1977-1978
November 2, 1977 - Gwendolyn Brooks, Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet
March 30, 1978 - George Wald, Nobel Prize winning biologist

1978-1979
September 13, 1978 - John Gardner "Art and the So-Called Real Life"
March 26-29, 1979 - Julian Jaynes, psychologist
May 5, 1979 - Stokeley Carmichael, President All African People's Revolutionary Party

1979-1980
February 6, 1980 - Ramsey Clark
February 8, 1980 - Betty Shabazz, widow of Malcolm X
March 17-19, 1980 - Frithjof Bergmann
April 9-10, 1980 - Wayne Booth, literary critic
April 15, 1980 - Paul Bomani, Ambassador from Tanzania

1980-1981
February 9, 1981 - Carl Stokes, former mayor of Cleveland
April 4, 1981 - Maria von Trapp
April 20, 1981 - Arthur M. Schlesinger, JFK asst., "Conservatism & Tides in Am Politics"
May 13, 1981 - Kathryn Koob, Iranian hostage

1981-1982
October 14, 1981 - Donald Johanson, paleoanthropologist: "Lucy: the Beginnings of Mankind"
November 10, 1981 - Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize Winner 1986, "On Freedom & Gratitude"
January 19, 1982 - Dick Clark, former US Senator from Iowa
February 10, 1982 - Yvonne Braithwaite Burke, Congress, “Black Politics in the 80's”
March 24, 1982 - Robert Komer, Undersecretary of Defense, "Understanding Our Defense Posture"
March 26, 1982 - Jaroslav Pelikan, Yale historian

1982-1983
October 4, 1982 - Richard Leakey, paleoanthropologist
October 20, 1982 - Betty Williams, Nobel Peace Prize Winner, "Can There Be Peace in N. Ireland?"
November 11, 1982 - Arkady Shevchenko, Soviet defector
March 29, 1983 - Nancy Hauser, of Nancy Hauser Dance Company
April 21, 1983 - John Houseman, actor/writer/producer "Center Stage"
April 22, 1983 - Norman Borlaug "Food Production in a Fertile World"

1983-1984
October 5, 1983 - James Baldwin, author
November 3, 1983 - Inge LÖnning, Norw prof Co-editor of Martin Luther's works in Norwegian
November 15, 1983 - Helen Caldicott, proponent of multilateral nuclear disarmament
January 22, 1984 - George McGovern
February 2, 1984 - Richard Reeves, writer for New Yorker magazine

1984-1985
November 12, 1984 - Jean-Michel Cousteau, “From the Amazon to the Mississippi”
February 7, 1985 - Donald Woods, journalist,"Apartheid & the Tragedy in So. Africa"
February 8, 1985 - Dennis Brutus, teacher/poet, "The Unfolding Struggle for Freedom in So. Africa"
April 30, 1985 - Georgiann Tenner Johnson, TV actress

1985-1986
September 18, 1985 - John Ciardi, author and poet, "Why Read?"
January 14, 1986 - Terrel Bell, professor and former US Secretary of Education
January 23, 1986 - Carolyn Evertson, professor Peabody College
January 24, 1986 - Neil Postman, professor New York University
February 20, 1986 - John P. Kelly

1986-1987
September 12, 1986 - Harry G. Blackmun, US Supreme Court Justice
September 16, 1986 - Charles "Pete" Conrad, astr on the Gemini 5, 11; Apollo 12 and Skylab 1
November 20, 1986 - J. Anthony Lukas, Pulitzer Prize winning author
February 6, 1987 - Edwin Meese III, US Attorney General, Bicentennial of the Constitution
March 3, 1987 - Henry J. Abraham, "Reflections on the Supreme Court Appointment Process"
March 11, 1987 - Shirley Chisholm, "Women & Work in America: Then & Now"
March 17, 1987 - Patrick Fitzpatrick, Univ of Durham, England "On Language & Responsibility"

1987-1988
September 17, 1987 - Mary Frances Berry, Constitution expert
September 22-23, 1987 - Dr. Mike Osterholm, Dr. Ronald Bayer, Dr. Scott Strickland, "AIDS in the Heartland"
September 24, 1987 - Dr. Robert Reed: “The Influence of Joseph Albers”
November 6, 1987 - George Bush, Vice-President of the United States
November 28, 1987 - His Majesty Olav V, King of Norway
January 18, 1988 - Benjamin Hooks, NAACP
February 3, 1988 - Alvin L. Schorr, Social Worker/Professor, Case Western Reserve
March 8, 1988 - Jean Kilbourne, "The Naked Truth: Women in Advertising"
April 7, 1988 - Helen Suzman, member of Parliament, South Africa

1988-1989
September 7, 1988 - Susan Kendall Newman, "Drugs, Alcohol: Abuse and Awareness"
October 25-26, 1988 - Oikos II: Marie Farrell, Jaydee Lopez, Barry Commoner, and Arthur Simon
January 10, 1989 - John Stockwell: The Secret Wars of the CIA
March 7, 1989 - Phyllis Frelich: "Signs of Understanding"
March 21, 1989 - Robert Muller: "The Vietnam Experience"
May 20, 1989 - Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, Pres. of Iceland & Ingvi Ingvarsson, Ambass. to Iceland

1989-1990
October 3, 1989 - Chaim Potok, “Being Jewish in America”
November 13, 1989 - Paul Loeb, ”Hope in Hard Times”
January 22, 1990 - Julian Bond, “Crisis in Black America: Past, Present,Future”
March 6, 1990 - Sarah Weddington, “The Battle for Equality”

1990-1991
October 2, 1990 - Ernest Boyer, "College as Community"
March 4, 1991 - Gen. Wm GT Tuttle Jr., US Army, “Military Issues in the Persian Gulf”
March 8, 1991 - June Jordan, "Beyond Identity Politics"
May 2, 1991 - Nien Cheng, "China: Past Revolutions, Future Perspectives"

1991-1992
September 24, 1991 - Murray Sperber, “College Sports Inc."
October 9, 1991 Jean - Kilbourne, "Under the Influence"
November 14, 1991 - Jonathan Kozol, “Hungry & Homeless, Children in Public Schools”
February 13, 1992 - Arthur Miller, "The Role of the Media in the Electoral Process"

1992-1993
September 22, 1992 - James Burke, “2050: Life After the Greenhouse Effect”
January 12, 1993 - Carl Oglesby, “When Students Made History”
January 19, 1993 - Michael Medved, “Hollywood's 3 Big Lies About Media & Society”
March 30, 1993 - Yulia Latynima, “America: A Russian Perspective”
March 31, 1993 - Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., “The Challenge of Ethnicity: Can the Center Hold?”
March 31, 1993 - Vincent Harding, “Toward a More Perfect Union: America's Pro-Democracy Movement”
March 31, 1993 - Siah Armajani, “Public Art in the Context of American Democracy”

1993-1994
September 23, 1994 - Peter Burtchell, The Cousteau Society
April 7, 1994 - Robert Staples, “Beyond The Family and Diversity”
April 21, 1994 - Wilma Mankiller, “Contemporary Native American Issues in Historical Context”

1994-1995
October 12, 1994 - Michael Bauer, “Return and Renaissance”
November 3, 1994 - Carlos Fuentes, “U.S. an Latin America; Sharing a Continent”
February 23, 1995 - Cornel West, “Race Matters”

1995-1996
September 7, 1995 - Affirmative Action Debate: Richard Thornburgh, Sharon Pratt Kelly
October 6, 1995 - Irving R. Levine "The Nation's Economy: A Whole New Ballgame"
October 1995 - Olin Dedication Lecture: His Majesty King Harald and Queen Sonja's Royal Visit
February 22-23, 1996 - Peace Prize Forum: Amb. Yehuda Avner, Dr. Al-Kidwa, Amb. Samuel Lewis, Dr. John Brown-Campbell

1996-1997
September 26, 1996 - Kevin Phillips, “1996 Elections & the Frustrations of the Average American”
January 20, 1997 - James H. Cone, “Martin, Malcolm, and America”
April 22, 1997 - Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., “Our Environmental Destiny”

1997-1998
September 30, 1997 - Yuli M. Vorontsov, “Russo-Amer. Relations Post Cold War: Can Enemies Become Friends?”
October 9, 1997 - Jean Kilbourne, “Eating Our Hearts Out: The Obsession with Thinness”
February 4, 1998 - Natalie Davis, “The Historian Makes a Film”
March 10, 1998 - Xiaopo Huang, “Understanding China”
May 2, 1998 - Sir David Willcocks, “Sweet Singing in the Choir”

1998-1999
October 15, 1998 - Lech Walesa, “Values and Their Role in Politics”
May 8, 1999 - Beverly Sills

1999-2000
September 22, 1999 - David Broder, national political correspondent
February 2, 2000 - Dava Sobel, science author
March 16, 2000 - Kenneth Adelman, business author

2000-2001
October 11, 2000 - Linda Chavez, President of Center for Equal Opportunity
January 31, 2001 - Roald Hoffman, Nobel Prize winner
April 5, 2001 - Helen Thomas, ”Front Row at the White House”

2001-2002
October 11, 2001 - Cornel West, “Race Democracy”
October 18, 2001 - bell hooks, “Creating The Beloved Community”
March 17, 2002 - Stephen Bloom, “A Clash of Cultures in Heartland America”
April 28, 2002 - Juan Williams, What’s Black, Brown, & America’s Future?

2002-2003
October 8, 2002 - Sylvia Hewlett, “Making Smart Choices in Life and Work”
February 26, 2003 - Nell Painter, “American Mosaic: Pluralism and Nationhood”
March 18, 2003 - Parker Palmer, “Let Your Life Speak: Vocation, Education, and the Needs of the World”

2003-2004
September 16, 2003 - Robert Pinsky, “Poetry in the Real World”
October 9, 2003 - Newt Gingrich, “Transforming the Health System”
April 22, 2004 - Diana Eck, “A New Religious America; Pluralism in a New Key”

2004-2005
September 16, 2004 - Dinesh D’Souza, “What’s So Great About Capitalism?”
October 29, 2004 -  Libby Larsen, “The Concert Hall that Fell Asleep and Woke Up As a Car Radio — The Effects of Transportation and Communications Technology on Classical Music in America”
March 10, 2005 - Elaine Pagels, “The Ancient Gospel of Thomas: A Different View of Christianity”

2005-2006
October 27, 2005 - Paul Rusesabagina, “Hotel Rwanda: A Lesson Yet to Be Learned”
January 16, 2006 - Carolyn McKenstry, “A Call to Conscience”

2006-2007
September 19, 2006 - Arun Gandhi , "Lessons from Grandfather"
March 4, 2007 -  Scott Simon, “Finding Truth in Media When Anything Can Be Photoshopped”

2007-2008
September 11, 2007 - Jonathan Kozol, “The Future of Education”
March 4, 2008 - John Bul Dau, “God Grew Tired of Us”

2008-2009
September 30, 2008 - Arthur Caplan, “A Prescription for Change: Health Care”
October 28, 2008 - Mark London, “Have We Reached the End of the Amazon?”
February 10, 2009 - Majora Carter, “Greening Our Cities: Health & Environmental Justice in S. Bronx”

2009-2010
September 29, 2009 - Paul Solman, “Ethics and Economics"
February 23, 2010 - Michael Pollan, “In Defense of Food: The Omnivore’s Solution”

2010-2011
September 30, 2010 - Michael Sandel, “The Lost Art of Democratic Argument, Can We Reason Together About Values Without Rancor And Incivility?"
March 15, 2011 - Anna Deavere Smith, “Journey to Us: Transforming Possibilities”

2011-2012
September 1, 2011 - Tracy Kidder, “Strength in What Remains”
February 2, 2012 - Nicholas Kristoff, “Half the Sky: A Call to Action”

2012-2013
September 25, 2012 - Frank Warren “PostSecret Project”
February 26, 2013 - Vandana Shiva “Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability & Peace

2013-2014
September 28, 2013 - Anne Lamott, “Faith & Writing (and Living)”
February 6, 2014 - Nicholas Carr, “An Invitation to Learning: The Mind & the Internet”

2014-2015
October 25, 2014 - Marjane Satrapi, author of Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
March 10, 2015 - Mary McAleese, President of Ireland 1997-2011

2015-2016
March 1, 2016 - Bryan Stevenson, “American Injustice: Mercy, Humanity, & Making a Difference”
April 14, 2016 - Cornell West & Robert George

2016-2017
September 1, 2016 - Karen Joy Fowler, "We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves"
September 23, 2016 - Erik Larson, Luther Writers Festival Keynote
March 31, 2017 - Nadia Bolz Weber, “The Reformation of Everything”
April 4, 2017 - Michael Osterholm, "Deadliest Enemy: Our War against Killer Germs"

2017-2018
September 28, 2017 - Jeffery Chipps Smith, “The Reformation of Everything"
October 10, 2017 - James Fallows, "It's Happening Here: American Renewal, Ingenuity, Innovation”
October 24, 2017 - Kip Andersen, “What the Health”
March 6, 2018 - Matthew Bolger, “Hope over Hate”
March 8, 2018 - Daryl Davis, “Hope over Hate”
May 1, 2018 - Ted Koppel, 'Science and Policy: Communication in the Twenty-First-Century World of Fake News'

2018-2019
October 23, 2018 - Jonathan Haidt, "The Coddling of the American Mind"
February 28, 2019 - Ibram X. Kendi, Antiracist Research and Policy Center

2019-2020
October 10, 2019 - Rebecca Traister, “Good and Mad”
March 3, 2020 - Judy Shepard “Hope Over Hate”
March 5, 2020 - Pedro Lopez Vega ‘17 “Hope Over Hate”

2020-2021
October 15, 2020 - Michael Osterholm, "The COVID-19 Pandemic: Stories of a Journey" (virtual - click here to view a recording of this event)
January 18, 2021 - Bettina Love, “Resistance, Creativity, Hip Hop Civics Ed, Intersectionality, and Black Joy” (virtual)
March 15, 2021 - Maurice Wallace, "Mother Dear: Alberta King, Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Ebenezer Sound, 1922-1974" (virtual)