Lily Maase (Mixed Media Artist), "In Through the 'Out' Door," 11 September 2007.
Rebecca Walkowitz (Rutgers University), "Making World Literature: J.M. Coetzee and the New Transnational Novel," 4 October 2007.
Osvaldo Pardo (University of Connecticut), "Colonial Mexican Imprint Collection: Fall Lecture," 8 October 2007
Tato Laviera (Poet), "African Veins Across the Continents," 8 October 2007.
Marcia Colish (Yale University), "Synderesis and Conscience: Medieval Survivals and Transformations," 11 October 2007.
Walter Goffart (Yale University), "Rome's Last Conquest:The Barbarians," 12 October 2007.
Jennifer Frangos (University of Missouri - Kansas City), "Cunning Stunts: Sex Between Women in Eighteenth-Century England," 22 October 2007.
Nella Van Dyke (Washington State University), "The College Campus as a Defended Neighborhood," 9 November 2007.
Elliott R. Wolfson (New York University), "Alterity, Mysticism, and Ethics: Representations of the Christian and Muslim others in Medieval Kabbalah," 13 November 2007.
Carlos Bolado (Film Director), "Under California: the Limit of Time" and "Promises," 15-16 November 2007.
Michael Eric Dyson (Georgetown University), keynote lecture at the First Annual Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Breakfast, 17 January 2008.
John J. McCusker (Trinity University), "Money and the Economics of Success in Early British America," 4 February 2008.
Jeffrey Lesser (Emory University), "How Shizuo Ozawa became Mario Japa: Ethnicity and Guerilla Movements in Brazil," 7 February 2008.
Suzanne Poirier (University of Illinois at Chicago), "Memoirs of Medical Education and the Taboo of Emotions," 13 February 2008
France Winddance Twine (University of California at Santa Barbara), “Hair, Heritage, and Habitus: Bodies as Social Products”, 21 February 2008.
Heidi Brayman Hackel (University of California - Riverside), " 'Dumb Eloquence': Muteness and Gesture in Early Modern England," 21 February 2008.
Hyonjin Kim (Seoul National University, Korea), "From La Chanson de Roland to Orlando Furioso: A Renaissance of the Saracens?," 21 February 2008.
Segrario Del Carmen Cruz Carretero (University of Puebla, Mexico), "African Roots in Veracruz," 21-22 February 2008.
Daniel De Simone (Library of Congress), "A Heavenly Craft: The Woodcut in Early Printed Books," 27 February 2008.
Imam Johari Abdul Malik (former Muslim Chaplain at Howard University), "They Came Before Columbus: African Roots in Ancient America," 27-28 February 2008.
Timothy Williamson (University of Oxford), "Properties, Individuals and Contingency," 6 March 2008.
Amita Baviskar (Delhi University), "Cows, Cars and Cycle-rickshaws: The Politics of Nature on the Streets of Delhi, India," 6 March 2008.
Kevin Willmott, director of "The Confederate States of America," 20 March 2008.
Gabriel Peveroni (Writer), "Territos ocupados," 25 March 2008.
Marwan Rashed (École Normale Supérieure), "Socrates in the Phaedo and Aristophanes," 4 April 2008.
Marianne Pade (University of Aarhus, Denmark), "Script as a Marker of Cultural Identity," 7 April 2008.
Christopher Yohmei Blasdel (International House of Japan), "Seeking Spirituality in the Performing Arts of Japan: Music, Dance, and Theater as Paths to Self-Knowldege," 29 April 2008.
Nancy L. Easterlin (University of New Orleans), "Narrative Thinking, Human Wayfinding, and Literary Stories," 30 April 2008.