Video Archive - Humanities Lecture Series

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2009-2010

Lewis Hyde, Richard L. Thomas Professor of Creative Writing, Kenyon College
"Culture as Commonwealth"
August 25, 2009, Woodruff Auditorium

2008-2009

Dipesh Chakrabarty, Faculty Fellow of the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory
"The Decline and Prospect of Universal History"
April 20, 2009, Woodruff Auditorium

Anthony Corbeill, Professor of Classics, University of Kansas
"Androgynous Gods, Androgynous Nouns, and the Invention of Heterosexuality in Ancient Rome"
February 5, 2009, Alderson Auditorium

Jeannette Walls, author
"The Glass Castle: Hunting Demons and Other Life Lessons"
November 18, 2008, Woodruff Auditorium

Susan Estrich, Robert Kingsley Professor of Law and Political Science, University of Southern California
"The 2008 Election: What's at Stake?"
September 23, 2008, Woodruff Auditorium

2007-2008

Carol Ann Carter, Professor of Art, University of Kansas
"Art @ Work: Mapping Transformation"
April 24, 2008, Alderson Auditorium

Ian Buruma, 2008 winner of the Erasmus Prize
"Among the Unbelievers: Muslims in Europe"
April 2, 2008, Woodruff Auditorium

Paul Muldoon, poet and 2003 Pulitzer Prize Winner
"The Eternity of the Poem"
February 27, 2008, Woodruff Auditorium

Sara Ahmed, Professor in Race & Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths College, University of London
“The Promise of Happiness”
October 23, 2007, Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas Union


2006-2007

Maria Carlson, Professor of Slavid Languages and Literatures, University of Kansas
"Culture and History Matter: Russia's Search for Identity after the Fall"
April 10, 2007, Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas Union

Kwame Anthony Appiah, Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University
“Making Sense of Moral Conflict”
March 1, 2007, Kansas Union Ballroom

Nancy Cott, Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History at Harvard University and Pforzheimer Foundation director of the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
"Grooming Citizens: Marriage and Civic Status in U.S. History"
November 2, 2006, Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas Union

Richard Dawkins, Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science, Oxford University
"The God Delusion"
October 16, 2006, Lied Center

Nuruddin Farah, author and winner of the 1998 Neustadt International Prize for Literature
"The Fork in the Fork of the Road"
September 12, 2006, Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas Union

Andrei Codrescu, MacCurdy Distinguished Professor of English, Louisiana State University
"An Evening with Andrei Codrescu"
August 28, 2006, Lied Center Auditorium

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