2020-21
Richard J. Powell, Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Going There: Black Visual Satire (March 22 & April 9, 2021)
2019-20
Sumathi Ramaswamy, History
Terrestrial Lessons: Conquest of the World as Globe (March 3, 2020)
Charles Piot, Cultural Anthropology
The Fixer: Visa Lottery Chronicles (November 19, 2019)
2018-19
David Morgan, Religious Studies
Images at Work: The Material Culture of Enchantment (January 29, 2019)
2016-17
Richard H. Brodhead, English
Speaking of Duke: Leading the 21st-Century University (April 19, 2017)
Timothy B. Tyson, Documentary Studies
The Blood of Emmett Till (February 23, 2017)
2015-16
"Under the Hood" (March 28, 2016)
Michèle Longino, Romance Studies
French Travel Writing in the Ottoman Empire: Marseilles to Constantinople, 1650-1700
Negar Mottahedeh, Literature
#iranelection: Hashtag Solidarity and the Transformation of Online Life
Andrew Janiak, Philosophy, with Liz Milewicz, et al
Project Vox
Laurent Dubois, Romance Studies
The Banjo: America's African Instrument (March 1, 2016)
Roberto Dainotto, Romance Studies
The Mafia: A Cultural History (November 9, 2015)
2014-15
Srinivas Aravamudan, English
Enlightenment Orientalism: Resisting the Rise of the Novel (February 20, 2015)
2013-14
N. Katherine Hayles, Literature
How We Think: Digital Media and Contemporary Technogenesis (April 15, 2014)
2012-13
William Reddy, History
The Making of Romantic Love: Longing and Sexuality in Europe, South Asia, and Japan, 900 – 1200 CE (March 20, 2013)
2011-12
Karla F. C. Holloway, English
Private Bodies/Public Texts: Race, Gender, and a Cultural Bioethics (November 17, 2011)*
Panel: Sherman James, Nancy M. P. King, Lauren Dame, Priscilla Wald
*Canceled due to unforeseen circumstances.
2010-11
Michael Hardt, Literature, and Antonio Negri
Empire, Multitude, and Commonwealth (November 4, 2010)
2009-10
Thavolia Glymph, History
Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household (October 22, 2009)
2008-09
J. Kameron Carter, Divinity
Race: A Theological Account (February 4, 2009)
Margaret Humphreys, History
Intensely Human: The Health of the Black Soldier in the American Civil War (December 3, 2008)
2007-08
Margaret Greer, Romance Studies
Walter Mignolo, Romance Studies
Maureen Quilligan, English, eds.
Rereading the Black Legend: The Discourses of Racial and Religious Difference in the Renaissance Empires (February 5, 2008)
Toril Moi, Literature
Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism: Art, Theater, Philosophy (October 25, 2007)
2006-07
Anne Allison, Cultural Anthropology
Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination (January 23, 2007)
2005-6
Barbara Herrnstein Smith, English
Scandalous Knowledge: Science, Truth, and the Human (February 23, 2006)
2004-5
Cathy N. Davidson, English
Revolution and the Word: The Rise of the Novel in America (Expanded Edition) (November 23, 2004)
