| September 17 | George Zuidema, Vice Provost for Medical affairs and Professor of Surgery Emeritus, The University of Michigan.
The Changing Face of Medicine in Times of War from the Civil War to 9/11. |
| October 1 | David S. Broder, National correspondent, The Washington Post, commentator on CNN and NBC.
The Political Scene: November and Beyond. |
| October 15 | Luis R. Fraga, Associate Professor & Director of Undergraduate Studies, Dept. of Political Science, Stanford University.
Race, Ethnicity, and the Future of California. |
| November 5 | Richard Reeves, author, syndicated columnist, documentary film maker,Visiting Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication, USC.
Richard Nixon and the Politics of Surprise. |
| November 19 | Robin Goodrin Nordli, Professional actress and 10th season with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.
Understanding Shakespeare’s Women or Bard Babes. |
| December3 | Elizabeth Thompson, Emmy Award-winning Producer/Director Blink: The Making of a Documentary. |
Yearly Archives: 2002
Winter/Spring 2002
| January 3 | Dr. Walter M. Bortz, Clinical associate professor of medicine at Stanford University, co-chairman of the American Medical Association’s Task Force on Aging. Topic: Dare to Be 100: Redefining Human Aging. |
| January 15 | Wendy Wasserstein, Playwright, Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatist. Topic: Reminiscences about my Life in the Theater. |
| January 29 | Haynes Johnson, Journalist, author, television commentator on PBS Washington Week in Review and The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. Newly published book: The Best of Times: America in the Clinton Years. Topic: Challenges of the New Millennium: Where Do We Go From Here? |
| February 19 | Jay A. Levy, M.D., Professor of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, and Research Associate at UCSF’s Cancer Research Institute. 1983 co-discoverer of the AIDS virus now called HIV. Topic: The Economic and Social Impact of HIV/AIDS: How Science Responds to this Devastating Epidemic. |
| March 5 | Orville Schell, Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism, UC Berkeley. Author, China expert, scholar and journalist. Topic: Today’s Media and How It is Affected by the International Crisis. |
| March 19 | Joanne Levy, Historian, researcher of women of the Gold Rush, author. Winner of 1999 and 2001 WILLA award, Best Historical Fiction. Topic: Women Were Forty-Niners. |
| April 2 | Seth Lerer, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Stanford University. Winner of Hoagland Prize for Undergraduate Teaching. Topic: Is Comedy Still Possible? An Historical Perspective. |
| April 16 | Marco Barricelli, Artistic Associate, American Conservatory Theatre.Conservatory actor, director, and teacher. Topic: An Actor’s Life in the American Theatre. |
| May 7 | Scott Kirby, Pianist/composer. Premier ragtime artist and musical director for the two largest Ragtime music festivals in the country. Topic: A Century of Ragtime: Historical and Musical Narrative. |
| May 21 | Paul Erdman, Economist, author. Contributor to New York Times, the Washington Post, London’s Financial Times MarketWatch, and Bloomberg magazine. Topic: The Economy: The Future Looks Bright! |
| June 4 | Walid Kazeeha, Professor of Political Science, American University of Cairo. Specialty: Politics of the Arab East, Egypt, and the Gulf region. Topic: Political and Cultural Role of the Muslim Religion in the Middle East |