Visiting Speakers

Bruno Latour is a French sociologist of science and anthropologist and an influential theorist in the field of Science and Technology Studies.

Peter Mandler is Professor of Modern Cultural History at the University of Cambridge and Bailey Lecturer in History at Gonville and Caius College. He teaches and writes on modern British history and the history of the social sciences. His most recent book, Return from the Natives: How Margaret Mead Won the Second World War and Lost the Cold War, was published by Yale University Press in 2013. He is currently working on the democratization of education in postwar Britain and the language of the social sciences in everyday life in postwar Britain and America. From 2012 to 2016 he is President of the Royal Historical Society.<

Samuel Moyn is professor of law and history at Harvard University. He earned a doctorate in modern European history from the University of California-Berkeley in 2000 and a law degree from Harvard Law School in 2001.

Paul Muldoon is a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and Howard G. B. Clark '21 Professor at Princeton University and Chair of the Peter B. Lewis Center for the Arts.

Prabhat Patnaik is one of India’s most eminent economists

Basharat Peer is a journalist and the author of Curfewed Night, a personal account of the Kashmir conflict, which won the 2009 Crossword Book Award for Non Fiction.

Ashish Rajadhyaksha is a film and cultural theorist. 

Poet and essayist Adrienne Rich was one of America’s foremost public intellectuals.