Opera and theatre director, teacher, and activist Peter Sellars has been a creative and deeply influential voice in the world of opera and theater for the past 30 years. Noted for his unique, contemporary stagings of both classical and contemporary plays and operas, Sellars is also professor of World Arts and Cultures at UCLA.
Panel Discussants: Michael Ignatieff, Thomas Laqueur (History), Robert Post (Law) and Eric Stover (Director, Human Rights Center)
“Civilizing Warfare”
Michael Ignatieff, Broadcaster & Critic
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)
“Africans and Jews in the Plantation Culture of 18th-century Suriname”
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, History, University of Toronto
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"
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, African American Studies, Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri
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.