Past Events

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Panel Discussants: Maurice Sendak, Stephen Greenblatt (English) and Wye Allanbrook (Music)

Discussants: Maurice Sendak, Samuel Otter (English), and Michael Rogin (Political Science)

Discussants: Maurice Sendak, Ravenna Helson (Psychology), and Herbert Schreier (Chair., Dept. of Psychiatry, Children's Hospital, Oakland)