Visiting Speakers

Adam Shatz is a Senior Editor at the London Review of Books and a former literary editor of The Nation.

Professor Skinner works on early-modern European intellectual history, with a particular interest in the rhetorical culture of the Renaissance and the philosophy of Thomas Hobbes.

Geert Somsen is a Senior Lecturer in history of science at Maastricht University, the Netherlands.  His work moves between history of science, political history, and science and technology studies.

Richard Sorabji is a historian of ancient Western philosophy.

John Tresch's research focuses on the cultural history of science in the modern world, and the ways in which science has absorbed and informed the concepts, values, and equipment of other cultural practices- including politics, philosophy, technology, and the arts.

Yanis Varoufakis is Professor of Economic Theory at the University of Athens and the author of several best-selling books.

Joseph Weiler is University Professor and Joseph Straus Professor of Law at New York University.  His research interestes include Comparative Constitutional Law, European Integration, the WTO, and International Economic Law.

Slavoj Žižek is Professor of Philosophy and Psychoanalysis at the European Graduate School and a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.