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Humanitas Programme, 2015-2016

Visiting Professorship in Museums, Galleries and Libraries, University of Oxford

Stephen Greenblatt, October 2015

Greenblatt is an American literary critic, theorist, scholar, and

Pulitzer Prize winning author. He is John Cogan University

Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University.

Visiting Professorship in Statecraft and Diplomacy, University of Cambridge

Martti Ahtisaari, 19 - 23 October 2015

Ahtisaari is a Finnish politician, the tenth President of Finland (1994–

2000), Nobel Peace Prize laureate and United Nations diplomat and

mediator, noted for his international peace work.

Visiting Professorship in Chamber Music, University of Cambridge

Dame Mitsuko Uchida, 26-29 October & 27 November

A classical pianist, Uchida has appeared with most of the world's

foremost orchestras, recorded a wide repertory with major labels, won

numerous awards, and serves as co-director of the Marlboro Music

School and Festival. In recent years, she has also conducted major

orchestras.

Visiting Professorship in Opera, University of Oxford

Christian Thielemann, January 2016

Thielemann is Chief Conductor of the Staatskapelle Dresden,

and Musical Advisor of Bayreuth Festival. Thielemann has

been awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of

Germany and the Richard Wagner Award of Leipzig.

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Drama, University of Oxford

Sir Tom Stoppard, Spring 2016

Sir Tom Stoppard is a British playwright who has written

prolifically for TV, radio, film and stage, finding prominence

with Arcadia, The Real Thing and Shakespeare in Love. He has

received one Academy Award and four Tony Awards.

Visiting Professorship in Media, University of Cambridge

Emily Bell, 22 February - 4 March 2016

Bell is the Director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism,

part of the CSJ in New York City. Before taking up her

academic post at the Tow Center in 2010, Bell had worked for

The Guardian and Observer newspapers since 1990.

Visiting Professorship in Sustainability Studies, University of Cambridge

Paul Ferraro, 7 - 11 March 2016

Ferraro is a Professor within the Department of Economics at

Georgia State University. He is a 2011-12 Fulbright Scholar, a

Senior Science Fellow at the World Wildlife Fund, and a former

science advisor to the Global Environment Facility.

Visiting Professorship in Art History, University of Cambridge

Wim Pijbes, 5 - 11 May 2016

In addition to his role as General Director of the

Rijksmuseum, he is Chairman of the Supervisory Board of

Droog Design; a board member of the Rembrandt Society,

and on the Advisory Board of the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence.

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Visiting Professorship in Classical Music and Music Education, University of Oxford

Sergio Assad, May 2016

Sergio Assad is a Brazilian guitarist who has extended the

possibilities of the two-guitar combination through his

arrangements of Latin American music by composers such as

Piazzolla, Baroque and Gershwin among others.

Visiting Professorship in Historiography, University of Oxford

Simon Schama, 9-13 May 2016

Schama, CBE, is an English historian specialising in art

history, Dutch history, and French history. He is a University

Professor of History and Art History at Columbia University,

New York.

Visiting Professorship in Comparative Literature, University of Oxford

Dame Marina Warner, May 2016

Marina Warner is a British novelist, short story writer,

historian and mythographer. She is known for her many

non-fiction books relating to feminism and myth. She has

written for The London Review of Books, Sunday Times and the

New Statesman.