Visiting Speakers

Mihir Bhattacharya is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Film Studies at Jadavpur University in Calcutta. 

Moinak Biswas is a Film Studies Professor at Jadavpur University and the Editor of the Journal of the Moving Image.

Jamie Coen-Cole is a lecturer on the History of Science at Harvard University. He received his Ph.D. in Program in History of Science from Princeton University in 2003.

John Cooper is Henry Putnam University Professor of Philosophy and author of Reason and Human Good in Aristotle, which was awarded the American Philosophical Association's Franklin Matchette Prize; and two collections of essays, Reason and Emotion: Essays on Ancient Moral Psychology and Ethical Theory (1999) and Knowledge, Nature, and the Good: Essays on Ancient Philosophy (2004). 

Duncan K. Foley graduated from Swarthmore College with a B.A. in Mathematics in 1964, and received the Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University in 1966. He has taught at M.I.T., Stanford, Barnard College of Columbia University, and since 1999 has been Leo Model Professor at the Economics Department of the New School for Social Research. He is an External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute.

William Howard Gass (born 1924) is an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, critic, and former philosophy professor at Washington University.

Nils Gilman is an historian and author of Mandarins of the Future: Modernization Theory in Cold War America (2003).

Carlo Ginzburg is a noted historian and proponent of the field of microhistory.