The University Faculty

MESSENGER LECTURER

Professor David Savran, Distinguished Professor and Vera Mowry Roberts Chair in American Theatre, CUNY

LECTURE 1:

"Branding as Cultural Performance"

Thursday, February 2, 2012 at 4;30PM, A.D. White House

LECTURE 2:

Wednesday, February 29, 2012 @ 4:30PM, 258 Goldwin Smith Hall

"The Kindness of Strangers?: Branding American Theatre in Postwar Europe"

LECTURE 3:

Friday, March 30, 2012 @ 4:30PM Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts

"The Queer Brand on Broadway: The American Musical From Porter to the Book of Mormon"

UNIVERSITY LECTURER

Neco Celik, Award Winning Turkish-German Film and Theater Writer and Director

Friday, February 10, 2012 @ 4:30PM

Film Screening of the Urban Guerillas

Q&A with film director immediately following

Reception in the Schwartz Lobby following the event

Film Forum, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts

UNIVERSITY LECTURER

Professor Lori Ginzberg, Professor of History and Women's Studies, Pennsylvania State University

"Rights, Racisim, & "A Very Radical Proposition:": Grappling with the Complex Legacies of Elizabeth Cady Stanton"

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

4:30PM

Kaufman Auditorium, Goldwin Smith - Reception to Follow

Elizabeth Cady Stanton was the founding philosopher of the American movement for woman's rights and one of her generation's most charismatic and visible leaders. But her positions were not always on the side of the broadest possible conception of justice and social change. Lori Ginzberg will talk about the ways that elitism ran through Stanton's life and thought, most often defined by class, frequently by race, and always by intellect, and how those attitudes limited the feminism of her era and, implicitly, our own.

Lori Ginzberg, a professor of History and Women's Studies at Pennsylvania State University, has written several books on women's history, including Women and the Work of Benevolence: Morality, Politics, and Class in the 19th-Century United States and Untidy Origins: A Story of Woman's Rights in Antebellum New York. She is the author, most recently, of Elizabeth Cady Stanton: An American Life.

UNIVERSITY LECTURER

Professor Brent Edwards, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University

"Ici Ou Ailleurs / Here or Anyplace Else: Dancing in Translation"

A Collaborative Lecture by Brent Hayes Edwards with Emily Coates and Lacina Coulibaly

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

4:30PM

Film Forum of the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts

UNIVERSITY LECTURER

Professor Ewine van Dishoeck, Professor of Molecular Astrophysics at the University of Leiden, Netherlands

"Building Planets and the Ingredients for Life between the Stars"

Tuesday, March 27, 2012 @ 4:30PM

Schwartz Auditorium

UNIVERSITY LECTURER

Professor Paul J. Steinhardt, Albert Einstein Professor of Science at Princeton University

"Once Upon a Time in Kamchatka: The Extraordinary Search for Natural Quasicrystals"

Thursday, March 29, 2012

B14 Hollister Hall, 4:30PM

Reception to follow in Snee Hall Atrium

MESSENGER LECTURER

Professor Silvio Ferrari, University of Milan

"The Law of God and the Rights of Man. Law, Religion, and the Public Space"

Lecture 1:

Monday, April 2, 2012

4:30PM @ G76 Goldwin Smith Hall

"Religion in the Western Legal Tradition: An Historical Perspective?

Lecture 2:

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

4:30PM @ G76 Goldwin Smith Hall

"Law and Religions: Patterns"

Lecture 3:

Thursday, April 5, 2012

4:30PM @ G76 Goldwin Smith Hall

"Law and Religions: Problems"

MESSENGER LECTURER

Professor Tariq Ramadan, Oxford University

Lecture 1:

"What would Muhammad do?"

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

4:30-6:00PM, Statler Auditorium

Lecture 2:

"Muslims in the West"

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

5:00pm - 6:00pm, Call Auditorium, Kennedy Hall

Lecture 3:

"Arab Revolutions: What Next"

Thursday, April 12, 2012

4:30pm-- 6:00pm, Kaufman Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall

UNIVERSITY LECTURER

Professor Raymond T. Pierrehumbert, Louis Block Professor in Geophysical Sciences and the College, University of Chicago

"Science Fiction Atmospheres"

Wednesday, April 18, 2012 @ 4:30 PM

Schwartz Auditorium

UNIVERSITY LECTURER

Dr. Jas' Elsner Humfry Payne, Senior Research Fellow in Classical Art at Corpus Christi College, Oxford

"Rhetorics of Iconoclasm from Antiquity to Byzantium"

Friday, April 13, 2012 @ 4:30PM

Kaufman Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall

UNIVERSITY LECTURER

Dr. Sheldon Pollock, William B. Ransford Professor of Sanskrit and Indian Studies, Columbia University

"Philology in Three Dimensions"

4:30PM

Kaufman Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

MESSENGER LECTURER

Professor Amihai Mazar, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Lecture 1:

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

7:30PM in Kaufmann Auditorium - G64 Goldwin Smith

"Archaeology and Biblical History: The Current State of Scholarship"

Lecture 2:

"The Levant in the Tenth Century: Archaeology and the Alleged Time of David and Solomon"

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

4:30PM in Lewis Auditoirum, G76 Goldwin Smith

Lecture 3:

"A Land of Milk and Honey: Archaeological Research on the Unique Apiary at Tel Rehov, Israel"

Thursday, April 26, 2012

4:30PM in Lewis Auditoirum, G76 Goldwin Smith

UNIVERSITY LECTURER

Professor Steven Cowley, Director of the Culham Laboratory and the Chief Executive Officer of the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA)

"Fusion energy in the 21st century...and beyond!

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

5:30pm

CALL AUDITORIUM, KENNEDY HALL