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lectures listed below are open to the public; admission does not
require a ticket. Each lecturer site includes biographical and bibliographical
information about the speaker as well as essays, critical texts,
excerpts, and links to other related websites.
2007-2008
LECTURERS
Simon Schama
Art historian,
Columbia University
“The Abolition of the Slave Trade Two Hundred Years On —
America & Britain: Two Diverging Destinies?”
October 29-30, 2007
Partha Chatterjee
Director of the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta
Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University
“The Black Hole of Empire”
November 7-8, 2007
Richard Taruskin
Musicologist, University of California at Berkeley
“Shall We Change the Subject? A Music Historian Reflects”
March 3-4, 2008
Marina Warner
Novelist, mythographer and cultural historian,
University of Essex
“The Voice of the Toy: Writing Magic and Enchanted States”
Lecture: Monday, April 14 , 2008 at 7 p.m.,
Stanford Law School, Room 290
Discussion: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 at 4 p.m.,
Stanford Humanities Center
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