Mellon CDI Invited Fellows Programme

The Mellon CDI Invited Fellows Programme, part of the Mellon Centre for Disciplinary  Innovation at CRASSH, brings distinguished international visitors to the Centre for lectures and/or colloquia for a period of one or two weeks.

2012-13



Cornel West in conversation with Paul Gilroy on Politics and Race
Friday, 3 May 2013
Mellon CDI Visiting Fellow Cornel West in conversation with Paul Gilroy and respondent Stephen Tuck.
Cornel West in conversation with MM McCabe on Philosophy in the Public Sphere
Tuesday, 7 May 2013
Cornel West in conversation with Mary Margaret McCabe (KCL) and respondent Constanze Guthenke (Princeton University).
Cornel West in conversation with Ben Okri on Literature and the Nation
Thursday, 9 May 2013
Cornel West in conversation with Ben Okri (novelist) and respondent Malachi McIntosh (University of Cambridge)
Judith Butler: Understanding Society
Wednesday, 22 May 2013
The concluding lecture in CRASSH's series on Understanding Society.

 

2010-11


2009-10

Professor Katherine Hayles (Duke University)
Professor Stephen Greenblatt (Harvard University)
Professor Veit Erlmann (Butler School of Music, University of Texas)
Professor Bernard Steigler (Director of the Department of Cultural Development, Centre Georges Pompidou)
Professor Jay Winter (Yale University)
Professor Sheldon Pollock (Columbia University)
Professor Elaine Scarry (Harvard University)
Professor James Elkins (School of the Art Institute of Chicago)

The colloquium Euclidian Geometry in 19th-Century Culture, organised by Professor Alice Jenkins (Glasgow), is also sponsored by the CDI.

2008-09

Professor Alan Liu  (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Professor Gayatri Spivak (Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities/Director of the Center of Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia)
Professor John Bender and Professor Michael Marrinan (Stanford University)

2007-08 Programme

Professor Geoffrey Hartman
Professor Hal Foster (Townsend Martin '17 Professor of Art & Archaeology, Princeton)
Professor Leela Gandhi (University of Chicago)
Professor Maria Menocal (Stirling Professor of the Humanities, Yale)
Professor Frank Ankersmit (University of Groningen)

 


 

 
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