CC Coursewide Lecture
The CC Coursewide Lecture is a program started by 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
Fall 2006 - President Vaclav Havel (Czechoslovakia): http://havel.columbia.edu/core.html Spring 2006 - Fall 2005 - Martha Nussbaum (University of Chicago): "The Arbitrariness of Canons: The Neglect of Hellenistic Philosophy and Why It Is A Bad Thing" Spring 2005 - K. Anthony Appiah, the Laurance S. Rockefeller University of Philosophy at Princeton University: "The Problem of the Twenty-First Century: Du Bois and Cosmopolitanism" Fall 2004 - Elaine Pagels, the Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton University: "Which Jesus? The Newly Discovered Gospel of Thomas Challenges the Cannon" Spring 2004 - Catharine MacKinnon, Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School: "Women's World, Men's States" Fall 2003 - Quentin Skinner, Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge: "Three Concepts of Liberty" Spring 2003 - President Lee C. Bollinger (Columbia University): ["Democracy & The University"] Fall 2002 - Daniel Bell, Henry Ford II Professor Emeritus of the Social Sciences at Harvard University: "Athens and Jerusalem: The Twin Foundations of Western Civilization" Spring 2002 - President George Rupp (Columbia University): "Kant and Contemporary Civilization" Fall 2001 - Professor Jonathan Spence (Yale University): "China and the West: Cultural Contacts, Cultural Collisions" Spring 2001 - Professor Jerome Schneewind (Johns Hopkins University): "How to Be Happy Though Good: Three Views" Fall 2000 - Professor Anthony Grafton (Princeton University): "Starry Messages: Galileo Rewrites the book of the Heavens" Fall 1999 - Professor Alexander Nehamas (Princeton University): "Culture, Art and Poetry in The Republic" Spring 1999 - Professor Gary Wills (Columbia University): "Politics, Psychology, and Sex in The City of God"
