Too
Episode 7
Brent Collins // Abstract and thematic board games
Stefan Hilts // Guaranteed minimum income & the end of work
Bill Boling // Instagram and new ways of seeing
Episode 6
Evan Silverstein // Frank Kupka Lifestyle
John Michael Boling // Why does anyone do anything or move anywhere?
Episode 5
Rachel Abelson // Novels & Poems written by computers
Travis Hallenbeck // Steven K Roberts & Peter Jenkins
Jason Tschantré // Dumpster Diving
Episode 4
Sarah Conarro // List of People’s Dreams Come True
Millie Kapp // Dyslexia and Dance
Keith Winsted // Lightning
Episode 3
John Crowe // Difference between ghosts & spirits
Susan Fang // Empress Dowager Cixi of Beijing
Episode 2
Sean Nicholas Savage // Dreams and Spirituality
Matthew Menkevich // Maxwell Bodenheim
Episode 1
Will Goss // Astro Boy
Sarah Campen // We Carry Our Family (surprising genetics)
Episode 0 - pilot
Julian Bozeman // Feedback Systems