Leonard Hastings Schoff Memorial Lecture Series
1993 | David N. Cannadine The Rise and Fall of Class in Britain, 1700-2000 |
1994 | Charles E. Larmore The Romantic Legacy |
1995 | Saskia Sassen Governing the Global Economy |
1996 | Kenneth T. Jackson Gentleman’s Agreement: Political Balkanization and Social Inequality in America |
1997 | Ira Katznelson Desolation and Enlightenment: Political Knowledge After the Holocaust, Totalitarianism, and Total War |
1998 | Carol Gluck Past Obsessions: War and Memory in the Twentieth Century |
1999 | Robert Pollack The Faith of Biology and the Biology of Faith |
2000 | Lisa Anderson The Scholar and the Practitioner: Perspectives on Social Science and Public Policy |
2001 | Partha Chatterjee The Politics of the Governed |
2002 | David Rosand The Invention of Painting in America |
2003 | George Rupp Globalization Challenged: Conviction, Conflict, Community |
2004 | Lesley A. Sharp Bodies, Commodities, and Biotechnologies |
2005 | Robert W. Hanning Serious Play: Crises of Desire and Authority in the Poetry of Ovid, Chaucer, and Ariosto |
2006 | Boris Gasparov The Early Romantic Roots of Theoretical Linguistics: Friedrich Schlegel, Novalis, and Ferdinand De Saussure on Sign and Meaning |
2007 | Douglas Chalmers Representative Government Without Representatives: Seven Reasons to Think Beyond Electing Executives and Lawmakers |
2008 | No Lecture
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2009 | Philip Kitcher Deaths in Venice: The Case(s) of Gustav (Von) Aschenbach |
2010 | Jean E. Howard (Spring) Staging History: Imagining The Nation |
2010 | Alan Brinkley (Fall) Seeing The Great Depression |
2011| Robert L. Belknap Plot |
2012 | Herbert Terrace Why Two Minds are Better than One: The Evolution of Words |
2013 | Paige West Accumulation by Dispossession?: Loss, Change. And the Future of the Melanesian Pacific |
2014 | Annette Insdorf Coherence and Resonance: How To Read Film Openings |
2015| Robert E. Remez The Good Listener: Behavioral Neuroscience Considers the Perception of Speech |
2016 | Robert G. O’Meally “Fancy Sticks”: The Action-Art of Toni Morrison, Romare Bearden, and Jazz |
2017 | Edward Mendelson Medicine, Empire, Love: The Inner Life of Mrs. Dalloway |
2018 | Fred Lerdahl Reflections on Music and Language |
2019 | Madeleine Zelin China Semi-Incorporated: The Battle for a Chinese Legal Modernity in the Early Twentieth Century |
FALL 2022 | Robert Gooding-Williams Du Bois’s Political Aesthetics: The Ends of Democracy and the Ends of Beauty |
SPRING 2023 | John McWhorter Hidden Hybridities |