Past Events

Tony Lawson is on the Faculty of Economics at the University of Cambridge. He is organizer of the Cambridge Social Ontology Group and the Cambridge Realist Workshop, and was Executive Director of the Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies for many years. Professor Lawson is hosted by the Department of Philosophy while at Berkeley.

Panel Discussants: Quentin Skinner, Shannon Stimson (Political Science), Susan Maslan (French)
Moderator: Anthony J. Cascardi (Townsend Center Director)

Historian and political theorist Quentin Skinner is Barber Beaumon Chair in the Humanities at Queen Mary College, University of London, and Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge.

David Simon is a Baltimore-based author, journalist and writer-producer of television specializing in criminal justice and urban issues.

Homi K. Bhabha is Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of English and American Literature and Language and Director of the Humanities Center at Harvard University. Considered one of the most important figures in postcolonial studies, Bhabha introduced the concepts of hybridity, mimicry, difference, and ambivalence to the field.

One of the world’s preeminent photographers, Sally Mann first came to international prominence in 1992 with “Immediate Family,” a controversial series of complex, enigmatic, and sensual pictures of her own children. What Remains follows the creation of Mann’s new seminal work: a photo series revolving around various aspects of death and decay.

Debuting with the New York Philharmonic at the age of 16, Leon Fleisher’s career as a pianist was on a smooth upward trajectory for many years; he performed all over the world with every major orchestra and conductor and recorded several classic albums.

Panel Discussants: Elaine Pagels, Daniel Boyarin (Near Eastern Studies and Rhetoric) and Susanna Elm (History and Classics)
Moderator: Anthony J. Cascardi (Townsend Center Director)

Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton University, Elaine Pagels is well known for her work in the field of religious studies and theology. She first gained recognition for her research disproving the myth of the early Christian Church as a unified movement—in The Gnostic Gospels, she provides analysis of 52 early Christian manuscripts that show the pluralistic nature of the early church and the role of women in the developing Christian movement.

Bruce Ackerman is Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University, and the author of over fifteen books that have had a broad influence in political philosophy, constitutional law, and public policy.