Literature
Frederick A. de Armas (2007-2008)
Jan 20, 2008
“Quixotic Frescos: Cervantes and Italian Art” Frederick A. de Armas is the Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Service Professor in the Humanities, Spanish Literature, and Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago. He is a literary scholar, critic and novelist whose [...]
Elie Wiesel (2006-2007)
Nov 22, 2006
“Against Indifference” Elie Wiesel is a Nobel laureate and a Holocaust survivor. He was born in Sighet, Transylvania in 1928. His family was captured and transferred to the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944 two weeks before D-Day. There, his mother and sisters were taken [...]