| Title |
Lecturer |
Year |
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Is This Your Only Life?
|
Mark Johnston |
2026 |
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The Constitutional Right to Transition: Reconstruction and the Political History of Transphobia
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Jules Gill-Peterson |
2026 |
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The Soul – Spirit is My Altar
|
Marta Moreno Vega, PhD |
2025 |
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Agency, Urgency, and Hope: Science and Scientists Serving Society
|
The Honorable Jane Lubchenco, Ph.D. |
2025 |
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Forging a New Political System, 2024 and Beyond
|
Heather Cox Richardson in Conversation with Dylan Penningroth |
2025 |
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Evolution and Animal Minds
|
Peter Godfrey-Smith |
2025 |
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Bringing Public Health to Light: Reimagining Impact Through Visibility, Voice, and New Pathways
|
Katelyn Jetelina |
2025 |
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Can a Liberal Polity Survive the Politics of Grievance?
|
Mark Blyth |
2025 |
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Three Ages and Three Intelligences: Exploit, Explore, Empower
|
Alison Gopnik |
2025 |
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Do Cash Transfers Save Lives?
|
Edward Miguel |
2024 |
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The Arc of Energy Justice: A Pursuit to Ensure Affordable, Reliable, and Clean Energy for All
|
Tony G. Reames |
2024 |
|
The Search for Paradise
|
Sudipta Kaviraj |
2024 |
|
Character and Agency
|
Susan Wolf |
2024 |
|
The Deadly Trade in Oil and Gas
|
Bill McKibben |
2024 |
|
American Thanatocracy vs Abolition Democracy: On Cops, Capitalism, and the War on Black Life
|
Robin D. G. Kelley |
2024 |
|
A Liberalism That Builds
|
Ezra Klein in Conversation with Amy Lerman |
2023 |
|
Constructing a Republican Executive
|
Michael W. McConnell |
2023 |
|
Slavery in the Economy of the Anthropocene
|
Kevin Bales |
2023 |
|
Self-Consciousness and ‘I’ – Anscombe and Sartre in Dialogue
|
Béatrice Longuenesse |
2023 |
|
Creating Equality of Opportunity: New Insights from Big Data
|
Raj Chetty |
2023 |
|
American Democracy and the Crisis of Majority Rule
|
Daniel Ziblatt |
2023 |
|
Metrics in Action: Lessons Learned from 30 Years of the Global Burden of Disease Study
|
Christopher J.L. Murray |
2022 |
|
21st Century Global Health Priorities
|
Christopher J.L. Murray |
2022 |
|
The Social Safety Net as an Investment in Children
|
Hilary Hoynes |
2022 |
|
A New Measure: The Revolutionary, Quantum Reform of the Modern Metric System
|
William D. Phillips |
2022 |
|
Time, Einstein, and the Coolest Stuff in the Universe
|
William D. Phillips |
2022 |
|
The Demarcation Problem for Philosophy
|
Stephen Yablo |
2022 |
|
Counterfactuals, Compatiblism, and Rational Choice
|
Robert Stalnaker |
2021 |
|
Weaponizing Narratives: Why America Wants Gun Control But Doesn’t Have It
|
Gary Younge |
2020 |
|
Progress in the Sciences and in the Arts
|
Philip Kitcher |
2019 |
|
In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa’s Food Legacy in the Atlantic World
|
Judith Carney |
2019 |
|
On Uncertainty: Wittgenstein: Habits of Thought and Thoughts of Habit
|
Jane Taylor |
2019 |
|
DEEP SOUL: Twentieth-Century African American Freedom Struggles and the Making of the Modern World
|
Waldo E. Martin, Jr. |
2019 |
|
Prison Abolition, and a Mule
|
Paul Butler |
2019 |
|
State Courts and School Desegregation: New Perspectives on Judicial Federalism and the Myth of Parity
|
Associate Justice Goodwin Liu |
2019 |
|
The Moral Economy: Why Good Incentives are No Substitute for Good Citizens
|
Samuel Bowles |
2019 |
|
The Assault on Empathy: The Promise of Artificial Intimacy
|
Sherry Turkle |
2019 |
|
The Assault on Empathy: The Promise of a Friction-Free Life
|
Sherry Turkle |
2019 |
|
Shaping a 21st Century Workforce – Is AI Friend or Foe?
|
Jennifer Granholm |
2018 |
|
Neoliberalism’s Scorpion Tail: Markets and Morals Where Democracy Once Was
|
Wendy Brown |
2018 |
|
Identity and Social Bonds
|
Joseph Raz |
2018 |
|
Why Do People Reject Good Science?
|
Eugenie C. Scott |
2018 |
|
Evolution and Creationism as Science and Myth
|
Eugenie C. Scott |
2018 |
|
Investing in People–(Update: This Event has been Cancelled)
|
Michael Tubbs |
2018 |
|
Souls in Other Selves, and the Immortality of the Body
|
Marilyn Strathern |
2018 |
|
Defending Liberty in the Age of Trump: Lessons from the Front
|
David Cole |
2018 |
|
Strangers in Their Own Land: Challenges Climbing the “Empathy Wall”
|
Arlie Hochschild |
2017 |
|
The Real ‘Skin in the Game’: The History of Naked, Sweaty, and Colorful Skin in the Human Lineage
|
Nina Jablonski |
2017 |
|
The Cost of Color: The Health and Social Consequences of Skin Color for People Today
|
Nina Jablonski |
2017 |
|
Cicero’s De Officiis – Stoic Ethics for Non-Stoics
|
Gisela Striker |
2017 |
|
Food Politics and the Twenty-First Century Food Movement
|
Marion Nestle |
2017 |
|
The Language of Friendship: The Role of Talk in an Understudied Relationship
|
Deborah Tannen |
2017 |
|
Conversations on the Small Screen: Talking over Social Media
|
Deborah Tannen |
2017 |
|
American Identity in the Age of Trump
|
George Packer |
2017 |
|
Can We Create Good Institutions?
|
Ann Swidler |
2016 |
|
Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination
|
Annette Gordon-Reed |
2016 |
|
Animal Selves and the Good
|
Christine M. Korsgaard |
2016 |
|
Embodied Souls — Lessons from Neurology
|
V.S. Ramachandran |
2016 |
|
The Intrigue of Wine, Gold, and California Today
|
Frances Dinkelspiel |
2016 |
|
Why We Have Effective Agreements to Protect the Ozone Layer But Not to Stabilize Climate
|
Ralph J. Cicerone |
2016 |
|
Contemporary Climate Change as Seen Through Measurements
|
Ralph J. Cicerone |
2016 |
|
Federalism, Localism, and the Shape of Constitutional Conflict
|
Daniel B. Rodriguez |
2015 |
|
Imagine America without Los Angeles: Applying science to understand the vulnerability of modern society to natural disasters
|
Lucy Jones |
2015 |
|
The Challenges of Science Communication:
|
Lucy Jones |
2015 |
|
Immortality of the Soul – An Ancient Egyptian Invention?
|
Jan Assmann |
2015 |
|
The Switch: Reinventing American Freedom
|
John Fabian Witt |
2015 |
|
Healthcare 2024
|
Kathleen Sebelius |
2015 |
|
Women’s Work in the World Economy: A Personal & Political Perspective from Laura Tyson
|
Laura Tyson |
2015 |
|
The Philosophy of “As If”
|
Kwame Anthony Appiah |
2015 |
|
The Children of the Revolution
|
Yuri Slezkine |
2014 |
|
A Neanderthal Perspective on Human Origins
|
Svante Pääbo |
2014 |
|
Were the Framers Right About Constitutional Design? The US Constitution in Comparative Perspective
|
Tom Ginsburg |
2014 |
|
Where the Wild Genes Are
|
Aihwa Ong |
2014 |
|
The Theoretical Impulse in Plato and Aristotle
|
Sarah Broadie |
2014 |
|
The First U.S. ‘War on Terror’: The 1798 Sedition Act and Constitutional Politics in the Age of Jefferson
|
Charles McCurdy |
2014 |
|
How Can Telomeres Cause Age-Related Disease?
|
Carol Greider |
2014 |
|
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
|
Steven Pinker |
2014 |
|
Telomeres and Telomerase: Past, Present and Future
|
Carol Greider |
2014 |
|
The Elephant in the Room: The Psychology of Innuendo & Euphemism
|
Steven Pinker |
2014 |
|
Do Babies Matter? Gender and Family in the Ivory Tower
|
Mary Ann Mason |
2013 |
|
Fulbright and the Importance of International Education
|
Harriet Mayor Fulbright |
2013 |
|
Considering Dogs
|
Alexandra Horowitz |
2013 |
|
Reason, Genealogy, and the Hermeneutics of Magnanimity
|
Robert Brandom |
2013 |
|
The Riddle of Sustainability: A Surprisingly Short History of the Future
|
William Cronon |
2013 |
|
Island Landscapes, Or Sauer Among the Polynesians
|
Patrick V. Kirch |
2013 |
|
Why White People Are Called ‘Caucasian’ (Illustrated)
|
Nell Painter |
2013 |
|
The Quest for Heaven is Local: How Spiritual Experience is Shaped by Social Life
|
Tanya Luhrmann |
2013 |
|
Happiness and Ultimate Good
|
Peter Singer |
2012 |
|
Obama, the Tea Party, and the Future of American Politics
|
Theda Skocpol |
2012 |
|
A Passion for Waiting: Messianism, History, and the Jews
|
Leon Wieseltier |
2012 |
|
Intelligence and the Brain: Recent Advances in Understanding How the Brain Works
|
Jeff Hawkins |
2012 |
|
Income Inequality: Evidence and Implications
|
Emmanuel Saez |
2012 |
|
Living with Direct Democracy: The California Supreme Court and the Initiative Power — 100 Years of Accommodation
|
Kathryn M. Werdegar |
2012 |
|
Death and the Ancient Philosophers
|
Jonathan Barnes |
2012 |
|
Intelligence and Machines: Creating Intellligent Machines by Modeling the Brain
|
Jeff Hawkins |
2012 |
|
Aftershock: The Next Economy and America’s Future
|
Robert Reich |
2011 |