Fall / Winter 2024 – 2025

 

September 17 Candacy Taylor, Award Winning Author, including a New York Times notable book of the year, Photographer, Cultural Documentarian

The Overground Railroad, The Green Book and the roots of Black travel in America

October 1 Geoffrey Tabin MD, Expert Mountain Climber and Humanitarian, Co-Founder Himalayan Cataract Project, Professor of Ophthalmology and Global Medicine, Stanford University

The Himalayan Cataract Project:  Eradicating Preventable Blindness in the Developing World

October 15 Carol Porter,  Museum docent and art talks presenter, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Mary Cassatt,  American Impressionist Painter – Painting a Woman’s Perspective

November 5 Nicolas Garcia, Performer, now General Director, Pocket Opera, the Bay Area’s premiere chamber opera company

A  Bay Area Opera Experience: Discover the Magic of Opera (in English)

November 19 Raj Mathai,  Emmy award winning News Anchorman, Journalist and Sportscaster, NBC Bay Area KNTV

Life in TV News: The Good, Bad and Ugly

December 3 Jonna Mendez,  Former CIA Intelligence Officer, undercover spy, Chief of Disguise for the CIA, a real life “Q”(gadget master in James Bond films), and author.

The Master of Disguise

January 7, 2025 Ian Hodder,  Distinguished British Archaeologist, directed excavation of Çatalhöyük, Turkey.  Former Director, Stanford Archaeology Center.

Çatalhöyük: Contributions to European Civilization

January 21, 2025 John King, Pulitzer Prize finalist and long-time Urban Design Critic for the San Francisco Chronicle

Ten Significant San Francisco Buildings

Winter/Spring 2024

 

February 6 Rob Nichols, President and CEO, American Bankers Association

Policy Landscape for America’s Banks

February 20 Philip Taubman, Lecturer, Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation; author; 30-year career with the New York Times

How George Shultz Ended the Cold War

March 5 Caroline Winterer, Department Chair, professor of history at Stanford University

When Weather Changed the Course of History

March 19 Dave Barry, Longtime syndicated humor columnist for the Miami Herald; author; Pulitzer Prize winner; guitarist in an all-author rock band

A Morning with Dave Barry

April 2 Eli Saslow, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist; author; New York Times staff writer

Rising out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist

April 16 Sarah Parcak, Archaeologist; Egyptologist; professor of anthropology, University of Alabama; uses satellite imagery to identify potential archaeological sites

Tales from the “Indiana Jones” of Space

May 7 Roberto d’Alimonte, Dean, professor of political schience, Luiss-Guido Carli University in Rome; journalist, commentator on American/European politics

Is It Still the American Century?

May 21 Kirk O. Hanson, Seminal thinker in the field of business ethics; professor, Stanford University and Santa Clara University; Executive Director Markkula Center for Applied Ethics

The Ethics of Artificial  Intelligence

June 4 Richard Kogan, Practicing concert pianist  and psychiatrist

Ragtime:  The Mind and Music of Scott Joplin