| Title | Lecturer | Year |
| Forging a New Political System, 2024 and Beyond | Heather Cox Richardson in Conversation with Dylan Penningroth | 2025 |
| Agency, Urgency, and Hope: Science and Scientists Serving Society | The Honorable Jane Lubchenco, Ph.D. | 2025 |
| The Soul – Spirit is My Altar | Marta Moreno Vega, PhD | 2025 |
| American Thanatocracy vs Abolition Democracy: On Cops, Capitalism, and the War on Black Life | Robin D. G. Kelley | 2024 |
| The Deadly Trade in Oil and Gas | Bill McKibben | 2024 |
| Character and Agency | Susan Wolf | 2024 |
| The Search for Paradise | Sudipta Kaviraj | 2024 |
| The Arc of Energy Justice: A Pursuit to Ensure Affordable, Reliable, and Clean Energy for All | Tony G. Reames | 2024 |
| Do Cash Transfers Save Lives? | Edward Miguel | 2024 |
| American Democracy and the Crisis of Majority Rule | Daniel Ziblatt | 2023 |
| Creating Equality of Opportunity: New Insights from Big Data | Raj Chetty | 2023 |
| A Liberalism That Builds | Ezra Klein in Conversation with Amy Lerman | 2023 |
| Self-Consciousness and ‘I’ – Anscombe and Sartre in Dialogue | Béatrice Longuenesse | 2023 |
| Slavery in the Economy of the Anthropocene | Kevin Bales | 2023 |
| Constructing a Republican Executive | Michael W. McConnell | 2023 |
| Metrics in Action: Lessons Learned from 30 Years of the Global Burden of Disease Study | Christopher J.L. Murray | 2022 |
| The Demarcation Problem for Philosophy | Stephen Yablo | 2022 |
| Time, Einstein, and the Coolest Stuff in the Universe | William D. Phillips | 2022 |
| A New Measure: The Revolutionary, Quantum Reform of the Modern Metric System | William D. Phillips | 2022 |
| The Social Safety Net as an Investment in Children | Hilary Hoynes | 2022 |
| 21st Century Global Health Priorities | Christopher J.L. Murray | 2022 |
| Counterfactuals, Compatiblism, and Rational Choice | Robert Stalnaker | 2021 |
| Weaponizing Narratives: Why America Wants Gun Control But Doesn’t Have It | Gary Younge | 2020 |
| The Assault on Empathy: The Promise of a Friction-Free Life | Sherry Turkle | 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 |
| Progress in the Sciences and in the Arts | Philip Kitcher | 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 |
| Neoliberalism’s Scorpion Tail: Markets and Morals Where Democracy Once Was | Wendy Brown | 2018 |
| Shaping a 21st Century Workforce – Is AI Friend or Foe? | Jennifer Granholm | 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 |
| 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 |
| Strangers in Their Own Land: Challenges Climbing the “Empathy Wall” | Arlie Hochschild | 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 |
| Animal Selves and the Good | Christine M. Korsgaard | 2016 |
| Contemporary Climate Change as Seen Through Measurements | Ralph J. Cicerone | 2016 |
| Why We Have Effective Agreements to Protect the Ozone Layer But Not to Stabilize Climate | Ralph J. Cicerone | 2016 |
| The Intrigue of Wine, Gold, and California Today | Frances Dinkelspiel | 2016 |
| Embodied Souls — Lessons from Neurology | V.S. Ramachandran | 2016 |
| Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination | Annette Gordon-Reed | 2016 |
| Can We Create Good Institutions? | Ann Swidler | 2016 |
| The Philosophy of “As If” | Kwame Anthony Appiah | 2015 |
| Women’s Work in the World Economy: A Personal & Political Perspective from Laura Tyson | Laura Tyson | 2015 |
| Healthcare 2024 | Kathleen Sebelius | 2015 |
| The Switch: Reinventing American Freedom | John Fabian Witt | 2015 |
| Immortality of the Soul – An Ancient Egyptian Invention? | Jan Assmann | 2015 |
| The Challenges of Science Communication: | Lucy Jones | 2015 |
| Imagine America without Los Angeles: Applying science to understand the vulnerability of modern society to natural disasters | Lucy Jones | 2015 |
| Federalism, Localism, and the Shape of Constitutional Conflict | Daniel B. Rodriguez | 2015 |
| A Neanderthal Perspective on Human Origins | Svante Pääbo | 2014 |
| The Children of the Revolution | Yuri Slezkine | 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 |
| Roving Mars: Spirit, Opportunity, and the Exploration of the Red Planet | Steven Squyres | 2011 |
| Diffusion, Deflection and Diversity: A Geographic Perspective on Contemporary Immigration | Marie D. Price | 2011 |
| The Future of Planetary Exploration | Steven Squyres | 2011 |
| The American Experiment: A 21st Century Assessment | Rogers M. Smith | 2011 |
| Sharia in the West? What Place for Religious Legal Systems in America and Other Democracies | John Witte, Jr. | 2011 |
| Everyday Life and Learning | Jean Lave | 2011 |
