Recent Speakers

2010
Martha Nussbaum, Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics
The Law School, University of Chicago
"Same-sex Marriage and Constitutional Law: Beyond the Politics of Disgust"

2008
David Zarefsky, Owen L. Coon Professor of Communication Studies,
Northwestern University
"Abraham Lincoln and the House Divided: A Study in Public Argument and Politics"

2007
Peter Singer, philosopher
"The Ethics of What We Eat"

Various speakers
"Celebration of the Humanities"

2003
Salman Rushdie, author
"Step across This Line: An Evening with Salman Rushdie"

2002
Karen Armstrong, renowned scholar and author
"The Battle for God: Fundamentalism in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam"

2001
Art Spiegelman, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and artist
"Comix 101: A Tour of the Evolution of Comics"

2000
Robert Pinsky, poet laureate of the United States
"The Sounds of Poetry"