Frederick Ives Carpenter Lectures
Frederick Ives Carpenter (1861-1925) was for many years an eminent professor of medieval and Renaissance literature in the Department of English. The Carpenter lectureship was endowed in 1925 to memorialize Professor Carpenter's personal commitment to the highest excellence in scholarship and teaching, and to perpetuate that commitment in a broader way. The Carpenter lecturer generally spends two weeks at the University, with the centerpiece of the visit being a series of three lectures. The lecturer will, in addition, visit graduate workshops, hold office hours, and spend time informally engaged with faculty and students. Previous Carpenter Lecturers include Edward Said, Stanley Cavell, Jacques Derrida, Fredric Jameson, Judith Butler, Catherine Gallagher, and Michael Warner.
Upcoming Lecture
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Lecture Archive
| 2008-2009 |
Jacqueline Rose Professor of English at Queen Mary, University of London A series of lectures on "Proust Among the Nations" "Partition, Proust, and Palestine" "The House of Memory" "Endgame: Beckett and Genet in the Middle East" |
| 2007-2008 |
Franco Moretti Danily C. and Laura Louise Bell Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Stanford University A series of lectures "Theory of the Novel, History of the Novel" "Bourgeoise: On Henrik Ibsen" "Quantitative Data, Formal Analysis: Reflections on 7,000 titles (British Novels, 1740-1850)" |
| 2006-2007 |
Kwame Anthony Appiah Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy and the University Center for Human Values, Princeton University A series of lectures on "Ethics in a World of Strangers" "Global Citizenship" "Understanding Moral Disagreement" "The Cosmopolitanism of W. E. B. Du Bois" |