Charles D. Tenney Distinguished Lecturer Series
Martin Marty, theologian
Univ. of Chicago
Sept. 16, 1987
Robert Lucky, electrical engineer
Bell Labs
Oct. 29, 1987
Jane Bryant Quinn, economist
Newsweek, Washington Post
April 8, 1988
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., historian, JFK advisor
April 26, 1989
Mario del Chiaro, archaeologist
UC Santa Barbara
Oct. 12, 1989
Jane Goodall, ethologist,
Gombe Stream Research Centre
April 16, 1990
Edward Albee, playwright
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Oct. 8, 1990
Terrel Bell, former
U.S. Secretary of Education
April 9, 1991
Neil Sheehan, journalist/historian Bright Shining Lie
Oct. 14, 1991
Maxine Hong Kingston, novelist
The Art of Storytelling
April 22, 1992
Joan O'Brien, classical scholar
The Quest for Hera and Her Heroes
Nov. 11, 1992
Lou Gossett, Jr., actor
Race Relations in Hollywood
April 5, 1993
Anthony Bouza, Bronx Police Chief
How to Stop Crime
March 8, 1994
Molly Ivins, political columnist
Molly Ivins Can't Say That Here, Can She?
April 24, 1994
David Levy, astronomer
Jupiter: The Collision of the Century
Nov. 16, 1994
Robert Bakker, paleontologist
Jurassic Park is Just North of Laramie
April 18, 1995
Clarence Page, editorial writer
Political Life in the "Newt" World Order
March 5, 1996
Dixie Carter, actress
Opinions of a Tennessee Talker
April 3, 1996
Naomi Wolf, critic
Fire With Fire: the New Female Power
March 6, 1997
Harvey Gantt, architect/politician
Architecture of the New Democratic Party
April 23, 1997
Joe Clark, high-school principal
Lean On Me
March 25, 1998
Karen Armstrong, religious historian
History of God
April 14, 1998
David Levy, astronomer
Still the Home of the Gods?
April 12, 1999
Janet Baum, architect
The Science of Architecture
March 6, 2000
Kent Haruf, novelist
The music of 'Plainsong'
April 25, 2000
Lee Newsom, anthropologist
Blackbeard and Other Pirates
Sept. 26, 2000
Craig Smith, novelist
Crimes of Passion: Writing about Murder
March 20, 2001
Jann Primus, geneticist
Flies, Genomes, and Dreams
April 3, 2001
Izumi Shimada, anthropologist
Treasure Older than the Incas
Sept. 19, 2001
David Halberstam, journalist
America, Then and Now
March 19, 2002
Clarence Harmon,
St. Louis mayor
War and Peace in Our Cities
April 24, 2002
Beth Lordan, writer
Sept. 24, 2002
Mike Lawrence, journalist
Running for Office vs. Running THE Office
Feb. 18, 2003
Tom Ulrich, photographer
Once upon a Frame
March 19, 2003
Nancy Ramage, art historian
21st-Century
Reflections of Pompeii
April 22, 2003
Story Musgrave, astronaut, physician
A Space Story
Oct. 7, 2003
Jon Farris, actor, director
Acting on the American Stage
Feb. 10, 2004
Allison Joseph, poet
March 16, 2004
Tom Wayman, Canadian poet
Did I Miss Anything?
Oct. 26, 2004
Michael Hanes, bandleader
Strike Up the Band!
Feb. 22, 2005
Robert Hahn, philosopher
Winning, Losing, and Love
April 5, 2005
David Levy, astronomer
Poetry of the Night Sky
Feb. 7, 2006
Paul Mundschenk, religion scholar
Spiritual, but not really Religious
April 4, 2006
Father Joseph Brown, theologian, poet
A Reading from His Work
Oct. 10, 2006
Alfred Lubrano, author and journalist
Limbo: Blue Collar Roots, White-Collar Dreams
Apr. 10, 2007
Dr. Rick Williams,
Emerita professor, SIUC
Is Sophocles Out Of Date : The Importance of Tradition in Tradition Free Society
Nov. 13, 2007
Patricia Ryan Madson,
Emerita professor, Stanford University and Author
Improv Wisdom : Don't Prepare Just Show Up
April 8th, 2008
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University Honors Distinguished Lecture Series
Sir David Attenborough, naturalist
The Living Planet
Feb. 5, 1986
† Leon Forrest, novelist
Two Wings to Veil My Face
Feb. 19, 1986
† John Barth, novelist
Chimera
March 5, 1986
† Susan Sontag, critic
Illness as Metaphor
March 26, 1986
† Paul W. Schilpp, philosopher
Library of Living Philosophers
April 23, 1986
† Stephen Jay Gould, scientist
Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes
Oct. 15, 1986
† Pauline Kael, film critic
New Yorker
Nov. 7, 1986
Paule Marshall, novelist
Brown Girl, Brownstones
Feb. 5, 1987
† Isaac Singer, author
Nobel laureate
April 22, 1987
Alison Lurie, novelist
Sept. 29, 1987
Richard Leakey, anthropologist
National Museums of Kenya
Nov. 5, 1987
Fred Graham, CBS Evening News
Feb. 5, 1988
Derek Walcott, poet
Nobel laureate
March 3, 1988
Peter Kuniholm, Cornell archaeologist
Dendrochronology
Sept. 13, 1988
Marjorie Scardino, publisher
Economist
Oct. 19, 1988
William F. Buckley, Jr., editor,
National Review
Jan. 26, 1989
Leon Lederman, physicist
Fermi Laboratories
Sept. 19, 1989
Ali Mazrui, author,
African-American scholar
Nov. 7, 1989
† Amy Clampitt, poet
What the Light Was Like
March 21, 1990
Jonathan Miller, physician/director
Laughing Matters
March 6, 1991
Gus Simmons, mathematician
Information Integrity: The Puzzling Science
Sept. 11, 1991
Dr. Renée Hartz, heart surgeon
Heart Disease and Women
Feb. 25, 1992
Mark Sagoff, philosopher
Biotechnology and the Idea of Nature
March 9, 1993
Joshua Handler, Greenpeace researcher
Nuclear Pollution in Russia
Nov. 16, 1993
Rodney Jones, poet
March 7, 1995
Chris Bury, political reporter
Presidential Politics and the Press
Nov. 6, 1995
Andrei Codrescu, novelist, poet
An Immigrant's Life in America
Sept. 17, 1996
Frederick Ahl, classicist, actor
Why Tragedy is Funny
Nov. 8, 1999
Garrison Keillor,
humorist
Lake Wobegon Days
Oct. 3, 2005
John Downing, author,
Director of Global Media and Research Center @ SIUC
The Imperiled ’American’: Visual Culture, Nationality and U.S Foreign Policy
Feb. 20 2007
Sean Carroll , Geneticist and Author,
The making of the Fittest
Feb. 12 2008 |
Michael and Nancy Glassman University Honors Lecture Series
Jonathan Miller, physician/director
Language, Talk, and Conversation
Oct. 6, 1992
Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor,
Nobel laureate
Sept. 9, 1993
Jeane Kirkpatrick,
U.N. Ambassador
Authoritarianism, Totalitarianism
Oct. 13, 1994
Calvin Trillin, humorist
Too Soon to Tell
Sept. 19, 1995
David Levy, astronomer
There's More in Heaven, Horatio
Nov. 19, 1996
John Updike, novelist
Oct. 8, 1997
Douglass Parker, classical scholar
Zeus in Therapy
Oct. 5, 1998
Carl Bernstein, investigative journalist
All the Editor's Men
Sept. 7, 1999
† Paul Simon,
U.S. Senator
Presidential Politics
Oct. 19, 2000
Neil Tyson, astrophysicist
The Sky is NOT the Limit
Oct. 19, 2001
Anne Simon, biochemist
The Real Science behind The X-Files
Oct. 23, 2002
Seymour Hersh, author, essayist
The Price of Power
Oct. 28, 2003
Ellen Goodman, columnist
Common Sense in Uncommon Times
Sept. 21, 2004
Jonathan Penner, novelist
This is My Voice
Nov. 8, 2005
Judith Viorst, author
Necessary Losses
Sept. 26, 2006
Eugene Jarecki, Doucumentary Film Maker
Why We Fight
Sept. 18, 2007
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Black History Keynoters
1990-99
Milton Morris, political scientist
Knowledge for Freedom
Feb. 6, 1990
Yolanda King, actress
The Dream is Still a Dream
Jan. 31, 1991
Benjamin Shepherd, SIUC Provost
An Agenda for Tomorrow
Feb. 4, 1992
Charles Johnson, novelist
Recovering Our Past through the Novel
Feb. 1, 1993
Wilfred Delphin, † Edwin Romain,
pianists
What? No Jazz?
Feb. 1, 1994
Brent Staples, editorial writer
Growing Up in Black and White
Feb. 2, 1995
Glenn Loury, economist
Individualism Before Multiculturalism
Feb. 1, 1996
† Robert Guthrie, psychologist
Even the Rat Was White
Feb. 4, 1997
Elizabeth Lewin, Carbondale School Superintendent
Schools: Society's Silver Lining?
Feb. 3, 1998
Bill Norwood, aviator
The Sky's the Limit
Feb. 1, 1999
Ward Morton-David Kenney Public Affairs Lecture Series
1995-99
Dale Bumpers, U.S. Senator
Public Service: A Worthy Career
April 21, 1995
Jean Bethke Elshtain, philosopher
Democracy on Trial
Oct. 10, 1995
Donald Fowler, DNC National Chairman
The 1996 Presidential Campaign
May 2, 1996
Michael Barone, U.S. News & World Report
Politics of '96
Oct. 1, 1996
William Kristol, analyst/publisher
Washington: a Political Update
March 17, 1997
Brocton Lockwood, attorney/jurist
Declining Power & Prestige of the Judiciary
Sept. 30, 1997
Jorge Castañeda, Mexican historian
Mexican-U.S. Relations
Jan. 27, 1998
Linda Chavez, Civil Rights Commissioner
Out of the Barrio
Oct. 27, 1998
James Fallows, journalist, author
News Media and the Decline of Democracy
March 2, 1999
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