Fall/Winter 2018-2019

September 18 Janine Zacharia, Carlos Kelly McClatchy Lecturer, Stanford Department of Communication, former Jerusalem Bureau Chief for the Washington Post

The Era of Noise: From Fake News to the Future of Journalism

October 2 Chris Bliss, Tonight Show comedian, TED speaker, and Bill of Rights advocate

Comedy is Translation

October 16 Allison Hobbs, Associate History Professor and Director of African and African American Studies at Stanford University

A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life

November 6 Joseph Luzzi, Author and Professor of Comparative Literature at Bard College

The Presidential Library: Books That Shaped Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Roosevelt, and Other Commanders-in-Chief

November 20 Thomas Sanger, Author and Journalist

The Athena Story: The Forgotten Tale of a Passenger Ship Torpedoed on the First Day of WWII

December 4 Gregory Boyle, Founder, Homeboy Industries, the largest gang-intervention, rehabilitation. and re-entry program in the world

Lessons from the Field: Kinship as an Intervention

January 15 Laura Ling, Award-winning journalist and co-author of Somewhere Inside: One Sister’s Captivity in North Korea and the Other’s Fight to Bring Her Home

Journey of Hope

Winter/Spring 2018

February 6 Robert Lustig M.D., M.S.L., Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics, Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of California, San Francisco

The Hacking of the American Mind

February 20 Katherine Jolluck, Senior Lecturer in the Department of History, Stanford University

Enslavement in the 21st Century: From Labor and Sex to Organ Harvesting and Petty Crime

March 6 Blye Faust, Academy Award-winning producer of Spotlight

Truth in Storytelling: Bringing Real Events to Life Onscreen

March 20 Chuck Underwood, Founder and principal of Ohio-based generational consultancy The Generational Imperative, Inc.

Five Generations. One America

April 3 Elizabeth Cobbs, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution; Melbern Glasscock Chair at Texas A&M; author of The Hello Girls

“The Hello Girls”: World War One and America’s First Women Soldiers

April 17 Jim McClintock, Endowed University Professor of Polar and Marine Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham

From Penguins to Plankton: The Dramatic Impacts of Climate Change on the Antarctic Peninsula

May 1 Larry Gerston, Political Science Professor Emeritus, San Jose State University; political analyst on NBC Bay Area

The Trump Election in Perspective: A Turning Point in American Politics

May 22 Robert Hartwell, Professor of Music and Media Studies, Foothill College

Mozart and Mythology

June 5 Robin Wright, War correspondent, best-selling author; joint fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Global Hotspots: Where’s the Next War?