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May 2025
Daniel Mendelsohn, Berlin Family Lecturer 2024, Photo by Matt Mendelsohn

Daniel Mendelsohn: "Twisty Ways" Adventures in Translating the Odyssey

Apr 2024
Mary Beard by Robin Cormack

Mary Beard: "What Can We Learn from the Classics?"

Apr 2023
Claudia Rankine

Claudia Rankine: "Meanwhile"

Apr 2022
Ian Bostridge

Ian Bostridge: “Musical Identities”

Apr 2021
Danielle Allen

Danielle Allen: “Democracy in the Time of Coronavirus”

May 2020
Teju Cole

Teju Cole: “Coming to Our Senses”

Apr 2019
Jeanne Gang

Jeanne Gang: “Mining the City”

Apr 2018
Mario Vargas Llosa

Mario Vargas Llosa: “The Writer and His Demons”

Apr 2017
Amitav Ghosh

Amitav Ghosh: “The Great Derangement: Fiction, History, and Politics in the Age of Global Warming”

Sep 2015
Lawrence Lessig

Lawrence Lessig: “America: Compromised Studies in Institutional Corruption”

Oct 2014

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