Lecture and Workshop Series : Programs : Humanities Center : University of Rochester

Lecture and Workshop Series

2024-2025

Bruno Carvalho, Harvard University, "The Invention of the Future: Cities of Tomorrow Then and Now"
Lucas Hilderbrand, University of California, Irvine, "The Bars Are Ours and the Visual Culture of Gay Bars in America, 1960 and After"
Caroline Levine, Cornell University, "Studying the Humanities in the Climate Crisis, or a Tale of Three Pipelines"
Winnie Wong, University of California, Berkeley, "Marcel Duchamp, Chinese Artist"

For more information on this year's lecture series, click here.

Past speakers include:

2023-2024

Joshua Rashaad McFadden, Rochester Institute of Technology: "Trials Dark on Every Hand: Perpetual Black Grief and Injustice"
Sianne Ngai, University of Chicago: Inhabiting Error: From “Last Christmas” to “Senior’s Last Hour”
Cailin O'Connor, University of Califoria, Irvine: "Curation and Misinformation"
Dmitry Bykov, Russian writer & scholar in exile: "The ideology, myths and rituals of Russian Deep State"
Juliet Hooker, Brown University: "Why Erica Garner Also Couldn't Breathe: Maternal Grief and Black Politics"

Artwork by Adam Maida

2022-2023

Nasser Rabbat, MIT, “A Shared Heritage of Knowledge: Postclassical Architecture and Transculturalism”
Lesley Nicole Braun, University of Basel, "Rhythms of Trade and Siren Songs: Importation Practices in the Democratic Republic of Congo"
Johana Londoño, University at Albany, SUNY, “Abstraction as an Ideal Future: The aesthetic politics of Latinx Urbanism”
Tara Zahra, University of Chicago, “Against the World: Anti-Globalization Movements in Interwar Europe and America”

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Artwork by Adam Maida

2019-2020 "Communities"

2018-2019 "Expertise and Evidence":

Nick Lemann, Joseph Pulitzer II and Edith Pulitzer Moore Professor of Journalism; Dean Emeritus, Columbia University
Peter Kramer, Clinical Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown University
Jennifer Lackey, Wayne and Elizabeth Jones Professor of Philosophy, Northwestern University
Jennifer Mnookin, Dean, David G. Price and Dallas P. Price Professor of Law, UCLA Law

2017-2018 "Memory and Forgetting":

Douglas Crimp (Fanny Knapp Allen Professor of Art History and Professor of Visual and Cultural Studies, University of Rochester)
Walid Raad '93MA '96PhD (contemporary media artist)
Orhan Pamuk (novelist, screenwriter, academic and recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature)
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (300th Anniversary University Professor of History, Harvard University)
Daniela Schiller (Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Associate Professor of Neuroscience, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai)

2016-2017 "Environments":

Andrea Wulf (acclaimed writer and historian)
Andrew Light (University Professor of Philosophy and Public Policy, and Director of the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy at George Mason University)
Carol Dougherty (Margaret E. Deffenbaugh and LeRoy T. Carlson Professor in Comparative Literature; Professor of Classical Studies, Wellesley College)
Gregg Mitman (Vilas Research and William Coleman Professor of History of Science, Medical History, and Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin)

Inaugural Lecture Series featuring Center directors

Gerald Early (Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters, Professor of English and of African and Afro-American Studies, Washington University in St. Louis), Read more>
Caroline Winterer (Anthony P. Meier Family Professor in the Humanities, Professor of History and, by courtesy, of Classics, Director, Humanities Center, Stanford University)
Deborah Jenson (Professor of Romance Studies and Global Health, Director, Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke University)
David Shumway (Professor of English and Literary and Cultural Studies, Director, The Humanities Center, Carnegie Mellon University)

For details about the speakers’ visits, see listings under Events.