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Past Seminars

1992-
1993

"The Uses and Misuses of Other Cultures"
Robert Levy, NHC Fellow 1992, UNC-Chapel Hill

1992

"Literature and Ethical Values"
Eugene Goodheart, NHC Fellow 1987-88, Brandeis University
Alvin Kibel, MIT

1993

 

"Constructing Selves"
Patricia Meyer Spacks, NHC Fellow 1982-83; 1988-89, Board of Trustees; University of Virginia
James Olney, NHC Fellow 1980-81, Louisiana State University
Steven Marcus, NHC Fellow 1980-82, Board of Trustees; Columbia University

1994

 

"Cultural Memory"
Marianne Hirsch, NHC Fellow 1992-93, Dartmouth College
Leo Spitzer, NHC Fellow 1992-93, Dartmouth College

1994

 

"Feminism: Visions and Re-visions"
Daphne Patai, NHC Fellow 1990-91, University of Massachusetts

1995

"What is an American?"
Andrew Delbanco, NHC Fellow 1990-91, Columbia University
John Kasson, NHC Fellow 1980-81, UNC-Chapel Hill

1995

"Ordering Nature"
Harriet Ritvo, NHC Fellow 1989-90, MIT

1996

 

"Cultural Wars & American Democracy"
Charles Capper, NHC Fellow 1994-95, UNC-Chapel Hill
Robert Ferguson, NHC Fellow 1994-95, Columbia University

1996

 

"Hebrew Bible (OT) in Cultural Contexts"
Jack Sasson, NHC Fellow 1994-95, Vanderbilt University

1997

 

"Transmitting the Hurt: Ethnicity, Nationalism, and
Genocide in the Late Twentieth Century"
Claudia Koonz, NHC Fellow 1993-94, Duke University

1997


"Cultural Politics of the Family"
Nancy Scheper-Hughes, NHC Fellow 1989-90; 1994-95, University of California, Berkeley
Carol Stack, University of California, Berkeley

1998

 

"The 1890s and the Twentieth Century"
Steven Marcus, NHC Fellow 1980-82, Board of Trustees; Columbia University
Denis Donoghue, NHC Fellow 1991-92; 1995-96; 1996-97; 1997-98; 1998-99, Board of Trustees; New York University

1998

 

"Universal Human Rights in Multicultural Contexts"
Elizabeth Kiss, NHC Fellow 1995-96, Duke University

1999

"What is Public? What is Private?"
Jean Bethke Elshtain, NHC Fellow 2000-01, Board of Trustees; University of Chicago

1999

"The Foucault Experience"
Thomas Flynn, NHC Fellow 1991-92, Emory University

2000

 

"Constructing America: Cross-Cultural Passages to a New Life"
Bertram Wyatt-Brown, NHC Fellow 1989-90; 1998-99, University of Florida
Anne Wyatt-Brown, University of Florida

2000

 

"Nature, Place, and Meaning"
Stephen Pyne, NHC Fellow 1979-80, Arizona State University

2001

 

"Power and Influence: the Power of Incentives"
Ruth Grant, 1999-2000, Duke University

2001

"Uses of Biography: Life-writing across the Disciplines"
Suzanne Raitt, NHC Fellow 1998-99, College of William and Mary

2002

 

"You Must Remember This:
The Creation and Uses of Cultural Memory"
Thomas Laqueur, NHC Fellow 2000-01, University of California, Berkeley

2002

"Things Which are Caesar's, Things Which are God's:
Religion, Liberal Democracy, and the Public Forum"
Paul Weithman, NHC Fellow 2000-01, University of Notre Dame

2003

"Postcolonial Theory and the Globalization of Culture"
Gaurav Desai, NHC Fellow 2001-02, Tulane University

2003

"Humanitarian Intervention: Legal, Ethical and Political Dilemmas"
Allen Buchanan, NHC Fellow 2001-02, Duke University
Jeff Holzgrefe, Duke University

2004

"Autobiography and Historical Experience"
Jeremy D. Popkin, NHC Fellow 2000-01, University of Kentucky

2004

"The Tales Things Tell: Deciphering Material Culture"
Deborah A. Cohen, NHC Fellow 2001-02, Brown University

2005

"Space: Familiar, Sacred, Contested, Compulsory"
Annabel Wharton, NHC Fellow 1985-86; 2002-03, Department of Art and Art History, Duke University

2005

"Sport, Culture, and Society"
Lewis A. Erenberg, NHC Fellow 2003-04, Department of History, Loyola University Chicago

2006

"Turning Literature Into Film: The Poetics and Politics of Adaptation"
Joseph Luzzi, NHC Fellow 2004-05, Italian Studies, Bard College

2006

"Going Global: Environmental History and the Exchange of Animals, Plants, and Ideas"
Harriet Ritvo, NHC Fellow 1989-90; 2002-03, Arthur J. Conner Professor of History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mart Stewart, NHC Fellow 2002-03, Professor, Department of History Affiliate Professor, Huxley College of Environmental Studies, Western Washington University

2007

"Human Nature: Ethical Implications of Biological, Cultural, and Technological Transformation"
Allen Buchanan, NHC Fellow 2001-02, James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Public Policy Studies, Stanford Institute, Duke University
Alex Rosenberg, NHC Fellow 2006-07, R. Taylor Cole Professor of Philosophy, Duke University
Jesse Prinz, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

2007

"Turning Literature Into Film: The Poetics and Politics of Adaptation"
Joseph Luzzi, NHC Fellow 2004-05, Italian Studies, Bard College







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