Visiting Speakers

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.

Joanna Picciotto is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century literature.

Christopher Ricks is the William M. and Sara B. Warren Professor of the Humanities at Boston University, having formerly been professor of English at Bristol and at Cambridge

Joan Scott's work has challenged the foundations of conventional historical practice, including the nature of historical evidence and historical experience.In her latest work she has been concerned with the ways in which difference poses problems for democratic practice. 

Amartya Sen is Thomas W. Lamont University Professor, and Professor of Economics and Philosophy, at Harvard University.

Novelist Ahdaf Soueif was born in Cairo and educated in Egypt and England, where she studied for a Ph.D. at the University of Lancaster.

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.

Astra Taylor is a writer and documentary filmmaker. She holds an M.A. in Liberal Studies from the New School for Social Research and has been an instructor in sociology departments at the University of Georgia and State University of New York, New Paltz where she has taught classes on social theory, globalization, and the sociology of film.