Stanford Humanities Center
The Harry Camp Memorial Fund was established in 1956 by friends and associates of Harry Camp. A prominent businessman and philanthropist in San Francisco, Camp was described as a "gentle and wise humanitarian." The fund brings outstanding speakers to Stanford for public lectures and promotes the study of "the concept of the dignity and the worth of the individual." The Camp Lectures are presented every other year.
Pictured: Gregory Levine, 2022
2022-2023
Gregory Levine, Art History, University of California, Berkeley
"A Tree and a Buddha: Imagining an Arboreal Humanities"
December 1, 2022
2021-2022
Francesca Trivellato, History, Institute for Advanced Study
"Which is the Merchant Here? And Which the Jew?" Fiction, Economics, History
May 24, 2022
2017-2018
Louis Menand, Harvard University
"Conditions for the Possibility of Rock 'n' Roll: An Exercise in Cultural History,"
March 14, 2018
2016-2017
Quentin Skinner, Queen Mary University of London
"A Geneology of Liberty,"
October 27, 2016
2013-14
Jill Lepore, Harvard University
"Jane Franklin's Spectacles: Or, the Education of Benjamin Franklin's Sister,"
October 7, 2013
2011-2012
Svetlana Boym, Harvard University
"Freedom and the Arts of Dissent,"
March 19, 2012
2009-2010
Tzvetan Todorov, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
"The Totalitarian Experience,"
May 4, 2010
2007-2008
Simon Schaffer, University of Cambridge
"Newton on the Beach,"
January 14, 2008
"Newton on the Ganges,"
January 15, 2008
2005-2006
Anthony Grafton, Princeton University
"What Was History? The Art of History in Early Modern Europe,"
January 30, 2006
2003-2004
Elaine Pagels, Princeton University
"Revision Christianity: New Perspectives from the Gospel of Thomas,"
January 26, 2004
"Politics and Religion: How and When Do They Begin to Separate?,"
January 28, 2004
2001-2002
Anthony Sampson, British Journalist
"Nelson Mandela, Reconciliation, and Shakespeare,"
January 22, 2002
1997-1998
Lawrence Weiskrantz, Oxford University
"The Search for Consciousness: Intersections of Philosophy, Neuroscience, and Psychology,"
October 13, 1997
1994-1995
Robert Darnton, "Censorships: Bourbon France, British India, and Communist East Germany"
1993-1994
Eric Kandel, M.D., "Genes, Nerve Cells, and Memory"
1991-1992
Edward W. Said, "The Historical Study of Literature and the Intellectual Vocation"
1989-1990
Jean Franco, "Fin de si¨cle Latin America"
1986-1987
Richard Poirier, "Pragmatism and Poetry"
1985-1986
Natalie Zemon Davis, "Fiction in the Archives: Forms of Popular Narrative in Sixteenth Century France"
1982-1983
"Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author"
1981-1982
Herbert A. Simon, "Grappling With the Hard Problems: The Uses of Reason in Human Affairs"
1980-1981
E.P. Thompson,"Journey Across the Frontier: Tracking the Cold War To a Source: The Balkans, 1944"
1979-1980
Kenneth J. Arrow, "The Possibility of Economic Policy"
1976-1977
J.H. Hexter, "A Lesson of History: The Foundations of Human Freedom"
1973-1974
Elie Wiesel, "Biblical Heroes: Our Contemporaries"
1971-1972
Mark E. Talisman, "The Federal Congress: The Dying Branch of Government?"
Rene Girard, "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Clifford Geertz, "Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture"
Geoffrey Hartman, "Spectral Symbolism: Psychological and Mythical Approaches to a Long Poem"
1969-1970
Barbara Ward, "A Human Planet?"
1966-1967
Kingman Brewster, Jr., "The Academic Process"
1964-1965
John H. Finley, Jr., "Hellenism and the Modern Mind"
1963-1964
Frank E. Manuel, "Shapes of Philosophical History"
1962-1963
Roger H. Sessions, "Music"
1961-1962
H.L.A. Hart, "Law, Liberty, and Morality"
1959-1960
Erwin D. Canham, "America's Unfinished Business"
