Eberhard L. Faber Class of 1915 Memorial Lecture and Colloquium
Each year, the Program in European Cultural Studies invites a distinguished scholar of European culture and society to Princeton for a two-day visit. The scholar delivers the program’s most prestigious public lecture, the Eberhard L. Faber Class of 1915 Memorial Lecture in European Cultural Studies, and also participates in a colloquium over a meal with ECS certificate students. Participation in an Eberhard L. Faber Class of 1915 Memorial Lecture and Colloquium is a requirement for completion of the ECS certificate, and students are encouraged to fulfill the requirement during the junior year.
Past Eberhard L. Faber Class of 1915 Memorial Lecturers in ECS:
- Esra Akcan (Cornell University), “Partitions of Europe and Healing Spaces of Expulsion” (November 21, 2022) poster
- Brent Hayes Edwards (Columbia University), “Clipping in and out of the Trenches: Black Radicalism and the Archive” (March 3, 2022)
- Suzanne Marchand (Louisiana State University), “The Porcelain Industry Confronts the Vulgar Question of Money: Towards a New Prehistory of Industrialization in the German States, 1780-1840” (March 2, 2021) poster
- Sophia Rosenfeld (University of Pennsylvania), “The Waltz, the Cotillon, and the Hazards of Choice” (October 14, 2019) poster
- Francesca Trivellato (Institute for Advanced Study), “Renaissance Florence and the Origins of Capitalism: From Burckhardt to the Digital Humanities” (February 12, 2019) poster
- Maurice Samuels (Yale University), ” Dress Rehearsal for Dreyfus: the Duchesse de Berry, Simon Deutz, and Modern France’s First Antisemitic Affair” (March 26, 2018) poster
- Mary Favret (Johns Hopkins University), “Coefficients of Disaster” (November 9, 2016) poster
- John Hamilton (Harvard University), “Emily Dickinson and the Word made Flesh” (October 25, 2015) poster
- Thomas W. Laqueur (University of California, Berkeley), “Why Do We Care About Dead Bodies?” (February 26, 2015) poster
- Dominick LaCapra (Cornell University), “What Use is the Humanities?” (November 21, 2013) poster
- Carolyn Abbate (Harvard University), “Tristan, Isolde and the Soundtrack” (April 2013) poster
- Christopher Wood (Yale University), “The Uninvited” (December 2011) poster
- Jonathan Lear (University of Chicago), “Irony and the Freudian Uncanny” (December 2010) poster
- Robert Darnton (Harvard University), “The Devil in the Holy Water, or the Art of Slander in Eighteenth-Century France” (October 2009) poster
- Ewa Lajer-Burcharth (Harvard University), “Cruel Chardin” (April 2009) poster
- Andreas Huyssen (Columbia University), “Figures of Memory in the Course of Time: German Painting 1946-89” (April 2008) poster
- John Durham Peters (University of Iowa), “Media, Madness, and Modern Communication Breakdown” (March 2006) poster
- Martin Jay (UCLA/Institute for Advanced Study), “Somaesthetics and Democracy: John Dewey and Body Art” (2002)
- Michael J. Roth (The Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities), “Making an Exhibition Historical ‘Freud: Conflict and Culture'” (1999)
- Anne Goldgar (Kings College, London), “The British Museum and the Virtual Representation of Culture in the Eighteenth Century” (1998)
- Andrey Zorin (Moscow State University and The Academy of Sciences), “The Semiotics of Everyday Life: New Approaches to Literature and History of Russia” (1995)
- Paul Robinson (Stanford University), “The Opera Queen: A Voice from the Closet” (1994)
- Carlo Ginzburg (UCLA), “The Philosopher and Witches” (1990)
