Presidential Lecturer Isabel Allende gives her talk in a packed Kresge Auditorium

Past Presidential Lecturers

Click on the name for detailed information about the speaker on the Presidential Lectures website.

Spring 2008
Marina Warner

Winter 2008
Richard Taruskin

Fall 2007
Simon Schama
Partha Chatterjee

Spring 2007
Joan W. Scott

Fall 2006
Talal Asad

Spring 2006
Amy Gutmann

Winter 2006
Douglas Hofstadter

Fall 2005
Lani Guinier

Spring 2005
Carolyn Abbate

Winter 2005

Merce Cunningham in conversation with John Rockwell

Fall 2004

Kwame Anthony Appiah

Spring 2004

Winter 2004

Fall 2003

Spring 2003

Winter 2003

Fall 2002

Maya Lin (cancelled)

Spring 2002

Winter 2002

Winter 2001

Fall 2000

Spring 2000

Winter 2000

Marjorie Garber

Fall 1999

Svetlana Alpers

Spring 1999

Jacques Derrida

Winter 1999

Fredric Jameson

Alexander Nehamas

Fall 1998

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Stephen Jay Gould

Karl Heinz Bohrer

Spring 1998

Christo and Jeanne-Claude

Hélène Cixous

« Presidential Lecturer Isabel Allende drew a standing room only audience for her talk at Kresge Auditorium.

Events

presidential lecture series

April 24, 2006

Amy Gutmann

Past Presidential Lectures available online

Douglas Hofstadter's lecture Analogy as the Core of Cognition and Amy Gutmann's lecture Extremism are available in RealPlayer and QuickTime formats.

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