Fall/Winter 2017/2018

September 19 Adam Johnson, Phil and Penny Knight Professor of Creative Writing, Stanford University

Imagining North Korea

October 3 Robert Wittman, Former F.B.I. special agent; founder of the F.B.I. Art Crime Team

THE DEVIL’S DIARY: Alfred Rosenberg and the Stolen Secrets of the Third Reich

October 17 Denise Erickson, Professor of Art History, Canada College; lecturer at the Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University

Americans in Paris: Impressionism and the American Experience

November 7 Joel Pett, Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist

Real Cartoons in the Age of Fake News

November 21 Jessica Yu, Author; Academy Award-winning filmmaker

Sowing Hope: Stories from”The Garden of the Lost and Abandoned”

December 5 Chris McKay, Senior Scientist, NASA Ames Research Center

Life on Other Worlds

January 16 Rudy Maxa, Travel journalist; Emmy Award-winning host of “Rudy Maxa’s World”

The Transformational Power of Travel