Avenali Lectures

Maya Lin, Avenali Chair in the Humanities 1994-1995

“Siteworks” || February 23, 1995
with a follow-up panel discussion on February 24, 1995

Occasional Paper || Sculptor and architect Maya Lin was the Center’s guest in 1995 as Avenali Chair in the Humanities. In 1981, while an undergraduate in Architecture at Yale University, Lin won the competition to design and build the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. Since completing the memorial, Lin has designed several other sculptures and architectural installations, including the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama (1989) and the Wave Field at the University of Michigan (1995). In 2005, Lin was elected to The American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Follow-up Panel Discussants: Lin, Thomas Laqueur (Department of History), Andrew Barshay (Department of History), Stephen Greenblatt (Department of English), and Stanley Saitowitz (Department of Architecture).