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The '''Lionel Trilling Seminars''' are a series of seminars delivered each academic year on areas of study ranging from literature and society, art and politics, psychoanalysis and culture, to education. Each seminar features a prominent scholar in a given field delivering a talk and two respondents.

The seminars were established in [[1976]] in memory of Professor [[Lionel Trilling]], and are on areas of study in which he was active.

Originally the series consisted of three seminars a year, but has since been reduced to two, one each semester.

The seminars have been sponsored at various times by [[Columbia College]], the [[Heyman Center]], and supported by gifts from Prof. [[William Theodore de Bary]] and his wife, Daniel and Joanna Rose, and William H. and Weslie R. Janeway.


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| '''Year'''
| '''Speaker'''
| '''Discussants'''
| '''Speech'''
|-
|2006 - 2007
|Orlando Patterson (Harvard)
|[[Eric Foner]] (Columbia); Saidiya Hartman (Vanderbilt)
|The Perils of Freedom in America (Canceled)
|-
|
|Hermione Lee (Oxford)
|[[Andrew Delbanco]] (Columbia); Jean Strouse (NYPL)
|The Hum and Buzz of Implication:Biography and Edith Wharton
|-
|2005 - 2006
|Michael Fried (Johns Hopkins)
|Diarmuid Costello (Oxford Brookes); Gregg Horowitz (Vanderbilt)
|Wall and Wittgenstein: Photography and the Everyday
|-
|
|Gordon Wood (Brown)
|Harry Harootunian (NYU); [[Robert Ferguson]] (Columbia)
|Does History Teach Any Lessons?
|-
|2004 - 2005
|Wai Chee Dimock (Yale)
|[[Gayatri Spivak]] (Columbia); Mary Louise Pratt (NYU)
|Epic and Novel on Four Continents
|-
|2003 - 2004
|Stephen Greenblatt
|Svetlana Alpers; Leonard Barkan
|
|-
|2001 - 2002
|Brian Stock (U. of Toronto)
|Robert Darnton (Princeton); Thomas Flanagan (UC Berkeley)
|[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/vforum/01/lionel_trilling/index.html]
|-
|1998 - 1999
|Ian Buruma
|[[Akeel Bilgrami]] (Columbia); [[Sean Wilentz]] (Princeton)
|
|-
|
|Quentin Skinner (Cambridge)
|Ted Cohen; Phillip Pettit 
|
|-
|1997 - 1998
|Richard Taruskin
|[[Lydia Goehr]], [[Walter Frisch]]
|
|-
|
|Hans Belting
|Richard Brilliant, [[Arthur Danto]]
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|-
|1996 – 1997 
|Abba Eban
|Adam Michnik; Jack Snyder
|
|-
|
|Stephen Holmes
|[[Mark Lilla]] (Columbia); Ira Katznelson (Columbia)
|
|-
|
|Michael Scammell
|Maria Todorova; [[Mark Von Hagen]]
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|-
|1995 - 1996
|[[Louis Menand]]
|[[Alan Brinkley]]; [[Andreas Huyssen]]
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|-
|
|Daniel P. Moynihan
|Richard Epstein (Chicago); Brian Urquhart (United Nations)
|[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/record/archives/vol21/vol21_iss16/record2116.16.html][http://www.columbia.edu/cu/record/archives/vol21/vol21_iss18/record2118.15.html]
|-
|
|Randall Kennedy
|George Fletcher; [[Manning Marable]] (Columbia)
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|-
|1994 - 1995
|Andrew Gurr
|John Orrell; Michael Warren
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|-
|
|Bernard Bailyn (Harvard)
|[[Eric Foner]] (Columbia); Dorothy Ross (Johns Hopkins)
|Context in History [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/record/archives/vol20/vol20_iss14/record2014.29.html]
|-
|
|Thomas Nagel (NYU)
|Susan Haack (Miami); Richard Shweder (Chicago)
|Relativism and Reason [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/record/archives/vol20/vol20_iss22/record2022.30.html]
|}



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[[Category:Lectures and panels]]