Franke Lectures in the Humanities

Duana Fullwiley, Stanford University

Tuesday, March 5, 2019 | 5:00 pm

The Ancestors Watch in Disbelief: Genomic Ancestry, Power, and (Un)freedom

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Ilona Katzew, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Tuesday, February 26, 2019 | 5:00 pm

The Invention of Casta Painting: Race and Science in the Age of Enlightenment

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Deborah Thomas, University of Pennsylvania

Tuesday, February 12, 2019 | 5:00 pm

Political Life in the Wake of the Plantation: Affect, Witnessing, Repair

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Steven Crowell, Rice University

Tuesday, December 4, 2018 | 5:00 pm

Methodological Atheism: An Essay in Second-Person Phenomenology

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Robert Brandom, University of Pittsburgh

Tuesday, November 27, 2018 | 5:00 pm

A Spirit of Trust: Magnanimity and Agency in Hegel’s Phenomenology

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Robert Pippin, University of Chicago

Tuesday, November 13, 2018 | 5:00 pm

Radical Finitude in the Anti-Idealist Modern European Philosophical Tradition

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Taylor Carman, Columbia University

Tuesday, November 6, 2018 | 5:00 pm

Narrative and Pictorial Truth

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Improvising Identity: New Orleans and the American Dream

Tom Piazza is a celebrated writer on American music. His twelve books include the novels A Free State and City of Refuge, the post-Katrina manifesto Why New Orleans Matters, and Devil Sent the Rain, a collection of his essays and journalism. He was a principal writer for the innovative HBO drama series Treme, and winner of a Grammy Award for his album notes to Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: A Musical Journey.