| February 5 | William J. Perry, Ph.D., 19th US Secretary of Defense, Senior Fellow Hoover Institution, Stanford National Security Challenges for the Next Administration |
| February 19 | Andrew Fire, Ph.D., Stanford School of Medicine; Shared 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Craig Mello of the University of Massachusetts Medical School Some case studies at the intersection of pure and applied biology |
| March 4 | Sally Denton, Investigative Reporter and Author Passion And Principle – Jessie and John Fremont and the Shaping of America |
| March 18 | Jamie Workman, Water and Natural Resources Consultant, Author The Human Right to Water |
| April 1 | Donna Woolfolk Cross, Author Pope Joan: Legend or History? |
| April 15 | Josh Rushing, Correspondent and analyst for Al-Jazerra English Al-Jazerra and America’s image: what’s at stake |
| May 6 | Tom Santopietro, Author Three American Icons: Sinatra, Streisand & Doris Day |
| May 20 | Rob Gifford, NPR Correspondent China Road: A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power |
| June 3 | Joel Selvin, Senior Pop Music Critic, San Francisco Chronicle 35 Years On the Aisle: Musings of a Pop Music Critic |
Programs
Fall 2007
| September 18 | Michael Kirst, Professor of Education and Business Administration, Stanford University Improving California’s School Governance and Finance Systems – Enabling More Effective Schools |
| October 2 | Mary Greenwood, Santa Clara County Public Defender Indigent Defense and its Challenges |
| October 16 | Richard Lederer, Verbivore, author A Morning of Language and Laughter |
| November 6 | Roberto Salas, Photographer A Revolution in Pictures |
| November 20 | Georgie Gleim, Owner, Gleim Jewelers Diamond Mining and Conflict Diamonds in Africa |
| December 4 | Wesla Whitfield and Mike Greensill,
Livin’ on Love |
| January 8 | Valerie Hemingway, Author Running With the Bulls: My Life with the Hemingways |
| January 15 | Mick LaSalle, Author and film critic for the San Francisco Chronicle The American Consciousness As Expressed Through Our Movies |
Winter/Spring 2007
| February 6 | Elliot Engel, Professor, University of North Carolina, author and NPR contributor Scarlett Fever: the greatness of Gone with the Wind |
| February 20 | David Morrison, Former Director Space Science, NASA Risks and plans to prevent asteroid impact on Earth |
| March 6 | Andrew Mwenda, Political Editor, Daily Monitor, Kampala, Uganda Paved with good intentions: why foreign aid and debt relief are bad for Africa |
| March 20 | Juan Williams, NPR correspondent and author Enough – the phony leaders, dead-end movements and culture of failure that are undermining Black America and what we can do about it |
| April 3 | Cypress String Quartet,
Timeless masterpieces of string Quartets |
| April 17 | Jack N. Rakove, Coe Professor of History and American Studies, Stanford University President and Commander? Thoughts on our post September 11 Constitution |
| May 1 | Abbas Milani, Senior Fellow, Iran Democracy Project, Hoover Institute Prospects and problems of democracy in Iran |
| May 15 | Per F. Peterson, Professor, Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of California, Berkeley Nuclear energy: what is new and what is changing |
| June 5 | Frank Delaney, Author of Tipperary and Ireland |
Fall 2006
| September 19 | Daniel C. Sneider, Associate, Asia-Pacific Research Center U. S. policy on northeast Asia, a cold war legacy |
| October 3 | Tom Gjelten, National Security Correspondent, National Public Radio Stories from the front line: from Central America to Bosina, from Iraq to Cuba |
| October 17 | Karen Kasmauski, Photographer, National Geographic Society Impact: from the front line of Global Health |
| November 7 | Paul Rogers, Natural resources and environment writer, San Jose Mercury News Energy and the enviroment: how the press decides what to cover, and major California trends |
| November 21 | Leonard Edwards, Retired Judge, Santa Clara County Superior Court Children in the court system |
| December 5 | Bonnie Weiss, Director, Curtain Up! Song and dance men of the silver screen: Gene Kelly |
| January 9 | Nathaniel Fick, USMC Captain and author One Bullet away: the making of a Marine Corps Officer |
| January 16 | Matthew Bogdanos, Colonel, USMC Thieves of Baghdad: the journey to recover the world’s greatest stolen treasures |
Winter/Spring 2006
| February 7 | Chris McKay, Planetary Scientist, Space Service Division of NASA/Ames The search for life on Mars |
| February 21 | Rick Steves, Author, TV host, Travel Expert Europe through the back door |
| March 7 | Nadine Strossen, Professor of Law New York Law School; President, American Civil Liberties Union Current challenges to civil liberties |
| March 21 | Spencer Wells, Geneticist, Explorer-in residence, National Geographic Society Journey of man, a genetic odyssey |
| April 4 | Bettina Gregory, Journalist, former ABC news correspondent The good, the bad, the ugly of network news |
| April 18 | Dr. Andrew Stangel, Art historian Processing the past, who owns our treasures? |
| May 2 | Martin Turner, Knight-Ridder Fellow, BBC Washington Correspondent End of the news as we know it |
| May 16 | Jeanne Kennedy, Health Service & Nonprofit Consultant How to be your own health advocate |
| June 6 | Frans Lanting, Photographer, National Geographic Society Ecological hot spots |
Fall 2005
| September 20 | Joseph McNamara, Research Fellow, Hoover Institute ‘Teddy, the cop’, Theodore Roosevelt as New York City Police Commissioner. A new book by Dr. McNamara. |
| October 4 | Terry Christensen, Professor and Political Science Department; Head, San Jose State University Governance by initiative, California elections |
| October 18 | Emma Fuller, Administrator, Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, Antarctica Summer on the ice; living and working at the South Pole |
| November 1 | Rita Redberg, MD, MSc, FACC, Professor of Medicine; Director, Women’s Cardiovascular Services, U.C. San Francisco The healthy heart, how do we get it, how do we keep it? |
| November 15 | Sean R.Gerrity Director, American Prairie Foundation Reinventing America’s Serengetti |
| December 6 | Steve Chiolero, Systems Engineer, Hartwell Consulting Living with robots or ‘My toaster is arguing with me’ |
| January 3 | Carey Perloff, Artistic Director, American Conservatory Theater Challenges of American theater in the 21st century |
| January 17 | Kathleen Ridolfi, Associate Professor of Law, Santa Clara University; Director, Northern California Innocence Project Guilty until proven innocent: the case for innocence projects in California |
Winter/Spring 2005
| February 1 | Bonnie Weiss, Theatre Educator, Writer, Radio and Cabaret Producer Cole Porter – A Musical Presentation, featuring video clips and recordings of his life and work |
| February 15 | Scott Mize, President of the Foresight Institute Nanotechnology and the Millennium Challenges |
| March 1 | Patrick Hatcher, Historian, Author, and Television Commentator Codes, Ciphers, Christianity – Did DaVinci Do It? |
| March 15 | Bob Lacey, Acting Chief of the Los Altos Police Department Keeping Los Altos Safe |
| April 5 | Charles Knowles, Entrepreneur and Conservationist Wildlife Conservation: Up Close and Personal |
| April 19 | David Davenport, Professor of Public Policy at Pepperdine University and Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution A Reform Agenda for the Golden State – Can Even the Terminator Reform California? |
| May 3 | Paul Erdman, Economist, Author, Contributor to the New York Times, Washington Post, and Bloomberg Magazine The Economy – The Future Looks Hazy |
| May 17 | Irene Dalis, Opera Singer and Founder of Opera San Jose Opera in San Jose – Members of Opera San Jose will perform operatic selections |
| June 7 | Sarah Weddington, Assistant to President Jimmy Carter; in 1973 successfully argued the winning side of Roe v. Wade case before the U.S. Supreme Court The Supreme Court and You |
Fall 2004
| September 21 | Henry Miller, MD, Founding Director of the Food and Drug Administration’s Office of Biotechnology, Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution Designer Genes for Agriculture and Food Production |
| October 5 | James Bettinger, Director of the John S. Knight Fellows for Professional Journalists at Stanford University and former Columnist for the San Jose Mercury-News Philip Davis, Julia Powell, Panel discussion: The News Media and the 2004 Presidential Election |
| October 19 | George Packer, Staff Writer for The New Yorker, Author of Blood of the Liberals How Does American Foreign Policy Determine a Democratic World? |
| November 2 | Niall Ferguson, Noted Author and Senior Research Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford University The United States: An Empire in Search of an Emperor |
| November 16 | John Scharffenberger, Entrepreneur, Wine Maker, and Chocolatier A Cultural Tasting of Chocolate |
| December 7 | Andy Doty, Retired from Stanford University as Director of Community Relations Backwards Into Battle: A Tail Gunner’s Journey in World War II |
| January 4 | Victor Hanson, Professor of Classics at California State University, Fresno, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Fellow in California Studies at the Claremont Institute Mexifornia: A frank talk about “Mexifornia” |
| January 18 | Salim Yaqub, Professor of History at the University of Chicago, Specialist in U.S.-Arab Relations Containing Arab Nationalism: The Eisenhower Doctrine and the Middle East |
Winter/Spring 2004
| February 3 | Michael McFaul, Associate Professor of Political Science at Stanford University and Helen and Peter Bing Senior Fellow, Hoover Institute. Russia’s Drift Back to Dictatorship: Implication for U.S. National Security |
| February 17 | John Arquilla, Professor, Defense Analysis, U.S. Naval Post Graduate School. How We Could Lose the War on Terror |
| March 2 | Bill Schustik, This Renaissance Man has Performed on Broadway, Television and Written Scores for Classical Ballet. Cross the Wide Missouri |
| March 16 | Dr. Michael Longaker, Director of Children’s Surgical Research, Dept. Of Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine. Regenerative Medicine |
| April 6 | Eavan Boland, Bella Mabury and Eloise Knapp Professor in Humanities at Stanford University. Irish poet. Eavan Boland: A Poet’s Life |
| April 20 | Brian Watson, Special Agent Department of the Treasury; Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation. How to Protect Yourself from Financial Crimes (I.E. Identity Theft, Telemarketing Fraud and Investment Scams) |
| May 4 | John Podesta, Chief of Staff to President Clinton from 1998-2001. A View From Washington |
| May 18 | Kit Armstrong, 11 Year Old Pianist and Composer. One of the Youngest Students to be Accepted to the Curtis Institute of Music. Original Compositions, Beethoven, Mozart and Lizt |
| June 1 | Michael Watts, Director of the Institute of International Studies and Professor of Geography at U.C. Berkeley. The Relationship of Oil to Imperialism and the Making of the Modern World |
Fall 2003
| September 16 | Barbara Ehrenreich, Author of Blood Rites; The Worst Years of Our Lives. A frequent contributor to Time, The New Republic and The New York Times Magazine. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America. |
| October 7 | Bruce Neckers, Trial attorney, Immediate past President of the State Bar Of Michigan and a Fellow in the American College of Trial Layers and The International Society of Barristers. Civil Liberties in a Time of National Crisis. |
| October 21 | Dr. Philip Lee, Senior Scholar at the Institute for Health Policy Studies and Professor Emeritus of Social Medicine, Department of Medicine, U.C.S.F. Assistant Secretary for Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The Future of Health Care: Will physicians change and embrace e-technology or continue in their current pattern? |
| November 4 | Kirk Hansen, Executive Director of the Mark Kula Center for Applied Ethics at the University of Santa Clara; Senior Lecturer in Business Administration at Stanford. Reversing the Ethical Crisis in America. |
| November 18 | Robert Kline, Executive Vice President of 20th Century Fox Television, Co-founder of Lifetime Television and Producer of 22 films. Professor of Film and media at the University of Southern California. Film, Film, Film. |
| December 2 | Patrick Hatcher, Retired historian from U.C. Berkley and now with the Center for the Pacific Rim, University of San Francisco. He is a narrator for film and television. A Russian Birthday: St. Petersburg at 300. |
| January 6 | Mark Bollwinkel, Senior Pastor of Los Altos Methodist Church and an active professional potter. He has demonstrated and exhibited his art throughout the Bay Area. Breaking the Mold: Existential Influences in 20th Century Ceramic Art and our Culture. |
| January 20 | Bruce Cain, Robson Professor of Political Science, U.C. Berkley and Director of the Institute of Governmental Studies. What does the year 2004 hold for our state and the nation? |