| January 8 | Richard Lyman, Ph.D., Professor of Humanities, Director of Institute for International Studies, President Emeritus, Stanford University. How New a World?: Finding Perspective in an Era of Rapid Change. |
| January 22 | David Kennedy, Ph.D., William Robertson Coe Professor of History & American Studies, Stanford University. Can We Still Afford to be a Nation of Immigrants. |
| February 5 | Don Fehrenbacker, Ph.D., Coe Professor Emeritus of History, Stanford University Lincoln & the Literary Figures of His Time. |
| February 19 | Kathleen Cohen, Ph.D., Professor of Art History, San Jose State University
Images of the Goddess in Art & Their Meaning for Contemporary Women. |
| March 5 | Valeria Andreevna Kukharenko, Ph.D., Professor, Odessa University Women in the Soviet Union. |
| March 19 | Tony Haney, Director
Danny Duncan, Author, Theatreworks Go Down Garvey; Creating a New American Musical. |
| April 2 | Alan Heimert, Ph.D., Cabot Professor of American Literature, Harvard University A Brief History of Universities. |
| April 16 | Sue Bender, Author and Quilter Plain & Simple: A Woman’s Journey to the Amish. |
| May 7 | Timothy Taylor, Managing Editor, Journal of Economic Perspectives The California Lottery. |
| May 21 | Joel Beinin, Ph.D., Associate Professor History, Stanford University Prospects for Peace in the Middle East. |
| June 4 | Daniel Schorr, Reporter-Commentator America: Groping in the 1990’s. |
