Ian Shapiro (Yale University) "The State of Democratic Theory," 6 May 2002
Richard Hendel (University of North Carolina Press) "On Book Design," 8 April 2002
Gregson Davis (Duke University) "Shades of Borrowed Ancestors: the Figure of Helen in Derek Walcott's Poetry," 22 March 2002
Alec Campbell and David Coulson (The Trust for African Art) "Paintings on Stone: Africa's Spectacular Rock Art Heritage," 21 March 2002
Lynn Hagan, "Marhaba: Greetings from a Western Woman in an Arab World," 18 March 2002
Nigel Allan (The Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine, London, England) "The Serpent: Symbol of Life and Healing in Ancient Israel," 27 February 2002 and "The Collection of an American Visionary in England: Sir Henry Wellcome," 28 February 2002
Glyn J. R. Parry, "Shakespeare and Demonic Politics," 13 February 2002
Samuel Gladden (University of Northern Iowa)
"'Everything but the Body': Introducing and Concluding Lacunae and Textual Consummation: Absences, Gaps, and Other Sexy Spaces in the British Nineteenth Century, a Work in Progress," 28 January 2002
John W. O'Malley, S.J., "The Council of Trent and the Making of Modern Catholicism," 27 November 2001
James C. Anderson (University of Georgia) "Lying in Stone: Should we believe what the Romans tell us in their building inscriptions?" 5 November 2001
Joe Feagin (University of Florida) "Racism and Sexism on College Campuses" and "Racism and the Coming White Minority," 8 October 2001

Public screening of University of Texas Film Professor Mitko Panov's documentary film, "Comrades" and discussion of his current project, 21 March 2002
Public performance of "Texarkana Waltz" by the Department of Performance Studies, 20-24 February 2002
Public reading by Michael Mewshaw, "A Writer's Account," from his literary memoir, 29 November 2001
Question-and-Answer Session on play- and screenwriting with award-winning playwright Elizabeth Wong, 13 November 2001
Performance by Duo Sonnekus of works by Fritsch, Nielsen, Axelsson, and a world premiere of a commissioned work by TAMU Performance Studies faculty member, Howard Jonathan Fredrics, 12 November 2001
Public Reading and discussion of "My Mother's War" by Sandi L. Wisenberg, 8 November 2001