PREVIOUS LECTURERS

Peter H. Raven
    Director of the Missouri Botanical Garden Home Secretary National Academy of Sciences
        "Poverty, Politics, & Extinction in the Tropics--And Their Impact on Us"

Robert Coles
    Professor of Psychiatry and Medical Humanities, Harvard University
        "The Moral Life of the Young"

Wendy Wasserstein
    Pulitzer Prize-Winning playwright
        "A Life in the Theatre"

1990-1991

Toni Morrison
    Robert F. Goheen Professor of Humanities, Princeton University
        "Studies in American Africanism: Gertrude Stein and the Difference She Makes"

Árpád Göncz
    President of the Republic of Hungary
        "Politics and Literature: Politics in Literature"

Paul R. Ehrlich
    Bing Professor of Population Studies, Stanford University
        "Human Population Growth and the Deterioration of the Environment"

Drucilla L. Cornell
    Professor of Law, Benjamin N. Cardoza School of Law
        "Sex, Gender, and Equivalent Rights"

Michael Dorris and Louise Erdrich
    Award-Winning writers
        "Beyond Cliche', Beyond Politics: Multiculturalism and the Fact of America"

Arthur L. Schawlow
    J.G. Jackson and C.J. Wood Professor of Physics at Stanford University
        "What Lasers Can Do"

Gary L. Francione
    Professor of Law at Rutgers Law School-Newark
        "Animals, Property, and the Law"

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
    W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities, Professor of English, and Director of Afro-American 
    Studies Harvard
        "The End of Civilization as We Know It"

Robert Schrieffer
    University Professor of Physics, Florida State University
        "Superconductivity for Poets: From Quantum Physics to Tomorrow's Technology"

Walter E. Massey
    Provost and Senior Vice President-- Academic Affairs, The University of California
        "Research Universities in the Post-Cold War Era: How much change is necessary? Possible?"

Matt Williams
    Playwright, Film and Television Writer, Director, and Producer
        "The Responsibility of the Storyteller"

N. Scott Momaday
    Regents Professor of the Humanities, University of Arizona
        "The Mystery of Language: Native American Oral Tradition"

Daniel Schorr
    A veteran reporter and commentator, the last of Edward R. Murrow's
     ledgedary CBS team still fully active in journalism.
        "Forgive Us Our Press Passes: Why all the Media Bashing"

Larry L. Smarr
    Director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the
     University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
        "The Creation of Cyberspace: How the Internet will Change your Life"

Czeslaw Milosz and Wole Soyinka
    Nobel Laureates of Literature
        A Reading from their works.

Jill Ker Conway
    Visiting Scholar, Program in Science, Technology and Society
     Massachusetts Institute of Technology
        "Myths, Memoirs and the Modern Consciousness"

Paul Berg
    Department of Biochemistry, Stanford School of Medicine
        "Understanding our Genes: Opportunities and Concerns"

Martin E. P. Seligman
    Kogod Professor and Director of Clinical Training in Psychology
     University of Pennsylvania
        "Learned Optimism: Preventing Depression, Boosting Achievement, Improving Health"

Tony Kushner
    Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-Winning Playwright
        "Arts in the Current Political Climate"

Ellis Cose
    Author on Race Relations in America and contributing editor for Newsweek
      "America’s Quest to Move Beyond Race"

Deborah Leigh Blum
    Author and science writer at The Sacramento (Calif) Bee, won the Pulitzer Prize for beat reporting
     in 1992-92 for a series on primate research titled "The Monkey Wars".
        "Sex on the Brain"

Mary L. Good
    Former undersecretary for technology for the technology administration in the U. S. Department
     of Commerce, is managing member of Venture Capital Investors, Little Rock, Arkansas.
        "Higher Education as Part of the Global Enterprise"

Roald Hoffman
    Nobel Prize winner, chemist, and poet, professor of chemistry at Cornell University Ithaca, New York
        "Chemistry’s Essential Tension: The Same and Not the Same"

Martin Marty
    Pre-eminent Scholar on American Religion, and Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor
     of History of Christianity at the University of Chicago
        "The Dangers of Religion in America-The Dangers on NonReligion in America"

Alex Kotlowitz
    An award-winning writer and speaker.
        "Writing on the Other America: Is Anybody Listening? Does Anybody Care?"

David Kessler, M. D.
    Dean of the Yale School of Medicine
        "The Tobacco Wars"

Barbara Fields
    Historian, Columbia University

1999-2000

Freeman Dyson
    Eminent Physicist-philosopher and author, Princeton University                            
        "Gravity is Cool: or, Why our Universe is Hospitable to Life"

Arthur Levine
    President and Professor of Education at Teachers College, Columbia
        "The Remaking of the American University"

Rita Dove
    Former Poet Laureate of the United States
    Commonwealth Professor of English at the University of Virginia
        A Poetry Reading by Rita Dove

2000-2001 Lecture Series

Jared M. Diamond                                                                                                         
    Professor of Physiology, UCLA School of Medicine
         "Why Did Human History Unfold Differently on Different Continents for the last 13,000 Years?"

Howard H. Baker, Jr.                                                                                                     
    Former U.S. Senator from Tennessee
        "What's Happening?"

Mary-Claire King                                                                                                          
    American Cancer Society Research Professor
    Department of Medicine and Genetics, University of Washington
        TOPIC: Genetics and Human Rights

2001-2002 Lecture Series

Lynn Margulis
    Distinguished Professor in the Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts
        "The Face of Gaia: Earth's Microcosm"

James M. McPherson
    Professor, Department of History, Princeton University
        "The Problem of Peace in the Midst of War, 1863-1865"

William Cronon
    Professor of History, Geography, and Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
        "Humanist Environmentalism: A Manifesto"

2002-2003 Lecture Series

Linda Gordon                                                                                                                
   Florence Kelley Professor of History and Vilas Research Professor, Emeritus, 
   University of Wisconsin; and, Professor of History, New York University
        "Vigilantism and Childnapping in the Arizona Territory: Race and Family Values"

Roger W. Ferguson, Jr.                                                                                                  
    Vice Chairman, Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System
         "One View from the Federal Reserve"

Edward O. Wilson                                                                                                          
    University Research Professor, Emeritus, Harvard University
         "The Future of Life"