Visiting Speakers

Thomas Crow is an historian of 18th-century French art and prime exponent of the "New Art History" in the United States.

John Dunn is a Fellow of King's College and Professor of Political Theory at the University of Cambridge.

A poet, essayist, journalist, art critic and theater reviewer, James Fenton is widely considered one of the most talented British writers working today.

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.

Anne-Lise François joined the Departments of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkeley as an assistant professor in 1999, after receiving her doctorate in Comparative Literature from Princeton University.

Valérie Gérard, a graduate from the Ecole normale supérieure (ENS), Paris, is now working as a research associate in the ENS. She holds an agregation and a PhD in philosophy.

Jayati Ghosh is a distinguished and extraordinarily prolific economist and professor whose many interests include globalization, international finance, employment patterns in developing countries, macroeconomic policy, and issues related to gender and development. 

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.