Visiting Speakers

Bill Schwarz is a Professor in the School of English and Drama at Queen Mary University of London. His research focuses on postcolonial history, looking in particular at the end of Britain’s empire. At present he is writing a three-volume history entitled Memories of Empire; the first volume, The White Man’s World, won the Longman-History Today prize for 2013.

Bradley Simpson is an assistant professor of history and international studies at Princeton University. Simpson researches twentieth century U.S. foreign relations and international history, and has an interest in U.S.-southeast relations, political economy, human rights and development.

Peter Sloterdijk is a German philosopher, television host, cultural scientist and essayist. 

Steven Strange serves as the Director of Graduate Studies for Emory's philosophy graduate program.

Peter Struck is Associate Professor of Classical Studies. His first book, Birth of the Symbol: Ancient Readers at the Limits of their Texts (2004), explores how readers of Homer in antiquity found extraordinary insights in his epic poems -- about the gods, the cosmos, and the human place in it. It won the American Philological Association's C. J. Goodwin Award for outstanding book in classical studies.

Jomo K S (Jomo Kwame Sundaram) was Professor in the Applied Economics Department, Faculty of Economics and Administration, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, until August 2004.

Charles Taylor's writings have been translated into 20 languages, and have covered a range of subjects that include artificial intelligence, language, social behaviour, morality and multiculturalism.

Hakan Tell is Assistant Professor of Classics at Dartmouth College.