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
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”
Artwork by Adam Maida
2019-2020 "Communities"
- Bryan Lee, Jr., designer and design justice advocate
- Masha Gessen, journalist, author, translator and activist
- Valeria Luiselli, author
- Jared Farmer, Professor of History, Stony Brook University
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.