In late 2013, Lynne Huffer gave another occasional Beamer-Schneider Lecture on her book Are the Lips a Grave? вЂ“simultaneously a lecture in queer theory and in feminist theory joined by an autobiographical story. In 2019, Neiman recognized this lecture as the start of her work, Learning From the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil. Neiman also participated in an upper level ethics seminar on Kant and the banality of evil which had read her Evil in Modern Thought.

Her workshop the following day was on her novel, Time Heals, tracing the lives of nine people вЂ“ including writers and barkeepers, bureaucrats and punks, Germans and Jews вЂ“ as they were affected by the consequences of World War II in postwar Berlin. Neiman reflected on how Americans can begin to think about forging an identity in the face of our own torturous past. In American culture, such confrontations are rare. Her lecture, вЂњLearning from the Germans: Tarantino, Spielberg, and American Crimes,вЂќ examined how 60 years of German attempts to deal with its Nazi past produced a template for confronting national evils. Susan Neiman, director of the Einstein Forum in Berlin, gave the second biennial Beamer-Schneider Lecture in Ethics, Morals and Civics in April, 2013. Susan Neiman says that we should learn from the Germans when working through American history, 2013 He also met with the seminars, The Literary Mind: A Challenge to Philosophy and Poetry as Philosophy with Professor Sarah Gridley. In 2012, an occasional Beamer-Schneider Lecture was given by Alex Shakar who spoke about irony that defeats nihilism and his novel Luminarium. Professor Critchley also worked with the SAGES class vocation & Life which had read his 2006 book Infinitely Demanding. His workshop, given the day before, was on ApollinaireвЂ™s great poem вЂњZoneвЂќ and examined the intersection of the personal and the political in ApollinaireвЂ™s apparent autobiography of a despondent city-dweller of Paris in the first decades of the 20th century.

His lecture was called вЂњThe Powerless Power of the Call of ConscienceвЂќ and ranged between anarchic politics, social conscience, and the capacity of schools to problematize authority. The inaugural lecture was given in April of 2011 by Simon Critchley of the New School University in New York City. Protesting high schoolers in Rouen, France, April 1989

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