Past Events

Andrei Pleşu, Philosopher & Essayist

"Intellectual Life Under Dictatorship"
Una's Lecture
| Alumni House

Andrei Pleşu is professor of art history, philosophy and religion at the University of Bucharest.

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Panel Discussants: Kwame Anthony Appiah, Jorge Klor de Alva (Ethnic Studies), David Hollinger (History) and Angela Harris (Boalt Hall School of Law).

Kwame Anthony Appiah, Philosopher, Cultural Theorist, & Novelist

“Identity Against Culture: Understandings of Multiculturalism”
Avenali Lecture
| Alumni House

Kwame Anthony Appiah is a Ghanaian philosopher, cultural theorist, and novelist. His scholarship addresses political and moral theory, African intellectual history, and philosophical questions of culture and identity.

Dušan Makavejev, Director & Screenwriter

“You Never Know Who Has a Frog in the Pocket”
Avenali Lecture
| Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Dušan Makavejev is a Serbian film director famous for his films of former Yugoslavia in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Known for blending fiction with reality and drama with humor, Makavejev’s work often contains experimental elements and has been considered controversial for its eroticism and sharp criticism of Eastern European politics.

Philip Fisher, English and American Literature, Harvard University

“Thoughtful Wonder: The Aesthetics of Rare Experiences”
Una's Lecture
| Alumni House

Philip Fisher is Felice Crowl Reid Professor of English and American Literature at Harvard University. Professor Fisher’s research interests include cultural theory, modernism, American art and its cultural institutions, the philosophy and literature of the passions, narrative theory, and game theory and the novel.

| Institute for East Asian Studies, Conference Room (6th floor)

Panel Discussants: Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin (University of Washington), Susan Napier (University of Texas, Austin) and John Treat (University of Washington)