Fall 2013

September 17 Maria Echaveste, Co-Founder of the Neuva Vista Group, San Francisco; former Advisor and Deputy Chief of Staff to President Bill Clinton

Growing Hispanic Influence? What Happens to Immigration Reform?

October 1 Dr. Michael Kirst, Ph.D, President of the California State Board of Education; also served from 1977-81; Professor Emeritus of Education and Business Administration, Stanford University 

State Policy to Implement Common Core Standards in Education: It Changes Almost Everything

October 15 Philip Yun, J.D., Executive Director and COO, Ploughshares Fund, San Francisco; former Pantech Scholar in Korean Studies at the Walter Shorenstein Asia Pacific Research Center, Stanford University

The North Korea Problem

November 5 Francine Segan, Food Historian, author of seven cookbooks including the latest, Pasta Modern, to be released in October 2013; frequent guest on television’s Food Network

Dolci: Italy’s Sweets

November 19 Bill Coleman,Chairman and CEO, Resilient Network Sytems; Partner, Alsop Louie Partners; a director of Business Executives for National Security; Trustee of Santa Clara University; previously was Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Cassatt, Inc. and Founder, Chairman, and CEO of BEA Systems

The Challenges of Cyber Security: National and Personal

December 3 Alan Hess, Architect, Historian; Architecture Critic for the San Jose Mercury News; author of 19 Books on modern architecture and urbanism in the mid-twentieth century; His latest book on Frank Lloyd Wright was published in October 2012

Historic Sprawl: A History of California Suburbia

January 21 Jill Carroll, Ph.D., Author, former Director of the Boniuk Center for Religious Tolerance at Rice University; Founding Director of the Amazing Faith Project

The Challenges of Religious Tolerance

Lecture dates for the Morning Forum Winter/Spring 2014 series are:

February 4,18; March 4,18; April 1, 15; May 6,20; and June 3.

Winter/Spring 2013

February 5 Kobie Boykins, NASA Engineer

Exploring Mars: Explorers of the Red Planet

February 19 Dr. Michael Warren, Professor Emeritus, English Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz

Shakespeare Four Hundred Years On

March 5 Richard Rhodes, Prize-Winning Author

Hedy Lamarr-Inventor

March 19 Dr. Louise Pascale, Associate Professor and Director of Creative Arts Learning, Lesley University

Can You Stop the Birds from Singing? The Cultural Impact of Music Censorship in Afghanistan

April 2 Karen Tumulty, National Correspondent, The Washington Post

The View from the Washington, D.C. Beltway

April 16 Connie Wolf, Freidenrich Director, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University

Art, Is It Worth It? What Makes Art Valuable?

May 7 Dr. Robert Levenson, Professor of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley

How Our Emotional Lives Mature: Changes and New Strengths

May 21 Janine Zacharia, Carlos Kelly McClatchy Visiting Lecturer, Stanford University

The United States, Israel and the Broader Middle East: Going Beyond the Headlines

June 4 Rex Ziak, Author and Historian

In Full View: The True Story of Lewis and Clark