| September 16 | Martha Raddatz, ABC News Senior Global Affairs Correspondent
View from Washington |
| 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 |
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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
The News From Washington |
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 |
Fall 2012
| September 18 | Nicholas de Monchaux, Assistant Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, University of California Berkeley
Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo |
| October 2 | Dr. Laura Carstensen, Professor of Psychology; Fairleigh S. Dickinson Jr. Professor of Public Policy; Director, Stanford Center on Longevity
A Long, Bright Future |
| October 16 | Dr. Channing Robertson, Ruth G. and William K. Bowes Professor, School of Engineering and Professor of Chemical Engineering Emeritus, Stanford University
Forensic Science: An Oxymoron? |
| November 6 | Steve Almond, Author and Journalist
Candyfreak: A Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of America |
| November 20 | Pat Kaunert,Mark Twain impersonator
Mark Twain, Out West |
| December 4 | Cypress String Quartet, Classical Musicians
Dvorak’s Voices |
| January 8 | Dr. George Blumenthal, Chancellor, University of California, Santa Cruz
How Relevant is the University of California to the State? |
| January 15 | Dr. A. David Lewis, Graphic Novelist, College Educator and Comics Studies Scholar,
Graven Images: Religion in Comics |
Winter/Spring 2012
| February 7 |
Dr. Stephen McKenna, Director of the Rehabilitation Trauma Center, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center Advances in Stem Cell Research |
| February 21 |
Belva Davis, Journalist and Author Realizing Our Dreams in Turbulent Times |
| March 6 |
Dr. Andrew Robison, Andrew W. Mellon Senior Curator of Prints and Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC If War Comes, What Art Should We Save |
| March 20 |
Djordje Padejski, John S. Knight Journalism Fellow, Stanford University From Eastern Europe to the United States: Why Investigative Journalism Matters in the Digital Age |
| April 3 |
Ekaterina Khmelnitskaya, Curator of Russian Porcelain and Ceramics, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia Treasures from the Hermitage: The Story of Russian Porcelain |
| April 17 |
Mustafa Akyol, Turkish Political Commentator and Author Islam Without Extremes |
| May 1 |
Lamplighters, Musical Theater Ensemble specializing in Gilbert and Sullivan Here’s a how-de-do: Celebrating 60 Years with the Lamplighters |
| May 15 |
Donald Johanson, Physical Anthropologist and Founder of the Institute of Human Origins Lucy’s Legacy: Our Evolutionary Journey |
| June 5 |
Karen Tumulty, National Political Correspondent for the Washington Post Inside the Loop: The “Buzz” from Washington, D. C. |
Fall 2011
| September 20 | Anne Thompson, NBC Environmental Affairs Correspondent
From 9/11 to Environmental Disasters: Our World at Risk |
| October 4 | Abbas Milani, Ph.D., Director of Iranian Studies, Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Democracy in Iran: Prospects and Problems |
| October 18 | Seth Shostak, PhD, Senior Astronomer, SETI Institute
When Will We Find Extraterrestrial Life? |
| November 1 | Elliot Krane M.D., Professor of Anesthesia and Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine; Director of Pain Medicine at the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital
Pain: A Symptom, A Disease, A Misery |
| November 15 | Charles Bamforth, PhD., Professor of Food Science and Technology, University of California, Davis
Grape Versus Grain |
| December 6 | Olivier Bernier, Historian, Lecturer, Author
Palaces of the Gods: the Glory of South IndiaNote: Ten o’ clock Morning Forum Business Meeting |
| January 3 | Alexander Field, PhD., Michel and Mary Orradre Professor of Economics, Santa Clara University
A Great Leap Forward: 1930s Depression and U.S. Economic Growth |
| January 17 | Gerald F. Uelmen, J.D., Professor of Law, Santa Clara University School of Law
Proposals to Put California’s Death Penalty Law on the Ballot for November, 2012 |
Winter/Spring 2011
| February 1 | Mary Felstiner, PhD, Professor Emerita of History, San Francisco State University; Visiting Professor, Stanford University
Painting a Life! Charlotte Salomon in the Nazi Era |
| February 15 | Tobias Wolff, Author, Ward W. and Priscilla B. Woods Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University
A Life in Words |
| March 1 | David Whitman, Executive Director, Signature Programs, The Tech Museum of San Jose
The Tech Awards: Technology Benefiting Humanity |
| March 15 | Kavita Ramdas, Senior Advisor, Former President and Chief Executive Officer, Global Fund for Women
It Ain’t What You Do, It’s the Way That You Do It |
| April 5 | Kevin (KAL) Kallaugher, Editorial Cartoonist
Editorial Cartoons, Satire, and Freedom of Expression |
| April 19 | Ceci Connolly, Senior Advisor, McKinsey Center for Health System Reform
Health Care in the Post-Reform Era – What it Means for You |
| May 3 | Jonathan Turley, Legal Scholar, Professor, The George Washington School of Law
The Supreme Court |
| May 17 | Martin Jay, PhD, Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley
The Virtues of Mendacity: On Lying in Politics |
| June 7 | Isabel Wilkerson, Journalist, International Affairs Expert
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration |
Fall 2010
| September 21 | Cypress String Quartet
Creativity amd Emotion in Music |
| October 5 | Brother Guy Consolmagno, SJ, Curator of Meteorites at the Vatican Obsesrvatory
Are Asteroids Fluffy? What Meteorites Tell Us About How the Planets Were Formed |
| October 19 | Anand Giriharadas, Author and Columnist
How the Developing World Has Opened a New Frontier of Innovation |
| November 2 | Dan Schott, Resident Agent in Charge, San Jose, California Office, U.S. Secret Service
Overview of the Secret Service |
| November 16 | T. J. Stiles, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author
The Making of the Vanderbilt Dynasty: Commodore Vanderbilt’s Conquest of Nineteenth Century High Society |
| December 7 | Jeff Hart, PhD, Naturalist
“Calinature” – History, Nature, and Culture in the Golden State |
| January 4 | Patrick Hunt, PhD, Director, Stanford Alpine Archeology Project, 1994-2010; Visiting Fellow 2009-2010, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Ten Discoveries That Rewrote History |
| January 18 | John Sanders, Special Collections Manager, Dudley Knox Library, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California
Up From the Ashes: Birth of the Hotel Del Monte Art Gallery |
Winter/Spring 2010
| February 2 | Socheata Poeuv, Founder, Khmer Legacies, Director and Writer of Documentary “New Year Baby”
What Does It Take to Heal? One Woman’s Commitment to Celebrate Stories of Survival |
| February 16 | Gary K. Hart, Former California State Senator, Former California Secretary of Education
The Future of California Public Education |
| March 2 | Larry N. Gerston, PhD, Professor, San Jose State University
California Meltdown: Can This State Be Saved? |
| March 16 | Gary F. Kurutz, Director, Special Collections Branch, California State Library
Unbridled Bibliomania: Treasures of the California State Library |
| April 6 | William Ratliff, Research Fellow and Curator, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Chinese Policy in Latin America |
| April 20 | Carey Perloff, Artistic Director, American Conservatory Theater
No More “Normal”: Challenges Facing Live Theater Today |
| May 4 | Maria Stenzel, Award-Winning National Geographic Photographer
Antarctica: A Hot Spot for Climate Change |
| May 18 | Andrew A. Galvan, Curator, Old Mission Dolores, San Francisco
Converting California: Indians and Missionaries |
| June 1 | Robin Wright, Journalist, International Affairs Expert
Global Flashpoints: What’s Next? |