Lionel Trilling Seminars

The Lionel Trilling Seminars are a series of three seminars delivered each academic year on areas of study ranging from literature and society, art and politics, psychoanalysis and culture, to education. Each seminar features a prominent scholar in a given field delivering a talk and two respondents.

The seminars were established in 1976 in memory Professor Lionel Trilling, and are on areas of study in which he was active.

The seminars have been sponsored at various times by Columbia College, the Heyman Center, and supported by gifts from Prof. William Theodore de Bary and his wife, Daniel and Joanna Rose, and William H. and Weslie R. Janeway.