Hilldale Lecture Lecture Posters

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