Avenali Lectures

Jonathan Miller, Avenali Chair in the Humanities 1991-1992

“Moving Images: Film and Narration” || September 11, 1991

Sir Jonathan Miller, CBE, is a British physician, theatre and opera director and television writer and producer. In 1960 he helped found the comedy troupe Beyond the Fringe at the Edinburgh Festival. In the 1970s, he started directing and producing operas, beginning with a new production of “The Marriage of Figaro” for English National Opera in 1978. In the early 1980s he started to produce a number of noteworthy series for the BBC: a series of 12 Shakespeare plays; “The Body in Question;” and “Jonathan Miller’s Brief History of Disbelief.” Miller is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in London and Edinburgh, and a Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was knighted in 2002.

Other Events with Jonathan Miller

“The Internal Millenium: Mesmerism and Hypnotism in 18th and 19th-century England” || September 25, 1991

Panel Discussions || September 12, 1991 and September 26, 1991