Avenali Lectures
The Avenali Chair is occupied for a part of each year by a distinguished visiting scholar whose work is of interest to faculty and students in a range of humanistic fields. The Avenali Lectures are made possible by the generous gift of Peter and Joan Avenali, who endowed the Avenali Chair in the Humanities in memory of family members.
Avenali Chair in the Humanities 2007-2008
Elaine Pagels, Harrington Spear Paine
Professor of Religion at Princeton University
Who wrote the Book of Revelation, when, and why? What other “books of revelation” — Jewish and Christian — were written at the time but left out of the Bible? What accounts for the enduring appeal of this book over the past two thousand years, and even still today? Religious Studies scholar Elaine Pagels will discuss these questions at the 20th Annual Avenali lecture at UC Bekeley.
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Avenali Lecturers
Joan Acocella
Kwame Anthony Appiah
Mike Davis
Gerald Early
Stephen Greenblatt
Donna Haraway
N. Katherine Hayles
Seamus Heaney
Ivan Klima
Bruno Latour
Maya Lin
Dušan Makavejev
Walter Mignolo
Jonathan Miller
Elaine Pagels
Michael Pollan
Sebastião Salgado
Peter Sellars
Maurice Sendak
Natalie Zemon Davis