Visiting Speakers

Prabhat Patnaik is one of India’s most eminent economists

Darryl Pinckney is a long time contributor to The New York Review of Books, and the author of a novel, High Cotton, and, in the Alain Locke Lecture Series, Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature.

J.G.A. Pocock is a historian of political thought, especially known for his contributions to the history of political discourse.

Matthew Rendall is Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham, and holds a PhD in Political Science from Columbia University.

Noliwe Rooks is an associate professor in Africana Studies and Feminist, Gender, Sexuality Studies at Cornell University. An interdisciplinary scholar, she works on the racial implications of beauty, fashion and adornment; racial inequality in education; race, migration and urbanization and Black women's studies.

Oliver Sacks is clinical professor of neurology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Elizabeth S. Spelke is a Professor of Psychology at Harvard University and Co-Director of the Mind, Brain, and Behavior Initiative.

Art Spiegelman is a Pulitzer Prize-winning artist and illustrator, author of MAUS, In the Shadow of No Towers, and Breakdowns.