Past Speakers
2011-2012 |
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John Dean President Nixon's White House lawyer and central figure in Watergate |
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Heidi Cullen Interim CEO of Climate Central and the Weather Channel's first on-air climate expert |
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David Diers/Dale Schuit/Ann Vendrely Noted physical therapists discussing injury prevention for runners |
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Erin Gruwell Educator, author and President of the Freedom Writers Foundation |
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James B. Stewart New York Times columnist and author of "Tangled Webs: How False Statements are Undermining America" |
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Michele Norris Co-host of NPR's "All Things Considered" |
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Molly Cummings Biologist, University of Texas at Austin |
2010-2011 |
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Byron Pitts Emmy award-winning journalist for CBS News and 60 Minutes correspondent |
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Eugene Robinson Washington Post columnist, author and MSNBC regular |
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Richard Roeper Film critic and columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times |
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Meghan McCain Author and blogger |
2009-2010 |
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Bryan
Burrough Special correspondent at Vanity Fair magazine and the author of five books, including the bestselling “Public Enemies: America’s Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34” |
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Mitch Albom Author of “Tuesdays with Morrie,” “The Five People You Meet in Heaven” and “For One More Day” |
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Jeffrey Zaslow Columnist for The Wall Street Journal and co-author of the current international bestseller “The Last Lecture” |
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Andrew Young Ambassador, congressman, mayor, civil rights pioneer, humanitarian, ordained minister, international businessman and sports enthusiast |
2008-2009 |
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Kathleen Hall-Jamieson Professor and the co-author of "unSpun: Finding Facts in a World of Disinformation" |
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Bill Kurtis Veteran broadcast journalist |
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Jeffrey Toobin Senior Analyst for CNN and staff writer for The New Yorker |
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Robert Osborne Primetime host and anchor of Turner Classic Movies television network and official biographer of the Academy Awards |
2007-2008 |
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Vincent Bugliosi Former Los Angeles prosecutor who convicted Charles Mansion and author of "Helter Skelter" |
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Frank Deford Veteran sportswriter, author, and NPR commentator |
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John Douglas Pioneer in criminal profiling and a former FBI Special Agent |
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Marlee Matlin Actress and author |
2006-2007 |
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Jim Bittermann CNN’s senior European correspondent |
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Amy Tan Acclaimed novelist of several books including “The Joy Luck Club,” “The Bonesetter’s Daughter,” and “Saving Fish from Drowning” |
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Nancy Grace CNN Legal analyst and victim’s rights advocate |
2005-2006 |
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Bob Woodward Best selling author and legendary investigative reporter who forever changed history by breaking the story of Watergate for the Washington Post with his partner Carl Bernstein |
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Ruth Ozeki Award winning filmmaker and novelist |
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Russell Banks New England writer famous for novels “Affliction” and “The Sweet Hereafter” both made into critically acclaimed movies |
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Patti Davis Daughter of the late president Ronald Reagan, author of several books including “The Way I See It” Angel Don’t Die” and “The Long Goodbye” |
2004-2005 | |
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Garrison Keillor Noted author and story-teller, host of National Public Radio’s “A Prairie Home Companion” |
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Tim O'Brien Vietnam veteran and author of several books, including “The Things They Carried,” “Tomkat in Love,” and “July, July” |
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Paul Loeb Author and social activist, an affiliate scholar at Seattle’s Center for Ethnic Leadership |
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Carole Simpson Emmy winning journalist |
2003-2004 |
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Leon Panetta President Clinton’s Chief of staff, co-director of the Leon and Sylvia Panetta Institute for Public policy at California State University |
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Barbara Ehrenreich Essayist and social critic, author of “Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America” |
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Jim Lovell Commander of the perilous Apollo 13 mission, chronicled the Apollo 13 mission in the book “Lost Moon” |
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Erik Larson Author of the international best-seller “Isaac’s Storm” and National Book Award nominee “The Devil in the White City” |
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Christopher Kyle A Terre Haute native and ISU alumnus, is currently working on a screenplay based on Erik Larson’s bestseller, “The Devil in the White City” |
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Dave Barry Pulitzer prize-winning columnist and author |
2002-2003 |
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Dr. Robert Ballard Explorer of the Titanic wreckage, John F. Kennedy’s PT 109 boat, the WWII American aircraft carrier, Yorktown |
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Lawson Inada Poet and author of nationally recognized books, “Legends from Camp,” “Drawing the Line” and “The Seven Lessons of Humanity” |
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Andy Rooney Best known for his Sunday evening essays on CBS' “60 Minutes” and winner of six Writers Guild Awards for best script of the year |
2001-2002
Elizabeth Norman
Nurse and the daughter of two World War II veterans, she has published two books,
“Women at War” and “We Band of Angels” -both about the experiences of military nurses
Richard Preston
Best-selling author in the field of bioterrorism
Charles Johnson
Novelist, essayist, critic, philosopher, illustrator, screenwriter and playwright.
Prestigious National Book Award winner for “Middle Passage”
Lee Hamilton
Former Indiana congressman who served on the Foreign Affairs committee during his entire tenure,
director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C.
Jean Kilbourne
Author and researcher
2000-2001
Stephen Jay Gould
Evolutionary biologist and interpreter of science and its
complex social consequences, author of award-winning books,
“The Panda’s Thumb” and “The Mismeasure of Man,” Harvard
University faculty member
Peter Schickele
Composer, musician, author, satirist, host of “Schickele Mix,”
four Grammy Awards for Best Comedy Album for his P.D.Q. Bach
Reuben Greenberg
Chief of police, Charleston, S.C., served law enforcement
agencies in San Francisco, Savannah, Mobile, Florida,
author of “Let’s Take Back Our Streets,”
Jane Hamilton
Best-selling novelist, author of “The Book of Ruth,”
“A Map of the World,” and “The Short History of a Prince”
Loung Ung
National spokesperson for the campaign for a Landmine Free World,
author of “First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers,”
and eyewitness account of the savagery exhibited by the Khmer Rouge during
that country’s civil war
1999-2000
James Randi
World-renowned magician, skeptic, author, lecturer
Eva Mozes Kor
Holocaust survivor, founder of C.A.N.D.L.E.S. Holocaust Museum and
Education Center in Terre Haute
Robert Pinsky
39th poet laureate of the United States, graduate writing program, Boston University
Abraham Verghese, M.D.
Infectious disease specialist, witnessed firsthand the spread of AIDS and wrote
“My Own Country: A Doctor’s Story”
James M. McPherson
Preeminent contemporary historian on the Civil War
1998-1999
Ronald Takaki
Nation’s foremost spokesperson for multicultural education,
professor of Ethic Studies, U of California, Berkeley
Karen Armstrong
One of the foremost commentators on religious affairs,
London’s Leo Baeck College for the Study of Judaism
Donna Lopiano
Executive director of the Women’s Sports Foundation
Sister Helen Prejean
Involved in prison ministry where she counseled Death row inmates,
Louisiana State Penitentiary, “Dead Man Walking”
James Wines
Designed more that 150 architectural, interior design,
public space, and landscape architecture projects for
corporate clients, lectured over architecture and environmental
design in over 30 countries
1997-1998
Robert Bakker
Paleontologist whose research interests include mass extinction and cycles of worldwide
eco-system collapse, author of “The Dinosaur Heresies”
Norma Cantu
Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Education
Margarethe Cammermeyer
Highest ranking officer separated from military after revealing she was a lesbian
Frank Sulloway
Scholar on the history of science, Harvard University
Lawrence Krauss
Theoretical physicist, Case Western Reserve University
1996-1997
Francis Fukuyama
Profound futurist, presentation concerned future of society and social virtues,
wrote widely on Soviet foreign policy in the Third World, member of the
United State delegation to the Egyptian-Israeli talks on Palestinian
autonomy
James Autry
Jet fighter pilot, poet and consultant on leadership and
management thinking and author of four books
Sherry Turkle
Professor of sociology in the program of science, technology and Society of
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Carl Djerassi
Chemist and Stanford University professor, researched the chemistry
of steroids, structure of antibiotics, and the synthesis of drugs
Gregory Williams
Dean and professor of law and political science at the Ohio State
University College of Law, author of best selling memoir
“Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy Who
Discovered He was Black”
1995-1996
Harry Edwards
Professor of sociology at the University of California-Berkeley,
concentration on black athletes in the world of sports and their education
Terry Waite
British hostage negotiator who spent five years in captivity in
Beirut, founder chairman of Y-Care International
Wilma Mankiller
Principle chief of the Cherokee Nation since 1987
Juan Williams
Among the nation’s foremost political analysts, author of PBS series
“Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965.”
Joycelyn Elders
Former U.S. Surgeon General, pediatric endocrinologist, cites violence,
sexually transmitted diseases, poverty, and substance abuse as biggest
threat to children’s health
1994-1995
Cornel West
Professor of Afro-American studies and philosophy of religion,
Harvard University, author of “Race Matters”
Chinua Achebe
Charles P. Stevenson Professor of Literature, Bard College,
“The Education of the British-Protected Child”
1993-1994
Leon Lederman
President, American Association for the Advancement of
Science, Nobel Prize Winning Physicist, Illinois Science and Math Academy
Maya Angelou
Poet, educator, historian, best-selling author, actress, playwright,
civil-rights activist, producer and director
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
Pulitzer prize winning author and historian
Jesse Jackson, Jr.
Attorney-at-law, human rights and political activist, president
of the “Keep Hope Alive” political action committee, vice-president
at-large of Operation PUSH
Judith Katz
Author, leader in cultural diversity training programs
1992-1993
Syd Mead
Set designer for “Star-Trek – The Motion Picture," “Blade Runner”, “Aliens” and “Tron”
James Burke
Science correspondent for the BBC, television host of “Connections” on PBS and author of
“2050 – Life After the Greenhouse Effect,”
Frances Moore Lappe and Paul Dubois
Co-founders of the Institute for Food and Development policy
Ann McLaughlin
Secretary of labor for the Reagan Administration
Arthur Levine
Chairperson for the Institute for Educational Management at Harvard Graduate School
and author of “Shaping Higher Education’s Future”
1991-1992
Joan Embery
Goodwill ambassador, Zoological Society of San Diego, California
Anthony P. Carnevale
Chief economist, American society for Training and Development
Daniel Janzen
Professor of biology, University of Pennsylvania
Faye Wattleton
President, Planned Parenthood Federation of America
Lester R. Brown
President, Worldwatch Institute
1990-1991
Kenneth H. Cooper, M.D.
Founder/president of the Aerobics Center, Dallas, Texas
Andrei Codrescu
Romanian poet/essayist/English professor
C. Everett Koop
Former U.S. Surgeon General
Donald Woods
Exiled South African journalist
Isabel Allende
Exiled Chilean novelist, journalist and dramatist
Wu’er Kaizi and Jun Chen
Student leaders in the democratic movement of The People’s Republic of China
1989-1990
Jonathan Kozol
Activist, author of Illiterate America
Naomi Tutu-Seavers
Chairperson of Tutu Foundation and daughter of South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Reginald Wilson
Senior scholar, American Council on Education
Martha Layne Collins
Former governor of Kentucky
1988-1989
Jack Anderson
Nationally syndicated columnist
Robert Gale
United States medical representatives to Chernobyl
Ernest L. Boyer
President of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
Stephen Jay Gould
Science historian
1987-1988
Lord Harold Wilson
Former Prime Minister of Great Britain
Gerald R. Ford
38th president of the United States
Fred Friendly
Former CBS News executive
Gilbert Grosvenor
President of the National Geographic Society
1986-1987
Father Andrew Greeley
Best-selling novelist and sociologist
Richard Leakey
Anthropologist
John Brademas
President of New York University and former U.S. Representative from Indiana
Madeleine Leininger
Founder of the field of transcultural nursing
1985-1986
Abba Eban
Former Israeli ambassador to the United State and United Nations
Joseph P. Allen
Former astronaut from Indiana
Robert Coles
Pulitzer prize-winning author and social psychologist
1984-1985
Dr. Chen Ning Yang
Nobel laureate in physics
Harry Edwards
Sports sociologist
Marshall Mason
Founder of Circle Repertory Company and New York theater critic
Paul McCracken
Economist and former chairman of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers
1983-1984
Willian F. Buckley
Political commentator
Carolyn Heilbrun
Feminist writer
Maya Angelou, poet
Author, screenwriter
Richard Leakey
Anthropologist
1982-1983
Martin Marty
Historian of religion
Kenneth Boulding
Economist and social scientist
Lawrence Kohlberg
Developmental psychologist
Ralph Nader
Consumer advocate
1981-1982
John Hope Franklin
Historian
Jean Michel Cousteau
Environmentalist
Melvin Kranzberg
Historian of technology
1980-1981
James Watson
Nobel laureate in physics
Juanita Kreps
Economist and former secretary of commerce
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