Hermione Lee Oxford University
Shelley’s Heart and Pepys’s Lobsters
Jane Austen Faints
Virginia Woolf’s Nose
Mon, 27 Sep 2004 |
J. Edward Farnum Lectures and Princeton University Press
Lectures Home » 2004-2005 Lectures
Speakers in this series
George Dyson Author, Western Washington University
Barricelli's Universe: Digital Computing in Princeton, 1945-1958
Tue, 05 Oct 2004 |
Walter E. Edge Lecture
Alan Wolfe Professor, & Director of The Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life Boston College
America's Two Visions: The Good and the Great
How Conservatives Came to Think Small
The Liberal Retreat from Ambition
Tue, 09 Nov 2004 |
Spencer Trask Lectures
Robert W. Lucky Telcordia
Broadbanding America: What, Why, and How
Tue, 16 Nov 2004 |
Spencer Trask Lectures
Henry Petroski A. S. Vesic Professor of Civil Engineering and Professor of History, Duke University
The Design of Everything: From Success to Failure
Tue, 07 Dec 2004 |
Louis Clark Vanuxem Lectures
Kathleen Sullivan Stanley Morrison Professor of Law and Former Dean Stanford University School of Law
The Constitution and Emergency
Wed, 09 Feb 2005 |
Walter E. Edge Lecture
Alex Filippenko University of California, Berkeley
Catastrophic Stellar Explosions: Celestial Firework
Enigmatic Gamma-Ray Bursts: Birth Cries of Black Holes
Einstein's Biggest Blunder? The Case for Cosmic "Antigravity"
Wed, 23 Feb 2005 |
J. Edward Farnum Lectures
Joan Didion Cosponsored by the Spencer Trask Lectures and the Program in the Study of Women and Gender: Symposium on Women Art and Politics in the 20th Century
Keynote Speech: Writing Politics
Fri, 01 Apr 2005 |
Spencer Trask Lectures
Brian Greene Columbia University
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time & the Texture of Reality
Wed, 06 Apr 2005 |
Louis Clark Vanuxem Lecture
Michael S. Gazzaniga Dartmouth University
Personal Identity, Neuroethics and the Human Brain
Thu, 14 Apr 2005 |
Louis Clark Vanuxem Lecture
Chinua Achebe Novelist and Emeritus Professor, Bard College
Insider Perspectives on Afro-Pessimism: Rethinking our Role as Contemporary Self-Critics.
Fri, 15 Apr 2005 |
Walter E. Edge Lectures
Paul Taylor The Paul Taylor Dance Company
A Conversation with Paul Taylor, with Maura Keefe, dance historian
Fri, 29 Apr 2005 |
J. Edward Farnum Lectures
Professor Lord Robert May Professor of Zoology at Oxford University President of the Royal Society Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government (1996-2000) Life Peer, House of Lords Knighted by Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II
Hard Questions About Tomorrow’s World
Wed, 04 May 2005 |
Louis Clark Vanuxem Lecture
Dr. Matt Ridley Author, Founder of International Centre of Life
Nature and Nurture
Tue, 10 May 2005 |
Louis Clark Vanuxem Lecture