The Robert C. Elliott Memorial Lecture Series
The Elliott Memorial Lecture is presented annually by the UCSD Department of Literature, with the support of the Robert C. Elliott Memorial Fund, which was established at the time of Professor Elliott's death in April of 1981. A founding member of the Department of Literature, Professor Elliott authored The Power of Satire (1968), The Shape of Utopia (1970), and The Literary Persona (1982).David Der-Wei Wang
April 19, 2012 David Der-Wei Wang
David Der-wei Wang is Edward C. Henderson Professor in Chinese Literature, Harvard University, Director of CCK Foundation Inter-University Center for Sinological Studies, and Academician, Academia Sinica.
"Reinventing the Lyrical: the Making of Chinese Literary Modernity"
Cherrie Moraga
May 10, 2010Cherrie Moraga
Cherríe L. Moraga is playwright, poet, and essayist whose plays and publications have received national recognition.
"A Small Nation of Remember: On the Road to Xicana Consciencia"
Christopher Newfield
May 10, 2010
Christopher Newfield
Professor of English, UC Santa Barbara
Former Chair, UC Academic Senate Planning and Budget Committee
"The End of the Public University - and the Beginning of the Next"
Mary Louise Pratt
October 19, 2006Mary Louise Pratt
Silver Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures
NYU
"Migrancy, Empire and the Politics of Language: Toward a Geolinguistic Imagination"
Carlo Ginzburg
May 8, 2006Carlo Ginzburg
Franklin D. Murphy Professor of Italian Renaissance Studies
UCLA
"Learning from the Enemy: On the French Prehistory of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion"
Amy Kaplan
April 28, 2005Amy Kaplan
Graduate Chair, Department of English
University of Pennsylvania
"Where is Guantánamo?"
Michael Denning
May 13, 2004Michael Denning
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of American Studies and English
Yale University
"The Rhetoric of Class in the Era of Globalization"
Judith Butler
April 29, 2003Judith Butler
Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature
UC Berkeley
"Precarious Life"
David Harvey
May 17, 2001David Harvey
Professor, The Graduate Center
City University of New York
"The Art of Rent: Globalization and the Commodification of Culture"
Mike Davis
May 23, 2000Mike Davis
Department of History
SUNY Stony Brook
"Magical Urbanism: Latinos Reinvent the U.S. Big City"
Jean Franco
May 13, 1999
Jean Franco
Columbia University
“Latin American Culture and the Cold War”
Hazel Carby
November 20, 1997
Hazel Carby
Yale University
“Body and Soul: Paul Robeson and the Modernist Aesthetic”
Hazel Carby
Yale University
“Body and Soul: Paul Robeson and the Modernist Aesthetic”
Alexander Cockburn
May 6, 1992
Alexander Cockburn
Journalist
“Workers and Nations in Capital’s World"
Alexander Cockburn
Journalist
“Workers and Nations in Capital’s World"
Richard Falk
April 30, 1991
Richard Falk
Princeton University
“Bush’s ‘New World Order’ vs. A Better World”
Richard Falk
Princeton University
“Bush’s ‘New World Order’ vs. A Better World”
Henry Louis Gates
April 23, 1990
Henry Louis Gates
“On Transforming the American Mind: Race and The Canon”
Henry Louis Gates
“On Transforming the American Mind: Race and The Canon”
Isabel Allende
April 13, 1989
Isabel Allende
Author
“The Voice of a Latin American Writer”
Isabel Allende
Author
“The Voice of a Latin American Writer”
Stephen J. Gould
February 18, 1988
Stephen J. Gould
Harvard University
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Stephen J. Gould
Harvard University
(no title)
Edward Said
May 19, 1987
Edward Said
Columbia University
“Culture and Imperialism”
Ian P. Watt
April 16, 1986
Ian P. Watt
Stanford University
“The First Myth of Modern Individualism: Faust”
Fredric Jameson
April 17, 1985
Fredric Jameson
UC Santa Cruz
“World Literature in the Era of Late Capitalism”
Fredric Jameson
UC Santa Cruz
“World Literature in the Era of Late Capitalism”
Iris Murdoch
April 19, 1984
Iris Murdoch
Author
“The Novel”
Denis Donoghue
April 6, 1983
Denis Donoghue
NYU
“Ideas and How to Escape from Them”
Ursula K. LeGuin
April 21, 1982
Ursula K. LeGuin
Author
Author “A Non-Euclidian View of California as a Cold Place To Be”
Ursula K. LeGuin
Author
Author “A Non-Euclidian View of California as a Cold Place To Be”
