[Wesleyan University]
Photograph of the Center for Humanities building

Previous Themes and Lecture Series

Spring 2011            Genealogies of Reason
Fall 2010                Worlding

2009/2010              War

2008/2009              Figuring the Human

2007/2008              Revision and Translation

Spring 2007           Domesticity: Past, Present and Future
Fall 2006                The Natural, the Unnatural, and the Supernatural

Spring 2006           Hope and Fear
Fall 2005                Culture and Policy

Spring 2005           Truth
Fall 2004                Human and Other Rights

Spring 2004           Moving Images
Fall 2003                Tracing the Past, Plotting the Future

Spring 2003           Mimesis
Fall 2002                Transnationalisms, Past and Present

Spring 2002           Politics, Learning, Pedagogy
Fall 2001                Defining Humanity: Unity and Difference

Spring 2001           Performance
Fall 2000                Rethinking the Twentieth Century

Spring 2000           Lives of the City
Fall 1999                The Problem of Aesthetics

Spring 1999          Discourses of Progress and Development: The Return of Religion
Fall 1998               Discourse of Progress and Development:  Local, National,
                                Regional, and Global Histories

Spring 1998           Cultural and Visual Representation

Fall  1997              Cultural History and Cultural Studies