2000s
David Goldberg (2009-2010)
Oct 30, 2009
“Enduring Occupations on Racial Neoliberalism” David Theo Goldberg is the Director of the University of California Humanities Research Institute. He is also Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. As a [...]
Marjorie Garber (2008-2009)
Jan 20, 2009
“After the Humanities” Marjorie Garber is the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of English and of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University. She is the author of nineteen single-authored books and the editor or co-editor of seven edited collections. She has also [...]
Lewis Wolpert (2007-2008)
Jan 30, 2008
“What Determines Our Beliefs?” Lewis Wolpert is Emeritus Professor of Biology as Applied to Medicine in the Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology at University College London. He is a developmental biologist and a well-known advocate for public scientific [...]
Frederick A. de Armas (2007-2008)
Jan 20, 2008
“Quixotic Frescos: Cervantes and Italian Art” Frederick A. de Armas is the Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Service Professor in the Humanities, Spanish Literature, and Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago. He is a literary scholar, critic and novelist whose [...]
David Kuhl (2007-2008)
Jan 10, 2008
“What Dying People Want” David Kuhl is Associate Professor in the Department of Family Practice and the Centre for Practitioner Renewal at the University of British Columbia. He began his career in palliative care almost two decades ago, providing medical care for people [...]
Sherene Razack (2006-2007)
Jan 30, 2007
“Dangerous Muslim Men, Imperiled Muslim Women, and Civilized Europeans: Law and the War on Terror” Sherene Razack is Distinguished Professor and the Penney Kanner Endowed Chair in Women’s Studies at UCLA. She was previously Emeritus Professor in the Department of Social [...]
Elie Wiesel (2006-2007)
Nov 22, 2006
“Against Indifference” Elie Wiesel is a Nobel laureate and a Holocaust survivor. He was born in Sighet, Transylvania in 1928. His family was captured and transferred to the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944 two weeks before D-Day. There, his mother and sisters were taken [...]
Jack Preger (2006-2007)
Oct 20, 2006
“Urban and Rural Poverty in West Bengal: Some Solutions” Jack Preger is a doctor and humanitarian. Immediately after graduating from the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin in 1972, Preger travelled to Bangladesh to provide assistance to refugees of the Indo-Pakistan War. [...]
Allen Buchanan (2005-2006)
Feb 20, 2006
“Institutionalizing the Just War” Allen Buchanan is the James B. Duke Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus at Duke University. He received his PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1975. From 2011 until 2014, he was Professor of Law at Duke Law School. [...]
Roberto Cipriani (2005-2006)
Jan 30, 2006
“Human Values – Religious and Secular” Roberto Cipriani is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Roma Tre University. He has taught at the Universities of Buenos Aires, Sao Paulo, Recife, and Laval. He is Past President of the Italian Sociological Association and the ISA [...]
Eric L. Jones (2005-2006)
Jan 20, 2006
“Asian Values and the Self-Transformation of East Asia” Eric L. Jones is Professorial Fellow at Melbourne Business School, University of Melbourne, Emeritus Professor at La Trobe University, and Visiting Professor at Exeter University. He received his doctorate in economic [...]
The Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin (2005-2006)
Jan 12, 2006
“Judging in the 21st Century” Beverley McLachlin is the first woman to become Chief Justice of Canada’s Supreme Court of Canada. She gave royal assent to Canada’s Civil Marriage Act, which effectively legalized same-sex marriages in July 2005. She was born and raised in [...]