Welcome to the Humanities Initiative

2011-12

Speaker: Michael Stoller, Director of Collections and Research Services, NYU's Division of Libraries
Title: The Place of Libraries in the Academy, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
Occasion: HI Lecture Series
Date: October 19, 2011
Duration: 1hr11min

2010-11

Speaker: Jacques Lezra, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese; Comparative Literature, NYU
Title: Wild Materialism: The Ethic of Terror and the Modern Republic
Introductory remarks by: Jane Tylus, Director of the Humanities Initiative; Professor of Italian, NYU
Response by: Étienne Balibar, Professor of Humanities, UC-Irvine
Occasion: HI Book Launch
Date: October 20, 2010
Duration: 1hr23min

Previous years

Speaker: Craig Calhoun, Professor of Sociology, University Professor, NYU
Title: The Emergency Imaginary: Humanitarianism, States, and the Limits of Cosmopolitarianism
Introductory remarks by: E. Frances White, Professor of History and Black Studies, NYU, and Richard Sennett, Professor of Sociology and History, University Professor, NYU
Occasion: NYU University Professor Lecture
Date: November 14, 2006
Duration: 30min (excerpts)

Speaker: Jerome Wakefield, Professor of Social Work and the Conceptual Foundations of Psychiatry, University Professor, NYU
Title: The Age of Depression: Is Normal Sadness Being Misdiagnosed as Mental Disorder?
Introductory remarks by: David McLaughlin, Provost, NYU
Occasion: NYU University Professor Lecture
Date: April 6, 2006
Duration: 1hr9min (excerpts)