Georges Lurcy Lecture

Established by the Georges Lurcy Charitable and Educational Trust in 1981, the lecture has sought to bring to the University of Chicago distinguished European scholars of not only history, literature, and philosophy, but also economics, political science, and jurisprudence. Selection of visiting professors alternates between the divisions of the Humanities and Social Sciences.

Lecture Archive

Spring 2007 "Staged Encounters: From Théodore de Bry to Captain Cook" Frank Lestringant, Professor of 16th-Century Literature and Director of the Saulnier Center, Paris IV-Sorbonne

Spring 2005 "Memento mei: Polyphonic Music in Some Fifteenth-Century Commemorations for the Dead," Margaret Bent, All Souls College, Oxford University

Spring 2004 Laurent Fabius, Former Prime Minister of France

Spring 2004 Albrecht Koschorke, Professor of German Literature and General Literary Studies, University of Konstanz

Spring 2002 Wolfgang Mommsen, Professor of History Emeritus, University of Konstanz

Spring 2001 Myles Burnyeat, Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford University

Spring 2000 "Why Political Philosophy?" Hienrich Meier, Director of Carl Friederich von Siemens Stiftung, Munich

Spring 1999 Marcel Detienne, Directeur d'Études and Chair of Greek Religions, École Pratique des Hautes Études

Spring 1998 Philippe Descola, Directeur d'Études, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, and Member, Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Sociale of the Collège de France

Spring 1998 Anne Christine Taylor, Chargée de Recherches, Le Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

Spring 1997 Marc Fumaroli, Professor of Rhetoric and Society in Europe, Collège de France

Spring 1996 Glenn Most, Professor of Classical Philology, University of Heidelberg

Spring 1995 Reinhard Strohm, Reader in Music, King's College London, University of London

Spring 1994 Helmut Lethen, Director of the German Section of the Institute for German, English, and Celtic Literary Studies, University of Utrecht

Autumn 1993 Jonathan Clark, Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford University

Spring 1992 Paolo Fabbri, Professor of Music, University of Udine

Spring 1992 Louis Marin, Director of the section d'histoire et théorie de l'art and Vice President of the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales

Spring 1990 Paul Mendes-Flohr, Professor, Hebrew University (currently the Helen A. Regenstein Professor in the Divinity School and the Committee on Jewish Studies, University of Chicago)

Winter 1990 David Wightman, international economic policy and international economic history, London School of Economics

Autumn 1988 Reinhart Koselleck, Professor of History, Faculty of Historical Sciences and Philosophy, University of Bielefeld

Spring 1988 Yves Bonnefoy, poet and critic, Collège de France

Spring 1987 Professor of Arts and Letters, Université Bordeaux III

Autumn 1986 Raymond Boudon, sociologist, Université Paris-Sorbonne, Le Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, and Group for the Study of Analytical Sociological Methods

Spring 1986 Jean-Pierre Vernant, Professor of Comparative Ancient Religion, Collège de France

Autumn 1985 Elizabeth Noelle-Neumann, political scientist, University of Mainz

Spring 1985 François Furet, Directeur d'Études at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales

Autumn 1984 Jurgen Kocka, Professor of Modern Social History, University of Bielefeld

Spring 1984 "Rationality, Morality, and Collective Action," Jon Elster, Professor of History and Philosophy, University of Oslo

Spring 1983 Gareth H. Jones, Downing Professor of the Laws of England, Cambridge University

1981-82 Arnaldo Momigliano, Professor of Ancient History, University of London