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Named for the first chairman of ACLS, the lecture series has as its theme "A Life of Learning."

• 2018

  
  A Life of Learning by Sally Falk Moore
  Victor S. Thomas Professor of Anthropology Emerita
  Harvard University
  Read the lecture.

• 2017

  
  A Life of Learning by Harry G. Frankfurt
  Professor Emeritus of Philosophy
  Princeton University
  Read the lecture.

• 2016

  
  A Life of Learning by Cynthia Enloe
  Research Professor
  Department of International Development, Community, and Environment
  Clark University
  Read the lecture.

• 2015

  
  A Life of Learning by Wendy Doniger
  Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions
  University of Chicago
  Read the lecture.

• 2014

  
  A Life of Learning by Bruno Nettl
  Professor Emeritus of Music and Anthropology
  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Read the lecture.

• 2013

  
  A Life of Learning: Wandering Among Fields by Robert Alter
  Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature
  University of California, Berkeley
  Read the lecture.

• 2012

  
  A Life of Learning by Joyce Appleby
  Professor Emerita of History
  University of California, Los Angeles
  Read the lecture.

• 2011

  
  A Life of Learning by Henry Glassie
  College Professor Emeritus of Folklore
  Indiana University, Bloomington
  Read the lecture.

• 2009

  
  A Life of Learning: Six People I Have Learned From by William Labov
  Professor of Linguistics and Director of the Linguistics Laboratory
  University of Pennsylvania
  Published exclusively in electronic format.

• 2008

  
  A Life of Learning by Theodor Meron
  Appeals Judge and Former President
  International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), and
  Charles L. Denison Professor of Law Emeritus and Judicial Fellow
  New York University Law School
  Read the lecture.