Liz Cheney
March 27, 2024
Heather McGhee
Inaugural Bucksbaum Lectureship in Business
November 1, 2023
Bob Woodward
April 4, 2023
Marie Yovanovitch
October 27, 2022
Jon Meacham
April 6, 2022
Megan Rapinoe
November 19, 2019
Lisa Ling
April 11, 2019
Douglas Brinkley
November 14, 2017
Billy Collins & Clint Smith
March 27, 2017
Krista Tippett
November 15, 2016
Bill Nye the Science Guy
April 14, 2016
Peter Neufeld
October 27, 2015
Nina Totenberg
March 12, 2015
Tim Gunn
Sept. 17, 2014
Walter Isaacson
Nov. 21, 2013
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Oct. 29, 2013
James Balog
April 3, 2013
Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter
Sept. 13, 2012
Twyla Tharp
"An Evening with Twyla Tharp"
April 4, 2011
Azar Nafisi
"The Republic of the Imagination"
October 27, 2010
Dr. Maya Angelou
"An Evening with Maya Angelou"
October 8, 2009
Bill Bryson
"You can go Home Again"
April 2, 2009
Thomas R. Pickering
October 10, 2008
Erik Peterson
April 9, 2008
Nicholas Kristof
September 25, 2007
Bob Costas
April 19, 2007
Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield
“An Evening of Social Responsibility, Radical Business Philosophy and Free Dessert for All”
October 3, 2006
David Chipperfield
April 6, 2006
Dr. Jane Goodall
“Reasons for Hope ”
September 22, 2005
Tim Russert
“Washington From the Inside Out”
April 26, 2005
Sarah Jones
"Waking the American Dream"
October 6, 2004
Salman Rushdie
"Step Across This Line"
March 30, 2004
Wynton Marsalis
"Leadership: The Creative Process" & Concert
October 22, 2003
Michael Beschloss
"Democracy in a Time of Crisis”
April 15, 2003
Earvin 'Magic' Johnson
"A Perspective on Living with HIV"
December 3, 2002
Ken Burns
"American Lives: Mark Twain, Frank Lloyd Wright and More"
April 10, 2002
Bill Moyers
"The Aftermath of September 11"
Joined by Martin E. Marty, Moderated by James A. Autry.
November 12, 2001
Martin Marty & Archbishop Rembert Weakland
"The Situation of Pluralism: Catholic Faith, Other Christian Faiths, and the Faith of Non-Christians"
March 28, 2001
Marian Wright Edelman
"By What Shall We Live?"
March 8, 2000
Senator Paul Simon
"Changing Places: Higher Education's Changing Responsibilities at the Turn of the Millennium"
October 19, 1999
Doris Kearns Goodwin
"The Moral Authority of the Presidency"
March 17, 1999
David McCullough
"History as a Source of Strength"
March 18, 1998
Ben Bradlee
"The Newspaper Business, Then and Now"
October 13, 1997
Thomas Friedman
March 12, 1997
