Peter E. Gordon

Amabel B. James Professor of History, Harvard University; Resident Faculty & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Faculty Affiliate, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University; Faculty Affiliate, Department of Philosophy, Harvard University

Julian Bourg

Associate Professor of History, Boston College; Local Affiliate & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Charles Clavey

Lecturer on Social Studies, Harvard University; Seminar Co-chair & Thesis Workshop Organizer, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Gili Kliger

Postdoctoral College Fellow, Harvard University; Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Founded in 2001, the Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History sponsors visiting lectures, workshops, and conferences on diverse themes of interest to scholars in history, philosophy, political theory, literature, and the human sciences.

Series Events Calendar

The Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History — Refugees (Not) Welcome: European Exile Scholars at Harvard in the 1930s and 1940s

March 21, 2024
4:00pm - 5:30pm

Iryna Mykhailova – EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow, Early Modern World, Harvard University; Research Grant Holder, Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
Laurel Leff – Professor of Journalism, Northeastern University
Sebastian Musch – Alfred Landecker Lecturer, Department of History and the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS), Osnabrück University; Starr Fellow Spring 2024, Center for Jewish Studies, Harvard University
Chair Peter E. Gordon – Amabel B. James Professor of History, Harvard University; Resident Faculty & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Faculty Affiliate, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University; Faculty Affiliate, Department of Philosophy, Harvard University

Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History — The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon – A Conversation with Adam Shatz

January 24, 2024
3:00pm - 4:15pm

Adam Shatz – U.S. Editor, The London Review of Books; Visiting Professor, Bard College
Joelle Abi-Rached – Lecturer in History of Science, Harvard University; Mildred Londa Weisman Fellow, Harvard Radcliffe Institute
Jesse McCarthy – Assistant Professor of English and African and African American Studies, Harvard University; Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University

Flaschenpost: Critical Theory at 100 – The European and American Reception, 1923-2023 | Day 2

Flaschenpost: Critical Theory at 100 – The European and American Reception, 1923-2023
Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History — Flaschenpost: Critical Theory at 100 – The European and American Reception, 1923-2023 | Day 2

October 7, 2023
8:30am - 6:30pm

Chair Peter E. Gordon – Amabel B. James Professor of History, Harvard University; Resident Faculty & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Faculty Affiliate, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University; Faculty Affiliate, Department of Philosophy, Harvard University and Maxim Pensky – Professor of Philosophy, Binghamton University; Co-Director, Institute of Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention, Binghamton University

Flaschenpost: Critical Theory at 100 – The European and American Reception, 1923-2023 | Day 1

Flaschenpost: Critical Theory at 100 – The European and American Reception, 1923-2023
The Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History — Flaschenpost: Critical Theory at 100 – The European and American Reception, 1923-2023 | Day 1

October 6, 2023
8:30am - 6:00pm

Chair Peter E. Gordon – Amabel B. James Professor of History, Harvard University; Resident Faculty & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Faculty Affiliate, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University; Faculty Affiliate, Department of Philosophy, Harvard University and Maxim Pensky – Professor of Philosophy, Binghamton University; Co-Director, Institute of Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention, Binghamton University

Harvard Colloquium on Intellectual History — Vulgar Marxism

April 11, 2023
4:00pm - 5:15pm

Edward Baring – Associate Professor of History and Human Values, Princeton University
Chair Charles Clavey – Lecturer on Social Studies, Harvard University; Seminar Co-chair & Thesis Workshop Organizer, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History — Translating Marx's Capital in the 21st Century: Notes on the New English Edition

February 9, 2023
4:00pm - 5:30pm

Paul Reitter – Professor of History, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, The Ohio State University
Chair Peter E. Gordon – Amabel B. James Professor of History, Harvard University; Resident Faculty & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Faculty Affiliate, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University; Faculty Affiliate, Department of Philosophy, Harvard University

In the Wake: Exposing White German Abolitionist Performativity and the Limits of Empathy

Harvard Colloquium on Intellectual History & Committee on Degrees in Social Studies — In the Wake: Exposing White German Abolitionist Performativity and the Limits of Empathy

November 10, 2022
4:30pm - 5:45pm

Obenewaa Oduro-Opuni – Assistant Professor of German Studies, University of Arizona
Chair Andrew Brandel – Lecturer on Social Studies, Harvard University; Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

CANCELLED - Transatlantic Transfers of Political and Administrative Ideas in the 20th Century

Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History & Europe in the World Seminar — CANCELLED - Transatlantic Transfers of Political and Administrative Ideas in the 20th Century

April 14, 2020
4:30pm - 6:00pm

Sławomir Łukasiewicz – University Professor of Political Science, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin
Céline Mavrot – Postdoctoral Researcher and Project Leader, University of Bern
Fritz Sager – Full Professor, University of Bern; Visiting Scholar 2019-2020, CES, Harvard University
Taru Haapala – Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, Autonomous University of Madrid; Visiting Scholar 2019-2020, CES, Harvard University
Chair David Armitage – Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History, Harvard University; Faculty Associate & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Harvard Colloquium on Intellectual History — CANCELLED - Psychoanalytic Reflections on a Fulfilled Life

April 7, 2020
5:00pm - 7:00pm

Joel Whitebook – Assistant Clinical Professor of Medical Psychology (in Psychiatry), Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research; Director, Columbia University Psychoanalytic Studies Program (2012-2017)
Chair Peter E. Gordon – Amabel B. James Professor of History & CES Resident Faculty and Seminar Co-chair, Harvard University

Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History — CANCELLED - Translating "Capital"?

April 1, 2020
5:00pm - 6:30pm

Paul Reitter – Professor of History, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, The Ohio State University
Chair and Discussant Peter E. Gordon – Amabel B. James Professor of History & CES Resident Faculty and Seminar Co-chair, Harvard University

Confessions of the Flesh: Michel Foucault’s Final Volume of "The History of Sexuality"

Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History & European Politics Seminar — Confessions of the Flesh: Michel Foucault’s Final Volume of "The History of Sexuality"

December 5, 2019
9:00am - 6:00pm

James Bernauer, S.J. – Kraft Family Professor of Philosophy, Boston College
Julian Bourg – Associate Professor of History, Boston College; CES Local Affiliate & Seminar Co-chair, Harvard University
Rey Chow – Anne Firor Scott Professor of Literature, Duke University
Agustin Colombo – Postdoctoral Researcher, Boston College & University of Paris, VIII
Bernard Harcourt – Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law, Columbia Law School; École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)
Lynne Huffer – Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Emory University
Mark D. Jordan – Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Christian Thought & Richard Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Divinity, Harvard Divinity School; Professor of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard University
Austin Sarfan – Graduate Student, Program in Literature, Duke University
Annabel Kim – Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University
Edward McGushin – Professor of Philosophy, Stonehill College
Durba Mitra – Assistant Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality and Carol K. Pforzheimer Assistant Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University

Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History — American Liberalism in France: The French Reception of Rawls, 1971-2010

October 30, 2019
4:30pm - 6:00pm

Mathieu Hauchecorne – Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Paris 8
Chair David Armitage – Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History & CES Faculty Associate & Seminar Co-chair, Harvard University

Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History — Phenomenology and Religion - One-Day Workshop

October 11, 2019
9:00am - 6:45pm

Edward Baring – Associate Professor of History and Human Values, Princeton University
Francis Schüssler Fiorenza – Charles Chauncey Stillman Professor of Roman Catholic Theological Studies, Harvard Divinity School
Amy Hollywood – Elizabeth H. Monrad Professor of Christian Studies, Harvard Divinity School
Sean Kelly – Teresa G. and Ferdinand F. Martignetti Professor of Philosophy, Harvard University
Noreen Khawaja – Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Yale University
Elisa Magri – Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Boston College
Dermot Moran – Joseph Chair in Catholic Philosophy, Professor, Boston College
François-David Sebbah – Professor of Philosophy, Paris Nanterre University
Sarah Shortall – Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Notre Dame
Chair Peter E. Gordon – Amabel B. James Professor of History & CES Resident Faculty and Seminar Co-chair, Harvard University

CES 50th Anniversary Series — Justification and Alienation: Kant, Marx and Contemporary Critical Theory

September 27, 2019
4:30pm - 6:00pm

Rainer Forst – Professor of Political Theory and Philosophy, Goethe University Frankfurt
Chair Peter E. Gordon – Amabel B. James Professor of History; CES Resident Faculty & Seminar Co-chair, Harvard University

A Spring 2019 Lecture Series at Harvard University — Adorno and the Dialectic of Aesthetic Sublimation

May 1, 2019
6:00pm - 8:00pm

Martin E. Jay – Ehrman Professor of History, Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley

A Spring 2019 Lecture Series at Harvard University — Adorno, Aesthetic Negativity, and the Problem of Idealism

April 23, 2019
6:00pm - 8:00pm

Robert Pippin – Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor of Social Thought, Philosophy, The University of Chicago

Adorno's Aesthetic Theory - A Spring 2019 Lecture Series at Harvard University — On the “Spiritual” in Aesthetic and Metaphysical Experience

April 16, 2019
6:00pm - 8:00pm

Hent de Vries – Paulette Goddard Professor of the Humanities, New York University

Mind and World in Kant and Adorno: From Wild Beauties to Spiral Jetty

Adorno's Aesthetic Theory - A Spring 2019 Lecture Series at Harvard University — Mind and World in Kant and Adorno: From Wild Beauties to Spiral Jetty

April 11, 2019
6:00pm - 8:00pm

Jay Bernstein – Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, The New School for Social Research

Primacy of the Object: Adorno's Aesthetic Theory and the Return of Form

Adorno's Aesthetic Theory - A Spring 2019 Lecture Series at Harvard University — Primacy of the Object: Adorno's Aesthetic Theory and the Return of Form

April 3, 2019
6:00pm - 8:00pm

Eva Geulen – Professor for European Culture and the History of Knowledge, Humboldt University of Berlin

CANCELLED: Jigsaw Puzzles of Musical Classicism: Situating Bach in Adorno's Aesthetic Theory

Adorno's Aesthetic Theory - A Spring 2019 Lecture Series at Harvard University — CANCELLED: Jigsaw Puzzles of Musical Classicism: Situating Bach in Adorno's Aesthetic Theory

March 27, 2019
6:00pm - 8:00pm

Lydia Goehr – Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University

Remembrance and Anticipation: Adorno's Reading of Proust and Beckett

Adorno's Aesthetic Theory - A Spring 2019 Lecture Series at Harvard University — Remembrance and Anticipation: Adorno's Reading of Proust and Beckett

March 13, 2019
6:00pm - 8:00pm

Espen Hammer – Professor of Philosophy, Temple University

Adorno's Aesthetic Theory - A Spring 2019 Lecture Series at Harvard University — Adorno as Tourist

March 5, 2019
6:00pm - 8:00pm

Sherry Lee – Associate Professor of Musicology and Associate, Trinity College, University of Toronto

Adorno's Aesthetic Theory - A Spring 2019 Lecture Series at Harvard University — Natural History and Aesthetic Experience

February 27, 2019
6:00pm - 8:00pm

Maxim Pensky – Professor of Philosophy, Binghamton University; Co-Director, Institute of Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention, Binghamton University

Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History — Peculiarities of the English Enlightenment

February 25, 2019
5:15pm - 7:00pm

Colin Kidd – Wardlaw Professor of Modern History, University of St Andrews; Visiting Scholar 2018-2019, CES, Harvard University

Adorno's Aesthetic Theory - A Spring 2019 Lecture Series at Harvard University — Art Has No Power Over Schein Through Its Abolition

February 20, 2019
6:00pm - 8:00pm

Michael Rosen – Senator Joseph S. Clark Professor of Ethics in Politics and Government, Harvard University

Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory - A Spring 2019 Lecture Series at Harvard University — Adorno and the Default Theory of Aesthetic Value

February 13, 2019
6:00pm - 8:00pm

Samantha Matherne – Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Harvard University

Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History — Redemption Through Sin: The Biographical Background to Gershom Scholem's Most Famous Essay

December 4, 2018
4:00pm - 6:00pm

David Biale – Emanuel Ringelblum Distinguished Professor of Jewish History, University of California, Davis

Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History — The Life and Work of Claude Lévi-Strauss

October 15, 2018
4:30pm - 6:00pm

Emmanuelle Loyer – Professor of Universities, Sciences-Po

The Legacy of 1968 | Conference
Legacy 1968 | Keynote Address

October 5, 2018
5:00pm - 6:00pm

Julian Bourg – Associate Professor of History, Boston College; Local Affiliate & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

The Legacy of 1968 | Conference
Legacy 1968 | Panel 3: Intellectual Legacies of 1968

October 5, 2018
3:00pm - 4:30pm

Sandrine Sanos – Associate Professor of Modern European History, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
Charity Scribner – Associate Professor, Literature, City University of New York
Timothy Brown – Professor of History, Northeastern University

The Legacy of 1968 | Conference
Legacy 1968 | Panel 2: Political Legacies of 1968

October 5, 2018
1:00pm - 2:30pm

Timothy Brown – Professor of History, Northeastern University
Ali Jones – Graduate Student, German and Dutch Department, University of Cambridge
Charity Scribner – Associate Professor, Literature, City University of New York

The Legacy of 1968 | Conference
Legacy 1968 | Panel 1: The Global Sixties

October 5, 2018
10:15am - 11:45am

Martin Klimke – Associate Professor of History, New York University Abu Dhabi
Quinn Slobodian – Professor of International History, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University
Beatrice Wayne – Lecturer on History & Literature, Department of History and Literature, Harvard University

Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History — Apes, Slaves, and Global Markets: Boundaries of Humanity in Enlightenment Debates

April 10, 2018
4:15pm - 6:00pm

Silvia Sebastiani – Associate Professor, École des hautes études en sciences sociales - Centre de recherche historique, (EHESS)

Resisting Neoconservatism: Explaining the Intellectual Evolution of Stanley Hoffmann's Relationship with Raymond Aron

Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History — Resisting Neoconservatism: Explaining the Intellectual Evolution of Stanley Hoffmann's Relationship with Raymond Aron

February 20, 2018
4:15pm - 6:00pm

Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins – Assistant Professor of History, College of Social Studies, Wesleyan University
Chair Julian Bourg – Associate Professor and Associate Dean of the Core, Boston College and CES Local Affiliate, Harvard University

Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History and the Political Theory Colloquium — Republican Liberty and Early Modern Revolution

November 14, 2017
4:15pm - 6:00pm

Quentin Skinner – Regius Professor of Modern History, Emeritus, University of Cambridge; Barber Beaumont Professor of the Humanities, Queen Mary, University of London
Chair Eric Nelson – Robert M. Beren Professor, Department of Government, Harvard University

Harvard Colloquium For Intellectual History — Power Without Victory: Woodrow Wilson and the American Internationalist Experiment

October 4, 2017
4:00pm - 6:00pm

Trygve Throntveit – Dean's Fellow for Civic Studies, University of Minnesota College of Education and Human Development

Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History — The Chicago World Constitution (1948) and the Quest for Post-War Order

March 2, 2017
4:00pm - 6:00pm

Or Rosenboim – Research Fellow in Politics and History of Political Thought, Queens’ College, University of Cambridge
Eva Marlene Hausteiner – Postdoctoral Lecturer and Researcher in Political Theory, University of Bonn; John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow 2016-2017, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Visiting Scholar 2016-2017, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

The Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History — World History and Earth History: Perspectives on Our Time

March 1, 2017
5:00pm - 7:00pm

Dipesh Chakrabarty – Professor of History, University of Chicago

The Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History — The Past and Present of Ideen - and Geistesgeschichte in Germany

February 8, 2017
4:10pm - 6:00pm

Timothy Goering – Postdoctoral Researcher, Ruhr University Bochum; Visiting Fellow, History Department, Harvard University

The Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History — Where Memory Leads: A Holocaust Scholar Looks Back

December 1, 2016
5:15pm - 7:00pm

Saul Friedlander – Professor of History, University of California, Los Angeles

The Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History — Sounding the Inexpressible: Schoenberg's 'A Survivor from Warsaw' and the Birth of Postwar Musical Memory

November 29, 2016
4:15pm - 5:15pm

International Conference - Day 2 Sessions — Adorno's Negative Dialectics at 50

November 19, 2016
9:00am - 6:00pm

Asaf Angermann – Postdoc Assoc Judaic Studies and Philosophy, Yale University
Gordon Finlayson – Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Sussex
Lydia Goehr – Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University
Espen Hammer – Professor of Philosophy, Temple University
Axel Honneth – Jack C. Weinstein Professor of the Humanities, Columbia University
Rahel Jaeggi – Profossor of Philosophy, Humboldt University
Martin E. Jay – Ehrman Professor of History, Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley
Iain Macdonald – Professor of Philosophy, University of Montreal
Lambert Zuidervaart – Professor of Philosophy, University of Toronto

International Conference - Day 1 Sessions — Adorno's Negative Dialectics at 50

November 18, 2016
9:00am - 6:00pm

Seyla Benhabib – Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Philosophy, Yale University
Jay Bernstein – Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, The New School for Social Research
Maeve Cooke – Associate Professor of German Social and Political Thought, University College Dublin
Konstancja Duff – Doctoral Student, Department of Philosophy, University of Sussex
Peter E. Gordon – Amabel B. James Professor of History, Harvard University; Resident Faculty & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Faculty Affiliate, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University; Faculty Affiliate, Department of Philosophy, Harvard University
Brian O'Connor – Professor of Philosophy, University College Dublin
Maxim Pensky – Professor of Philosophy, Binghamton University; Co-Director, Institute of Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention, Binghamton University
Michael Rosen – Senator Joseph S. Clark Professor of Ethics in Politics and Government, Harvard University
Welcome Remarks by Maxim Pensky – Professor of Philosophy, Binghamton University; Co-Director, Institute of Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention, Binghamton University and Peter E. Gordon – Amabel B. James Professor of History; Faculty Affiliate , Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, and Faculty Affiliate, Department of Philosophy, Harvard University.

The Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History — How the Humanities Changed the World

October 3, 2016
5:00pm - 7:00pm

Rens Bod – Professor of Digital Humanities and Director of the Center for Digital Humanities, University of Amsterdam

The Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History — Daniel Weidner: On Hermann Broch

September 26, 2016
4:15pm - 6:00pm

Daniel Weidner – Professor, Institute for Cultural Theory and History, Humboldt University of Berlin; Associate Director, Center for Literary and Cultural Research Berlin

The Lucidity of Moderation: Raymond Aron as a "Committed Observer"'

April 14, 2016
4:15pm - 6:00pm

Aurelian Craiutu – Professor of Political Science, Indiana University

Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History — Hannah Arendt and the Problem of the Public Intellectual

April 6, 2016
5:00pm - 7:00pm

Benjamin Wurgaft – History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society, MIT

Hannah Arendt Lecture Series — Eichmann in Jerusalem: Conscience, Normality, and the Rule of Narrative

March 30, 2016
5:00pm - 7:00pm

Dana Villa – Professor of Political Science, University of Notre Dame

Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History — Hannah Arendt and the Laboring Body

March 9, 2016
7:00pm - 9:00pm

Patchen Markell – Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago

Conference: "Foucault's Les mots et les choses, at year 50"

April 18, 2015
9:00am - 6:00pm

Two-Day Conference: "Foucault's Les mots et les choses, at year 50"

April 17, 2015
1:30pm - 6:00pm

The Institution of Meaning: — A Defense of Anthropological Holism

April 16, 2015
1:00pm - 4:00pm

Vincent Descombes – CES Speaker
Webb Keane – Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Charles Larmore – Department of Philosophy, Brown University
Richard Moran – CES Speaker
Frederick Neuhouser – CES Speaker

The Dark Cradle of Modernity: Burckhardt, Nietzsche, and the Idea of the Renaissance

April 2, 2015
4:15pm - 6:00pm

Martin Ruehl – Lecturer in German Thought, Trinity Hall, Cambridge University

CANCELLED — The Stakes of Opposing Democracy: Conservative Revolution and the Crisis of the Weimar Republic

February 10, 2015
5:15pm - 7:00pm

Geoff Eley – Karl Pohrt Distinguished University Professor of Contemporary History, University of Michigan

Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities

November 20, 2014
5:15pm - 7:00pm

James Turner – Professorof History, University of Notre Dame

“The Passages of Walter Benjamin”: A New Documentary Film on the Arcades Project

November 19, 2014
5:15pm - 7:00pm

“The Jefferson Rule: Why We Think the Founding Fathers Have All the Answers"

November 6, 2014
5:15pm - 7:00pm

David Sehat – Professor of History, Georgia State University

Variations on Simone Weil: European and North American Receptions of Her Antisemitica

October 22, 2014
4:15pm - 6:00pm

Benjamin Braude – Professor of History, Boston College

A Tale of Two Cities and the History of Revenge

September 30, 2014
6:00pm - 8:00pm

Catherine Gallagher – Eggers Professor of English Literature, University of California at Berkeley

Walter Benjamin and Isaiah Berlin: Modes of Jewish Intellectual Life in the 20th Century

September 29, 2014
4:15pm - 6:00pm

Martin E. Jay – Ehrman Professor of History, Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley

Adorno as Educator in Minima Moralia

April 2, 2014
4:15pm - 6:00pm

Ulrich Plass – Associate Professor of German Studies, Wesleyan University

Thomas Hobbes and Civil Conversation

February 26, 2014
5:15pm - 7:00pm

Quentin Skinner – Regius Professor of Modern History, Emeritus, University of Cambridge; Barber Beaumont Professor of the Humanities, Queen Mary, University of London

Reluctant Return: Peter Gay and the Cosmopolitan Work of Enlightenment

February 20, 2014
5:15pm - 7:00pm

Helmut Walser Smith – Professor of History, Vanderbilt University

The Political Origins of Global Justice

November 21, 2013
5:00pm - 7:00pm

Samuel Moyn – Chancellor Kent Professor of Law and History, Yale Law School

Milton Friedman: The Economist as Historian

November 13, 2013
5:00pm - 7:00pm

Jennifer Burns – CES Speaker

Global 'Unsocial Sociability' in Enlightenment Political Thought

October 3, 2013
5:30pm - 7:30pm

Sankar Muthu – Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago

The Law of Kinship: Anthropology, Psychoanalysis, and the Family in France

April 8, 2013
4:15pm - 6:00pm

Camille Robcis – Professor of History and French, Department of History, Columbia University

Making a Success of the League of Nations: Internationalism and Intellectual Cooperation

March 27, 2013
4:15pm - 6:00pm

Annemarie Van Heerikhuizen – Historian and Lecturer, University of Amsterdam

CANCELLED - Terrorism as a Political Modernism

March 11, 2013
4:15pm - 6:00pm

Claudia Verhoeven – Assistant Professor, Department of History, Cornell University

Back to Where We've Never Been: Heidegger, Levinas, Derrida on Tradition and History (Past, Present, and Future)

February 19, 2013
5:15pm - 7:00pm

Ethan Kleinberg – Professor of History, Wesleyan University

"New Histories of Transnational Christianity" Workshop

February 7, 2013
9:15am - 6:00pm

What Is Jewish (if anything) about Sir Isaiah Berlin's Political Philosophy?

January 28, 2013
5:00pm - 7:00pm

Arie Dubnov – Department of History, Stanford University

Whose Europe? Gender and Minorities in European Culture

October 26, 2012
2:15pm - 6:00pm

German Émigrés and the Weimar Origins of the Cold War

October 1, 2012
4:00pm - 6:00pm

Udi Greenberg – Assistant Professor of History, Dartmouth College

Intentionality and Irony: The Missed Encounter of Quentin Skinner and Hayden White

September 20, 2012
2:00pm - 4:00pm

Martin E. Jay – Ehrman Professor of History, Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley

French Philosemitism From the Revolution to the Present

September 10, 2012
4:15pm - 6:00pm

Maurice Samuels – Professor of French, Department of French, Yale University

Philosophy as a Behavioral Science: Action, Decision, and the Analytic Revolution in Postwar American Philosophy

April 12, 2012
4:15pm - 6:00pm

Joel Isaac – Lecturer in the History of Modern Political Thought, Christ's College, University of Cambridge

Working Knowledge: Toward a History of the American Human Sciences in the Twentieth Century

April 11, 2012
4:15pm - 6:00pm

Joel Isaac – Lecturer in the History of Modern Political Thought, Christ's College, University of Cambridge

A Conversation with Claude Lanzmann

March 22, 2012
6:00pm - 7:30pm

Claude Lanzmann – Filmmaker and Director of Shoah (1985)

The Myth of Revolution

February 7, 2012
6:30pm - 8:00pm

Dan Edelstein – Associate Professor of French; Europe Center Research Affiliate, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University

From Culture to Culture: Nahum Glatzer, émigré Jewish scholar, disseminator of European philosophy, and architect of academic Jewish Studies

December 7, 2011
8:00pm - 10:00pm

Judith Wechsler – NEH Professor of Art History, Emerita, Tufts University

German Social Thought and the Question of Religion: A Day-Long Workshop

November 18, 2011
10:00am - 7:00pm

Beyond the Language: Totalitarianism as a Key Concept of the 20th Century

October 12, 2011
4:15pm - 6:00pm

Juan Francisco Fuentes – Director of the Group of Advanced Research (From Empire to Nation), Real Colegio Complutense, Harvard University

Psychoanalysis and Anti-Semitism in Postwar Germany

September 21 - 10, 2012
4:15pm - 1:30pm

Dagmar Herzog – Daniel Rose Faculty Scholar, Professor of History at the Graduate Center, City University of New York

The Obscenity of Objectivity : Post-Holocaust Antisemitism and the Invention-Discovery of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

September 21, 2011
4:15pm - 6:00pm

Dagmar Herzog – Daniel Rose Faculty Scholar, Professor of History at the Graduate Center, City University of New York

The Radical Enlightenment's Critique of the American Revolution

March 31, 2011
4:15pm - 6:00pm

Jonathan Israel – Professor of Modern European History, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study

An Atheism that is Not Humanist Emerges in French Thought

March 7, 2011
5:15pm - 7:00pm

Stefanos Geroulanos – Executive Director, Remarque Institute, and Professor of History, New York University

Ideas of Terror and Terrorism in 20th-Century Europe

March 3, 2011
5:15pm - 7:00pm

Julian Bourg – Associate Professor of History, Boston College; Local Affiliate & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Christianity in Transatlantic Perspective: The Case of Philip Schaff (1819-1893)

February 16, 2011
6:00pm - 8:00pm

Tal Howard – Professor of History, Gordon College

The Protestant Boomerang: What the Foreign Missionary Project Did to the United States in the 20th Century

November 1, 2010
4:00pm - 6:00pm

David Hollinger – Preston Hotchkis Professor of American History, University of California Berkeley; President, Organization of American Historians

Symposium: The Future of American Intellectual History

April 23, 2010
3:00pm - 6:00pm

Leslie Butler – Associate Professor of History, Dartmouth College
Charles Capper – Professor of History, Boston University
David D. Hall – Bartlett Research Professor of New England Church History, Harvard Divinity School
David Hollinger – Preston Hotchkis Professor of American History, University of California Berkeley; President, Organization of American Historians
James Kloppenberg – Charles Warren Professor of American History, Harvard University; Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

The Origins of Leo Strauss's Political Philosophy

March 1, 2010
5:15pm - 7:00pm

Thomas Meyer – Max Weber-Kolleg, Universität Erfurt

Status, Interest, and the Making of Foreign Policy: French Perspectives on the ‘Reversal of Alliances’ (1755–1756)

February 18, 2010
5:15pm - 7:00pm

John Shovlin – Visiting Scholar 2009-2010, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

American Expatriates in Interwar Paris: A Reconsideration

November 19, 2009
5:15pm - 7:00pm

Brooke Blower – Assistant Professor of History, Boston University

Of Empty Places: Slavoj Zizek and Ernesto Laclau, or the End of the Affair

October 22, 2009
4:15pm - 6:00pm

Warren Breckman – Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania

Genius and Geniuses in the Eighteenth Century

September 17, 2009
4:15pm - 6:00pm

Darrin M. McMahon – Ben Weider Professor of History, Florida State University

The Little Platoons of Society': Equality and Obligation in American Social Thought in the 1970s and 1980s

May 7, 2009
4:15pm - 6:00pm

Daniel Rodgers – Professor, Princeton University

Trauma, the Sacred, and the Sublime

April 7, 2009
6:00pm - 8:00pm

Dominick Lacapra – Bryce and Edith Bowmar Professor in Humanistic Studies, Cornell University

An Integrated History of the Holocaust: Some Methodological Problems

March 17, 2009
4:15pm - 6:00pm

Saul Friedlander – Professor of History, University of California, Los Angeles

Theodor W. Adorno: One Last Genius

March 16, 2009
4:15pm - 6:00pm

Detlev Claussen – Journalist and a Professor of Social Theory, Culture, and Sociology, University of Hanover

Cosmopolitans in an Ethnonational Age? Jews and Austrians in the First Republic

February 26, 2009
5:15pm - 7:00pm

Malachi Hacohen – Associate Professor and Bass Fellow, History, Political Science and Religion, Duke University

Rethinking Foucault: Terror, Horror, and the Execution of Damiens

December 8, 2008
5:15pm - 7:00pm

Paul Friedland – Visiting Scholar 2009-2010, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Gibbon and the Invention of Gibbon: Chapters 15 and 16 of the Decline and Fall Revisited

November 21, 2008
5:15pm - 7:00pm

J.G.A. Pocock – Harry C. Black emeritus professor, Johns Hopkins University

Cambridge Historians and the Contextual Approach to the History of Political Thought

November 12, 2008
5:15pm - 7:00pm

Mark Bevir – Professor of Political Science, University of California-Berkeley

Notes on the History of Scandal: Violette Nozière, 1933

November 6, 2008
5:15pm - 7:00pm

Sarah Maza – Jane Long Professor in the Humanities, Northwestern University

Word and Image in the Philosophy of Hobbes

October 2, 2008
4:15pm - 6:00pm

Quentin Skinner – Regius Professor of Modern History, Emeritus, University of Cambridge; Barber Beaumont Professor of the Humanities, Queen Mary, University of London

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