Talks by President Emeritus Pauline Yu
Report to the Council (pdf)
2019 ACLS Annual Meeting
New York, NY, April 26, 2019
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Report to the Council (pdf)
2018 ACLS Annual Meeting
Philadelphia, PA, April 27, 2018
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Report to the Council (pdf)
2017 ACLS Annual Meeting
Baltimore, MD, May 12, 2017
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Commencement Address
Indiana University Bloomington
May 5, 2017
Report to the Council (pdf)
2016 ACLS Annual Meeting
Arlington, VA, May 6, 2016
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Introductory Remarks
Buddhist Studies Today
Symposium celebrating the first Dissertation Fellows of The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Program in Buddhist Studies
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, July 7, 2015
Report to the Council (pdf)
2015 ACLS Annual Meeting
Philadelphia, PA, May 8, 2015
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Report to the Council (pdf)
2014 ACLS Annual Meeting
Philadelphia, PA, May 9, 2014
See video
Report to the Council (pdf)
2013 ACLS Annual Meeting
Baltimore, MD, May 11, 2013
The Humanities, Without Apologies
Drescher Center for the Humanities
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
September 19, 2012
Your Life of Learning
Commencement Address
Elizabethtown College
May 19, 2012
Report to the Council (pdf)
2012 ACLS Annual Meeting
Philadelphia, PA, May 11, 2012
Report to the Council (pdf)
2011 ACLS Annual Meeting
Washington, DC, May 6, 2011
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 (pdf)
2010 ACLS Annual Meeting
Philadelphia, PA, May 7, 2010
Report to the Council (pdf)
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 (pdf)
Washington, DC, April 23, 2009
Conferral of Honorary Degree and Address
Bates College Commencement
May 26, 2008
Report to the Council (pdf)
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
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
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
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