Dear Seminars Community, This has been a memorable spring in every way. Many in our community gathered on April 17 for the Annual Dinner. On this joyous occasion, Bob Pollack and I presented the Tannenbaum-Warner Award to Alice...

Alice Newton retired in August 2023 after 18 years of distinguished service at The University Seminars, where she worked with three directors and was herself Interim Director for three years (2019 -2022). From 1968, while a student at Rutgers University, and later at New...

Drawing from nearly two decades of research on US and international human trafficking, Melissa Hope Ditmore sets forth the harrowing stories of human trafficking survivors and grounds their accounts in the long history of US indentured servitude, looking...

The University Seminars Archive is a valuable compilation of intellectual history spanning nearly 75 years. In the academic year 1944-1945, five seminars began to meet on an ongoing basis; three of those original seminars remain active. Since these WWII-era beginnings,...