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

2008

"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

2008

"The Globalization of American Literary Studies"
Peter Mallios, NHC Fellow 2005-06, English and American Literature, University of Maryland

2009

"Picturing the Present: Modernity, Postmodernity, Contemporaneity"
Terry Smith, NHC Fellow 2007-08, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory, University of Pittsburgh
Judith Farquhar, NHC Fellow 2007-08, Max Palevsky Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences, University of Chicago
Nancy Condee, Associate Professor, Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures, Director of the Graduate Program for Cultural Studies, and Director of Graduate Studies, University of Pittsburgh

2009

"Three Questions About Islam"
Mark Cohen, Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University
Richard W. Bulliet, Professor of History, Middle East Institute, Columbia University
Shahab Ahmed, Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies in the Committee for the Study of Religion and in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University

2010

"The Self: Knowledge, Memory, and Imagination"
John M. Doris, NHC Fellow 2008-09, Associate Professor, Philosophy Department, Washington University in St. Louis

2010

"Worried Sick, Worried Well"
Nancy Tomes, NHC Fellow 1999-2000, Professor and Chair of History, State University of New York at Stony Brook

2011

"Exotic Wisdom: Encounters with the Religious Other in Pre-Islamic West Asia"
Jason BeDuhn, NHC Fellow 2009-10, Professor of Religious Studies, Northern Arizona University

2011

"The Concept of the Savage: Fact, Fiction, and Factual Fiction"
Parker Shipton, NHC Fellow 2008-09, Professor of Anthropology and Research Fellow in African Studies, Boston University

2012

"There's More To It: What Early Apocrypha Can Tell Us about Christianity"
Bart D. Ehrman, NHC Fellow 2009-10, James A. Gray Distinguished Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

2012

"'Use Them All': The Humanities and Environmental Study"
James Engell, NHC Fellow 2010-11, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Harvard University


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