Dr. Edward Tick: "War and the Soul: Healing our Veterans, Families, and Communities from the Wounds of War" February 18, 2009 Streaming video
Henry Jenkins: "Talking Snowmen, Moose Stew, and the 3 a.m. Girl: New Media, Popular Culture, and American Politics 2008" November 3, 2008 Streaming video | (Quicktime movie)
Richard Taruskin: "Did Somebody Say Censorship?" May 13, 2008 Streaming video
George Lakoff, linguistics, UC Berkeley and co-founder/senior fellow, Rockridge Institute, spoke on "The Brain and Its Politics" on April 25, 2008.
Stephen Schneider, biology, Stanford Univesity, spoke on "Global Warming: How Do We Manage the Risks?" on March 4, 2008 as the 2007-08 Robert D. Clark Lecturer in the Humanities.
Bill McKibben, the 2007-08 Cressman lecturer, spoke on "Building the Climate Movement" on October 30, 2007.
Bishop John Shelby Spong, the 2005-06 Kritikos Professor in the Humanities, spoke on “Who is the Popular God in Public Life in the 21st Century?” on May 24, 2006.
Richard Thompson Ford, the George Osborne Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, discussed his book Racial Culture: A Critique as the 2005-06 Colin Ruagh Thomas O’Fallon Lecturer in Law and American Culture on April 11, 2006.
Loretta Napoleoni, economist and journalist, spoke on her book Terror Inc.: Tracing the Dollars Behind the Terror Network on May 16, 2005.
Louis Menand, critic and author of The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America, spoke about Andy Warhol’s 1962 exhibit of paintings of Campbell’s soup cans and the role it played the intellectual history of the Cold War era on May 12, 2005.
Gary Moulton, the 2004-05 Luther S. and Dorothy Cecilia Cressman Lecturer in the Humanities and Thomas C. Sorenson Professor of American History Emeritus at the University of Nebraska and editor of The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, spoke on “Lewis and Clark’s New Look” on November 4, 2004.
Witnessing Genocide Symposium
Ethics After the Holocaust Conference, May 5-8, 1996