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Past Kritikos Lectures |
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| 2006-2007 There was no Kritikos Lecturer. |
2007-2008 Richard Taruskin, University of California, Berkeley. "Did Somebody Say Censorship?" |
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| 2004-2005 Louis Menand, writer and literary critic. "The Humanities and the University of the Twenty-First Century" and "The Story of the Soup Cans." |
2005-2006 John Shelby Spong, former Episcopal Bishop of Newark, NJ. "Who is the Popular God in Public Life in the 21st Century?" and "Can 21st Century People Believe in God with Integrity?" |
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| 2003-2004 Victor Davis Hanson, military historian and professor of classics, California State University, Fresno. “War and the West: Then and Now” and “War in a Classical Context.” |
2002-2003 Milton Viorst, foreign correspondent, journalist and author. “The Dilemma of Modern Islam” and “The Fundamentalist Enigma: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.” |
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| 2001-2002 William Kennedy, Pulitzer-prize winning author of the Albany Cycle. “Writing the Albany Cycle: Discovering Novels” and “Roscoe and Me.” |
2000-2001 |
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| 1999-2000 There was no Kritikos Lecturer in 1999-2000. |
1998-1999 Robert Alter, University of California, Berkeley. “The David Story and the Beginnings of Political Fiction” and “Reading Biblical Narrative.” |
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| 1997-1998 Eva Brann, Dean, St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland. “The Grounding of Time: Plotinus and Heidegger” and “The Human Consequences of Thinking About Time.” |
1996-1997 Jean Bethke Elshtain, Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics, University of Chicago. “The Humanities and the Democracy of Everyday Life” and “Democracy at Century’s End.” |
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| 1995-1996 Richard Rodriguez, writer/journalist. “Brown in Black and White America: Notes on the Latinization of the United States” and “GONE WEST: The Exhaustion of an American Metaphor.” |
1994-1995 Stanley Crouch, jazz critic and essayist. “I Believe I'll Go Back Home: Recent Developments in American Art” and “Conversation with jazz musician Wynton Marsalis” in the Hult Center’s Soreng Theatre. |
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| 1993-1994 Harvey C. Mansfield, William R. Kenan Professor of Government, Harvard University. “What is a Republican Citizen?” and “The Political and Cultural Legacy of the 60s.” |