Past Bryan Professors

The Bryan Distinguished Visiting Professorship in the Arts, Humanities and Public Affairs was established in 1996 by a gift from Guilford College trustee Joseph M. Bryan Jr. '60 and the former Kathleen Price Bryan Family Fund. The professorship has enabled Guilford students, faculty and staff and residents of the greater community to hear lectures by national and international leaders, renowned authors and other distinguished individuals.

2007-08  
Turner Gossett and Seymour Kathleen Turner, Louis Gossett Jr. and Jane Seymour

Sept. 18, 7:30 p.m.

Allende Isabel Allende

Nov. 13, 7:30 p.m.

JC Watts J.C. Watts

Feb. 26, 7:30 p.m.

Bob Woodward Bob Woodward

April 13 , 3:30 p.m.

2006-07 Exploring Our Common Humanity
Mary Robinson Mary Robinson

Sept. 21, 7:30 p.m., Making Human Rights the Compass for All Ethical Globalization

David McCullough David McCullough

Nov. 2, 7:30 p.m., Reflections on 1776 and Nathanel Greene

Toni Morrison Toni Morrison

March 13, 7:30 p.m., Off the Page: Literature and the Imaginative Intellect

2005-06 Spirit and Spirituality
Karen Armstrong

Sept. 27, 8 p.m., The Spiral Staircase

Desmond Tutu

Nov. 3, 8 p.m., Reconciling Love: A Millennium Mandate

Bill Moyers

March 13, 8 p.m., Moyers on America: Religion and the Environment

2004-05 Challenges Facing Democracy
Cokie Roberts

Oct. 1, 8 p.m., Women Shaping Democracy

Mikhail Gorbachev

Oct. 6, 8 p.m., Global Leadership

Mary Pipher

Oct. 26, 8 p.m., The Middle of Everywhere

Pipher's appearance was in conjunction with the One City, One Book project sponsored by the Friends of the Greensboro Public Library.

Michael Beschloss

Feb. 10, 8 p.m., Presidential Leadership in Our Democracy

Spring 2004
George J. Mitchell

Feb. 19, 8 p.m., Making Peace: Changes and Challenges

Fall 2003 Arts and the Human Experience
Dr. Sherwin Nuland

Sept. 9, 8 p.m., The Artist Looks at the Doctor: 500 Years of Observation

Edward Albee

Oct. 1, 7 p.m., The State of Theatre and the Arts in America

Oct. 2, 7 p.m., An Evening with Edward Albee: Improvisation and the Creative Mind

Ken Burns

Nov. 6, 8 p.m., American Trilogy

Sidney Poitier

Dec. 2, 7 p.m., The Oneness of the Human Family

2002-03
Ernest Gaines

Nov. 14, 2002, An Evening with Award-winning author Ernest Gaines

Gaines' visit was a part of Greensboro's One City One Book read of A Lesson Before Dying.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

March 20, 2003, Our Environmental Destiny

2001-02 Human Rights and Cross-cultural Perspectives
Madeleine Albright

Nov. 1, 2001

Oscar Arias and Ralph Nader

March 21, 2002

A debate on the issues of globalization featuring Arias and Nader

2000-01 The American Presidency
Doris Kearns Goodwin

Oct. 12, 2000, Shared Memories

Jack Miles

Nov. 2, 2000, Politics and the Bible

Bill Bradley

Nov. 9, 2000, America: The Path Ahead

1999-2000
Colin Powell

Dec. 10, 1999, An Evening with General Colin Powell

1996

Thomas Friedman

Sept. 17, 1996

Funds from the professorship also supported the commencement address by children's rights advocate Marian Wright Edelman in May 1994 and visits by astrophysicist and Hayden Planetarium director Neil Tyson in October 2000 and playwright Tony Kushner in February 2001.