History and Theory LEcture

The History and Theory Lecture is hosted by the Remarque Institute at NYU and History and Theory at Wesleyan. Lectures are typically held once a year, and the published versions of these lectures can often be found in later issues of History and Theory.

Check our News & Announcements page for details about the next History and Theory Lecture.

Past Lectures

  • Ninth History and Theory Lecture: Johanna Drucker, “Inventing the Alphabet: The Technologies of Knowledge Production” (Remarque Institute, New York University, 23 February 2024)

    • Published in History and Theory 63, no. 3 (2024): 319–41 (H&T; WOL)

  • Eighth History and Theory Lecture: François Hartog, “Chronos, Kairos, Krisis: The Genesis of Western Time” (originally scheduled to be delivered at New York University, 19 March 2020)

    • Published in History and Theory 60, no. 3 (2021): 425–39 (H&T; WOL), with responses by Gabrielle M. Spiegel, Dana Sajdi, Nitzan Lebovic, Ethan Kleinberg, Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, and Dipesh Chakrabarty

  • Seventh History and Theory Lecture: Dipesh Chakrabarty, “Anthropocene Time” (Harvard University, 1 March 2017)

    • Published in History and Theory 57, no. 1 (2018): 5–32 (H&T; JSTOR; WOL)

  • Sixth History and Theory Lecture: Vincent Descombes, “The Order of Things: An Archeology of What?”

    • Published in History and Theory 55, no. 4 (2016): 66–81 (H&T; JSTOR; WOL)

  • Fifth History and Theory Lecture: Martin Jay, “Intentionality and Irony: The Missed Encounter of Quentin Skinner and Hayden White” (Columbia University, 25 October 2012)

    • Published in History and Theory 52, no. 1 (2013): 32–48 (H&T; JSTOR; WOL)

  • Fourth History and Theory Lecture: Rosalind O’Hanlon, “Creating Rights in Holy Places: Some Reflections on the History of ‘Hindu’ Law in India” (Columbia University, 10 April 2012)

  • Third History and Theory Lecture: Joan Wallach Scott, “Psychoanalysis and History” (Columbia University, 4 April 2011)

    • Published in History and Theory 51, no. 1 (2012): 63–83 (H&T; JSTOR; WOL)

  • Second History and Theory Lecture: Dominick LaCapra, “Historical and Literary Representations of the Final Solution: Saul Friedländer and Jonathan Littell” (Columbia University, 12 April 2010)

    • Published in History and Theory 50, no. 1 (2011): 71–97 (H&T; JSTOR; WOL)

  • First History and Theory Lecture: Carlo Ginzburg, “The Letter Kills: On Some Implications of 2 Corinthians 3:6” (Columbia University, 5 March 2009)

    • Published in History and Theory 49, no. 1 (2010): 71–89 (H&T; JSTOR; WOL)

Image: Horst J. Meuter’s Traumwelten in der Fotografie, Bildbearbeitung, Experimente (2018), from Wikimedia Commons.