| 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 IndiaNote: 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 |
