| Title | Lecturer | Year |
| 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 |
| Mission Blue: Protecting the Blue Heart of the Planet | Sylvia Earle | 2011 |
| Exploring the Deep Frontier | Sylvia Earle | 2011 |
| War Veterans and American Democracy | James Wright | 2010 |
| From Salvation to Spirituality | Susumu Shimazono | 2010 |
| Environmentalism: From the Control of Nature to Partnership | Carolyn Merchant | 2010 |
| A Forum on the Experience of Veterans in American Society | James Wright | 2010 |
| Japanese American Incarceration Reconsidered: 1970-2010 | Roger Daniels | 2010 |
| Entering the RNA World | Sidney Altman | 2010 |
| Ribonuclease P: A Small Step in the RNA World | Sidney Altman | 2010 |
| Studying Economic Behavior in Unusual Places: From Deal or No Deal to the National Football League | Richard H. Thaler | 2010 |
| Rethinking Regulation after the Financial Crisis and the Oil Spill: A Behavioral Approach | Richard H. Thaler | 2010 |
| Proof, Truth, Hands, and Mind | Ian Hacking | 2010 |
| Thinking and Talking About the Self | John Perry | 2009 |
| The Great Transitions in Evolution: Finding Fossils, Studying Genes, and Bridging Gaps | Neil Shubin | 2009 |
| Wings, Legs, and Fins: How Do New Organs Arise in Evolution | Neil Shubin | 2009 |
| Emerging Infectious Diseases and Global Health | Lucy Shapiro | 2009 |
| The Systems Architecture of a Bacterial Cell Cycle | Lucy Shapiro | 2009 |
| An Invitation to Struggle: The Constitution, The Military, and Political Accountability | David M. Kennedy | 2009 |
| Technology, Democracy, and the Law | Steven Usselman | 2009 |
| Explaining Transformation: Material Miracles and Their Theorists in the Later Middle Ages | Carolyn Walker Bynum | 2009 |
| A Scientist Addresses Science Education | Leon Lederman | 2009 |
| A Sense of Wonder | Leon Lederman | 2009 |
| Carl O. Sauer: A Life Remembered | Michael Williams | 2009 |
| Natural Capitalism: The Next Industrial Revolution | Amory Lovins | 2008 |
| Thinking about Religion, Belief, and Politics | Talal Asad | 2008 |
| The Mystery of Guantanamo Bay | Linda Greenhouse | 2008 |
| Calcium, Proteins, Energy, and Life | Chikashi Toyoshima | 2008 |
| A Molecular Machine at Work: The Case of the Calcium Pump Protein | Chikashi Toyoshima | 2008 |
| God’s Problem and Human Solutions: How the Bible Explains Suffering | Bart Ehrman | 2008 |
| Physics and History: Links Between Two Cultures – Forged in the Baroque | John Heilbron | 2007 |
| Physics and History: Links Between Two Cultures – Fractured in Modernity | John Heilbron | 2007 |
| The War on Terror and the Rule of Law | Honorable A. Wallace Tashima | 2007 |
| The Challenges of Inequality and Global Capitalism to U.S. Democracy | Richard B. Freeman | 2007 |
| The Coming Collapse of the Middle Class: Higher Risks, Lower Rewards, and a Shrinking Safety Net | Elizabeth Warren | 2007 |
| From Thomas Jefferson to Forrest Gump: How the Mall in Washington Became the Nation’s Most Venerated Civic Space | Michael Kammen | 2007 |
| Explorations of the Mind-Intuition: The Marvels and the Flaws | Daniel Kahneman | 2007 |
| Explorations of the Mind-Happiness | Daniel Kahneman | 2007 |
| What We See | Fred Dretske | 2007 |
| The Ethics of Blame | Thomas Scanlon | 2007 |
| Equal Liberty of Conscience: Roger Williams and the Roots of a Constitutional Tradition | Martha Nussbaum | 2006 |
| The Quest for Consciousness: A Neurobiological Approach | Christof Koch | 2006 |
| What Is Our Universe Like in the Large, and How Did It Get That Way? – Exploring the Large-Scale Nature of the Universe | P. James E. Peebles | 2006 |
| What Is Our Universe Like in the Large, and How Did It Get That Way? – Triumphs and Challenges for Modern Cosmology | P. James E. Peebles | 2006 |
| From Egg to Adult and Back Again – How Does an Egg Make an Organism? Some General Principles | Sir John Gurdon | 2006 |
| From Egg to Adult and Back Again – Cloning, Stem Cells, and Cell Replacement | Sir John Gurdon | 2006 |
| Intention in Action | John McDowell | 2006 |
| Intimate Encounters with Molecules – Taming Molecular Wildness | Dudley Herschbach | 2005 |
| Intimate Encounters with Molecules – Breaking and Making Chemical Bonds | Dudley Herschbach | 2005 |
| Identity and Violence – The Violence of Illusion | Amartya Sen | 2005 |
| Identity and Violence – Making Sense of Identity | Amartya Sen | 2005 |
| Normativity | Judith Jarvis Thomson | 2005 |
| Exodus, Black Colonization, and Promised Lands | David Brion Davis | 2005 |
| Being No One: Consciousness, the Phenomenal Self, and the First-Person Perspective | Thomas Metzinger | 2004 |
| The Soul of Brutes: A Sixteenth Century Debate | Carlo Ginzburg | 2004 |
| The Humvee and the Apple Tree: Globalization or Americanization? | Ken Jowitt | 2004 |
| Changes in the Process of Aging during the Twentieth Century – Disparities in Chronic Diseases during the Course of the Twentieth Century | Robert W. Fogel | 2004 |
| Changes in the Process of Aging during the Twentieth Century – Common Analytical Errors in Explanations for Improvements in Health and Longevity | Robert W. Fogel | 2004 |
| Holding on to Atoms and Molecules with Lasers – Laser Cooling: From Atomic Clocks to Watching Biomolecules Move | Steven Chu | 2004 |
| Holding on to Atoms and Molecules with Lasers – What Can Physics Say about Life? | Steven Chu | 2004 |
| The Meaning of “Ouch” and “Oops” | David Kaplan | 2004 |
| Visual Democracy: Dorothea Lange and the Political Culture of the New Deal | Linda Gordon | 2004 |
| Trobriand Rebirth and the Fate of the Soul: An Old Debate Revisited | Gananath Obeyesekere | 2003 |
| Gene, Organism, and Environment: Bad Metaphors and Good Biology | Richard C. Lewontin | 2003 |
| The Concept of Race – The Confusion of Social and Biological Reality | Richard C. Lewontin | 2003 |
| Atomic and Molecular Astrophysics – The Synthesis of Molecules in the Universe | Alexander Dalgarno | 2003 |
| Atomic and Molecular Astrophysics – Comets and the Solar Wind | Alexander Dalgarno | 2003 |
| Transnational Legal Process after September 11 | Harold Hongju Koh | 2003 |
| The Hope of Heaven: A Spiritual Universe | Robert Merrihew Adams | 2002 |
| The Mathematical Way of Understanding the World – Clocks and Chaos | Dr. David Mumford | 2002 |
| The Mathematical Way of Understanding the World – Models of Thought | Dr. David Mumford | 2002 |
| Language and Mind Revisited – The Biolinguistic Turn | Noam Chomsky | 2002 |
| Language and Mind Revisited – Language and the Rest of the World | Noam Chomsky | 2002 |
| Sequencing the Human Genome – Prokaryotes | J. Craig Venter | 2002 |
| Sequencing the Human Genome – Eukaryotes | J. Craig Venter | 2002 |
| Truth, Interpretation, and the Point of Moral Philosophy | Ronald M. Dworkin | 2002 |
| Philosophy the Day After Tomorrow – Moments in Nietzsche, Jane Austen, et cetera | Stanley Cavell | 2002 |
| The Wittgensteinian Event | Stanley Cavell | 2002 |
| Inequalities in Health – Life and Death on the Social Gradient | Sir. Michael Marmot | 2001 |
| Inequalities in Health – There is Such a Thing as Society | Sir. Michael Marmot | 2001 |
| Modern Alchemy: Stars, Chemistry and Cosmology | E. Margaret Burbidge | 2001 |
| The Riddle of the Redshift: The Universe We Don’t Understand | E. Margaret Burbidge | 2001 |
| The Gene’s Eye View of Creation – The Genetic Book of the Dead | Richard Dawkins | 2001 |
| The Gene’s Eye View of Creation: The Selfish Cooperator | Richard Dawkins | 2001 |
| Law, Cultural Conflict, and the Socialization of Children | Kenneth L. Karst | 2001 |
| The Third Stage: The New Frontiers of Religion and Public Life | E.J. Dionne | 2001 |
| Democracy and Liberal Education | James O. Freedman | 2001 |
| The Farther Reaches of Human Time: Retrospect on Carl Sauer as Prehistorian | David R. Harris | 2001 |
| Body and Soul in Plato and Descartes | Sarah Broadie | 2000 |
| From the Second Sex to the Joint Venture: An Overview of Women’s Rights and Family Law in the United States | Herma Hill Kay | 2000 |
| Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere | Jan Morris | 2000 |
| Deciphering the Maya Script | Michael D. Coe | 2000 |
| More Than a Drink: Chocolate in the Pre-Columbian World | Michael D. Coe | 2000 |
| Parallel Civilizations: Ancient Angkor and the Ancient Maya | Michael D. Coe | 2000 |
| How Many People Can the Earth Support? | Joel E. Cohen | 2000 |
| Human Carrying Capacity: Concepts, Methods and Models | Joel E. Cohen | 2000 |
| Special Presentation: Films and Discussion of Population Issues | Joel E. Cohen | 2000 |
