Past Bingham Seminars & Clark Lectures
Seminar participants have visited London, Paris and Vienna, walked along the pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela in Spain, traveled in China investigating the Confucian family tradition, and studied the art, architecture and folkways of Sicily. Distinguished lecturers and performers have enriched participants' seminar experience and the knowledge of the UK and larger communities in their Bingham Seminar-associated Thomas D. Clark Lecture.
| 2018 |
World War I and Memory • Karen Petrone and Terri Crocker, History
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| 2014 | Making an American ‘Athens’ • Patrick Lee Lucas, Interior Design
"Before the Light Bulb: A Material Culture of Luminosity and Reflection" by Ann Smart Martin, Stanley and Polly Stone Professor and the Director of the Material Culture Program in the Department of Art History at the University of Wisconsin |
| 2012 | African Art in Paris, 1878 - 2012 • Monica Visonà, Art History
“The 1956 Congress for Black Writers and Artists in Paris: the Birth of a New Imaginary for Africa” by Manthia Diawara, Professor of Comparative Literature & Director of Africana Studies, New York University |
| 2010 | Across the Atlantic: Exploring Irish Immigration to the US • Diana Haleman, Family Studies
“Sez I to Myself” by Malachy McCourt, Author and actor |
| 2008 | Seeking Goya: A Transatlantic Journey • Edward Stanton, Hispanic Studies
“Composition and Decomposition in Girodet’s Revolt of Cairo” by Thomas Crow, Rosalie Solow Professor of Modern Art at New York University |
| 2006 | Voices from Home: Appalachian Traditional Music • Ron Pen, John Jacob Niles Center for American Music
Presentation by John Cohen, founding member of New Lost City Ramblers, traditional musician, author, photographer, and filmmaker |
| 2004 | Japan: The Modern, the City • Douglas Slaymaker, Russian and Eastern Studies
“Writing Tokyo: Urban Topographies in Contemporary Japanese Fiction” by Stephen Snyder, Director of the Center for Asian Studies University of Colorado at Boulder |
| 2002 | More than the Mafia: Sicily's Multiple Cultures through Archaeology, Arts, & Folkways • Christine Havice, Art |
| 2000 | The Confucian Family and its Enemies in 20th-Century China • Kristin Stapleton, History & Asian Studies
"Confucian Humanism and the Global Ethic” by Tu Weiming, Harvard-Yenching Professor of Chinese History and Philosophy and of Confucian Studies |
| 1998 | Sacred Space and Pilgrimage • Edward Stanton, Hispanic Studies |
| 1996 | The Grand Tour • Raymond Betts, History |
