Hilldale Lecture Lecture Posters
PDFs of posters that accompanied select Hilldale Lectures since 2011
Hilldale Lectures in the Arts & Humanities
- Holland Cotter, Art Critic for the New York Times:
Found in Translation (2014-2015) - Frederick M. Denny, Professor Emeritus of Islamic Studies and the History of Religions, University of Colorado at Boulder:
Islam and Ecology: Environmental Values as Faith-Based Stewardship (2012-2013) - Mario Infelise, Professor of Early Modern Cultural History and History of the Book, University of Venice:
Ca' Foscari". "Inquisition and Censorship: (Early) Modern Perspectives on the Humanities (2011-2012) - David Maraniss, Associate Editor, The Washington Post; Author; and Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalist:
Into Sunlight: The connections of war and peace from Vietnam to Afghanistan, from Lyndon Johnson to Barack Obama, from a book to a dance (2010-2011) - Walter D. Mignolo, Professor of Literature and Romance Studies; Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Duke University:
Globalization and the Geopolitics of Knowing: A Decolonial View of the Humanities (2009-2010) - Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Professor of Literature, Stanford University:
A Future University Without Humanities? (2007-2008) - Peter Matthiessen, Author:
The Threat to Indigenous People and Our Ice Age Wildlife (2006-2007) - Brian Stock, Professor of History and Literature, University of Toronto:
Medicine, Literature, and the History of Reading: Some Ancient Solutions and Modern Problems in the Humanities (2003-2004) - Samuel Weber, Professor of Humanities, Northwestern University:
Too Late for Synagogue (2002-2003) - Jerome McGann, The John Stewart Bryan University Professor, University of Virginia:
The Gutenberg Variations (2001-2002) - John Baugh, Professor of Education and Linguistics, Stanford University:
Linguistics Discrimination and the Quest for Fair Housing (1999-2000) - Gwendolyn Brooks, winner of a Pulitzer Prize in Poetry:
Coming out of the Ice and Fire (1998-1999) - Guillermo Gómez Pena, Interdisciplinary Artist and Writer:
Mexican Cyborgs and Artificial Savages (1997-1998) - Hélène Cixous, Professor of Literature, University of Paris VIII:
Stigmata (1996-1997) - Han Suyin, Novelist, Memoirist, Political Writer:
Writing: A Many-Splendored Thing (1995-1996) - Peter Sellars, Director of the Los Angeles Festival:
Aerial Bombardment in the Culture Wars (1994-1995) - Lawrence L. Langer, Alumnae Chair of English (emeritus), Simmons College:
Memory's Time: Chronology and Duration in Holocaust Testimonies (1993-1994) - Jerome Pollitt, John M. Schiff Professor of Classical Archaeology and History of Art, Yale University:
The Pheidian Vision of Athena (1992-1993) - Anthony M. Snodgrass, Museum of Classical Archaeology, University of Cambridge:
The Meaning of Iron (1991-1992) - Catharine R. Stimpson, University Professor, Dean of the
Graduate School, and Vice Provost for Graduate Education, Rutgers
University:
More on Post-Modernism (1990-1991) - G. Thomas Tanselle, Vice President of the John Simon Guggenheim
Memorial Foundation and Adjunct Professor of English and Comparative
Literature, Columbia University:
Libraries, Museums, and Reading (1990-1991) - James H. Billington, Librarian of Congress:
The Future of the U.S.S.R. (1989-1990) - Richard Rorty, Kenon Professor of Humanities, University of Virginia:
Private Irony and Liberal Hope (1987-1988) - Nicholas Hammond, Professor Emeritus, Clare College, Cambridge University:
The Importance of Macedonia in World History (1985-1986) - Noam Chomsky, Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology:
Changing Perspectives on Knowledge and the Use of Language (1984-1985) - Salo W. Baron, Nathan L. Miller Professor of Jewish History, Literature and Institutions, Columbia University:
Is America Ready for Ethnic Minority Rights? (1983-1984) - Wayne C. Booth, Professor of English, University of Chicago:
Requiem for the Art of Reading (1982-1983) - Sir Ronald Syme, Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford:
Historical Fiction in the Roman Empire (1981-1982) - Conor Cruise O'Brien, Editor-in-Chief, The Observer:
Religion, Literature and Politics (1980-1981) - Hilton Kramer, Art Critic of The New York Times:
The Ethos of Abstractions (1979-1980) - Peter R.L. Brown, Professor of Classics and History, University of California at Berkeley:
Renunciation and Authority in Late Antiquity: The Philosopher and the Monk (1978-1979) - Carl Nordenfalk, Director Emeritus, National Museum, Stockholm:
The Five Senses in Medieval Art (1977-1978) - Maynard Mack, Sterling Professor of English and Director, The National Humanities Institute, Yale University:
Shakespeare's Othello: The Candle in the Dark (1976-1977) - Henry Nash Smith, Emeritus, University of California at Berkeley:
The Idea of a National Humanities Center (1975-1976) - William R. Emerson, Director, FDR Library, Hyde Park, New York:
The Second World War and Its Impact on the Humanities (1974-1975) - Howard Mumford Jones, Emeritus Professor of English, Harvard University:
The Humanities and Democracy (1973-1974)
No lecture presented in 2013-2014, 2008-2009, 2005-2006, 2004-2005, 2000-2001, 1988-1989, 1986-1987