Visiting Speakers

George Ainslie is a research psychiatrist at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Coatesville, PA, and Professor of Economics at University of Cape Town, South Africa.

Svetlana Alpers is an artist, art historian and critic, and Professor Emerita at the University of California, Berkeley.

Perry Anderson is distinguished Professor of History at UCLA and editor of New Left Review.

Kwame Anthony Appiah is the Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor Of Philosophy and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University.

Ruth Bernard Yeazell is the Chace Family Professor of English at Yale University.

David Bromwich is Sterling Professor of English at Yale University.

Craig Calhoun has served as the president of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) since 1999. He also holds the title of University Professor of the Social Sciences at New York University and is the founding director of NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge.

Noam Chomsky is a US political theorist and activist, and Institute Professor of Linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).