The Wellek Library Lectures
2013 Peter Sloterdijk
2012 Bruno Latour
2011 Donna Haraway
2010 Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
2009 Rosalyn Deutsche
2008 Joan Scott
2007 Elizabeth Grosz
2006 Talal Asad
2005 David Harvey
2004 Achille Mbembe
2003 Angela Davis
2002 Paul Gilroy: "Elements of Post-Colonial Melancholia"
2001 Homi K. Bhabha: "The Quasi-Colonial: Scrambled Eggs and a Dish of Rice"
2000 Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: "The New Comparative Literature"
1999 Jean Baudrillard
1998 Judith Butler: "Antigone's Claim: Kinship, Aberration, and Psychoanalysis"
1997 Harry D. Harootunian: "History's Disquiet: Modernity and Everyday Life"
1996 Étienne Balibar: "On Politics and History: Presence, Cruelty, and the Universals"
1995 Rosalind Krauss: "Formless: A Feat"
1994 Wolfgang Iser: "Variables of Interpretation: Iterations of Translatability"
1993 Evelyn Fox Keller: "Metaphors of 20th Century Biology"
1992 Geoffrey Hartman: "Three on 'Culture'"
1991 Fredric Jameson: "The Constraints of the Postmodern"
1990 Hélène Cixous: "Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing"
1989 Edward Said: "Musical Elaborations"
1988 Murray Krieger: "The Reopening of Closure"
1987 Louis Marin: "Pascalian Propositions for Today"
1986 Jean-François Lyotard: "Peregrinations: Law, Form, Event"
1985 J. Hillis Miller: "The Ethics of Reading"
1984 Jacques Derrida: "Mémoires: For Paul de Man"
1983 Frank Kermode: "Forms of Attention"
1982 Perry Anderson: "In the Tracks of Historical Materialism"
1981 Harold Bloom: "The Breaking of the Vessels"