Visiting Speakers

Elizabeth Lunbeck is the author of The Americanization of Narcissism (Harvard, 2013), and has written and edited several other books on psychiatry, psychoanalysis, and the human sciences.  She is Nelson Tyrone, Jr Professor of History at Vanderbilt University.

George Makari is a historian, psychiatrist, and psychoanalyst, and the Director of the DeWitt Wallace Institute for the History of Psychiatry and Professor of Psychiatry at Weil Medical College of Cornell University. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Rockefeller University and at Columbia University. His writings on the history of psychoanalysis have won numerous awards includng the Gradiva Award and the Heinz Hartmann Prize, and his essays have appeared in numerous venues including The New York Times, Cabinet, The Lancet, and The Massachusetts Review. In 2008, he published Revolution in Mind: The Creation of Psychoanalysis (HarperCollins, 2008), which Harold Bloom called "by far the the best-informed history of psychoanalysis."

Rebecca Maloy specializes in early Medieval music, with interests in plainsong traditions, music theory, and the interaction between theory and practice. She is the author of Inside the Offertory: Aspects of Chronology and Transmission (Oxford, 2009) and a facsimile and commentary on a 12th-century theoretical manuscript. She has published essays in Early Music History, Journal of Musicology, Studia Musicologica, and the collections The Sequences of Nidaros: A Nordic Repertory in Its European Context and The Offertory and Its Verses: Research, Past, Present and Future.

Peter Mandler is Professor of Modern Cultural History at the University of Cambridge and Bailey Lecturer in History at Gonville and Caius College. He teaches and writes on modern British history and the history of the social sciences. His most recent book, Return from the Natives: How Margaret Mead Won the Second World War and Lost the Cold War, was published by Yale University Press in 2013. He is currently working on the democratization of education in postwar Britain and the language of the social sciences in everyday life in postwar Britain and America. From 2012 to 2016 he is President of the Royal Historical Society.<

Swati Marquez loves stories, especially when they involve fragments and memories. She was born in India, but lives and works in New York City. Her writing has appeared 
in Columbia Review, The Feminist Wire, and The Margins and is forthcoming in Jaggery; it recieved an Honorable Mention in Glimmer Train’s Very Short Fiction Contest. She is currently working on her MFA in Fiction at Hunter College and making broadsides at the Center for Book Arts. Remaining old-fashioned at heart, every time she uses her iPhone calendar, she misses her Filofax. 

Malgorzata Mazurek specializes in modern history of Poland and East Central Europe. Her interests include twentieth-century social sciences, international development, social history of communism and Polish-Jewish relations.

Branko Milanovic is Visiting Presidential Scholar at The Graduate Center at City University of New York. He was lead economist in World Bank Research Department (1991-2013); College Park professor, University of Maryland (2007-2013); long-term visiting professor at SAIS, Johns Hopkins University (1997-2007) and senior associate at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington (2003-2005). 

Toril Moi has three broad areas of interest: feminist theory and women's writing; the intersection of literature, philosophy and aesthetics; and ordinary language philosophy in the tradition of Wittgenstein, Cavell and Austin. Moi also works on theater. In her work on literature and theater she is particularly interested in the emergence of modernism in the late 19th century and early 20th century.