The Scherer Center Seminar

The Scherer Center Seminar, led by Eric Slauter, Associate Professor of English and former Director of the Karla Scherer Center, surveys the rich and varied multidisciplinary study of American culture as it is currently practiced at the University of Chicago. Seminar members read and discuss recent work by faculty specialists from the Humanities, the Social Sciences, the Booth School of Business, the Divinity School, and the Law School at Chicago. During the last half of seminar meetings, the authors join students for a focused discussion of their work

Previous guests and readings included:

2018

  • Laura Weinrib, Susan Young Murray Professor of Law at Harvard
  • Richard Thaler, Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics at The University of Chicago
  • Werner Sollors, Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor English Literature at Harvard
  • Christopher Taylor, Associate Professor of English at The University of Chicago
  • Amy Lippert, Asst. Professor of American History at The University of Chicago
  • Allyson Field, Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at The University of Chicago
  • Asst. Professor of SSA at The University of Chicago
  • Jane Dailey, Associate Professor of History at The University of Chicago
  • Kathleen Belew, Asst. Professor of U.S History at The University of Chicago

2017

  • Amir Sufi, Bruce Lindsay Professor of Economics and Public Policy at The University of Chicago
  • Vu Tran, Asst. Professor of Practice in the Arts, Creative Writing, The University of Chicago
  • Debbie Nelson, Helen B. and Frank L. Sulzberger Professor of English at The University of Chicago
  • Mark Bradley, Bernadotte E. Schmitt Distinguished Service Professor of International History at The University of Chicago
  • Geoffrey Stone, Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor of Law at The University of Chicago
  • W. Clark Gilpen, Margaret E. Burton Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of History of Christianity in the Divinity School at the University of Chicago
  • Sian Beilock, President of Bernard College
  • Philip Bohlman, Ludwig Rosenberger Distinguished Service Professor in Jewish History, Music and the Humanities at The University of Chicago

A complete list of previous speakers is available.