Forum - Lecturers

 

Michael Pakaluk, associate professor of philosophy at Clark University in Worcester, MA, received his A.B. and later Ph. D. from Harvard, studying under W.V. Quine and John Rawls. He is the author of several books and many scholarly articles in various areas of philosophy, including Other Selves: Philosophers on Friendship, the Clarendon Aristotle volume on Nicomachean Ethics, and, most recently, Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics: An Introduction, published by Cambridge University Press. He is the Director of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy and a Founding Member of the American Public Philosophy Institute. Dr. Pakaluk has been a visiting professor or scholar at Brown, St. Andrews, Cambridge and Harvard. He is currently working on a new translation of the Nicomachean Ethics.

 

Patrick Derr earned his Ph.D. in Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, and did postdoctoral fellowships at UCLA (History of Science) and Johns Hopkins University (Philosophy of Science). He is currently Professor of Philosophy, Adjunct Professor of Environmental Science and Policy, and President of the Faculty at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Environment, Technology & Development. Much of Derr's work is directed toward the explanation and analysis of ethical issues, particularly issues of justice or equity. He has directed his more recent research towards medical ethics and health policy, while his current writing focuses on ethical issues related to the conduct of biomedical research. 

 

Robin Harris is a British historian, author and journalist. He has written for “The Daily Telegraph” and “Wall Street Journal”. He has a PhD in modern history from Oxford University. Harris was the Director of the Conservative Research Department from 1985 to 1988 and a member of the Prime Minister's Policy Unit from 1989 to 1990. He is a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Heritage Foundation in Washington DC. Harris has exceptional knowledge of Croatia, moreover he is the author of the book » Dubrovnik A History«. He is also a founding member of The Croatian Center for renewal of Culture.

 

Ivo Banac is Bradford Durfee Emeritus Professor of History at Yale University and Professor of History at the University of Zagreb. From 1995 to 1999 he was the University Professor of History at the Central European University at Budapest, where he also directed the OSI/ CEU Institute on Southeastern Europe. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University, and is the author of The National Question in Yugoslavia: Origins, History, Politics (1984), which was awarded the Wayne S. Vucinich Prize of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, and With Stalin against Tito: Cominformist Splits in Yugoslav Communism (1988), which was awarded the Josip Juraj Strossmayer Award by the Zagreb Book Fair, as well as numerous additional reviews, articles, and collections. He served as the Director General of the Inter-University Centre,
Dubrovnik. He was also the minister of environmental protection and urban planning in the government of Croatia (2003), a member of the Croatian parliament (Sabor)(2003-2007), and the president of the Croatian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights (2007-2009). He is a corresponding member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (HAZU), the president of the advisory council of the “Vlado Gotovac” Institute in Zagreb, and the past and current editor of East European Politics and Societies. He is a member of the board of the Croatian Center for Renewal of Culture.