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Each lecturer site includes biographical and bibliographical information about the speaker as well as essays, critical texts, excerpts, and links to other relevant information.

Upcoming Speakers


SPRING 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
Complete Schedule


Past Speakers

WINTER 2008
Richard Taruskin

FALL 2007
Simon Schama

SPRING 2007
Joan W. Scott

WINTER 2007
Partha Chatterjee
This lecture was rescheduled as part of the November, 2007 conference
Ethnicity in Today's Europe

FALL 2006
Talal Asad

SPRING 2006
Amy Gutmann

WINTER 2006
Douglas Hofstadter

FALL 2005
Lani Guinier

SPRING 2005
Carolyn Abbate

WINTER 2005
Merce Cunningham

FALL 2004
Kwame Anthony Appiah

SPRING 2004
Isabel Allende
Wendy Doniger

FALL 2003
Hazel Carby

SPRING 2003
Bruno Latour

WINTER 2002-2003
Peter Brown
Maya Lin
   This lecture was cancelled; however, the lecture website is available.

SPRING 2002
Lynn Hunt

WINTER 2001-2002

Elaine Scarry

WINTER 2000-2001
Gayatri Spivak

FALL 2000
Roger Chartier

SPRING 2000
Wolfgang Iser

WINTER 1999-2000
Marjorie Garber
Homi Bhabha


FALL 1999
Pina Bausch
Svetlana Alpers
Bei Dao

SPRING 1999
Jacques Derrida
Stefan Maul

WINTER 1998-99
Fredric Jameson
Beatriz Sarlo
Alexander Nehamas

FALL 1998
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Stephen Jay Gould
Karl Heinz Bohrer
Wole Soyinka

SPRING 1998
Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Peter Eisenman
Hélène Cixous
Harold Bloom



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