Carl O. Sauer was a Professor of Geography at the University of California from 1923 to 1957 and a Professor Emeritus from 1957 until his death at the age of 85. He served for 31 years as chairman of the department. Under his leadership, the scholarly stature of the geography faculty grew immensely. As a student of the interrelatedness of land and life and of people and places throughout the full course of human history, he especially urged a responsible, conservative stewardship of the earth. Both through his teaching and his published works, he left an indelible mark not only on geography but on several of the social, historical, and biological sciences. In 1976, a group of faculty colleagues, students, and friends of Professor Sauer established a fund in his memory to support the Carl O. Sauer Memorial Lectures. --As of 2019, the Sauer Lectures are managed and sponsored by the UC Berkeley Department of Geography.

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Title	Lecturer	Year
In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa’s Food Legacy in the Atlantic World	Judith Carney	2019
Island Landscapes, Or Sauer Among the Polynesians	Patrick V. Kirch	2013
Diffusion, Deflection and Diversity: A Geographic Perspective on Contemporary Immigration	Marie D. Price	2011
Carl O. Sauer: A Life Remembered	Michael Williams	2009
The Farther Reaches of Human Time: Retrospect on Carl Sauer as Prehistorian	David R. Harris	2001
Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere	Jan Morris	2000
‘To Civility and Man’s Use’: History, Geography, and Nature	Ian G. Simmons	1998
Escapism: Another Look at Nature and Culture	Yi-Fu Tuan	1996
A Servant of Two Masters	Robin Donkin	1995
Prehistoric Riverine Settlement in Amazonia: A Revisionist Perspective with Contemporary Implications	William Denevan	1994
Sauer’s Origins and Dispersals: Its Implications for the Geography of Disease	Peter Haggert	1992
Landscapes Without Llamas: Celebrating a Sauerian Tradition	David Lowenthal	1990
The Bajio: Mexico’s Earliest Colonial Frontier	Karl Butzer	1989
Identifying the Killers: Old World Diseases in 16th-Century Meso-America and the Caribbean	Woodrow Borah	1988
To Claim the High Ground: Geography For the End of the Century	David R. Stoddart	1986
A Geographer Looks at the San Joaquin Valley	James J. Parsons	1986
Domesday Book and Domesday Geography	Clifford Darby	1985
The Landscape as Overlapping Neighborhoods: Some Reflections on the Struggle for Existence	Torsten Hagerstrand	1984
An Atlantic World: Perspectives on the Making of Colonial America	Donald Meinig	1982
Early Man in America	George F. Carter	1981
The Story of an Oceanic Mountain Range: The Evolution of Life on an ‘Idealized’ Pacific Archipelago	F. Raymond Fosberg	1980
Landscape as Theatre	John B. Jackson	1978
Scholar and Colleague: Homage to Carl Sauer	John Leighly	1976