Visiting Speakers

Nicolas Guilhot is research fellow and program officer at the Social Science Research Council in New York. 

David Harvey is a Distinguished Professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), Director of The Center for Place, Culture and Politics, and author of numerous books. 

Shirley Hazzard is an author and recipient of the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Joel Isaac is a Lecturer in the History of Modern Political Thought at Cambridge University specializing in the history of social and political thought in the United States.  

Krog published nine volumes of poetry, two volumes of verse for children, a short novel published by Heinemann and a book , Country of my Skull, on the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission published by Random House. 

Hari Kunzru’s writings explore the controversial legacies of colonialism and empire, and the impact of today’s globalised world on the formation of individual identities.  

A specialist in ancient Greek literature and culture, especially Archaic Greek poetry and Herodotus, Leslie Kurke is Gladys Rehard Wood Chair and Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature. 

Marcia Landy is Distinguished Professor of English/Film Studies with a secondary appointment in the French and Italian Languages and Literatures Department at the University of Pittsburgh.