Lecture
Ralph Nader (2011-2012)
Mar 21, 2012
鈥淕oing Green in a Corporate Climate鈥 Ralph Nader is a former American presidential nominee, who some claimed was a deciding factor in the 2000 election, and was named by Time magazine as one of the top one-hundred most influential people. Throughout his career, he has been [...]
Frances Myrna Kamm (2011-2012)
Jan 30, 2012
鈥淭he Prospect of Harm to Civilians in the Ethics of War鈥 Frances Myrna Kamm is Henry Rutgers University Professor of Philosophy and Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University. She is also Professor of Philosophy and Public Policy in the Kennedy School of Government at [...]
Ariella Azoulay (2011-2012)
Jan 20, 2012
鈥淭oward a Visual Declaration of Human Rights: Revisiting The Family of Man鈥 Ariella Azoulay is an author, art curator, filmmaker, and theorist of photography and visual culture. She is Professor of Modern Culture and Media and the Department of Comparative Literature at [...]
David Wilson (2010-2011)
Feb 15, 2011
鈥淚nventing Black-on-Black Violence: American Style鈥 David Wilson is Professor of Social and Cultural Geography and a member of the unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is an internationally recognized, [...]
Sheila McLean (2010-2011)
Nov 30, 2010
鈥淎utonomy and Consent: Sisters or Strangers Under the Skin?鈥 Sheila McLean is Professor Emerita of Law and Ethics in Medicine in the School of Law at the University of Glasgow. After completing her PhD there in 1987, she was appointed the first International Bar Association [...]
Michael Kirby (2010-2011)
Oct 30, 2010
鈥淗IV/AIDS: The Epidemic Where Law Has a Positive Role to Play but Often Doesn鈥檛鈥 Michael Kirby is an academic and jurist who is a former High Court Justice of Australia. He attended the University of Sydney, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1959, of Laws in 1961, and [...]
Mary Louise Pratt (2009-2010)
Mar 03, 2010
鈥淕lobalization and the Ecology of Language鈥 Mary Louise Pratt is an emeritus professor at New York University, where before retirement she was Silver Professor and Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures. She studied at the University of Toronto, the [...]
Gauvin A. Bailey (2009-2010)
Feb 20, 2010
鈥淭he Andean Hybrid Baroque: Converging Cultures in the Churches of Colonial Peru鈥 Gauvin A. Bailey is Professor and Bader Chair in Southern Baroque Art at Queen鈥檚 University, a position he has held since 2011. At the time of his talk, Bailey was a professor of Renaissance [...]
Enric Bou i Maqueda (2009-2010)
Feb 10, 2010
鈥淒ali: Secret Writing, Hidden Paint鈥 & 鈥淓l Mundo Almodovar: Obsesiones Rotas鈥 Enric Bou is professor of Iberian Studies at the University Ca鈥 Foscari Venezia. He has taught in universities in France, Spain and the USA. His research interests, always from the perspective of [...]
Lori Beaman (2009-2010)
Jan 30, 2010
Lori Beaman is professor and Canada Research Chair in Religious Diversity and Social Change in the Department of Classics and Religious Studies at the University of Ottawa. Beaman鈥檚 research had helped to develop the concept of deep equality and an emerging [...]
Bill Blaikie (2009-2010)
Jan 20, 2010
鈥淭he God Squad in Politics: From Affection to Derision to New Possibilities鈥 Bill Blaikie was one of Canada鈥檚 longest serving members of parliament, representing a variety of Manitoba ridings from 1979-2008. Blaikie served as Deputy Leader and House Leader of the New [...]
David Goldberg (2009-2010)
Oct 30, 2009
鈥淓nduring Occupations on Racial Neoliberalism鈥 David Theo Goldberg is the Director of the University of California Humanities Research Institute. He is also Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. As a [...]