Deborah Kapchan (University of Texas) "Nashat: The Gender of Celebration in Morocco," 26 April 2001
Amy Shuman (Ohio State University) "Small World Stories: The Ordinary and the Profound in Everyday Life," 23 April 2001
Eric S. Rabkin (University of Michigan) "The American Science Fiction Short Story, 1926-1999, and the Genre Evolution Project," 19 April 2001
Leonard Barkan (New York University) "Recollecting the Invisible: Words, Pictures, and the Envisioning of the Past," 6 April 2001
John Christian Laursen (University of California, Riverside) "Early French and German Arguments for Freedom of the Press: Luzac (1749) and Bahrdt," 26 March 2001
Ann Wennerstrom (University of Washington) "Intonation and Evaluation in Oral Narratives," 19 March 2001
Julian Olivares Jr. (University of Houston) "Vir Melancholicus/Femina Tristis: Towards a Poetics of Women's Loss," 20 February 2001
Lucius Wyatt, (Texas A&M University, Prairie View) "Chamber Music by Black Composers" in association with presentation by Marian Anderson String Quartet, 12 February 2001
Celia Morris, "Finding Celia's Place," 3 November 2000
Nancy K. Miller (City University of New York) "Women's Secrets and the Novel: Intimate Objects in Midcentury America," 19 October 2000

Lecture and performance by Jurandir do Nascimento, 6 April 2001
Lecture, reading and booksigning by Sonia Sanchez, (Author of Homecoming and We a BaddDDD People), 27 March 2001
Lecture and performance by Professor Daniel Heifetz (University of Maryland, Director of Heifetz International Music Institute), "The Artist as Communicator-Innovator-Member of Society," 8 November 2000
Reading and lecture by novelist Bapsi Sidhwa, 18 April 2000
Reading by novelist Tim O'Brien, 17 April 2000