The Oakley Center

Colloquia and Lectures in the Recent Past

2007-2008

September 20, 4 pm, Oakley Center Colloquium. Margaret Urban Walker (Philosopher, Arizona State),"Truth as Reparations." Additional information to be uploaded soon.

October 16, 5:30, Clark Café, Clark Art Institute Jonathan Katz, this year's Clark-Oakley Fellow, will present a talk entitled "Cross (Un)dressing: Art and Eros in the Sixties."

October 17, 4 pm, Oakley Center Colloquium, Nathan Englander (Writer). Will discuss his recent work, including The Ministry of Special Cases.

October 18, 4 pm David Lowenthal. "Heritage struggles and ironies of defending imagined pasts."

October 25, 4 pm Gerard Aching, NYU, "Liberalisms, Moralizing Literature, and Other Colonial Traps."

November 1, 4 pm, Simon Doubleday, Hofstra, "In the Light of Medieval Spain: Rethinking 'Relevance' and Ethical Commitment.

November 8, 8 pm, Brooks-Rogers Auditorium, Charles H. Long will give the W. Allison Davis '24 and John Davis '33 Lecture, "Religion and the Sociological Imagination of African American Social Scientists."

November 13, 4 pm Kai Erikson, Yale, "Reflections on Katrina: A Report from the Field."

January 8, 2008, 7 pm, Brooks-Rogers Auditorium. Lisa Randall (Physics, Harvard) will deliver the Richmond Lecture, "Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions."

January 17, 2008, 4 pm, Siva Vaidhyanathan, UVA, "Technofundamentalism." Also at 8 pm, Griffin 3, a lecture, "The Googlization of Everything."

January 23, 2008, 4 pm, Oakley Center, Marni Sandweiss (History and American Studies, Amherst), "Passing Strange: The Secret Life of Clarence King."

February 19, 2008, 4 pm, Oakley Center Colloquium, Christopher Kelty (Rice), "Quality, Authority, and Peer Review After the Internet."

April 8, 2008, 8 pm, Brooks-Rogers Auditorium, Helen Epstein, "The Invisible Cure: Africa, The West, and the Fight Against AIDS" (Annual Weiss Lecture).

April 30, 2008, 4 pm, Oakley Center Colloquium, Colin G. Calloway (Dartmouth), "White People, Indians, and Highlanders."

May 1, 2008, 4 pm, Oakley Center Colloquium, Madhavi Sunder (Yale/UC-Davis Law), "The New Enlightenment: How Muslim Women are Bringing Religion Out of the Dark Ages"

2006-2007

September 14, 2006, 4:00 PM:
Adam Phillips, "On What is Fundamental: Psychoanalysis and Fundamentalism." (Lecture; no prior reading necessary.)

September 15, 2006, 4:00 PM:
Adam Phillips, Topic TBA (This colloquium will be based on a selection from Phillips's forthcoming collection of essays, Side Effects.)

October 5 , 2006, 4:00 PM:
Margaret Livingstone, Harvard Medical School, "A Conversation on Art and the Biology of Vision"

October 17 , 2006, 4:00 PM:
Graham Hammill , Notre Dame, "A Poetics of Political Theology: Harrington with Marvell"

October 30 , 2006, 4:00 PM:
Mieke Bal, University of Amsterdam, "Re-reading Rembrandt for Our Time: Painting, Philosophy, and the Relation to Sources "

November 2 , 2006, Griffin Hall, 4:00 PM:
Saidiya Hartman, Columbia University, "Dead Book"

November 14 , 2006, 4:00 PM:
Matt Houlbrook, University of Liverpool, "The Man with the Powderpuff in Interwar London"

November 16 , 2006, 4:00 PM:
Mieke Bal, University of Amsterdam, "Double Mobility: Toward a Migratory Aesthetics of Video "

November 8, 2006, 8:00 PM, Brooks-Rogers Recital Hall:
Dr. Mitch Besser, Founder and Medical Director of mothers2mothers, South Africa- Annual Weiss Lecture: "AIDS in Africa: Simple Answers to Complicated Questions"

December 4 , 2006, 4:00 PM:
Philip Bohlman, University of Chicago, "Johann Gottfried Herder and the Ownership of History"

January 10 , 2007, 7:00 PM, Chapin Hall:
Jared Diamond, UCLA - Annual Richmond Lecture

January 11 , 2007, 2:00 PM:
Jared Diamond, UCLA, colloquim; topic TBA

February 8 , 2007, 8:00 PM, Brooks-Rogers:
Pedro Noguera, NYU - Annual W. Allison Davis 1924 and John A. Davis 1933 Lecture; topic TBA

February 19, 2007, 8:00 PM, Brooks-Rogers:
K. Anthony Appiah, Princeton University, "Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a world of Strangers"