List of Jacobson Lectures

The Marc and Constance Jacobson Lecture

2009-10 Joan Wallach Scott, History, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
"Sexularism: On Gender Equality and Secularization"

2008-09 Barbara Stafford, Art History, Emerita, University of Chicago
“Bits of Behavior/Concepts Prior to Words: The Emotional Intuition of Form”

2007-08 Dipesh Chakrabarty, History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago
“Empire, Ethics and the Calling of History”

2005-06 Lawrence N. Powell, History, Tulane University
“New Orleans: An American Pompei”

2004-05 Frederic Jameson, Comparative Literature, Duke University
“History and Narrative”

2003-04 Albie Sachs , Constitutional Court Judge, South Africa (also)
“A New Court for a New Democracy: Art, Memory, and Human Rights Come Together in Building South Africa’s Constitutional Court”

2002-03 Kwame Anthony Appiah, Philosophy, Princeton University
“Whose Life Is It Anyway? Identity and Individuality in Ethics and Politics”

2001-02 Martha Nussbaum, Law and Ethics, University of Chicago
“Global Duties: Cicero’s Problematic Legacy”

2000-01 Natalie Zemon Davis, History, Emerita, Princeton University
“Rethinking Cultural Mixture: The Travels of ‘Leo Africanus’”

1998-99 Helen Vendler, English, Harvard University
“Robert Lowell and Depressive Form”

1997-98 Jonathan Levy, Theatre Arts, SUNY-Stony Brook
“Requiem for a Lightweight: Avery Hopwood and ‘Serious Theatre’”

1996-97 Sander L. Gilman, Comparative Literature, University of Chicago
“Seeing Faces, Making Faces: Cosmetic Surgery at 100 Years”

1995-96 Patricia Meyer Spacks, English, University of Virginia
“Sensibilities of Self-Love”

1994-95 Dalia Judovitz, French and Italian, Emory University
“Playing the Field: Redefining Artistic Production”

1993-94 Richard Sennett, Theory and Culture, New York University
“The Geography of Ghettos”

1992-93 Paula Gunn Allen, writer, English, University of California, Los Angeles
A reading from her work

1991-92 Arnold Eisen, Religious Studies, Stanford University
“The Search for Authority in Twentieth-Century Judaic Studies”

1990-91 Arnold Davidson, Philosophy, University of Chicago
“The Horror of Monsters”

1989-90 Simon Schama, History, Harvard University
“Perishable Commodities: On Craft and Value in Netherlandish Still Life”