Fall 2003

September 16 Barbara Ehrenreich,
Author of Blood Rites; The Worst Years of Our Lives. A frequent contributor to Time, The New Republic and The New York Times Magazine.

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America.

October 7 Bruce Neckers,
Trial attorney, Immediate past President of the State Bar Of Michigan and a Fellow in the American College of Trial Layers and The International Society of Barristers.

Civil Liberties in a Time of National Crisis.

October 21 Dr. Philip Lee,
Senior Scholar at the Institute for Health Policy Studies and Professor Emeritus of Social Medicine, Department of Medicine, U.C.S.F. Assistant Secretary for Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

The Future of Health Care: Will physicians change and embrace e-technology or continue in their current pattern?

November 4 Kirk Hansen,
Executive Director of the Mark Kula Center for Applied Ethics at the University of Santa Clara; Senior Lecturer in Business Administration at Stanford.

Reversing the Ethical Crisis in America.

November 18 Robert Kline,
Executive Vice President of 20th Century Fox Television, Co-founder of Lifetime Television and Producer of 22 films. Professor of Film and media at the University of Southern California.

Film, Film, Film.

December 2 Patrick Hatcher,
Retired historian from U.C. Berkley and now with the Center for the Pacific Rim, University of San Francisco. He is a narrator for film and television.

A Russian Birthday: St. Petersburg at 300.

January 6 Mark Bollwinkel,
Senior Pastor of Los Altos Methodist Church and an active professional potter. He has demonstrated and exhibited his art throughout the Bay Area.

Breaking the Mold: Existential Influences in 20th Century Ceramic Art and our Culture.

January 20 Bruce Cain,
Robson Professor of Political Science, U.C. Berkley and Director of the Institute of Governmental Studies.

What does the year 2004 hold for our state and the nation?

Winter/Spring 2003

January 7 Philip A. Taylor, Senior Writer, Sports Illustrated

Sports: Pushing the Limits — Steroids, Drugs, $$ and Celebrity.

January 14 H. Craig Heller,
Lokey/Business Wire Professor, Dept. of Biological Sciences,Stanford University.

Technology in Sports: Pushing the Limits of Human Performance.

January 21 Peter Tarnoff,
President, International Advisory Corporation. Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs, 1993-1997. Former President of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Topic:International Hot Spots around the World.

February 4 Joanna Berman,
Former SF Ballet principal dancer. Current rehearsal assistant with the Ballet.

A Dancer’s Journey.

February 20 Jon Nakamatsu,
Concert Pianist in US and Abroad. Gold Medallist of the 1997 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition.

Getting to Know Jon Nakamatsu: My Life and My Music.

March 4 Christopher F. Chyba,
Co-Director of the Stanford Center for International Security and Cooperation, and Associate Professor (Research) in the Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences

Biological Terrorism: New Threats for a New Century.

March 18 Kavita Ramdas,
President and CEO, Global Fund for Women. Former program officer at the MacArthur Foundation, Chicago.

Making Change that Lasts: Women’s Movements around the Globe.

April 1 J. Rufus Fears,
Professor of Classics, University of Oklahoma. Holds the G.T. & Libby Blankenship Chair in the History of Liberty.

The History of Freedom.

April 15 Word for Word,
Performing Arts Company, which stages short works of literature in their entirety.

Short Stories by Sandra Cisneros

May 6 Ken Jowitt,
Pres and Maurine Hotchkis Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Robson Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley.

TBD. Either war related or analysis of American foreign policy/types of anti-Western ideologies/challenges to American and Western institutions.

May 20 Laura Strohrn,
International Environmental Policy, Monterey Institute of International Studies.

Trade and Environment: Friends or Enemies?

June 3 Delaine Eastin,

Crisis in California Public Schools.