Past Nicholson Lecturers

2007 - 2008 Lecture Series
"Making the Secular: Lectures in the Formation of Knowledge"

Dipesh Chakrabarty (History and South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago):
"Empire, Ethics, and the Calling of History"

Robert Fogelin (Philosophy, Dartmouth University):
"Hume's Multiple Voices"

John Kerrigan (English, St. John's College, Cambridge):
"Archipelagic Macbeth"

Sharon Marcus (English, Columbia University):
"At Home with the Other Victorians"

Jon Mee, Schaffner Visiting Professor (English, University of Warwick):
"To the End of the Conversible World: Conversation and Romanticism"

Lesley Stern (Visual Arts, University of California at San Diego):
"The Garden (Ian Hamilton Finlay's Little Sparta): Memory, History, Writing"

2006 - 2007 Lecture Series

Tony Hopkins (History, University of Texas at Austin):
"Capitalism, Nationalism and the New American Empire"

Adrian Johns (History, University of Chicago):
"Inventors, Schemers, and Men of Science: Intellectual Property and its Enemies in Victorian England"

Priya Joshi (English, Temple University):
"The Social Lives of Institutions"

Joel Mokyr (History, Northwestern University):
"Access, Knowledge, and Production: the Everyday Origins of the Industrial Revolution"

Susan Pedersen (History, Columbia University):
"The League of Nations and the Imperial Order: An Argument"

2005 - 2006 Lecture Series

Amanda Anderson (English, Johns Hopkins University):
"George Eliot's Long Argument"

R. H. Helmholz (Law, University of Chicago Law School):
"The Church and the Coming of the Civil War: New Evidence from the Church Courts"

Jonathan Lamb (English, Vanderbilt University):
"Still Life and The Rape of the Lock"

Diarmaid MacCulloch (History of the Church, Oxford University):
"The Latitude of the Church of England, 1530-1660"

Jennifer Pitts (Politics, Princeton University):
"Empire and Democratic Anxieties in Victorian Britain"

2004 - 2005 Lecture Series

Tom Laqueur (History, Berkeley):
"Names and Memory from Wordsworth to the Unknown Warrior"

Anthony Low (History, Australian National University):
"Ground Level Imperialism: the Fabrication of Empire"

Janel Mueller (English, University of Chicago):
"Elizabeth I: Maidenhood in Crisis"

David Quint (Comparative Literature, Yale University):
"The Tragedy of Nobility on the Seventeenth Century Stage"

John Robertson (History, Oxford University):
"The Argument Over a British Enlightenment: Why It Matters"

2003 - 2004 Lecture Series

Robert Brenner (History, UCLA):
"Property and Progress: Where Adam Smith Went Wrong"

Catherine Hall (History, University College London):
"Rethinking British History: Reflections on Nation and Empire"

Luke Gibbons (Irish Studies, Notre Dame University and Dublin City College):
"Gaelic Gothic: Race, Colonialism, and Irish Culture"

Nigel Smith (English, Princeton University):
"'And if God was one of us:' John Biddle and Anti-Trinitarian Heresy in Seventeenth-Century England."

Barbara Stafford (Art History, University of Chicago)
"Sir William Hamilton's 'Shadow-Shews': Theurgy and the Media Origins of Art":

Robert Travers (History, Harvard):
"British Orientalism and Colonial State-formation in India, c. 1750-1800"

Associate Professor Bradin Cormack
Director, Center For British Studies
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL 60637
USA

phone: (773) 702-8910
email: bcormack@uchicago.edu

Kristin Lueke
Senior Administrator
Classics 114
Phone: (773) 834-3403
email: klueke@uchicago.edu