Visiting Speakers

Stanley Fish is Professor of Humanities and Law at Florida International University, in Miami.

In 2002, Carol Gilligan became University Professor at New York University, with affiliations in the School of Law, the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

Robert Hass served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997 and as a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets from 2001 to 2007. He teaches at the University of California, Berkeley.

Jonathan Israel is Professor of Modern European History at the Institute for Advanced Study.  His work is concerned with European and European colonial history from the Renaissance to the eighteenth century.

Daniel Kahneman is a Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences (2002).

Hagar Kotef is Assistant Professor, Gender Studies at  Bar Ilan University and an affiliate of the Minerva Humanities Center, Tel Aviv University. She works on political theory, specializing in feminist theory, early liberal philosophy, women’s activism and contemporary continental philosophy.

Donald MacKenzie is a professor of sociology at the University of Edinburgh. A specialist in the social studies of finance, his highly acclaimed book An Engine, Not a Camera: How Financial Models Shape Markets, won the 2007 British International Studies Association’s International Political Economy Group (IPEG) Book Prize. He is also the co-editor of Do Economists Make Markets? On the Performativity of Economics, as well as his most recent work, 

Malgorzata Mazurek specializes in modern history of Poland and East Central Europe. Her interests include twentieth-century social sciences, international development, social history of communism and Polish-Jewish relations.