Visiting Speakers

Joseph LeDoux is the Henry and Lucy Moses Professor of Science at NYU in the Center for Neural Science, and he directs the Emotional Brain Institute of NYU and the Nathan Kline Institute. His work is focused on the brain mechanisms of memory and emotion and he is the author of The Emotional Brain and Synaptic Self.

Caroline Levander is the Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Initiatives, Carlson Professor in the Humanities, and Professor of English at Rice University. She is currently writing Hotel Life (with Matthew Pratt Guterl) and Laying Claim: Imagining Empire on the U.S. Mexico Border (Oxford University Press).

Professor Ruth Leys is Professor of Humanities, with a joint appointment in the Department of History. Trained in the physiological and psychological sciences at Oxford University, she went on to receive her doctoral dissertation in the History of Science at Harvard University at a time when the work of Thomas Kuhn and Michel Foucault were beginning to have an impact, which is to say, at a time when the field of the history of science and medicine was starting to develop ways to think more thoughtfully about its theoretical and methodological assumptions. The writings of Jacques Derrida have also been an important influence on her work.

Professor Thomas Lindenberger is the Director of the Research Department “Communism and Society” at the Centre for Contemporary History, Potsdam. His research focuses on the social and cultural history of 20th century Germany and Europe, in particular: history of protest, violence and public order; history of mass media; history of German and European communism, theory of Alltagsgeschichte.

Sandra Macpherson is an Associate Professor of English at the Ohio State University, and this semester is Class of 1932 Humanities Council Fellow and Visiting Professor in the Department of English at Princeton University.

Lars Magnusson is a Professor in Economic history, Prefect of the Department of Economic History, Uppsala University, Dean of Faculty of the Social Sciences, Uppsala University, Chairman of Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies (SCAS), Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences, and honorary doctoral degree at Kyoto University Sanyo.

Chee Malabar is a Los Angeles based rapper and writer. Born in Bombay and raised in Baroda, India, Chee Malabar immigrated to the United States at the age of twelve, landing in San Francisco first and then New York.

Professor Manin works in the areas of democratic and constitional theory; history of political thought; representation and deliberation.