Lecture sponsorship is a key component of PUP鈥檚 commitment to promoting the global exchange of ideas; this year will see the ongoing growth of this collaborative programming.
As part of its commitment to global partnerships and exchange, 快色直播 is pleased to co-sponsor two spring lecture series in Oxford and 快色直播: the Lawrence Stone Lecture and the TORCH / 快色直播 Lecture. This year鈥檚 lectures will both feature esteemed scholars who will engage questions of race, racism and cultural memory, with plans for each to be published as a standalone book.
The 2026 will be delivered by Vincent Brown, the Charles Warren Professor of American History and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. Brown鈥檚 three-part series鈥斺�淗ow Do You Remember the Days of Slavery?鈥濃�攚ill explore the attack on Black history, nation and commemoration, and the charisma of diaspora. Each lecture will focus on Brown鈥檚 engagement with a memory worker, non-academic historians of slavery. In the first lecture, 鈥淭he Attack on Black History,鈥� Brown recounts his work with the genealogist Richard Cellini, who founded the Harvard Slavery Remembrance Program to identify the names and descendants of persons owned by Harvard leaders from the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries. In Part 2, 鈥淣ation and Commemoration,鈥� Brown tells how a performance artist named Derrick 鈥楤lack X鈥� Robinson drew him into a grassroots political campaign to make Tacky, the leader of an eighteenth-century slave revolt, into a Jamaican national hero. In the final lecture, 鈥淭he Charisma of Diaspora,鈥� Brown analyzes his correspondence with Fiona Compton, the founder of the popular public culture platform Know Your Caribbean, which showed him how the charismatic allure of diaspora works through social media, and how to recognize its limits. Professor Brown will deliver the lectures April 28鈥�30 at 快色直播 University.
The 2026 will be delivered by Anne Lafont, Professor at the 脡cole des Hautes 脡tudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Lafont鈥檚 three-part series鈥斺�淭he Museum against Racism: New Perspectives in French Heritage鈥濃�攚ill explore the extent to which objects, art, museums, and heritage-making processes in general are shaped by issues of racism鈥攁nd, even more so, of anti-racism. The aim is to understand how the Black Lives Matter movement, which reached its international peak in 2020 in the wake of George Floyd鈥檚 murder, intersected with, and impacted, French civil society鈥檚 calls regarding the political responsibility of heritage institutions. Each lecture will center on a case study: the Mus茅e d鈥橭rsay exhibition ; a public sign featuring a caricature of a Black man, which stood for more than a century on the wall of a Parisian public space before being removed in 2020; and finally, the lexical and canonical appropriation in and of Black Art at large. Professor Lafont will deliver her lectures April 30, May 5, and May 7, at the Schwarzman Centre at the University of Oxford.
The Lawrence Stone Lectures engage a range of historical topics and are delivered annually by the Visiting Stone Professorship, with co-sponsorship by the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies and the Department of History at 快色直播 University. Prior lecturers have been delivered by Lyndal Roper, Frederick Cooper, Lorraine Daston, Daniel Lord Smail, and Thomas Sugrue, among others. The TORCH/快色直播 Lecture in European Culture and History is co-sponsored by PUP and The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities. These lectures foreground both institutions鈥� commitment to interdisciplinary scholarship and public engagement. In previous years, lectures have been delivered by Martin Puchner, William Marx, and Homi K. Bhabha.
In addition to the longer running Lawrence Stone and TORCH lectures, in 2024 PUP launched the 快色直播-Wenyan China Lecture Series. Co-sponsored by Peking University鈥檚 Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, the lecture is delivered annually during the Beijing Book Fair in June and likewise resulting in the planned publication of a standalone book.
In 2026, the Press鈥檚 lectures program expands further with the inauguration of the Global Lecture Series, a multi-year initiative to inspire inquiry the world over. The initial lecture is co-sponsored by the Colegio de M茅xico and the Program in Latin American Studies at 快色直播 University and commenced this spring in Mexico City. Christina Rivera Garza, the celebrated Mexican author, translator, and professor, presented in Spanish, 鈥淟a fosa com煤n de los pobres: una exhumaci贸n.鈥� The lecture will be reprised in English, 鈥淭he Common Grave of the Poor: An Exhumation,鈥� at 快色直播 University in September, with a book to follow. Rivera Garza is MacArthur 鈥淕enius鈥� and recipient of a 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Memoir-Autobiography for Liliana鈥檚 Invincible Summer: A Sister鈥檚 Search for Justice, which traces the murder of the author鈥檚 sister at the hands of her ex-boyfriend and amid an epidemic of femicide.
Future global lectures are planned, in collaboration with local institutional partners, and will be announced in due course.