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video_white_18x10"The Humanities, Without Apologies"
Drescher Center for the Humanities 
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
September 19, 2012
 
 
video_white_18x10"Your Life of Learning"
Elizabethtown College Commencement
May 19, 2012
 
 
"Report to the Council"
2012 ACLS Annual Meeting  
Philadelphia, PA, May 11, 2012
 
 
 
"Report to the Council"
2011 ACLS Annual Meeting  
Washington, DC, May 6, 2011
 
 
 
"Report to the Council"
2010 ACLS Annual Meeting
Philadelphia, PA, May 7, 2010
 
 
 
video_white_18x10"Of Storms, Frontiers, and Master Plans: Claims for the Future of Higher Education"
Forum on the Humanities and the Public World
The Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities
University of California, Berkeley
April 6, 2011
 
 
"Report to the Council"
2009 ACLS Annual Meeting
Philadelphia, PA, May 8, 2009
 
 
 
Testimony Submitted to the Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment and Related Agencies, US House of Representatives, Regarding FY10 Funding for the Endowment for the Humanities, on behalf of the National Humanities Alliance
Washington, DC, April 23, 2009
 
 
 
video_white_18x10Conferral of Honorary Degree and Address
Bates College Commencement
May 26, 2008
 
 
 
"Report to the Council"
2008 ACLS Annual Meeting
Pittsburgh, PA, May 9, 2008
 
 
 
"Many Great Societies, One Small World"
National Chengchi University
Taipei, Taiwan
March 27, 2008
 
 
 
"An Investment in Value: Support for Research in the Humanities"
Academia Sinica
Taipei, Taiwan
March 24, 2008
 
 
 
"A New Starr in Berkeley"
University of California, Berkeley
October 18, 2007
 
 
 
"Report to the Council"
2007 ACLS Annual Meeting
Montreal, Quebec, Canada, May 11, 2007
 
 
 
"Insurmountable Opportunities: Liberal Education in a Changing Climate"
University of Richmond
August 23, 2006
 
 
 
"Going Forward"
ACLS/Association of American Universities Humanities Convocation: "Reinvigorating the Humanities"
Philadelphia, PA May 12, 2006
 
 
 
"Report to the Council"
2006 ACLS Annual Meeting
Philadelphia, PA, May 11, 2006
 
 
 
"Academic Governance and Academic Freedom"
Colgate University
February 16, 2006
 
 
 
"Made in the US/Made in China: Imagining the Future of China Studies"
Fairbank Center 50th Anniversary Conference
Harvard University
December 9, 2005
 
 
 
"The Humanities without Apology"
University of Nebraska, Lincoln
November 16, 2005
 
 
 
"Report to the Council"
2005 ACLS Annual Meeting
Philadelphia, PA, May 6, 2005
 
 
 
"Civility and its Discontents: Public Discourse and the Humanities"
College of Humanities Dean's Forum
Ohio State University
April 27, 2005
 
 
 
"Diversity and the Ph.D"
National Advisory Committee
Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
February 10, 2005
 
 
 
"The Liberal Arts at Home and at Work"
Clarke Center Celebrates 10 Years of Public Affairs Programming
The Clarke Center
Dickinson College
November 30, 2004
 
 
 
"Fellows and Fellowships: Supporting Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences"
A German-American Dialogue on the Future of the University
The Institute for German Cultural Studies, Cornell University, and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY, November 13, 2004
 
 
 
"Exotic Asia/Global Asia: Asian Studies in the 21st Century"
Year of Asia, 2004-2005
Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
September 22, 2004
 
 
 
"On Synthetic Technologies: the Book, the University, the Internet"
American Association of University Presses
Vancouver, British Columbia, June 27, 2004
 
 
 
"Revitalizing Humanities: Expanding the Vision of Liberal Education"
American Association of Colleges & Universities
Annual Meeting
Washington, DC, January 23, 2004
 
 
 
"Immodest Proposals"
Remarks prepared for the Committee on Institutional Cooperation
Chicago, IL, December 2, 2003
 
   

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President Pauline Yu

Pauline Yu

Pauline Yu became president of the American Council of Learned Societies in July 2003, having served as dean of humanities in the College of Letters and Science at the University of California, Los Angeles and professor of East Asian languages and cultures from 1994-2003. Read more.




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