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Transformative Thinkers Webinar Showcase

February-March 2026 (7:30-8:30 PM ET)

Explore the origins of some of history’s most influential ideas. Rather than focusing on the outcomes of world-changing insights, this series turns to their beginnings, the individuals whose lives and questions shaped them. Participants will hear from W&L faculty on the thinkers who redefined how we understand knowledge, morality, and society.

This webinar showcase brings together W&L lifelong learners of all ages and stages, offering an engaging look at the transformative lives and ideas that continue to shape our intellectual landscape.

Nathaniel Goldberg, February 24, 2026

Nathaniel Goldberg, Professor of Philosophy, will introduce the life and work of Immanuel Kant, whose philosophical work redefined the limits of human knowledge and reason. Perhaps the most influential thinker of the late 18th century, Kant advanced the idea that reality –or the nature of things – is perhaps no more than the result of human perception and intuition. This idea, that our own minds create the reality of things, has redefined how we think of natural law, morality, and aesthetics. Goldberg will bring to life the man that pushed that idea forward.

Angela Sun, March 10, 2026

Angela Sun, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, will make sense of Marx’s tremendous life, career, and ideas. Sun will allow us a greater understanding of Karl Marx’s own trajectory toward his transformational ideas.