Previous Lectures

Thomas R. Pickering

October 10, 2008

Erik Peterson

April 9, 2008

Nocholas Kristof

September 25, 2007

Bob Costas

April 19, 2007

Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield

“An Evening of Social Responsibility, Radical Business Philosophy and Free Dessert for All”

October 3, 2006

David Chipperfield

April 6, 2006

Dr. Jane Goodall

“Reasons for Hope ”

September 22, 2005

Tim Russert

“Washington From the Inside Out”

April 26, 2005

Sarah Jones

"Waking the American Dream"

October 6, 2004

Salman Rushdie

"Step Across This Line"

March 30, 2004

Wynton Marsalis

"Leadership: The Creative Process" & Concert

October 22, 2003

Michael Beschloss

"Democracy in a Time of Crisis”

April 15, 2003

Bill Bryson

"You can go Home Again"

April 2, 2009

Earvin 'Magic' Johnson

"A Perspective on Living with HIV"

December 3, 2002

Ken Burns

"American Lives: Mark Twain, Frank Lloyd Wright and More"

April 10, 2002

Bill Moyers

"The Aftermath of September 11"

Joined by Martin E. Marty, Moderated by James A. Autry.

November 12, 2001

Martin Marty & Archbishop Rembert Weakland

"The Situation of Pluralism: Catholic Faith, Other Christian Faiths, and the Faith of Non-Christians"

March 28, 2001

Marian Wright Edelman

"By What Shall We Live?"

March 8, 2000

Senator Paul Simon

"Changing Places: Higher Education's Changing Responsibilities at the Turn of the Millennium"

October 19, 1999

Doris Kearns Goodwin

"The Moral Authority of the Presidency"

March 17, 1999

David McCullough

"History as a Source of Strength"

March 18, 1998

Ben Bradlee

"The Newspaper Business, Then and Now"

October 13, 1997

Thomas Friedman

March 12, 1997