Featured Speakers

Featured speakers are highlighted here. Click on each image to see more details and access audio clips of the lectures.

Arthur Holly Compton

February 3, 1961

Barry Goldwater

May 3, 1967

Ralph Nader

November 12, 1969

Shirley Chisholm

October 6, 1976

Francis Crick

March 5, 1980

Chuck Jones

February 18, 1981

Walter E. Massey

March 25, 1981

Maya Angelou

April 1, 1981

Thomas Bishop

October 15, 1986

Helen Vendler

April 18, 1990

Harold Ramis

October 24, 1990 & November 29, 2000

Angela Davis

January 18, 1995

William Gass

October 11, 2000

Frank McCourt

November 1, 2000

Rita Mae Brown

March 27, 2002