Previous Holders of the Mary Flexner Lectureship
| Academic Year | Lecturer | Subject of Lectures | Title of Book |
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| 2021-2022 | Fred Moten |
Hesitant Sociology: Blackness and Poetry |
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| 2017 | Bonnie Honig | Theaters of Refusal | A Feminist Theory of Refusal |
| 2011 | Judith Butler | Bodies in Alliance | Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly |
| 2009 | Sanjay Subrahmanyam | Courtly Encounters: Translating Courtliness in Early Modern Eurasia | Courtly Encounters: Translating Courtliness and Violence in Early Modern Eurasia |
| 2007 | Rashid Khalidi | The United States, the Middle East, and the Cold War | Sowing Crisis: The Cold War and American Dominance in the Middle East |
| 2005-06 | K. Anthony Appiah | The End of Ethics? | Experiments in Ethics |
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1999-2000 |
Visual Affect: Aesthetics and the Art of the Ancient Near East |
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1992 |
Oswyn Murray |
The Greek Symposium |
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1990 |
Shakespeare and Originality |
Shakespeare: the Invention of the Human |
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1987-1988 |
The Gift in Sixteenth Century France |
The Gift in Sixteenth Century France |
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1984-1985 |
The Master's Touch: Rembrandt In (and Out) of Dutch Art |
Rembrandt's Enterprise: The Studio and the Market |
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1982-1983 |
Gregory Nagy |
Pindar's Homer and the Traditions of Greek Lyric Poetry |
Pindar's Homer |
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1981 |
E. Talbot Donaldson |
The Relevance of Chaucer to Shakespeare: Traffic in Stolen Goods |
The Swan at the Well: Shakespeare Reading Chaucer |
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1978-1979 |
Erika Simon |
Festivals of the Athenians |
Festivals of Attica |
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1977-78 |
Living a Life |
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1977-78 |
Cyriacus of Ancona's Egyptian Visit and its Reflection in Paintings by Gentile Bellini and Hieronymus Bosch. |
Cyriacus of Ancona 's Egyptian Visit and its Reflections in Gentile Bellini and Hieronymus Bosch |
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1973-1974 |
Political Allegiance in the Ancient World |
Alien Wisdom: the Limits of Hellenization |
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1972-1973 |
Women in Iberian Expansion Overseas, 1415-1815 |
Mary and Misogyny: Women in Iberian Expansion Overseas, 1415-1815, some facts, fancies, and personalities |
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1967-1968 |
The Creative Copy in Visual Arts, Music, Literature |
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1966-1967 |
Hattusha: The Capital of the Hittites |
Hattusha: The Capital of the Hittites |
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1965-1966 |
The Long Perspective, The Theory of Fiction |
The Sense of an Ending |
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1960-1961 |
Cubism |
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1959-1960 |
Music and Christian Worship |
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1955-1956 |
Diderot and Antiquity |
Essais sur Diderot et l'Antiquité |
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1953-1954 |
The Homeric Odyssey |
The Homeric Odyssey |
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1951-1952 |
The Rise of Modern Political Ideas in the Romantic Age (1700-1830) |
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1946-1947 |
Encounters between Civilizations |
Incorporated in his Study of History |
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1945-1946 |
Dogma and Practice in Modern Art |
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1943-1944 |
The Contemporary Novel in France |
The Contemporary French Novel |
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1942-1943 |
Philosophy of Religion |
Philosophical Understanding and Religious Truth |
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1941-1942 |
Art of Archaic Greece against its Historical Background |
Archaic Greek Art Against its Historical Background: A Survey |
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1939-1940 |
Arturo Torres-Rioseco |
The Literature of Spanish America |
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1938 |
Economic History of England during the Renaissance |
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1937-1938 |
Humanistic Themes in the Art of the Renaissance |
Studies in Iconology: Humanistic Themes in the Art of the Renaissance |
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1935-1936 |
The Interpretation of Prose |
The Philosophy of Rhetoric |
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1932-1933 |
Nationalism in Music |
National Music |
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1931-1932 |
The Apostle Paul: The Text of the New Testament |
Paul, His Heritage and Legacy |
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1930-1931 |
La Poésie française entre 1815 et 1914 |
Quatre études: Baudelaire. Romantiques. Sur un cycle poétique. L'homme de sentiment |
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1929-1930 |
The History of Ideas |
Adventures of Ideas, Chapters 1,2,3,7, & 8 |
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1928-1929 |
The New Crusade |
Lectures embodied in The Dawn of Conscience |