Visiting Speakers

Samuel Moyn is professor of law and history at Harvard University. He earned a doctorate in modern European history from the University of California-Berkeley in 2000 and a law degree from Harvard Law School in 2001.

Jahnavi Phalkey is a historian of contemporary and twentieth century science and technology based at the India Institute, King’s College London. She holds a doctoral degree in history of science and technology from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta. Before moving to King’s, Jahnavi was Junior Research Fellow at the Imperial College London. She was recently Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin following which she was on secondment as external curator to the Science Museum London. Jahnavi is on the editorial board for the British Journal for the History of Science, and the Indian Journal for the History of Science.

Christopher Ricks is the William M. and Sara B. Warren Professor of the Humanities at Boston University, having formerly been professor of English at Bristol and at Cambridge

John Roemer's research concerns political economy, and distributive justice.

Richard Sennett has explored how individuals and groups make social and cultural sense of material facts -- about the cities in which they live and about the labour they do.

Jane Shore is the author of five books of poems: Eye Level, winner of the 1977 Juniper Prize; The Minute Hand, awarded the 1986 Lamont Prize; Music Minus One, a finalist for the 1996 National Book Critic Circle Award; Happy Family (1999); and A Yes-or-No Answer (2008), winner of the 2010 Poets' Prize.

Charles Taylor's writings have been translated into 20 languages, and have covered a range of subjects that include artificial intelligence, language, social behaviour, morality and multiculturalism.

Franciscus Verellen is director of the French School of Asian Studies, École française d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO), and a member of the French Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres.