Lectures and Conferences for 2008-2009
All lectures are held at Taft House at Stratford Heights, 2625 Clifton Avenue, unless otherwise noted.

October 9, 2008 - Charles C. Mann
1491: New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus
4:30 p.m.
Department of Anthropology (Lecture held in Zimmer Auditorium)

October 23, 2008 - Henry J. Aaron, The Brookings Institution
The Economics and Politics of Health Care Reform
5:30 p.m.
Department of Economics (Lecture held in Zimmer Auditorium)

October 25,2008 - Katie Trumpener, Yale University
2008 Focus on German Studies Conference Keynote Address
(Time to be determined)
Department of German Studies (Lecture held in the Max Kade German Cultural Center, Old Chemistry Bldg)

November 7, 2008 - Nicholas Roe, University of St. Andrew, Scotland
The Making of Benjamin Robert Haydon's "Christ's Entry into Jerusalem"
6:30 p.m.
Department of English (Lecture held at the Athenaeum of Ohio, The Atrium)

November 8, 2008 - Jeffrey N. Cox, University of Colorado at Boulder
Wordsworth, Haydon, and the Cockneys
5:15 p.m.
Department of English (Location to be determined)

November 12, 2008 - Shirine Hamadeh, Rice University
Pleasure and Politics: Istanbul's New Public Spaces in the 18th Century
4:30 p.m.
Department of History

March 20, 2009- S.R.S. Varadhan, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
(Title, time & location to be determined)
Department of Mathematical Sciences

April 30, 2009 - Anthony Pagden, UCLA
(Title to be determined)
3:00 p.m.
Department of History

May 1 , 2009 - Anthony Pagden, UCLA
(Title to be determined)
3:00 p.m.
Department of History

May 11, 2009 - Steven Epstein, University of California-San Diego
The Politics of Differences in Medical Research andThe Reification of Race by Federal Funding Agencies
7:00 p.m.
Department of History

Taft Research Center Annual Symposium
May 6-8, 2009