University and Messenger Lectures (1960-Present)

 University Lecturer:

Christina Crosby, Professor of English and Gender and Sexuality Studies at Wesleyan University

Spring 2018

Lecture:  “Faithful to the Place of Bones”

University Lecturer:

Zafer Şenocak, Creative Writer and Public Intellectual

Fall 2017

University Lecturer:

Raul Andino, Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California, San Francisco

Fall 2017

University Lecturer:

Richard Harris, Science Correspondent at National Public Radio, Washington, DC

Fall 2017

University Lecturer:

Stephanie W. Jamison, Professor, Asian Languages and Cultures, UCLA

Fall 2017

University Lecturer: 

Professor Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Chief Curator, Core Exhibition, POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews; University Professor Emerita, New York University

Spring 2017

University Lecturer:  Seth Siegel, Author

Spring 2017

University Lecturer:  Professor Jaak Panksepp, Professor of Veterinary Science, Washington State University

Fall 2016

University Lecturer:  Professor John Rickford, J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor of Linguistics and the Humanities, Stanford University

Fall 2016

University Lecturer:  Professor Allison M. Macfarlane, Professor of Public Policy and International Affairs, George Washington University

Spring 2015

University Lecturer:  Professor Sherman Jackson, University of Southern California

Spring 2015

Messenger Lecturer:  Michael Moss, Author and Investigative Journalist

Spring 2015

Messenger Lecturer:  Professor Thomas H. Jordan, University Southern California and Director, Southern California Earthquake Center

Fall 2015

University Lecturer:  Gina Apostol, Novelist and Essayist

Fall 2015

 University Lecturer:  Dr. Amara Lakhous, Bilingual Writer

Fall 2015

University Lecturer:  Professor David Kaplan, Johns Hopkins University

Fall 2015

University Lecturer:  Professor Stephen Long, University of Illinois

Spring 2015

Messenger Lecturer:  Professor Karl Deisseroth, Stanford University

Spring 2015

Messenger Lecturer:  Professor Cecilia Vicuna, Poet and multidisciplinary artist

Spring 2015

University Lecturer:  Professor Yoko Tawada, Contempory Japanese-German Prose Writer

Spring 2015

University Lecturer:  Joel Salatin, Polyface Farms, Inc., Virginia

Spring 2015

Messenger Lecturer:  David Roman, Department of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California

Fall 2014

November Lecture:  Reviving AIDS:  On the 2011 Revival of the Normal Heart on Broadway

October Lecturer:  Relevance, or the Case of Clifford Odets

University Lecturer:  Mimi White, Northwestern University

Fall 2014

Messenger Lecturer:  Leonard Susskind, Director of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics, Stanford University

Spring 2013

University Lecturer:  Carolyn Porco, Team Leader for the Imaging Investigation on the Cassini Saturn Orbiter

Spring 2013

University Lecturer:  Jose Saldivar, Stanford University

Spring 2013

Messenger Lecturer:  Patrick Dougherty, Sculptor

Fall 2013

Messenger Lecturer:  Professor Jonathan Jansen, Vice-Chancellor and Rector of the University of the Free State

Fall 2013

University Lecturer:  Elaine Romero, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Spring 2013

University Lecturer:  Ron Suny, University of Michigan

Spring 2013

University Lecturer:  Stephen Pacala, Princeton University

Spring 2013

University Lecturer:  Jin Li, Brown University

Spring 2013

University Lecturer:  Ann Cvetkovich, University of Texas at Austin

Spring 2013

Messenger Lecturer:  Dr. Peter Nathanielsz, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Center for Pregnancy & Newborn Research

Fall 2012

Messenger Lecturer:  A.E. Stallings, Poet, Translator, Member, American Academy of Arts & Sciences

Fall 2012

Messenger Lecturer:  Professor Neil Price, Department of Archaeology, University of Aberdeen

Fall 2012

Lectures:  Lecture 1:   The Children of Ash: Cosmology and the Viking Universe; Lecture 2:   Life and Afterlife: Dealing with the Dead in the Viking Age; Lecture 3:  The Shape of the Soul: The Viking Mind and the Individual

*Neil Price: The Children of Ash: Cosmology and the Viking University Video

University Lecturer:  Professor W. Ian Lipkin, M.D., John Snow Professor of Epidemiology Director, Center for Infection & Immunity, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health

Fall 2012

Messenger Lecturer:  Professor David Savran, Distinguished Professor and Vera Mowry Roberts Chair in American Theatre, CUNY Graduate Center

Spring 2012

University Lecturer:  Professor Neco Celik, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Center for Pregnancy & Newborn Research

Spring 2012

University Lecturer:  Professor Lori Ginzberg, Professor of History and Women’s Studies, Pennsylvania State University

Spring 2012

University Lecturer:  Professor Brent Hayes Edwards, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University

Spring 2012

University Lecturer:  Professor Ewine van Dishoeck, Professor of Molecular Astrophysics at the University of Leiden, Netherlands

Spring 2012

University Lecturer: Professor Paul J. Steinhardt, Albert Einstein Professor of Science at Princeton University

Spring 2012

Messenger Lecturer:  Professor Silvio Ferrari, University of Milan

Spring 2012

Messenger Lecturer:  Professor Tariq Ramadan, Oxford University

Spring 2012

University Lecturer:  Professor Raymond Pierrehumbert, Louis Block Professor in Geophysical Sciences and the College, University of Chicago

Spring 2012

University Lecturer:  Professor Sheldon Pollock, William B. Ransford Professor of Sanskrit and Indian Studies, Columbia University

Spring 2012

Messenger Lecturer:  Professor Amihai Mazar, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Spring 2012

University Lecturer:  Professor Steven Cowley, Director of the Culham Laboratory and the Chief Executive Officer of the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA)

Spring 2012

University Lecturer:  Professor Gene Robinson, Swanlund Chair, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Fall 2011

University Lecturer:   Ambassador Edward J. Perkins, Former Ambassador to South Africa

Fall 2011

University Lecturer:  Catharine A. Mackinnon, Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School

Fall 2011

University Lecturer:  Professor Nancy Armstrong, Gilbert, Louis, and Lehrman Professor of English, Duke University

Spring 2011

University Lecturer:  Rabbi Greg Epstein, Humanist Chaplain at Harvard University

Spring 2011

University Lecturer:  Professor Sally Kohlstedt, History of Science and Technology, University of Minnesota

Spring 2011

University Lecturer:  Dr. Regina Sullivan, Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry of New York University

Spring 2011

University Lecturer: Professor Susan R. Barry, Professor of Biology and Neuroscience, Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts

Spring 2011

University Lecturer:  Professor Dana Polan, Professor of Cinema Studies, New York University

Spring 2011

University Lecturer:  Gananath Obeyesekere, Emeritus Professor, Anthropology, Princeton University

Fall 2010

University Lecturer:  William Julius Wilson, Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor at Harvard University

Spring 2010

 Messenger Lecturer:  Michel Balinski,  Professor Emeritus, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris

Fall 2007

 University Lecturer:   Mandyam Srinivasan,  Professor of Visual Neuroscience, Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland

Fall 2007

 University Lecturer:   Speciosa Wandira former Ugandan Vice President

Fall 2007

 Messenger Lecturer:  Steven Weinberg, Nobel Laureate, Holder of the Josey Chair in Science and Professor of Physics & Astronomy, University of Texas at Austin

Spring 2007

University Lecturer:  David J.P. Barker, University of Southampton

Fall 2000

Gerald R. Fink, Director, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research

Spring 1999

Judith Butler, Chancellor’s Professor, University of California at Berkeley

Fall 1998

Hon. Rex  Nettleford, Deputy Vice Chancellor & Prof. of Continuing Studies, Univ. of W. Indies, Mona, Jamaica

Fall 1997

Byron S.J. Weng, Prof. of Government & Public Administration, Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong

Fall 1996

Clifton R. Wharton, Former Deputy Secretary of State

Spring 1996

Helen Vendler, Professor of English, Harvard University

Fall 1995

Ross Chambers, Prof. of French and Comparative Literature, University of Michigan

Spring 1995

Leo Bersani, Class of 1950 Professor of French, University of California at Berkeley

Fall 1994

Martha Nussbaum, University Professor & Professor of Philosophy and Classics, Brown University

Spring 1994

Ronald Takaki, Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California at Berkeley

Fall 1993

Bruno Latour, Professor at the Ecole National Superieure des Mines, Paris

Spring 1993

Peter Brooks, Professor of Humanities, Yale University

Fall 1992

Maynard Solomon, Professor of Music, Julliard

Spring 1992

Terrence Sejnowski, Professor of Biology & Physics, UCSD and the Salk Institute

Fall 1991

John & Jean Comaroff, Professors of Anthropology, University of Chicago

Spring 1991

Sir Roger Penrose, Professor of Mathematics, Oxford University

Fall 1990

Myles Burnyeat, Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College, UK

Spring 1990

Susan Moller Okin, Professor of Politics, Brandeis University

Fall 1989

Peter H. Nye, Professor Emeritus, Plant Science, Oxford University

Spring 1989

Bert Vallee, Professor of Biochemical and Biophysical Sciences & Medicine, Harvard University

Fall 1988

Houston Baker, Professor of English & Human Relations, University of Pennsylvania

Spring 1988

Charles Tilly, Professor of Sociology & History, New School for Social Research

Spring 1987

Irving Janis, Professor of Psychology, Yale University

Fall 1986

Edward Said, Professor of English & Comparative Literature, Columbia University

Spring 1986

Ernst Mayr, Professor Emeritus, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University

Fall 1985

John E. Casida, Professor of Entomology, University of California at Berkeley

Spring 1985

Jurgen Habermas, Director, Max Planck Institute, Munich

Fall 1984

Herbert York, Professor of Physics, University of California, San Diego

Fall 1984

Quentin Skinner, Professor of Political Science, University of Cambridge, UK

Fall 1983

Maarten Brands, Professor of Modern History, University of Amsterdam

Spring 1983

Paul de Man, Professor of French & Comparative Literature, Yale University

Spring 1983

John T. Noonan, Jr., Professor of Law, University of California at Berkeley

Spring 1982

Patrick Suppes, Professor of Philosophy, Stanford University

Fall 1981

Donald Kennedy, President Stanford University

Fall 1980

Rosemary Cramp, Professor of Art & Archaeology, Durham University, UK

Fall 1980

Robert J. Lifton, Professor of Psychiatry, Yale University

Spring 1980

Walter J. Ong, Professors of English & Humanities in Psychiatry, Saint Louis University

Fall 1979

Marvin Minsky, Professor of Science, Computer Science Dept., MIT

Spring 1979

Arthur Kantrowitz, Chairman, AVCO-Everett Research Laboratory, Inc.

Fall 1978

Jean Seznec, Professor of French Literature, University of Oxford

Spring 1978

David Grene, Professor of Social Thought, University of Chicago

Fall 1977

Rene Girard, Professor of French & the Humanities, Johns Hopkins University

Spring 1977

Noam Chomsky, Professor of Linguistics & Philosophy, MIT

Fall 1976

Edward O. Wilson, Professor of Zoology, Harvard University

Spring 1976

Walle J.H. Nauta, Profesor of Psychology, MIT

Fall 1975

Charles Rosen, Pianist & Writer

Spring 1975

Zhores Medvedev, Soviet Biologist & Critic

Spring 1974

Harry Bober, Professor of the Humanities, New York University

Spring 1974

Elting Morison, Killian Professor of the Class of 1926, MIT

Spring 1973

Garrett Hardin, Professor of Biology, University of California at Santa Barbara

Fall 1972

C.T. deWit, Professor of Theoretical Production Ecology, Agricultural University, the Netherlands

Spring 1972

David Daube, Professor of Law, University of California at Berkeley

Fall 1971

 Jerzy Neyman, Professor of Statistics, University of California at Berkeley

Spring 1971

Oswei Temkin, Professor of the History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University

Fall 1970

Yigael Yadin, Professor of Archaeology, Hebrew University, Jerusalem

Fall 1969

Samuel H. Beer, Professor of Government, Harvard University

Fall 1969

Michel Jouvet, M.D., Faculty of Medicine, University of Lyons, France

Fall 1968

Henry Eyring, Professor of Chemistry & Metallurgy, University of Utah

Spring 1968

Dame Helen Louise Gardner, Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford, UK

Fall 1967

Madame Jacqueline de Romilly, Professor of Greek, The Sorbonne

Spring 1967

A. Frey-Wyssling, Department of General Botany & Electron Microscopy, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

Fall 1965

Richard Feynman, Professor of Theoretical Physics, California Institute of Technology

Fall 1964

C. Vann Woodward, Professor of History, Yale University

Spring 1964

Kingsley Davis, Professor of Sociology, University of California at Berkeley

Fall 1963

H.L.A. Hart, Professor of Jurisprudence, University of Oxford, UK

Spring 1963

Alexander Hollaender, Director, Biology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Fall 1962

Harry Harlow, Professor of Psychology, University of Wisconsin

Fall 1961

William Haller, Professor of English, Barnard College, Columbia University

Spring 1961

Meyer Shapiro, Professor of Fine Arts, Columbia University

Spring 1960