LEONARD HASTINGS SCHOFF MEMORIAL LECTURES
The University Seminars at Columbia University sponsor an annual series of lectures, with the support of the Leonard Hastings Schoff and Suzanne Levick Schoff Memorial Fund. A member of the Columbia faculty is invited to deliver before a general audience three lectures on a topic of his or her choosing. Columbia University Press publishes the lectures.
Charles Larmore, The Romantic Legacy 1996
Saskia Sassen, Losing Control? Sovereignty in the Age of Globalization 1996
David Cannadine, The Rise and Fall of Class in Britain 1999
Ira Katznelson, Desolation and Enlightenment: Political Knowledge After Total War, Totalitarianism, and the Holocaust 2003
Lisa Anderson, Pursuing Truth, Exercising Power: Social Science and Public Policy in the Twenty-First Century 2003
Partha Chatterjee, The Politics of the Governed: Reflections on Popular Politics in Most of the World 2004
David Rosand, The Invention of Painting in America 2004
George Rupp, Globalization Challenged: Conviction, Conflict, Community 2006
Lesley A. Sharp, Bodies, Commodities, and Biotechnologies: Death, Mourning, and Scientific Desire in the Realm of Human Organ Transfer 2007
Robert W. Hanning, Serious Play: Desire and Authority in the Poetry of Ovid, Chaucer, and Ariosto 2010
Boris Gasparov, Beyond Pure Reason: Ferdinand de Saussure’s Philosophy of Language and Its Early Romantic Antecedents 2012
Douglas A. Chalmers, Reforming Democracies: Six Facts About Politics That Demand a New Agenda 2013
Philip Kitcher, Deaths in Venice: The Cases of Gustav von Aschenbach 2013