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| − | The '''CC Coursewide Lecture''' is a program started by [[Columbia College]] Dean [[Austin Quigley]] in 1999. Each semester all the sections of [[Contemporary Civilization]] gather to hear a lecture from a distinguished scholar. Attendance is at the discretion of each section leader. | + | The '''CC Coursewide Lecture''' is a program started by [[Columbia College]] Dean [[Austin Quigley]] in [[1999]]. Each semester all the sections of [[Contemporary Civilization]] gather to hear a lecture from a distinguished scholar. Attendance is at the discretion of each section leader. |
==Past Lecturers== | ==Past Lecturers== | ||
Revision as of 16:15, 31 March 2007
The CC Coursewide Lecture is a program started by Columbia College Dean Austin Quigley in 1999. Each semester all the sections of Contemporary Civilization gather to hear a lecture from a distinguished scholar. Attendance is at the discretion of each section leader.
Past Lecturers
| Semester | Lecturer | School | Speech |
| Fall 2006 | President Vaclav Havel | Czechoslovakia | http://havel.columbia.edu/core.html |
| Spring 2006 | |||
| Fall 2005 | Martha Nussbaum | "The Arbitrariness of Canons: The Neglect of Hellenistic Philosophy and Why It Is A Bad Thing" | |
| Spring 2005 | K. Anthony Appiah | Princeton University | "The Problem of the Twenty-First Century: Du Bois and Cosmopolitanism" |
| Fall 2004 | Elaine Pagels | Princeton University | "Which Jesus? The Newly Discovered Gospel of Thomas Challenges the Cannon" |
| Spring 2004 | Catharine MacKinnon | University of Michigan Law School | "Women's World, Men's States" |
| Fall 2003 | Quentin Skinner | University of Cambridge | "Three Concepts of Liberty" |
| Spring 2003 | President Lee C. Bollinger | Columbia University | "Democracy & The University" |
| Fall 2002 | Daniel Bell | Harvard University | "Athens and Jerusalem: The Twin Foundations of Western Civilization" |
| Spring 2002 | President George Rupp | Columbia University | "Kant and Contemporary Civilization" |
| Fall 2001 | Jonathan Spence | Yale University | "China and the West: Cultural Contacts, Cultural Collisions" |
| Spring 2001 | Jerome Schneewind | Johns Hopkins University | "How to Be Happy Though Good: Three Views" |
| Fall 2000 | Anthony Grafton | Princeton University | "Starry Messages: Galileo Rewrites the book of the Heavens" |
| Fall 1999 | Alexander Nehamas | Princeton University | "Culture, Art and Poetry in The Republic" |
| Spring 1999 | Gary Wills | Columbia University | "Politics, Psychology, and Sex in The City of God" |
