| September 17 | Leslie Dewan, National Geographic Emerging Explorer; CEO of Tailfin, a conservation technology company
A New Approach to Nuclear Power |
| October 1 | Dolores Davison, Professor and Chair, Departments of Women’s Studies, Foothill College
Celebrating 100 Years of American Suffrage |
| October 15 | Thomas Fingar, Shorenstein Asia Pacific Research Center Scholar
Getting US China Policy Right |
| November 5 | Carol Berkin, Former Presidential Professor of History, Baruch College
Myths of the American Revolution |
| November 19 | Patrick Hunt, National Lecturer for the Archeological Institute of America’s Stanford Society
Hannibal’s Secret Weapon |
| December 3 | Michael McFaul, Former Ambassador to Russia
An American Ambassador in Putin’s Russia |
| January 14 | Victoria Johnson, Associate Professor of Urban Policy and Planning, Hunter College, City University of New York
Founding America’s First Botanical Garden |
Yearly Archives: 2019
Winter/Spring 2019
| February 5 | James Dixon, Architect and expert on architectural styles in San Francisco and the Bay Area
Victorian/Edwardian Residential Architectural Styles in San Francisco |
| February 19 | Steven Burchik, Veteran, Author, Photographer
Compass and a Camera: One Soldier’s View of the Vietnam War |
| March 5 | Brian Merchant, Technology journalist and author of The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone
The World Inside the iPhone |
| March 19 | Caroline Winterer, Anthony P. Meier Professor in the Humanities and Director of the Stanford Humanities Center The Remarkable Genius of Benjamin Franklin |
| April 2 | Elliot Engel, Emeritus English Professor, University of North Carolina, North Carolina State, and Duke University
Shakespeare 400 Years Later: More Alive Than Ever |
| April 16 | Tomas Jimenez, Associate Professor of Sociology and Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Stanford University
Making Sense of Immigration Hysteria in the Nation of
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| May 7 | Megan Smolenyak, Genealogist and Author
No Man Left Behind (Bringing our Soldiers Home from WWI, WWII, Korea, and Vietnam) |
| May 21 | Andrew Fraknoi, Emeritus Chair, Astronomy Department, Foothill College Celebrating Stephen Hawking: His Amazing Life and Scientific Work |
| June 4 | Richard Kogan, Julliard-trained concert pianist and Harvard-educated psychiatrist
The Mind and Music of George Gershwin |