| 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 |
Programs
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? |
Fall 2009
| September 15 | Luis Alberto Urrea, Author
Magical Realism, Immigration, and Life on the Border |
| October 6 | Marsha Ivins, NASA Astronaut; Programs Manager at the Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas
Human Spaceflight |
| October 20 | Meena Palaniappan, Initiative Director, Pacific Institute
Peak Water: Have We reached It? |
| November 3 | Bill Murphy, Co-Founder and CEO, Clos LaChance Winery, San Martin
From Silicon Valley to Wine Country |
| November 17 | Sally Denton, Author
The Pink Lady: The Many Lives of Helen Gahagan Douglas |
| December 1 | Sam Wyche, Retired Head Coach, Cincinnati Bengals and Tampa Bay Buccaneers
What It Was, Was More Than Football (with apologies to Andy Griffith) |
| January 5 | Robert Sillen, Former Director of Santa Clara County Health and Hospital System and Santa Clara Valley Medical Center
Local, State, and Federal Health Care in Today’s Economic Environment |
| January 19 | Candice DeLong, former FBI profiler
Special Agent: My Life on the Front Lines as a Woman in the FBI |
Winter/Spring 2009
| February 3 | Irvin D. Yalom, M.D., author; Senior Scholar, Clayman Institute for Genetic Research; Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at Stanford
Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Deathwith Marilyn Yalom, Ph.D, author; Senior Scholar, Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stanford The American Resting Place: Four Hundred Years of History through our Cemeteries and Burial Grounds |
| February 17 | Anne Robichaud, official Umbrian Regional Tour Guide
Italians, HANDS ON! |
| March 3 | Arthur Ammann, M.D.. Founder, Global Strategies, Inc.
HIV: Saving One Life at a Time. Preventing infants from getting infected with HIV from their mothers |
| March 17 | Sarah Freedman, Ph.D, Professor, School of Education, University of California, Berkeley
Rwanda: How to teach a country’s history after genocide |
| April 7 | Frank Delaney, author; newest novel, Shannon
Who Do You Think You Are? Climbing the Family Tree |
| April 21 | Gray Brechin, author; Founder, New Deal Project; Visiting Scholar, Geography Dept., University of California, Berkeley Rediscovering the Lost Landscape of the New Deal in California |
| May 5 | Wilma Mankiller, author; first female principal chief of the Cherokee Nation
What it means to be an Indigenous person in the 21st Century |
| May 19 | Marilyn Lacey, author; Executive Director, Mercy Beyond Borders
The Kindness of Strangers: My Quarter-Century with the World’s Refugees
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| June 2 | Mark Hylkema, Santa Cruz District Archeologist for California State Parks
Ancestral Ohlone Indian Culture in Our Own Backyard |
Fall 2008
| September 16 | John Prendergast, African International Affairs Expert God, Oil & Country: Changing the Logic of War in Sudan |
| October 7 | Dan Walters, Author, columnist, Sacramento Bee California in the 21st Century |
| October 21NOTE 10:30am | Professor Christopher T. Scott, Director, Stanford Program on Stem Cells in Society; Senior Research Scholar, Center for Biomedical Ethics Stem Cells in the Flattening World: Not Yet a Level Playing Field |
| November 4 | Professor Michael McFaul, Director, Center on Democracy, Development, and Rule of Law, Stanford University Promoting Democracy Abroad: Should We? Can We? |
| November 18 | Frans Lanting, Award Winning Nature Photographer Life: A Journey Through Time |
| December 2NOTE 10:00am | Marc Pachter, Retired Director, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Museum A Gallery of Presidents |
| January 6 | Bonnie Weiss, Theatrical Writer, Producer, and Director, and Theater and Film Critic Fred Astaire – A Musical Presentation |
| January 20 | John Zogby, President and CEO of Zogby International The Way We’ll Be: The Zogby Report on the Transformation of the American Dream |