Visiting Speakers

After studying philosophy at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, Barbara Carnevali defended a PhD dissertation on Rousseau under the direction of Remo Bodei in 2001. She continued her education at the University of Chicago as a Fulbright Scholar (2003-2004) and at the University of Paris-Sorbonne (post-doctoral work, 2006-2008). Dr Carnevali has taught the history of modern and contemporary philosophy at the University of Piedmont, and is currently a guest lecturer at EHESS.

Joyce E. Chaplin is the James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History.

Filippo Del Lucchese completed his PhD in 2002 in History of Political Thought at the University of Pisa. After a four year post-doctoral fellowship, he joined Occidental College, Los Angeles and the Université de Picardie, Amiens for a three year Marie Curie fellowship. Filippo Del Lucchese was appointed lecturer at Brunel University in 2010 after a short period as assistant professor at the American University of Beirut.

Christian Delage is an historian and filmmaker and the author of The Scene of the Mass Crime, co-edited with Peter Goodrich (Routledge, 2012) and Caught on Camera: Film in the Courtroom: from the Nuremberg Trials to the Trials of the Khmer Rouge (University of Pennsylvania Press).

William Deringer is Assistant Professor of Science, Technology, and Society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his doctorate in the History of Science from Princeton University, where his research focused on the history of economic knowledge. From 2012 -'15, he was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at Columbia University, before joining the MIT faculty in 2015.

Nicholas Dew teaches early modern European history. He came to McGill in 2004 from Cambridge University, where he was a British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellow and a Research Fellow of St Catharine’s College.

Professor Festa is a specialist in eighteenth century British and French literature, best known for her book, Sentimental Figures of Empire in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France.

Paula Findlen teaches the early history of science and medicine on the premise that one of the most important ways to understand how science, medicine and technology have become so central to contemporary society comes from examining the process by which scientific knowledge emerged.