Academic Year 2017-2018
1/31/18, Lynn Novick, “What Nonfiction Narratives Reveal”
2/8/18, Danielle Allen, “The Declaration of Independence: Lessons for Citizenship in Challenging Times”
2/12/18, Yve-Alain Bois, “The Billboard and the Icon”
2/21/18, Alex Ross, “Wagnerian Modernism”
4/9/18, Alice Sebold, “We Move As a Group: Uniting the Genders in the Fight Against Rape Culture”
4/25/18, Adam Zagajewski, “An Evening of Poetry”
Academic Year 2017-2018
9/19/17, Robert Wright, “Why Buddhism is True”
11/6/17, Lisa Randall, “How Do We Know There are Extra Dimensions?”
11/16/17, Hilton Als, “Crime and Punishment: The Collaboration of Richard Avedon and James Baldwin”Academic Year 2016-2017
04/05/17, Robert Sapolsky, "The Biology of Good and Evil
04/04/17, Mary Gaitskill, "The Novelist Reads from her Work"
04/03/17, Peter Dale Scott, "Czeslaw Milosz and T.S. Eliot: On Literature, Past and Future"
03/30/17, John Ferrell, "The Poetry of Charles Wright"
Academic Year 2015-2016
01/29/16, Louise Gluck Visit, "Poetry Colloquium
02/01/16, Louise Gluck Visit, "Athenaeum Reading"
11/04/15 "Art Panel II: Public Art - Public Domain; Philipp Kaiser and Robert Faggen, moderators"
10/08/15 "A Poetry Reading with Henri Cole"
09/30/15 "Art Panel I: Public Spheres; Miwon Kwon, Rochelle Steiner, Jorge Pardo, Oscar Tuazon"
Academic Year 2014-2015
Fall 2014 Seminar Philipp Kaiser, "Sculpture as Place"
Fall 2014 Seminar Bruce McKenna, "The Art and Science of Adaption"
9/17/14 "Film Screening: Walesa: Man of Hope"
9/18/14 August Klenzahler Reading
10/28/14 Adam Michnik, "The Trouble With Democracy After Communism"
10/28/14 Adam Michnik and Jonathan Bolton, "Dissidents, Then and Now"
11/10/14 J. David Velleman, "Morality Here and There: Kant Among the Sherpas"
11/18/14 Philip Kaiser, "Holes with History: Sculpture in the Late 1960s"
Academic Year 2013-2014
9/19/13 August Kleinzahler, "The Poet Reads from Hotel Oneira"
10/9/13 James Fadiman, "The Psychedelic Renaissance: Promise and Pitfalls"
10/10/13 Dorothy Fadiman, "When a Filmmaker's Vision Catches Fire"
10/15/13 Eric Karpeles, "Was Proust Convinced? Art and the Power of Redemption"
10/31/13 Robert Wagner, "Moby Dick and the Mythology of Oil"
4/15/14 Mary Gaitskill, "An Evening With the Author"
4/17/14 Paul Schimmel, "New Directions in Contemporary Art"
4/21/14 Mary Weatherford, "The Artist Discusses her Work"
5/4/2014 "Three-Part Documentary Screening and Panel Discussion of Mike Kelley's Mobile Homestead"
Academic Year 2012-2013
10/1/12 Robert Massie III, "History, Biography and Human Agency"
10/4/12 Paul Elie, "Reinventing Bach"
10/8/12 James Millstein, "Hangover: The Financial Crisis of 2008 and its Fiscal Consequences"
11/7/12 August Kleinzahler, "The Poet Reads from His Work"
11/13/12 Peter White, "Turn the Poet Out of Door: A Natural History of Robert Frost"
11/28/12 Paul Krassner, "Who's to Say? A Life Lived on the Edge"
12/3/12 Jonathan Bolton, "Narratives of Dissent"
1/28/13 Ray Ryan, "Publishing Academic Research in the Humanities"
2/11/13 Sharon Olds, "A Reading"
2/14/13 Robert Caro, "An Evening with Robert Caro"
2/28/13 Naomi Nye, "A Reading"
3/4/13 Victor Masayesva, Jr., Screening of "Ritual Clowns"
3/13/13 Alex Dionne, "Girl Rising, A Documentary"
3/28/13 Allison Davis O'Keefe, "Across America in the Century's First Decade: The Odyssey of a Photojournalist"
4/16/13 Pico Iyer, "Our New Global Culture: Visions and Divisions"
4/17/13 Francine Prose, "The Literary Genius of Anne Frank"
Academic Year 2011-2012
2/14/12 Nick Bostrom, "Superintelligence: The Machine Intelligence Revolution"
3/7/12 Ray Kurzweil, "The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology"
4/2/12 David Rodin, "After Just War Theory"
Academic Year 2010-2011
10/12/10 Bruce McKenna, "Writing History onto Screen"
10/14/10 Leszek Balcerowicz, "How to Avoid Another Financial Crisis"
10/27/10 Frank Deford, "An Evening with America's Greatest Sportswriter"
3/1/11 James Fenton, "An Evening with the Poet"
4/4/11 Louise Gluck, "An Evening with Louise Gluck"
Academic Year 2009-2010
2/9/10 William Kolbrener – “The Materialist Modern: Theology, Politics, and Community in Thomas Hobbes and John Milton”
2/16/10 Robert von Hallberg – “Love Songs of Serial Desire”
2/22/10 Adam Michnik, editor-in-chief of Gazeta Wyborcza
3/31/10 Angus Fletcher, author and CMC Podlich Fellow
11/3/09 Ertai Gao - "In Search of My Homeland"
10/26/09 W.S. Merwin - "An Evening with W.S. Merwin"
Academic Year 2008-2009
3/10/09 Adam Michnik - "Global Anti-Semitism" (ATH VIDEO)
2/24/09 Jonathan Hart - "Lawrence of Arabia: Between Myth and History"
11/6/08 David Grossman - "Israel at 60: Nation, Identity, and Literature"
10/27/08 Paul Muldoon - "A Poet Reads from His Work"
10/23/08 Ed McClanahan - "An Evening with the Author" (ATH VIDEO)
9/18/08 Amos Oz - "Israel and the Question of Global Anti-Semitism"
Academic Year 2007-2008
3/26/08 Mort Sahl - "An Evening with Mort Sahl" (ATH VIDEO)
3/12/08 American Jazz Institute Nonet: The Jazz Soul of Frankie Laine (ATH VIDEO)
3/10/08 Kang Zhengguo - "An Evening with the Author" (ATH VIDEO)
3/7/08 China and Human Rights: A Symposium
3/6/08 Orville Schell - "The Global Environmental Consequences of China's 'Right' to Development" (ATH VIDEO)
2/21/08 Martin Marty - "Religion and Public Life"
2/13/08 Duology Plus Two
11/8/07 Bei Dao - "An Evening with the Poet"
10/18/07 Orhan Pamuk - "Orhan Pamuk: Other Colors, Other Stories" (ATH VIDEO)
Academic Year 2006-2007
4/24/07 Elisa Massimino - "Torture and the War on Terror" (ATH VIDEO)
4/4/07 Adam Michnik - "Democracy and Religion" (ATH VIDEO)
3/28/07 Uzodinma Iweala - "Beasts of No Nation" (ATH VIDEO)
3/7/07 Barry Kosmin - "Surveying Contemporary Free Market of Religious and Non-religious Americans" (ATH VIDEO)
3/6/07 Hugo Vickers - "Cecil Beaton: His Biography and His Biographer" (ATH VIDEO)
2/20/07 Paul Barolsky - "Ovid's Metamorphoses and the History of Art"
2/12/07 Carl Wilkens - "Defying Genocide in Rwanda" (ATH VIDEO)
1/25/07 C. K. Williams - "A Reading"
1/22/007 - Thomas Cushman - "Orwell in the 21st Century"
11/20/06 The Bobby Bradford Mo'tet: Jazz!
11/15/06 A Panel Discussion: Women and Journalism (ATH VIDEO)
11/6/06 Stephanie Coontz - "The Way We Never Were and the Way We Really Are: Myths and Realities about America's Changing Families"
10/25/06 Joanne Ciulla - "Work, Leisure, and The Good Life"
10/19/06 A Concert in Commemoration of Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
9/26/06 Jeremy Rifkin - "The European Dream: How Europe's Vision of the Future is Changing the Global Economy"
Academic Year 2005-2006
4/19/06 Harvey Klehr - "Was Joe McCarthy Right? New Archival Evidence on Soviet Espionage in America"
4/3/06 Richard Evans - "Coercion and Consent in Nazi Germany"
3/2/06 Salman Rushdie - "Step Across This Line: An Evening with Salman Rushdie"
2/20/06 The Lark Quartet Plays Bolcom, Gershwin, and Debussy
2/9/06 John Demos - "In the Shadow of the Founders: The Meaning and Significance of 'Generations' in American History"
2/6/06 Music from the Grasslands of Inner Mongolia
1/23/06 Tres Amis Trio: 19th Century German Romantic Chamber Music of Beethoven, Schumann, and Brahms
10/24/05 Oscar Torres - "Innocent Voices" (ATH VIDEO)
10/6/05 Andrew Sullivan - "The Conservative Case for Gay Marriage"
9/14/05 Frank Potenza Quartet: An Evening of Jazz
Academic Year 2004-2005
4/27/05 James Q. Wilson - "Character and Culture" (ATH VIDEO)
4/18/05 Richard Evans - "History, Truth and Memory: Reflections on the Irving-Lipstadt Libel Case" (ATH VIDEO)
4/12/05 Kevin Warwick - "Practical Experiments Using Implant Technology" (ATH VIDEO)
4/11/05 Taryn Benarroch '05 - "A Recital of Songs and Arias"
4/4/05 Cyrille and Drummond Play Thelonious Monk
3/10/05 A.S. Byatt - "Glass as Metaphor: Reflections on the Development of My Work"
2/23/05 Brannon Braga - "Confessions of a Star Trek Writer"
2/8/05 Brian Greene - "String Theory: Reaching for Einstein's Dream"
2/2/05 A Recital of Arias and Art Songs
1/26/05 Richard Hanley - "No Need for Miracles: Simulation and the Supernatural"
10/21/04 Niall Ferguson - "Are Capitalism and Democracy Bound to Win?" (ATH VIDEO)