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The Mandel Lectures in the Humanities

The Mandel Lectures in the Humanities were launched in the fall of 2011 to promote the study of the humanities at Brandeis University, following the 2010 opening of the new Mandel Center for the Humanities. The lectures bring to the Mandel Center each year a prominent scholar who gives a series of three lectures and conducts an informal seminar during his or her stay on campus. The Mandel Lectures are unique in their rotation of disciplines or fields within the humanities and humanistic social sciences: the speakers have ranged from historians to literary critics, from classicists to anthropologists. The published series of books therefore reflects the interdisciplinary mission of the center and the wide range of extraordinary work being done in the humanities today.

One Planet, Many Worlds

Dipesh Chakrabarty

Climate Ghosts

Nancy Langston

Why Fiction Matters in Contemporary China

David Der-wei Wang

The Donigers of Great Neck

Wendy Doniger

The Divine Spark of Syracuse

Ingrid D. Rowland

Aesthetic Theology and Its Enemies

David Nirenberg

The Nearest Thing to Life

James Wood