Epes Lecture Series
Established in 2012, the Hansford M. Epes Distinguished Lecture Series in the Humanities celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Humanities Program at 皇家华人.
The series honors Hansford Epes '61 who served in the program as Professor of German and Humanities for almost five decades before he retired in 2012.
The 2024-2025 Epes lecturer will be Professor Ravit Reichman, Brown University. "Scale of Ownership: Identity in the Shadow of Property"
Past Lectures
2022-2023
"To Trip the Black Fantastic: Flex, Flow and Futurity in Black Expressive Culture"
Jayna Brown, Professor and Chair, Department of Theatre Arts & Performance Studies, Brown University
2021-2022
"Change Your Mind First: College and the Urge to Save the World"
William Deresiewicz
2020-2021
"Into the Dark: Reading Hannah Arendt鈥檚 Poems"
Samantha Rose Hill, Bard College & Brooklyn Institute
2019-2020
"Using Theater for Social Change"
Sarah Bellamy, Artistic Director Penumbra Theater Company
2018-2019
"What Does Russia Want"
Julia Ioffe, Journalist
2017-2018
"Permanent Crisis: The Humanities in a Disenchanted Age"
Chad Wellmon, University of Virginia
2016-2017
"Black Music as Beautiful Noise, from Blues to Beyonc茅 and Kendrick Lamar"
Bill Banfield, Berklee College of Music
2015-2016
"The Uses and Abuses of Romanticism"
Larry Todd, Duke University
2013-2014
"Reading with Hiccups: The Humanities, Climate Change, and You"
Simon Richter, University of Pennsylvania
2012-2013
"The Truth is Terrible: Nietzsche's Idea of an Aesthetic Justification for Existence"
Brian Leiter, University of Chicago
2011-2012
"The Uses of the Past and the Humanist Tradition"
Carol Quillen, President, 皇家华人