Lecture
Barbara Kopple (1994-1995)
Jan 20, 1995
鈥淪hades of Grey: The Power and Passion of Documentary Film鈥 Barbara Kopple is a two-time Academy Award winning filmmaker. She directs documentaries, as well as narrative television and film. Her recent work includes the film Running from Crazy (2013), about the life of [...]
Edward W. Said (1993-1994)
Nov 03, 1993
鈥淗istorical Experience and Multiculturalism鈥 Edward Said was a Palestinian-American academic, political activist, and literary critic who was a founder of postcolonial studies. After receiving a BA at Princeton, he attended Harvard, where he specialized in English [...]
Richard Lewontin (1992-1993)
Feb 09, 1993
鈥淕enetic Determinism and the Problem of Human Equality鈥 Richard Lewontin is Emeritus Professor of Biology and Emeritus Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology in the Museum of Comparative Zoology in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. [...]
Ng农g末 wa Thiong鈥檕 (1991-1992)
Mar 26, 1992
鈥淎rt War with the State: The Writer and Politics in Africa鈥 Ng农g末 wa Thiong鈥檕 is an exiled and widely respected Kenyan playwright, critic and novelist who wrote the novel Matigari ma Njiruungi. He has been at the front of the struggle for democracy and social justice in [...]
Ariel Dorfmann (1991-1992)
Jan 20, 1992
鈥淭he Authoritarian State鈥 Ariel Dorfman is a Chilean-Argentinian-American novelist, playwright, academic, and human rights activist. He is an exile from the Pinochet regime in Chile and the child of Holocaust refugees. At Duke University, Dorfman is the Walter Hines Page [...]
Anton Shammas (1991-1992)
Nov 07, 1991
鈥淢uffled Voices, Shifting Grounds: To Story-Tell the Middle East鈥 Anton Shammas is a noted Palestinian editor, TV producer, freelance journalist, author and poet. His book, Arabesques, was selected by the New York Times Book Review as one of the seven best novels of 1988 [...]
Douglas Cardinal (1989-1990)
Mar 12, 1990
鈥淭he Museum of Civilization: From Vision to Reality鈥 Douglas Cardinal is an Indigenous Canadian architect best known for his designs for the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau and the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC. He also designed the [...]
Moshe Safdie (1989-1990)
Mar 05, 1990
鈥淎rchitecture vs. the Arts鈥 Moshe Safdie is an architect, urban planner, educator, theorist, and author. He designed the National Gallery of Canada, as well as the Musee de la Civilisation in Quebec City, the Toronto Ballet Opera House, and Expo 鈥67鈥檚 Habitat. He was born [...]
Angela Davis (1988-1989)
Feb 09, 1989
鈥淩ace, Class, and Gender in the Reagan-Bush Era鈥 Angela Davis was a prolific American professor and Black activist. During this time, she co-founded Sisters Inside and Critical Resistance. She first gained prominence as a Black nationalist activist during the 1960s, when she beca
Stephen Jay Gould (1987-1988)
Nov 18, 1987
鈥淗uman Equality is a Contingent Fact of History鈥 Stephen J. Gould was an evolutionary scientist, a professor at Harvard, and a leading opponent of scientific creationism. He was also a prominent author. His award-winning book, The Mismeasure of Man, examined the racist [...]
Frank Kermode (1986-1987)
Jan 20, 1987
鈥淎re We Moderns or Post-Moderns? The Present State of the Arts鈥 Frank Kermode was an eminent literary critic and King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at Cambridge. At the time of his talk, he had written and edited 25 books of literary criticism, including books [...]
Mel Hurtig (1985-1986)
Feb 10, 1986
鈥1986: The Most Crucial Year in Modern Canadian History鈥 Mel Hurtig was a publisher, an author, and a well-known Canadian nationalist. During the 1972 federal election, he ran as a Liberal in West Edmonton, finishing second. In 1973, he left the Library party and co-founded [...]