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

September 20	Nizar Ibraham, PhD.,  Lead author of a study on the creatures who lived 100 million years ago in North Africa and could swim Spinosaurus: Lost Giant of the Cretaceous
October 4	Chef Roland Mesnier, Executive White House Chef, 1979-2004 All the Presidents’ Pastries
October 18	Rob Kapilow, Composer, conductor, author, NPR music commentator, along with the St. Lawrence String Quartet, ensemble-in-residence at Stanford University Hayden and the Detective Novel: Does Music Have a Plot?
November 1	Mark D. Smith MD. MBA, Founder and CEO of California Health Care Foundation; Clinical faculty member, University of California, San Francisco Making America’s Health Care Great (Again?)
November 15	Brigid Barton PhD., Professor Emerita, Art History, Santa Clara University; Lecturer, Stanford University Continuing Studies Paris and Impressionism, the history of a new city and a new style; how Impressionist artists looked at Napolean III and Hausmann’s renovated Paris
December 6	Gary Griggs, Director of Marine Sciences, Distingished Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz Climate Change and the California Coast
January 17	Marc Lapadula, Playwright, screenwriter, and award-winning film producer; lecturer at Yale University on screen writing since 1992 Four Films that Changed America

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

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

 

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

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

 

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

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.

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

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