Daniel Gilbert Professor, Harvard University
How To Do Precisely the Right Thing at All Possible Times
Thu, 20 Sep 2007 |
Louis Clark Vanuxem Lecture
Lectures Home » 2007-2008 Lectures
Speakers in this series
Paula Fredriksen Aurelio Professor of Scripture, Boston University
Sin: The Early History of an Idea (NOTE: Three lectures October 9, 10, 11; in McCosh 10)
Tue, 09 Oct 2007 |
Spencer Trask Lecture, cosponsored by Princeton University Press
Paula Fredriksen Aurelio Professor of Scripture, Boston University
Sin: The Early History of an Idea (NOTE: McCosh Hall 10)
Wed, 10 Oct 2007 |
Spencer Trask Lecture
Paula Fredriksen Aurelio Professor of Scripture, Boston University
Sin: The Early History of an Idea (NOTE: McCosh 10)
Thu, 11 Oct 2007 |
Spencer Trask Lecture
Carlos Fuentes Novelist
A Panoramic View of the History of Mexico (NOTE: McCosh Hall 10)
Thu, 18 Oct 2007 |
Spencer Trask Lecture
Carlos Eire Riggs Professor of History and Religious Studies, Yale University
A Brusque History of Eternity (NOTE: Three lectures November 6, 7, 8; in McCosh 10)
Tue, 06 Nov 2007 |
Spencer Trask Lecture, cosponsored by Princeton University Press
Carlos Eire Riggs Professor of History and Religious Studies, Yale University
A Brusque History of Eternity (NOTE: McCosh 10)
Wed, 07 Nov 2007 |
Spencer Trask Lecture, cosponsored by Princeton University Press
Carlos Eire Riggs Professor of History and Religious Studies, Yale University
A Brusque History of Eternity (NOTE: McCosh 10)
Thu, 08 Nov 2007 |
Spencer Trask Lecture, cosponsored by Princeton University Press
Atul Gawande, M.D. Surgeon, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School and Writer, The New Yorker
Mediocrity and Its Causes: A Surgeon's Notes on Medical Performance (NOTE: McCosh Hall 10)
Tue, 13 Nov 2007 |
Walter E. Edge Lecture
David Remnick Editor, The New Yorker, and Writer
A Conversation with David Remnick, hosted by Professor of English Michael Wood
Tue, 20 Nov 2007 |
Walter E. Edge Lecture
Nicholas Stern Author, Stern Review Report on the Economics of Climate Change, and IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government, London School of Economics
The Economics of Climate Change: Risk, Ethics, and a Global Deal
Mon, 07 Jan 2008 |
Walter E. Edge Lecture, cosponsored by the Program in Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy and the Princeton Environmental Institute
Krista Tippett Founder and host of American Public Media's "Speaking of Faith"
Reading from "Speaking of Faith" followed by panel discussion (NOTE: 7:00 p.m.)
Tue, 05 Feb 2008 |
Cosponsored by the Spencer Trask Lecture Fund, the Center for the Study of Religion, and the Department of Anthropology
Robert Hass Poet
Poetry Reading (NOTE: 4:30 p.m. in McCormick 101)
Fri, 22 Feb 2008 |
Spencer Trask Lecture, cosponsored by the Department of English and the Princeton Environmental Institute
Josh Marshall Founder of Talking Points Memo
The Current Political Scene
Tue, 01 Apr 2008 |
Stafford Little Lecture
Robert Alter Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley
The Bible and American Fiction (NOTE: Three lectures April 8, 9, 10)
Tue, 08 Apr 2008 |
Spencer Trask Lecture, cosponsored by Princeton University Press
Robert Alter Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley
The Bible and American Literature
Wed, 09 Apr 2008 |
Spencer Trask Lecture, cosponsored by Princeton University Press
Robert Alter Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley
Topic to be announced
Thu, 10 Apr 2008 |
Spencer Trask Lecture, cosponsored by Princeton University Press
Mario Vargas Llosa Novelist
Onetti and the Shadows of Faulkner and Borges
Tue, 22 Apr 2008 |
Spencer Trask Lecture