CC Coursewide Lecture

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"

External links

CC Coursewide Lecture Website