Visiting Scholars

Each year the Honors Program invites exceptional scholars from across the country to participate in its core curriculum classes. Each visiting scholar gives a public lecture, leads a class discussion, and engages students in the critical, informal dialogue that is the soul of academic inquiry in the Honors Program. Among the recent visiting scholars are:

Patrick Deneen, Georgetown University, “The Wanderings of Odysseus post 9/11”

Anthony Cascardi, U. of California, Berkeley, “Cervantean Self-Fashioning”

Stephen Greenblatt, Harvard University, “Shakespeare and the New Millennium”

Stanley Lombardo, University of Kansas, reading from his translation of The Iliad

Sheila Murnaghan, University of Pennsylvania, “Women in the Greek Polis”

Clifford Orwin, University of Toronto,” Was Thucydides a Greek Historian?”

Steven Smith, Yale University, “What is Enlightenment?”

Tibor Wlasics, University of Virginia, “Dante and Visual Art”

Froma Zeitlin, Princeton University, “Greek Tragedy and Gender”