Past Events

2011-12 Academic Year

Tanner Lectures
Esther Duflo on "Human Values and the Design of the Fight against Poverty"
Wednesday, May 2, 2012 - 4:00pm
Volkswagen Fellowship Symposia
Demonic Technologies: Walter Benjamin and the Return of Religion in the Study of Technology
Saturday, April 28, 2012 - 9:15am
Volkswagen Fellowship Symposia
Demonic Technologies: Walter Benjamin and the Return of Religion in the Study of Technology
Friday, April 27, 2012 - 4:30pm
Norton Lectures
William Kentridge on "Drawing Lesson Six: Anti-Entropy"
Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - 4:00pm
Norton Lectures
Q&A with William Kentridge
Monday, April 23, 2012 - 7:30pm
Volkswagen Fellowship Symposia
Exchange along the Silk Roads between Rome and China in Antiquity: The Silk Trade
Saturday, April 21, 2012 - 9:00am
Volkswagen Fellowship Symposia
Exchange along the Silk Roads between Rome and China in Antiquity: The Silk Trade
Friday, April 20, 2012 - 4:00pm
The Rita E. Hauser Forum
Ian McEwan on "The Lever: Where Novelists Stand to Move the World"
Tuesday, April 17, 2012 - 3:30pm
Norton Lectures
William Kentridge on "Drawing Lesson Five: In Praise of Mistranslation"
Monday, April 16, 2012 - 4:00pm
Grad Student Conferences
How to End a Revolution: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference
Saturday, April 14, 2012 - 8:30am
Grad Student Conferences
How to End a Revolution: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference
Friday, April 13, 2012 - 9:00am
Undergrad Events
A conversation with Chad Harbach '97
Monday, April 9, 2012 - 6:00pm
Volkswagen Fellowship Symposia
Palace and Temple In the Late Bronze Age of the Ancient Near East
Saturday, April 7, 2012 - 9:00am
Volkswagen Fellowship Symposia
Palace and Temple In the Late Bronze Age of the Ancient Near East
Friday, April 6, 2012 - 4:30pm
Lecture by Claude Lanzmann
Thursday, March 22, 2012 - 6:00pm
Norton Lectures
William Kentridge on "Drawing Lesson One: In Praise of Shadows"
Tuesday, March 20, 2012 - 4:00pm
Undergrad Events
Interview with Linda Greenhouse
Thursday, March 8, 2012 - 6:00pm
Master Classes
Ingrid Monson on John Coltrane
Monday, February 27, 2012 - 6:00pm
"20" Questions
Steven Pinker on Violence
Thursday, February 16, 2012 - 6:00pm
Master Classes
Sugata Bose on the Late Phase of Tagore
Thursday, December 1, 2011 - 6:00pm
"20" Questions
Chris Hedges on Death of the Liberal Class
Monday, November 28, 2011 - 6:00pm
"20" Questions
Christie McDonald and Susan Suleiman on French Global
Thursday, October 13, 2011 - 6:00pm
Tenth Anniversary Observance of 9.11
"...And Who Is My Neighbor...?"
Tuesday, September 27, 2011 - 6:00pm
Tenth Anniversary Observance of 9.11
The Art of Survival: A Tenth Anniversary Observance of 9/11 in Words, Music, and Dance
Sunday, September 11, 2011 - 4:00pm

2010-11 Academic Year

Volkswagen Fellowship Symposia
"Theorizing the Commonwealth"
Wednesday, May 18, 2011 - 9:00am
Tanner Lectures
James Scott on “Four Domestications: Fire, Plants, Animals and…Us”
Wednesday, May 4, 2011 - 4:00pm
Thursday, May 5, 2011 - 4:00pm
Friday, May 6, 2011 - 10:00am
Volkswagen Fellowship Symposia
"The Making of Religion? Re-Describing Religious Change in Pre-modern Europe"
Friday, April 29, 2011 - 4:00pm
Saturday, April 30, 2011 - 9:30am
Master Classes
Hugh Haughton on Auden's "In Memory of W.B Yeats"
Monday, April 18, 2011 - 6:00pm
Volkswagen Fellowship Symposia
Politeia: Greek Citizenship in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods
Saturday, April 16, 2011 - 10:00am
Volkswagen Fellowship Symposia
Politeia: Greek Citizenship in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods
Friday, April 15, 2011 - 3:15pm
Master Classes
Ewa Lajer-Burcharth on Francois Boucher's "Breakfast"
Tuesday, April 5, 2011 - 12:19pm
Arts and Ideas
Intangibles: Immaterial Vectors, Agents, and Effects
Friday, April 1, 2011 - 4:30pm
Book Events
Svetlana Boym on Another Freedom: The Alternative History of an Idea
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 - 5:00pm
"20" Questions
James Kloppenberg on Obama
Thursday, March 10, 2011 - 6:00pm
Arts and Ideas
In the LIfe of Cities...Parallel Narratives of the Urban
Friday, March 4, 2011 - 3:00pm
Collaborations with the A.R.T.
Panel Discussion on Prometheus Bound
Wednesday, March 2, 2011 - 5:00pm
Digital Humanities
Digital Humanities 2.0
Thursday, February 10, 2011 - 6:00pm
Collaborations with the A.R.T.
Post-Performance Discussion of The Blue Flower
Tuesday, December 7, 2010 - 9:45pm
Medical Humanities
Caregiving: A Medical Humanities Symposium
Monday, December 6, 2010 - 4:00pm
Legal Humanities
After Brown, What Next?
Saturday, December 4, 2010 - 1:30pm
Legal Humanities
Ronald Dworkin on "Truth in Interpretation"
Friday, December 3, 2010 - 4:00pm
"20" Questions
Charles Fried and Gregory Fried on Because it is Wrong
Monday, November 8, 2010 - 6:00pm
The Regional and the Global
Serge Gruzinski on "What Time is it There?"
Tuesday, November 2, 2010 - 6:00pm
Book Events
Alan Riding on And the Show Went on
Monday, October 25, 2010 - 6:00pm
Book Events
"Stanley Cavell and Literary Studies: Consequences of Skeptcism"
Thursday, October 14, 2010 - 6:30pm
Master Classes
Richard Tuck on Jeremy Bentham
Wednesday, October 13, 2010 - 6:00pm
Arts and Ideas
Geoffrey Harpham on "How America Invented the Humanities"
Thursday, September 30, 2010 - 6:00pm
Undergrad Events
Linda Schlossberg on Teenage Wastelands
Wednesday, September 29, 2010 - 5:00pm
Collaborations with the A.R.T.
Panel Discussion on Cabaret
Monday, September 20, 2010 - 6:30pm