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 | |
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Kathleen Turner, Louis Gossett Jr. and Jane Seymour
Sept. 18, 7:30 p.m. |
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Isabel Allende
Nov. 13, 7:30 p.m. |
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J.C. Watts
Feb. 26, 7:30 p.m. |
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Bob Woodward
April 13 , 3:30 p.m. |
| 2006-07 | Exploring Our Common Humanity |
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Mary Robinson Sept. 21, 7:30 p.m., Making Human Rights the Compass for All Ethical Globalization |
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David McCullough
Nov. 2, 7:30 p.m., Reflections on 1776 and Nathanel Greene |
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Toni Morrison March 13, 7:30 p.m., Off the Page: Literature and the Imaginative Intellect |
| 2005-06 | Spirit and Spirituality |
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Karen Armstrong
Sept. 27, 8 p.m., The Spiral Staircase |
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Desmond Tutu
Nov. 3, 8 p.m., Reconciling Love: A Millennium Mandate |
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Bill Moyers
March 13, 8 p.m., Moyers on America: Religion and the Environment |
| 2004-05 | Challenges Facing Democracy |
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Cokie Roberts
Oct. 1, 8 p.m., Women Shaping Democracy |
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Mikhail Gorbachev
Oct. 6, 8 p.m., Global Leadership |
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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. |
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Michael Beschloss
Feb. 10, 8 p.m., Presidential Leadership in Our Democracy |
| Spring 2004 | |
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George J. Mitchell
Feb. 19, 8 p.m., Making Peace: Changes and Challenges |
| Fall 2003 | Arts and the Human Experience |
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Dr. Sherwin Nuland
Sept. 9, 8 p.m., The Artist Looks at the Doctor: 500 Years of Observation |
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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 |
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Ken Burns
Nov. 6, 8 p.m., American Trilogy |
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Sidney Poitier
Dec. 2, 7 p.m., The Oneness of the Human Family |
| 2002-03 | |
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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. |
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
March 20, 2003, Our Environmental Destiny |
| 2001-02 | Human Rights and Cross-cultural Perspectives |
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Madeleine Albright
Nov. 1, 2001 |
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Oscar Arias and Ralph Nader
March 21, 2002 A debate on the issues of globalization featuring Arias and Nader |
| 2000-01 | The American Presidency |
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Doris Kearns Goodwin
Oct. 12, 2000, Shared Memories |
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Jack Miles
Nov. 2, 2000, Politics and the Bible |
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Bill Bradley
Nov. 9, 2000, America: The Path Ahead |
| 1999-2000 | |
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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.