Fall 2011

September 20 Anne Thompson, NBC Environmental Affairs Correspondent

From 9/11 to Environmental Disasters: Our World at Risk

October 4 Abbas Milani, Ph.D., Director of Iranian Studies, Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University

Democracy in Iran: Prospects and Problems

October 18 Seth Shostak, PhD, Senior Astronomer, SETI Institute

When Will We Find Extraterrestrial Life?

November 1 Elliot Krane M.D., Professor of Anesthesia and Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine; Director of Pain Medicine at the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital

Pain: A Symptom, A Disease, A Misery

November 15 Charles Bamforth, PhD., Professor of Food Science and Technology, University of California, Davis

Grape Versus Grain

December 6 Olivier Bernier, Historian, Lecturer, Author

Palaces of the Gods: the Glory of South India

Note: Ten o’ clock  Morning Forum Business Meeting

January 3 Alexander Field, PhD., Michel and Mary Orradre Professor of Economics, Santa Clara University

A Great Leap Forward: 1930s Depression and U.S. Economic Growth

January 17 Gerald F. Uelmen, J.D., Professor of Law, Santa Clara University School of Law

Proposals to Put California’s Death Penalty Law on the Ballot for November, 2012

Winter/Spring 2011

February 1 Mary Felstiner, PhD, Professor Emerita of History, San Francisco State University; Visiting Professor, Stanford University

Painting a Life! Charlotte Salomon in the Nazi Era

February 15 Tobias Wolff, Author, Ward W. and Priscilla B. Woods Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University

A Life in Words

March 1 David Whitman, Executive Director, Signature Programs, The Tech Museum of San Jose

The Tech Awards: Technology Benefiting Humanity

March 15 Kavita Ramdas, Senior Advisor, Former President and Chief Executive Officer, Global Fund for Women

It Ain’t What You Do, It’s the Way That You Do It

April 5 Kevin (KAL) Kallaugher, Editorial Cartoonist

Editorial Cartoons, Satire, and Freedom of Expression

April 19 Ceci Connolly, Senior Advisor, McKinsey Center for Health System Reform

Health Care in the Post-Reform Era – What it Means for You

May 3 Jonathan Turley, Legal Scholar, Professor, The George Washington School of Law

The Supreme Court

May 17 Martin Jay, PhD, Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley

The Virtues of Mendacity: On Lying in Politics

June 7 Isabel Wilkerson, Journalist, International Affairs Expert

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration