Fall 2014

September 16 Martha Raddatz, ABC News Senior Global Affairs Correspondent

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October 7 Hon. Karl Eikenberry, Former US Ambassador to Afghanistan and Lt. General, US Army; William J. Perry Fellow in International Security, Center for International Security and Cooperation; and faculty member, Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, Stanford University

The End of America’s Long War in Afghanistan and Pakistan: Challenges and Opportunities

October 21 David Welch PhD, President, Infinera; Founder, Students Matter

Vergara v California: for a basically equal opportunity to a quality education

November 4 Susan Shillinglaw, PhD., Professor of English, San Jose State University; Scholar-in-Residence at the National Steinbeck Center in Salinas; Author

75th Anniversary of “Grapes of Wrath”

November 18 Temple Grandin, PhD, Professor of Animal Science, Colorado State University; Author; Autism Activist; Consultant to livestock industry

The Way I See It: A Personal Look at Autism & Asperger’s

December 2 Annie Griffiths, Photographer; Author

Connect with Anybody, Anywhere: on the road with National Geographic

January 20 Betty Ann Boeving, MA, International Policy Studies, Stanford University, specializing in International Conflict Resolution; Founder, Executive Director, Bay Area Anti-Trafficking Coalition

Get in the Game: Anti-Human Trafficking

Winter/Spring 2014

 

February 4 Christy Hanson, MPH, PhD, Hubert H. Humphrey Professor in International Studies, MacAlester College; Chief of Infectious Diseases Division for the Office of Health, Infectious Diseases and Nutrition at the US AID

The Greatest Story Never Told: Global Public Health Investments Are Paying Off

February 18 Glen Fukushima, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress; former Vice President of AirBus SAS; Chairman and Director, AirBus Japan KK

Japan’s Economies: Prospects and Pitfalls

March 4 Scott Summit, , Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Bespoke Innovacatons

How 3D Printing is Changing the World

March 18 Robert Wittman, Former FBI Special Agent; Founder, FBI Art Crime Team

True Tales from the FBI’s Real Indiana Jones

April 1 Neal Benezra, Director, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

SFMOMA on the Go

April 15 G. Willow Wilson, Author, Essayist

The Butterfly Mosque: Women in Islam; a Memoir about Life in Egypt

May 6 Robert Kuhn, Associate Director, UC Santa Cruz Genome Browser, Jack Baskin School of Engineering  Coalition

The Human Genome – What We Know and What We Want to Know

June 3 Tom Djelton, Global and Economic Correspondent for NPR

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