Visiting Speakers

Jan Kubik is Professor and Chair in the Department of Political Science, Rutgers University in New Brunswick. He also serves as a Recurring Visiting Professor of Sociology, Centre for Social Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw. Author of many book chapters and articles as well as two award-winning books: The Power of Symbols against the Symbols of Power. The Rise of Solidarity and the Fall of State Socialism in Poland and Rebellious Civil Society: Popular Protest and Democratic Consolidation in Poland, 1989-1993 (with Grzegorz Ekiert).

Vladimir Kulić is the current Fellow of the American Academy in Berlin and Associate Professor of architectural history and theory at the School of Architecture, Florida Atlantic University.

Katherine Lebow is a Research Fellow at the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute and a Strategic Research Advisor at the University of Newcastle.

Dotan Leshem (ICLS Visiting Scholar 2013-2014) earned his Ph.D. at Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel in Hermeneutics and Cultural Studies. His research interests are history of systems of thought, patristics, political and economic theory. He taught the course Foucault on Economics for ICLS in the Fall of 2013.

Tan Lin is the author of Lotion Bullwhip Giraffe, BlipSoak01, Ambience is a Novel with a Logo, Heath (Plagiarism/Outsource), 7 Controlled Vocabularies and Obituary 2004, and The Joy of Cooking (2010). His work has appeared in numerous journals including Conjunctions, Artforum, Cabinet, New York Times Book Review, Art in America, and Purple. His video, theatrical and LCD work have been shown at the Marianne Boesky Gallery, Yale Art Museum, Sophienholm Museum (Copenhagen), Ontological Hysterical Theatre, and as part of the Whitney Museum of American Art's Soundcheck Series. Lin is the recipient of a Getty Distinguished Scholar Grant for 2004-2005 and a Warhol Foundation/Creative Capital Arts Writing Grant to complete a book-length study of the writings of Andy Warhol. He has taught at the University of Virginia and Cal Arts, and currently teaches creative writing at New Jersey City University.

Jeremy Lin is a PhD Candidate in History at New York University. He graduated from Harvard College in 2008 with a BA in Classics and Linguistics. Subsequently, a 2008–09 DAAD grant allowed him to continue his work on the development of Greek dialects. His current areas of study at NYU are the intellectual history of linguistics and the development of nationalism in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Eastern Europe, focusing on the Hungarian and Lithuanian cases.

Erik Linstrum is assistant professor of history at the University of Virginia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Previously he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Society of Fellows at the University of Michigan. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2012 and is currently working on his first book, a history of psychology in the twentieth-century British Empire which ranges across the fields of psychoanalysis, mental testing, and the laboratory. A former fellow of the Institute of Historical Research in London and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, he has published articles in Past and Present and the Journal of the History of Ideas.

Benjamin M. Liu studies the literatures and cultures of the medieval Iberian Peninsula. He is the author of Medieval Joke Poetry: The Cantigas d'Escarnho e de Mal Dizer (Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature, 2004), articles in Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature, Medieval Encounters, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, La Corónica, and Nueva Revista de Filología Hispánica, as well as several book chapters, the most recent of which is "Ricote, Mariana y el Patrón Oro" in Cervantes y la Economía, ed. Miguel-Ángel Galindo Martín (Cuenca: Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, 2007). His current research project considers various economic modes of interfaith relations in early Spanish literature, examining how the circulation of money and goods among Christians, Muslims and Jews configures complex interpersonal networks among these groups. He is also developing new research on travel literature and trade in the Middle Ages.