"Comparative Border Studies" Featuring Teofilo F. Ruiz, Department of History, UCLA; Robert Davis, Department of History, Ohio State University; Gale Stokes, Department of History, Dean of Humanities, Rice University
Ron Tyler (University of Texas) "John James Audubon's Royal Octavo edition of the Birds of America and American Lithography," 22 May 2003
Paul Needham (Princeton University) "The Discovery of the Gutenberg Bible," 21 May 2003
Ian Shapiro (Yale University) "The State of Democratic Theory," 5 May 2003
Barbara Johnstone (Carnegie Mellon University) "Selfhood, Personhood, Linguistic Stance, and Rhetorical Ethos: Two Case Studies," 17 April 2003
Rafael Inglada (Fundacion Picasso-Casa Natal, Malaga, Spain) "Picasso's Youth and the City of Malaga," 10 April 2003
Salikoko Mufwene (University of Chicago) "The Role of Ebonics in the Production of American English," 8 April 2003
Jeffrey Wollock, "Music of the Traditional Eastern-european Jewish Wedding," 7 April 2003
Peter J. Givler (Association of American University Presses) "Standards, Technologies, and Funding: The Future of Humanities Publishing," 31 March 2003
Andrew Gibson (University of London) "Oublier Baudrillard: Prolegomena to a Theory of Contemporary Melancholy," 26 March 2003
Jan Dizard (Amherst College) "From Villains to Heroes and Back: The Moral Career of Hunters," 6 March 2003
Paul Gordon Lauren (University of Montana) "Toward International Accountability: Atrocities and the Evolution of Human Rights," 24 February 2003
Joseph Carroll (University of Missouri-St. Louis) "Adaptationist Literary Study: An Emerging Research Program," 21 February 2003
Riffat Hassan (University of Louisville) "Women in Islam in the 21st Century: Beyond the Images," 20 February 2003
Herman Gollob, "Me and Shakespeare: Adventures with the Bard," 12 February 2003
Julius Gajdos (Masaryk University) "New Dynamics of the 1960s in Modern Czech Drama," 31 January 2003
Audrey Jaffe (University of California - Santa Cruz) "Bodies on the Line: Figures of Nineteenth-Century Studies," 30 January 2003
Miguel Méndez M. (University of Arizona) "La nueva literatura de la frontera," 17 October 2002
Cynthia Enloe (Clark University) "The Subtleties of Militarization in Daily Life: Some Feminist Clues," 3 October 2002
Robert Tavernor, (University of Bath) "Architecture + the City: European Ideals and the Real," 18 September 2002

Public reading and discussion of "This Bridge We Call Home: Radical Visions for Transformation" by AnaLouis Keating, Debora A. Miranda and Kimberly Roppolo, 4 March 2003
Public screening of Arnost Lusting's "The Fighter" and keynote address by Arnost Lustig, "My Life, My Works," 21 February 2003