Upcoming Speakers

The Center for Social Inquiry will combine a series of public intellectual events (guest speakers, films, panel discussions) on a bi-weekly basis with an undergraduate course component.

The following speakers have been confirmed. Dates for speakers will be announced.

Fall 2008 - Inaugural Speaker

Helen Epstein, author of The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West, and the Fight Against AIDS and regular contributor to The New York Review of Books.

Spring 2009

Keith Wailoo, Martin Luther King Jr. Professor, Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research & Dept. of History
Director of the Center for Race and Ethnicity at Rutgers University
Author of Dying in the City of Blues: Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race and Health and co-author of The Troubled Dream of Genetic Medicine: Ethnicity and Innovation in Tay-Sachs, Cystic Fibrosis, Sickle Cell Disease

Charles Briggs and Clara Mantini-Briggs
Department of Anthropology and Demography (respectively), UC Berkeley
co-authors of Stories in the Time of Cholera: Racial Profiling During a Medical Nightmare

E. Melanie Dupuis
Department of Sociology, UC Santa Cruz
author of Nature's Perfect Food: How Milk Became America's Drink

csi@pitzer.edu