| February 2 | Lorrin Koran, MD., Professor of Psychiatry, Emeritus, Stanford University Medical Center and former Director, Stanford Medical Center, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Clinic and Research Program
Overcoming Obessions and Compulsions |
| February 16 | Larry Gerston, PhD., Professor Emeritus of Political Science, San Jose State University
The 2016 Election: Why We Should Care (And Why Few People Do!) |
| March 1 | Elizabeth J. Freeman, Director, VA Palo Alto Health Care System
VA Palo Alto Health Care System: The transformation of health care with a Veteran-centered focus |
| March 15 | Rick Steves, Advocate of smart, independent travel; writer, producer of tv series “Rick Steves’ Europe”
Broadening Your Global Perspective Through Travel |
| April 5 | Richard Blanco, Inaugural Poet Laureate
Becoming American: An Inaugural Poet’s Journey |
| April 19 | Karl Eikenberry, Director of the U.S. Asia Security Initiative at the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center; Former Ambassador to Afghanistan (May 2009 – July 2011); Retired Lieutenant General, U.S. Army
America and Its Military – Drifting Apart |
| May 3 | Maureen Corrigan, Book critic for NPR’s Fresh Air; Columnist for The Washington Post; Lecturer in English at Georgetown University
So We Read On: How The Great Gatsby Came to Be and Why It Endures |
| May 17 | John King, San Francisco Chronicle’s Urban Design Critic; author of Citiscapes: San Francisco and its Buildings
What Yesterday’s Buildings Say About Today’s San Francisco |
| June 7 | Hank Greely, Deane F. and Kate Edelman Johnson Professor of Law and Professor, by courtesy, of Genetics at Stanford University
The End of Sex: The Future of Human Reproduction |
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Fall 2015
| September 15 | Tim Farrell, 46 yr. English Teacher, Gunn High School, Palo Alto; Docent Emeritus, Filoli; Actor and IPA Brew Master
A “Not-so-Secret Life”: Charles Dickens in his novels |
| October 6 | Victoria Lautman, Journalist, Art Historian and Indiaphile
Beyond the Taj Mahal: Inside India |
| October 20 | Larry Hancock, General Director with Artists from the Opera San Jose; Mr. Hancock has been with OSJ for more than 30 years
Duets & Arias from Grand Opera |
| November 3 | Denise Kiernan, Journalist, Producer and Author
The Girls of Atomic City – spies, secrecy and the Manhatten Project |
| November 17 | Marcia Coyle, Chief Washington Correspondent for the National Law Journal, Lawyer and Journalist
The Impact of Recent Supreme Court Decisions |
| December 1 | Kay Payne, Docent, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
A Day in the Life of the Renaissance: A lively guided visit to Florence and Venice, via contemporary works by da Vinci, Botticelli, Raphael & more |
| January 19 | Peter Walsh, Expert in organizational design; radio and tv personality; author
Its All Too Much: Living a Richer Life with Less Stuff |
Winter/Spring 2015
| February 3 | Michael McFaul, U.S. Ambassador to Russia, 2011-2014; Director of Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford
Causes and Consequences of Our Conflict with Russia |
| February 17 | Adrienne Faillace, Producer, Archive of American Television
Capturing Television History One Voice at a Time |
| March 3 | David Lenox, AIA, Stanford University Architect since 2005
Stanford University: Making Connections to the Past and the Future |
| March 17 | Ellen Sussman, Author
A Writer’s Life |
| April 7 | Severin Borenstein, E.T. Grether Professor of Business Administration and Public Policy at the Haas School of Business and Research Associate of the Energy Institute at Haas
Exciting Progress and Harsh Realities in the Race to Low-Carbon Energy |
| April 21 | Karl Eikenberry, U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan, 2009-2011; Lt. General, U.S. Army (ret); faculty member, Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center at Stanford University
The Future of Sino-American Relations |
| May 5 | James Delgado, Director of Maritime Heritage in the Office of National Marine Sanctuaries for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Diving and Documenting the Titanic Wreck Site: What We Are Still Learning |
| May 19 | Simon Pennington, M.A., lecturer in Art History, Professor, Foothill College
Designing the Future: Modern Design and the Creative Economy |
| June 2 | Helene Cooper, Liberian-born American journalist; New York Times Pentagon correspondent; previously New York Times White House correspondent; author – The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood
All of This |