Spring 2023 Anschutz Lecture: Rich Benjamin
Apr 13, 2023, 4:30 pm
Speaker
Affiliation
Anschutz Distinguished Fellow, Spring 2023
Presentation
“Talk to Me: A Story of Racial Capitalism, Coup, and Democracy”
Fall 2022 Anschutz Lecture: Susana Morris
Oct 6, 2022, 4:30 pm
Speaker
Affiliation
Anschutz Distinguished Fellow in American Studies; Associate Professor of Literature, Media, and Communication, Georgia Institute of Technology
Presentation
“The Spirit of ’76: Slavery, Empire, and the Anthropocene in Octavia E. Butler’s ‘Kindred’”
Spring 2022 Anschutz Lecture: Tiffany King
Apr 12, 2022, 4:30 pm
Speaker
Tiffany King
Affiliation
Anschutz Distinguished Fellow in American Studies; Visiting Associate Professor of Program in American Studies
Presentation
“Emergent Ecologies: In the Tense of a Black and Indigenous Feminist ‘Future-Now’”
Spring 2021 Anschutz Lecture: Sylvia Chan-Malik
Apr 5, 2021, 4:30 pm
Speaker
Affiliation
Spring 2021 Anschutz Distinguished Fellow in American Studies
Presentation
“Sacred Struggles: Race, Religion, and the Soul of Ethnic Studies”
Spring 2020 Anschutz Lecture: P. Carl
Feb 11, 2020, 4:30 pm
Speaker
Affiliation
Spring 2020 Anschutz Distinguished Fellow in American Studies
Presentation
“Becoming a Man”
Fall 2019 Anschutz Lecture: Allison Carruth
Oct 10, 2019, 4:30 pm
Speaker
Affiliation
Fall 2019 Anschutz Distinguished Fellow in American Studies
Presentation
“Life After Earth: Speculations in World-Building from California to the Red Planet”
Spring 2019 Anschutz Lecture: Brittney Cooper
Apr 9, 2019, 4:30 pm
Speaker
Brittney Cooper
Affiliation
Spring 2019 Anschutz Distinguished Fellow in American Studies
Presentation
“The Future of Black Studies (in Theory)”
Spring 2017 Anschutz Lecture: Katie Pearl
Mar 28, 2017, 4:30 pm
Speaker
Affiliation
Spring 2017 Anschutz Distinguished Fellow in American Studies
Presentation
“‘You’re Doing What!?’: Experimental Theater and Five Small Towns Named Milton”
Fall 2016 Anschutz Lecture: Richard Preston
Dec 1, 2016, 4:30 pm
Speaker
Affiliation
Fall 2016 Anschutz Distinguished Fellow in American Studies
Presentation
“The Hidden Worlds of Narrative Nonfiction”
The Subject of Tonight’s Address is the 25th Episode of the X-Files
Apr 25, 2016, 5:30 pm
Speakers
- AffiliationSpring 2016 Anschutz Distinguished Fellow in American Studies
- AffiliationLewis Center for the Arts
Fall 2015 Anschutz Lecture: Tim Weiner
Dec 9, 2015, 4:30 pm
Speakers
- AffiliationFall 2015 Anschutz Distinguished Fellow in American StudiesPresentation“Allen Dulles: From Princeton to the Bay of Pigs”
- Frederick P. HitzAffiliationSenior Fellow, Center for National Security Law, University of Virginia
‘Wretches and Jabberers’
Mar 31, 2015, 4:30 pm
Speaker
Affiliation
Spring 2015 Anschutz Distinguished Fellow in American Studies
The Photographer as Sociologist/The Historian as Photographer
Nov 16, 2014, 4:30 pm
Speakers
- AffiliationFall 2014 Anschutz Distinguished Fellow in American Studies
- Dyanna Taylor
- Linda GordonAffiliationNYU
- Martha SandweissAffiliationDepartment of History
Social Media: History, Poetics, and Practice
Feb 12, 2014, 7:30 pm
Social Media History and Poetics
Dec 2, 2013, 4:30 pm
Speakers
- David BellosAffiliationProfessor of French and Comparative LiteraturePresentation“Georges Perec’s Imaginary Computer”
- Judith DonathAffiliationFaculty Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard UniversityPresentation“Data Portraits”
- AffiliationFall 2013 Anschutz Distinguished Fellow in American StudiesPresentation“Social Media Poetics: The Female Narrator”
- Jeff NunokawaAffiliationProfessor of EnglishPresentation“How To Do Things With Facebook: Social Media as Forum For Art”
- Jim RosenbergPresentation“Writing in Open Space: Free-Combining Feral Word Objects”
Spring 2013 Anschutz Lecture: Paul Berman
Apr 18, 2013, 4:30 pm
Speaker
Affiliation
Spring 2013 Anschutz Distinguished Fellow in American Studies
Presentation
“Nathaniel Hawthorne and American Exceptionalism”
Adventures in the Theater
Nov 28, 2012, 4:30 pm
Speakers
- AffiliationFall 2012 Anschutz Distinguished Fellow in American Studies
- Karen FrickerAffiliationEakin Visiting Scholar in Canadian Studies, McGill University
Rivers R Us: Reviving Rivers, Reinventing Cities
Dec 7, 2011, 5:00 pm
Speakers
- AffiliationFall 2011 Anschutz Distinguished Fellow in American StudiesPresentation“Yes, L.A. Has a River!”
- AffiliationUrban Landscape Lab, Columbia UniversityPresentation“Poughkeepsie’s Backyard Infrastructure”
- William. A. Gleason (moderator)AffiliationActing Director, Program in American Studies
The Art of Sustainability
Dec 5, 2011, 4:30 pm
Speakers
- Subhankar BanerjeeAffiliationPhotographer and Activist
- Fritz HaegAffiliationArtist, Designer, Gardener
- AffiliationAnschutz Distinguished Fellow in American Studies
- Joe ScanlanAffiliationDirector of Visual Arts, Lewis Center for the Arts
Spring 2011 Anschutz Lecture: Michael J. Golec
Mar 30, 2011, 4:30 pm
Speaker
Affiliation
Spring 2011 Anschutz Distinguished Fellow; Associate Professor of the History of Design, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Presentation
“R.E.A./X: Pictographic Mobility and Rural Electrification in the United States”
Journalistic Criticism: A Conversation with Terrence Rafferty
Jan 5, 2011, 4:30 pm
Speaker
Terrence Rafferty
Fall 2010 Anschutz Lecture: Terrence Rafferty
Nov 30, 2010, 5:00 pm
Speaker
Affiliation
Fall 2010 Anschutz Distinguished Fellow in American Studies
Presentation
“The Fear of God: Some Thoughts on American Horror”
Spring 2010 Anschutz Lecture: Kenneth Goldsmith
Feb 15, 2010, 5:00 pm
Speaker
Affiliation
Spring 2010 Anschutz Distinguished Fellow in American Studies
Presentation
“Uncreative Writing: Unoriginal Genius in the Age of the Internet”
Radio Free Dixie (or, de Dirty South Broke-down)
May 8, 2009, 4:30 pm
Speakers
- Stanley BoothAffiliationWriter
- AffiliationSpring 2009 Anschutz Distinguished Fellow in American Studies
- Camara HollowayAffiliationAssistant Professor of Art History, University of Delaware
- Arthur Jafa FielderAffiliationFilmmaker
- Ned SubletteAffiliationMusician and author
- Charles HughesAffiliationPh.D. Candidate in History, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Jonathan WilsonAffiliationMusician; Co-founder, Muscadine
- Jennifer HerremaAffiliationMusician; Leader, RTX
- Ernest HardyAffiliationArts Critic, L.A. Weekly
- Craig StreetAffiliationGrammy Award-winning Record Producer
On Memoir, Magazines, Baseball, and the Writing Life
Apr 30, 2008, 4:30 pm
Speakers
- Roger AngellAffiliationWriter; Editor, The New Yorker
- Nicholas DawidoffAffiliationSpring 2008 Anschutz Distinguished Fellow in American Studies
- Gerald MarzoratiAffiliationEditor in Chief of New York Times Magazine
Spring 2008 Anschutz Lecture: Nicholas Dawidoff
Mar 27, 2008, 4:30 pm
Speaker
Affiliation
Spring 2008 Anschutz Distinguished Fellow in American Studies
Presentation
“Next to Love Is the Desire for Love: The Search for Meaning in American Memoir”
Fall 2007 Anschutz Lecture: Heather Hendershot
Oct 10, 2007, 4:30 pm
Speaker
Affiliation
Fall 2007 Anschutz Distinguished Fellow in American Studies; Associate Professor of Media Studies, Queens College
Presentation
“Before Robertson and O’Reilly: Cold War Extremism and the Legacy of Billy James Hargis”
Spring 2007 Anschutz Lecture: Lee Clarke
Mar 27, 2007, 5:00 pm
Speaker
Affiliation
Spring 2007 Anschutz Distinguished Fellow in American Studies; Associate Professor of Sociology, Rutgers University
Presentation
“Worst Cases: Terror and Catastrophe in the Popular Imagination”
Spring 2006 Anschutz Lecture: Chris Hedges
Apr 20, 2006, 4:30 pm
Speaker
Affiliation
Spring 2006 Anschutz Distinguished Fellow in American Studies
Presentation
“The Christian Right and the Open Society”
American Visions in Documentary
Nov 21, 2005, 7:30 pm
Speakers
- AffiliationFall 2005 Anschutz Distinguished Fellow in American Studies
- Sam Pollard
- Stanley N. KatzAffiliationLecturer with Rank of Professor of Public and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
‘Benjamin Franklin’ with filmmakers Muffie Meyer and Ronald Blumer
Nov 16, 2005, 7:30 pm
Speakers
- AffiliationFall 2005 Anschutz Distinguished Fellow in American Studies
- Muffie MeyerAffiliationProducer/Director
- Ronald BlumerAffiliationWriter/Co-producer
‘Eugene O’Neill’ with filmmaker Ric Burns
Nov 9, 2005, 7:30 pm
Speakers
- AffiliationFall 2005 Anschutz Distinguished Fellow in American Studies
- Ric BurnsAffiliationFilmmaker
‘Lalee’s Kin: The Legacy of Cotton’ with filmmaker Susan Froemke
Sep 28, 2005, 7:00 pm
Speakers
- AffiliationFall 2005 Anschutz Distinguished Fellow in American Studies
- Susan FroemkeAffiliationFilmmaker
Fall 2004 Anschutz Lecture: Wendy Lesser
Sep 21, 2004, 7:30 pm
Speaker
Affiliation
Fall 2004 Anschutz Distinguished Fellow; Founder and Editor, The Threepenny Review
Presentation
“A Recantation: Reflections on Joan Didion’s California”
Spring 2004 Anschutz Lecture: Maurice Ferré
Apr 7, 2004, 4:30 pm
Speaker
Affiliation
Spring 2004 Anschutz Distinguished Fellow in American Studies
Presentation
“The Making of Americans: From Hispanic Segmented Assimilation to Hispanic Fractured Accommodation”
Spring 2003 Anschutz Lecture: Steve Fraser
Mar 27, 2003, 4:30 pm
Speaker
Affiliation
Spring 2003 Anschutz Distinguished Fellow in American Studies
Presentation
“Other People’s Money: Today’s Wall Street Scandals in Historical Perspective”
Spring 2002 Anschutz Lecture: Jeff Shesol
Apr 22, 2002, 8:00 pm
Speaker
Affiliation
Spring 2002 Anschutz Distinguished Fellow in American Studies; Founding Partner, West Wing Writers
Presentation
“Behind the Bully Pulpit: Reflections on Presidential Speechwriting”