Past Events

Michael Ignatieff: Una's Panel Discussion

| Women's Faculty Club

Panel Discussants: Michael Ignatieff, Thomas Laqueur (History), Robert Post (Law) and Eric Stover (Director, Human Rights Center)

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Michael Ignatieff, Broadcaster & Critic

“Towards a History of Human Rights in the Twentieth Century”
Una's Lecture
| Alumni House

A regular broadcaster and critic on television and radio, Michael Ignatieff has hosted many programs including Voice; the BBC's arts program The Late Show; and the award-winning series Blood and Belonging: Journeys into the New Nationalism, which examined the issue of nationalism in the late twentieth century.

Natalie Zemon Davis: Avenali Panel Discussion

| Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall

Panel Discussants: Natalie Zemon Davis, Ira Lapidus (History), Stefania Pandolfo (Anthropology) and Peter Sellars (Opera Director)

“Africans and Jews in the Plantation Culture of 18th-century Suriname”

With Avenali Lecturer Natalie Zemon Davis
| 2050 Valley Life Sciences Building

Natalie Zemon Davis is an important historian of the early modern period, known for her narrative writing style and her use of cross-disciplinary history, which combines history with disciplines such as anthropology, ethnography and literary theory.

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Natalie Zemon Davis, History, University of Toronto

“Moors, Christians, and Africans in a Muslim Traveler’s Account of the Renaissance”
Avenali Lecture
| 2050 Valley Life Sciences Building

Natalie Zemon Davis is an important historian of the early modern period, known for her narrative writing style and her use of cross-disciplinary history, which combines history with disciplines such as anthropology, ethnography and literary theory.

"Baseball, Boxing, and the Charisma of Sport and Race"

With Avenali Lecturer Gerald Early
| Heynes Room, Men's Faculty Club

Discussants: Avenali Lecturer Gerald Early, Loic Wacquant (Sociology), and Eric Solomon (San Francisco State University)

Gerald Early: Avenali Panel Discussion

| Alumni House

Panel Discussants: Gerald Early, Clayborne Carson (Director, Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute, Stanford University) and Robert Middlekauff (History)

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Gerald Early, African American Studies, Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri

“Martin Luther King and the Reinvention of Christian Leadership in the United States”
Avenali Lecture
| Alumni House

Gerald Early is Professor of English and African-American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. A noted essayist and American culture critic, Early is the author of several books, including The Culture of Bruising: Essays on Prizefighting, Literature, and Modern American Culture, which won the 1994 National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism.