Visiting Speakers

Dr. Ida Federica Pugliese is a two-year Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship at NUI Galway with Prof. Daniel Carey (School of Humanities).

Paul A. Rahe is Professor of History at Hillsdale College, where he holds an endowed chair, and this academic year he is a National Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. He is author of Republics Ancient and Modern: Classical Republicanism and the American Revolution (1992) and of Against Throne and Altar: Machiavelli and Political Theory under the English Republic (2008), co-editor of Montesquieu’s Science of Politics: Essays on the Spirit of Laws (2001), and editor of Machiavelli’s Liberal Republican Legacy (2006).

For the last six years, Rayna Rapp and Faye Ginsburg have pursued a research project on cultural innovation in special education in New York City. In addition to their joint work among media, legal, and educational innovators in this growing sector, Rapp and Ginsburg conduct fieldwork in scientific laboratories on brain research about learning, memory, childhood psychiatric diagnoses, and epigenetics.

Orlando Reade studied English Literature as an undergraduate at St. John's College, Cambridge (2006-9), then studied for a masters degree in Renaissance Studies at the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters, University of London (2010-11). His interests include contemporary and early modern poetry, political economy, psychoanalytic and critical theory, the history of toys, modern art, geometry, and dance.

Dr. Simon Reid-Henry is a Reader in Geography at Queen Mary, University of London.

Margaret Schabas was appointed to UBC as Professor of Philosophy in 2001. From 2004-2009, she served as the Head of the Philosophy Department. She has held professoriate positions at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (four years) and at York University (ten years), and has also taught as a visiting professor at Michigan State University, University of Colorado-Boulder, Harvard, CalTech, the Sorbonne, and the Ecole Normale de Cachan. As the recipient of several fellowships, she has enjoyed visiting terms at Stanford, Duke, MIT, Cambridge, the LSE, and the MPI-Berlin.

Lynne Segal joined Birkbeck as an Anniversary Professor to celebrate 175 years of Birkbeck College, in 1999. She was first involved in expanding the remit of gender studies at Birkbeck, straddling the departments of Psychology and English & the Humanities; later in helping to establish the new department of Psychosocial Studies.

Will Self is the acclaimed author of six short story collections, a book of novellas, eight novels, and six books of journalism.