Past Speakers

2009-10: The American Experience
Trudeau with a student
Yo-Yo Ma playing Paul Krugman    

"Doonesbury in a Time of War"

October 7

Yo-Yo Ma

"Creating a Life with Music"

October 26

Paul Krugman

"Confronting Global Economic Challenges"

November 3

   

 

2008-09: Thinking Globally
Khaled Hosseini
Amanpour and Rubin
Salman Rushdie
Anthony Bourdain
Anna Quindlen

Khaled Hosseini

October 24

Christiane Amanpour

James Rubin

"America and

the World"

November 18

Sir Salman Rushdie

"Literature and Politics in the Modern World"

February 10

Anthony Bourdain

February 19

Anna Quindlen

"Choices and Changes"

April 14

 

2007-08

Turner, Gossett and Seymour
Allende
Watts
Woodward

Kathleen Turner

Louis Gossett Jr.

Jane Seymour

"Leveraging Star Power

for Social Change"

September 18

Isabel Allende

November 13

J.C. Watts

"Leadership Lessons"

February 26

Bob Woodward

April 13

 

2006-07: Exploring Our Common Humanity
Mary Robinson
David McCullough
Toni Morrison

Mary Robinson

"Making Human Rights the Compass for

All Ethical Globalization"

September 21

David McCullough

"Reflections on 1776

and Nathanael Greene"

November 2

Toni Morrison

"Off the Page: Literature and

the Imaginative Intellect"

March 13

 

2005-06: Spirit and Spirituality
Karen Armstrong
Desmond Tutu
Bill Moyers

Karen Armstrong

"The Spiral Staircase"

September 27

Desmond Tutu

"Reconciling Love: A Millennium Mandate"

November 3

Bill Moyers

"Moyers on America: Religion and the Environment"

March 13

 

2004-05: Challenges Facing Democracy
Cokie Roberts
Mikhail Gorbachev
Mary Pipher
Michael Beschloss

Cokie Roberts

"Women Shaping Democracy"

October 1

Mikhail Gorbachev

"Global Leadership"

October 6

Mary Pipher

"The Middle of Everywhere"

October 26

Michael Beschloss

"Presidential Leadership in

Our Democracy"

February 10

 

2003-04: Arts and the Human Experience
Sherwin Nuland
Edward Albee
Ken Burns
Sidney Poitier
George Mitchell

Dr. Sherwin Nuland

"The Artist Looks at the Doctor:

500 Years of Observation"

September 9

Edward Albee

"The State of Theatre and the Arts in America"

October 1

"Improvisation and the Creative Mind"

October 2

Ken Burns

"American Trilogy"

November 6

Sidney Poitier

"The Oneness

of the

Human Family"

December 2

George J. Mitchell

"Making Peace: Changes and Challenges"

February 19

 

2002-03
Ernest Gaines
Robert F. Kennedy

Ernest Gaines

November 14

Robert F.

Kennedy Jr.

"Our Environmental Destiny"

March 20

 

2001-02: Human Rights and Cross-cultural Perspectives
Madeleine Albright
Oscar Arias Ralph Nader

Madeleine Albright

November 1

Oscar Arias

Ralph Nader

March 21

 

2000-01: The American Presidency
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Jack Miles
Bill Bradley

Doris Kearns Goodwin

"Shared Memories"

October 12

Jack Miles

"Politics and

the Bible"

November 2

Bill Bradley

"America: The Path Ahead"

November 9

 

1999-00
Colin Powell

Colin Powell

December 10

 

1996

Thomas Friedman

September 17