“What Good Is Higher Education for Our Cities?” (2023)
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Davarian Baldwin, the Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of American Studies, Trinity College
Washington University faculty speakers: Miguel Valerio, assistant professor of Spanish and of performing arts (affiliate); and Lynne Tatlock, the Hortense and Tobias Lewin Distinguished Professor in the Humanities and chair, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, and director, Program in Comparative Literature
“Let Your Talent Be Your Guide” (2022)
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Charles Johnson, professor emeritus, University of Washington, author of novels, short stories, screen- and teleplays, and essays
Washington University faculty speakers: Diana Montaño, assistant professor of history; and Julia Walker, associate professor of English and performing arts, and chair, Performing Arts Department
“What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?” (2021)
Walter Johnson, the Winthrop Professor of History and Professor of African and African American Studies, Harvard University
Washington University faculty speakers: Douglas Flowe, assistant professor of history; and Rebecca Wanzo, professor and chair of the Department of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies
“Blackface Broken Records: On the Eve of the Blues Feminist Experiment” (2020)
Daphne Brooks, the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of African American Studies, and Professor of Theater Studies, American Studies, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Yale University
Washington University faculty speakers: William Acree, associate professor of Spanish, American culture studies (Affiliate) and performing arts (Affiliate), and associate Director, Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity; and Jonathan Fenderson, assistant professor of African and African-American studies
“Sustainable Forms: Routine, Infrastructure, Conservation” (2019)
Caroline Levine, the David and Kathleen Ryan Professor of Humanities, Cornell University
Washington University faculty speakers: John Hendrix, associate professor of art; and Michelle Purdy, assistant professor of education
“The Origins of Today’s Billionaire-Funded Radical Right and the Crisis of American Democracy” (2018)
Nancy MacLean, the William H. Chafe Professor of History and Public Policy, Duke University
Washington University faculty speakers: Joanna Dee Das, assistant professor of dance; and Corinna Treitel, associate professor of history
“The Humanities After 2016: What Do We Want to Become?” (2017)
Sidonie Smith, the Mary Fair Croushore Professor of the Humanities, professor of English and women’s studies, director, Institute for the Humanities, University of Michigan
Washington University faculty speakers: Ron Mallon, associate professor of philosophy; and Sowande’ Mustakeem, assistant professor of history and of African and African-American studies
“The Praiseworthy One: Devotional Images of the Prophet Muhammad in Islamic Traditions” (2015–16)
Christiane Gruber, associate professor, history of art, University of Michigan
Washington University faculty speakers: Catherine Keane, associate professor of classics; and Zhao Ma, assistant professor of modern Chinese history and culture
“From ‘Plessy’ to Ferguson: Why the Humanities Matter Now” (2014)
George Lipsitz, Professor of Black Studies and Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara
Washington University faculty speakers: Paige McGinley, assistant professor of performing arts; and Ignacio Sánchez Prado, associate professor of romance languages and literatures
“Books, Libraries, and the Digital Future” (2013)
Robert Darnton, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the University Library at Harvard
Washington University faculty speakers: Shefali Chandra, associate professor of history; and Ignacio Infante, assistant professor of comparative literature and of Spanish
“The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen” (2012)
Kwame Anthony Appiah, Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University
Washington University faculty speakers: Mary Jo Bang, professor of English; and Nancy Reynolds, associate professor of history, of Jewish, Islamic and near Eastern languages and cultures, and of women, gender and sexuality studies
“Of Books and the Internet” and “An Evening with Roz Chast” (2011)
Douglas Brinkley, noted author and commentator, professor of history at Rice University and a fellow at the James Baker Institute for Public Policy; and Roz Chast, staff cartoonist for The New Yorker
Washington University faculty speakers: Peter Kastor, associate professor of history and of American culture studies; Jessica Rosenfeld, assistant professor of English; Akiko Tsuchiya, professor of Spanish and of women, gender, and sexuality studies; and Craig Monson, professor of music
“Academic Publishing in Transition” (2010)
Alan Brinkley, Allan Nevins Professor of History, Columbia University
Washington University faculty speakers: Anca E. Parvulescu, assistant professor of English; and William E. Wallace, the Barbara Murphy Bryant Distinguished Professor of Art History & Archaeology
Eighth Annual Faculty Book Celebration (2009)
Louis Menand, essayist, literary critic, journalist, and author
Washington University faculty speakers: William Lowry, professor of political; and Lori Watt, assistant professor of history and International & Area Studies
Faculty Book Celebration & International Humanities Prize Ceremony (2008)
Michael Pollan, Knight Professor of Journalism, University of California-Berkeley, contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine, and author of five books
Washington University faculty speakers: Beata Grant, professor of modern Chinese language and literature, and Patrick Burke, assistant professor of music
“The Writer’s (Secret) Life: Woundedness, Rejection, and Inspiration” (2007)
Joyce Carol Oates, award-winning author
Washington University faculty speakers: Ahmet T. Karamustafa, professor of history, of religious studies and of Jewish, Islamic and Near Eastern studies; and Marina MacKay, assistant professor of English
Faculty Book Celebration & Inaugural International Humanities Prize Ceremony (2006)
Orhan Pamuk, Nobel Prize-winning novelist
Washington University faculty speakers: John R. Bowen, the Dunbar-Van Cleve Professor in Arts & Sciences; and Lingchei Letty Chen, assistant professor of modern Chinese language and literature
