Jill S. Harris Memorial Lectures

2018-19 Ibrahim Abdul-Matin, "From Domination to Regeneration: Cultivating a New World View in Perilous Times"

2017-18 Yaa Gyasi, "Homegoing"

2016-17 Rebecca Solnit, “Hope and Emergency”

2015-16 Laila Lalami, “Muslims in America: A Forgotten History"

2014-15 Jesmyn Ward, “An Evening with Jesmyn Ward”

2013-14 Tanya Clement, “A Brief History, A Few Principles, and Some Suggestions for Developing a Digital Humanities Undergraduate Curriculum”

2012-13 Lynne Avadenka, “Of the Making of Many Books There is No End:

2011-12 Robert Mankoff, “If you Can’t Say Something Nice then Draw It: the Role of Stereotyping in New Yorker Cartoons”

2010-11 Dennis Davis, “How Legal Culture Suffocated Transformation: A Case Study from South Africa”

2008-09 Wendy Doniger, “Including Dogs, Horses, Cows, Dalis, and Women: Alternative Narrative of the Hindus”

2006-07 Rachid Koraïchi, “20 Years, 12 Poets: Ceramics by Rachid Koraïchi”

2005-06 Robert Pinsky, “The American Small Town: Dreams and Nightmares”

2004-05 Helen Vendler, “The Yeatsian Sequence: ‘Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen’”

2002-03 Goenawan Mohamad, Tony Prabowo, Jarrad Powell, and Kent Devereux, “Kali”

2001-02 Janet Williams, “Current Works”

2000-01 Benjamin Bagby and Ping Chong, “Edda: Viking Tales of Revenge, Lust, and Family”

1999-00 Anne Carson, “Mirror of Simple Souls” Installation

1998-99 Andy Kirshner, “Relive the Magic: An evening with Tony Amore”

1997-98 Joseph Grigely, University of Michigan School of Art and Design, “Show and Tell”

1995-96 Colm Feore

1994-95 Alexander Melamid, “In Search of Real People”

1993-94 Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill, “Dinnsheanchas: The Naming of High or Holy Places”

1991-92 Andrew Pinnock, “John Blow’s Venus and Adonis (1861)”

1990-91 Bill T. Jones, “Last Supper at Uncle Tom’s Cabin/The Promised Land”

1988-89 Douglas Gomery, “Moviegoing in America”