• Cynthia Dwork, the Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard University John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Affiliated Faculty at Harvard Law School. Differential Privacy and the US Census, From Algorithmic Fairness to Outcome Indistinguishability, and Springboards
• Michael Gordin, Dean of the College and Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History in the History Department at Princeton University. Was 1869 Mendeleev’s ‘Crucial Year’?: Or, Henry Guerlac in St. Petersburg  -Video on Demand
• Dan Fagin, professor of journalism and the director of the Science, Health, and Environmental Reporting Program at New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. The future of the monarch butterfly and biodiversity in the Anthropocene – Video on Demand and Science communication in the age of denialism – Video on Demand
• Fritz Breithaupt, Provost Professor in Germanic Studies and Cognitive Science, Indiana University Bloomington. The Narrative Brain
• Sendhil Mullainathan, The Peter de Florez Professor, In Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and in Economics, Massachusetts Institute for Technology. Messenger Lectures: Tools of Thought: Building Algorithms, Incorporating Behavioral Science into Computational Science and Incorporating Algorithms into Economics and Policy

• Moon Duchin, Professor, Mathematics, Tufts University, Professor, Tisch College, and John Dibiaggio Professor of Citizenship and Public Service, Mathematics. University Lecture: Algorithms, Race, and Redistricting: Can Computers Find Fairness?
• Robin Coste Lewis, former poet laureate of Los Angeles, writer-in-residence at the University of Sothern California, as well as a Cave Canem fellow and a fellow of the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities. University Lecture: To the Realization of Perfect Helplessness
• David Cortright, Professor Emeritus of the Practice, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame. University Lecture: Impacts of Peace Movements on Policy
• Damini Partridge, Professor, Department of Anthropology and Department of Afroamerican & African Studies, University of Michigan. Vice President and President-Elect of the German Studies Association. University Lecture: Blackness as a University Claim: Holocaust Heritage, Noncitizen Futures, and Black Power in Berlin
• Simon Levin, James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and the director of the Center for BioComplexity at Princeton University. Messenger Lectures: COVID-19 and Challenges to the Classical Theory of Epidemics, Ecosystems and the Biosphere as Complex Adaptive Systems: Scaling, Collective Phenomena and Governance and Systemic Risk and Opportunity: Alternative Realities in Social and Ecological Systems
• Andrew Piper, Professor and William Dawson Scholar in The Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at McGill University. University Lecture: Computational Narrative Understanding and the Human Desire to Make-Believe
• Anupama Rao, Professor of History, Barnard College, and MESAAS, Columbia University. University Lecture: Caste, Outcaste, Anticaste: Reflections on Worldmaking
• Gil Anidjar, Professor, Departments of Religion and Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies, Columbia University.  Messenger Lectures:  Freud’s Mothers: The Woman Hagar and the Monotheistic Religion, Two Mothers in Heaven: Inventing the Perfect Mother, and Mama’s Baby: Race and Religion
• Alexander Rudensky, Chair, Immunology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute and Director of The Ludwig Center for Cancer Immunotherapy, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. University Lecture: Dominant Tolerance

• Professor Emerita Jennifer Robertson, Anthropology and History of Art, Departments of Anthropology and the History of Art, and the Penny W. School of Art & Design, and Affiliate Professor, Robotics Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is also Affiliate Professor, Departments of Anthropology and Japan Studies, University of Washington, Seattle. University Lecture: Robo-Sexism: Gendering AI and Robots in Japan and the United States (and Elsewhere). Lecture video recording.
• Willa Cather Professor Emerita Sidnie White Crawford, Classics and Religious Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Visiting Scholar at Princeton Theological Seminary; Messenger Lectures: Archaeology, Science and the Dead Sea Scrolls, A Library at Qumran? How to Identify a Library in the Ancient World, and Scribes and Scrolls: Scribalism in the Ancient World and the Dead Sea Scrolls

• Professor Lizabeth Cohen, Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies, Harvard University; University Lecture: Struggling to Save America’s Cities in the Suburban Age: Urban Renewal Reconsidered
• Dr. David Katz, MD, MPH, FACPM, FACP, FACLM,Founder and CEO of DietID; University Lecture: The Truth about Food:  Lifestyle Medicine for People and Planet
• Dr. Mark M. Davis, Professor, Microbiology and Immunology; Director of the Stanford Institute for Immunology, Transplantation and Infection; Stanford University; Howard Hughes Investigator. University Lecture: Standing on the Shoulders of Mice:  Rebooting Human Immunology.

• Professor Dolph Schluter, Canada Research Chair in Evolution, University of British Columbia. University Lecture: Divergence via biotic interactions in an adaptive radiation.
• Tristram Stuart, Scholar, Entrepreneur and Activist. University Lecture: Food waste & what we can do about it
• Leroy F. Moore, Jr., Artist, Author, Activist, and Founder of Krip-Hop Nation. University Lecture: Black/Brown International Disability Art/Krip-Hop.
• Dr. Henry Bial, Professor of Theatre, University of Kansas. University Lecture: The Gatekeepers:  New York Theatre Critics and the Policing of Religion on the American Stage”
• Dr. Carol Anelli,Professor of Entomology, Ohio State University. University Lecture: With Usual Daring on Untried Paths:  Anna Botsford Comstock–Educational Trailblazer, Author and Scientific Illustrator
• Wendy Brown,Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley. University Lecture: Theorizing Freedom at the Conjuncture of Neoliberalism, White Nationalism and Authoritarianism

Spring 2018

Christina Crosby, Professor of English and Gender and Sexuality Studies at Wesleyan University. Lecture:  “Faithful to the Place of Bones”

Fall 2017

• Messenger Lecturer: Scott Aaronson, Professor, University of Texas at Austin. Lectures:  Lecture 1:  “Complexity-Theoretic Foundations of Quantum Supremacy Experiments”; Lecture 2:  Quantum Computing and the Limits of the Efficiently Computable”; Lecture 3:  “New Results on Learning and Reconstruction of Quantum States”
• University Lecturer: Zafer Şenocak, Creative Writer and Public Intellectual. Lecture:  “Imagining Migration in Contemporary Europe:  A Literary Author’s Perspective”
• University Lecturer: Raul Andino, Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California, San Francisco. Lecture:  “RNA virus evolution, infection and new vaccines for humans and animals”
• University Lecturer: Richard Harris, Science Correspondent at National Public Radio, Washington, DC. Lecture:  “Rigor Mortis.  Returning delight and rigor to science”
• University Lecturer: Stephanie W. Jamison, Professor, Asian Languages and Cultures, UCLA. Lecture: “Adulterous Woman to Be Eaten by Dogs:  Women and Law in Ancient India”

Spring 2017

• University Lecturer: Professor Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Chief Curator, Core Exhibition, POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews; University Professor Emerita, New York University. Lecture:  Materializing History:  Time and Telos at POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews
• University Lecturer:  Seth Siegel, Author. Lecture:  Title:   A Global Water Crisis Is Coming:  What Can We Do To Avoid It?

Fall 2016

• University Lecturer:  Professor Jaak Panksepp, Professor of Veterinary Science, Washington State University. Lecture:  The Emotional Feelings of Other (Animal Brains:  From Cross-Species Nero-Affective Foundations to Novel Psychiatric Therapeutics
• University Lecturer:  Professor John Rickford, J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor of Linguistics and the Humanities, Stanford University. Lecture:  Justice for Jeantel (and Trayvon):  Fighting Dialect Prejudice in Courtrooms and Beyond

Fall 2015

• Messenger Lecturer:  Professor Thomas H. Jordan, University Southern California and Director, Southern California Earthquake Center. Lecture:  Trial of the L’Aquila Seven:  How an Unforetold Seismic Catastrophe Changed Operation Hazard Forecasting
• University Lecturer:  Gina Apostol, Novelist and Essayist. Lecture:  The Filipino-American War and the Writing of a Novel: Reflections on History and the Art of Fiction
• University Lecturer:  Dr. Amara Lakhous, Bilingual Writer. Lectures:  Lecture 1:  Becoming a Writer: The Story of My Dream – Lecture 2: Why is Europe Failing at the Issue of Immigration – Lecture 3: Why Narrating Immigration Through Images is More Effective Today
• University Lecturer:  Professor David Kaplan, Johns Hopkins University. Lecture:  Particles and the Nature of All Things
• University Lecturer:  Professor Stephen Long, University of Illinois. Lecture:  Can We Feed and Fuel the World From Plants by 2050? Scientific vs. Social Barriers
• Messenger Lecturer:  Professor Karl Deisseroth, Stanford University. Lectures:  Lecture 1:  Illuminating the Brain; Lecture 2:  Optical Technologies for Neuroscience; Lecture 3:  Optical Investigation of Fully-Assembled Biological Systems
• Messenger Lecturer:  Professor Cecilia Vicuna, Poet and multidisciplinary artist. Lectures & Performances:  Quipu and the Quanta of Language; The Poem is the Animal; Awareness is the Art: Artists for Democracy
  and Other Stories
• University Lecturer:  Professor Yoko Tawada, Contempory Japanese-German Prose Writer. Lectures:  Multilingual Literary Reading, in German, Japanese, English and Other Surprises
• University Lecturer:  Joel Salatin, Polyface Farms, Inc., Virginia. Lecture:  Can We Feed the World?
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Spring 2015

• University Lecturer:  Professor Allison M. Macfarlane, Professor of Public Policy and International Affairs, George Washington University. Lecture:  The Fukushima Nuclear Accident:  Is Nuclear Energy still a Viable Choice for a Carbon-Constrained World?
• University Lecturer:  Professor Sherman Jackson, University of Southern California. Lecture:  Islam and the American Common Good
• Messenger Lecturer:  Michael Moss, Author and Investigative Journalist. Lectures:  Lecture 1:  A journey into the underbelly of the processed food industry; Lecture 2: You are your own journalist: the evolving ethics of storytelling, Lecture 3: Panel Discussion: Brocolli, The Alpha Vegetable. Hard-core messaging for healthier eating

Fall 2014

• Messenger Lecturer:  David Roman, Department of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. November Lecture:  Reviving AIDS:  On the 2011 Revival of the Normal Heart on Broadway
• University Lecturer:  Mimi White, Northwestern University. Lecture:  Dramas of Domestic Space on HGTV

Fall 2013

• Messenger Lecturer:  Patrick Dougherty, Sculptor. Lectures:  Lecture 1:  Engaging with Plants and Art; Lecture 2:  The Art of Horticulture; Lecture 3:  Public Space, Public Art; Lecture 4:  Hands-On Workshop at Ithaca Children’s Garden
• Messenger Lecturer:  Professor Jonathan Jansen, Vice-Chancellor and Rector of the University of the Free State. Lectures:    Lecture 1:  A South African Model for Practicing Community Engagement; Lecture 2:  The Role of Higher Education in the Development of South Africa; Lecture 3:  Meeting the Spirit and Letter of Diversity on a South African Campus

Spring 2013

• Messenger Lecturer:  Leonard Susskind, Director of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics, Stanford University. Lectures:  Lecture 1:  The Birth of the Universe and the Origin of Laws of Physics; Lecture 2:  Black Holes, the Conservation of Information, and the Holographic Principle; Lecture 3:  Entanglement:  The Hooks that Hold Space Together
• University Lecturer:  Carolyn Porco, Team Leader for the Imaging Investigation on the Cassini Saturn Orbiter. Lecture:  A Decade at Saturn
• University Lecturer:  Jose Saldivar, Stanford University. Lecture:  Junot Díaz’s Search for Decolonial Aesthetics and Love
• University Lecturer:  Elaine Romero, University of Wisconsin, Madison. Lecture:  Mother of Exiles:  From Concept to Production
• University Lecturer:  Ron Suny, University of Michigan. Lecture:  Explaining Genocide:  The Fate of the Armenians
• University Lecturer:  Stephen Pacala, Princeton University. Lecture:   The Fate of the Land Carbon Sink
• University Lecturer:  Jin Li, Brown University. Lecture:  Western and East Asia Cultural Learning Models in the 21st Century
• University Lecturer:  Ann Cvetkovich, University of Texas at Austin. Lecture:  The Art of the Queer Counterarchive

Fall 2012

• Messenger Lecturer:  Dr. Peter Nathanielsz, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Center for Pregnancy & Newborn Research. Lectures:   Lecture 1: Health in the post-genomic era – the significance to our lifetime health of developmental programming and gene-environment interactions during development; Lecture 2: Biological milestones: The story of how fetal and neonatal development proceeds and how we become who we are; Lecture 3: Genes development and health: The new lesson for lifetime health – We are our Epigenome not our Genome
• Messenger Lecturer:  A.E. Stallings, Poet, Translator, Member, American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Lectures:   Lecture 1:  Writing Poetry;Translating Poetry & Reading Poetry; Lecture 2:  *A. E. Stallings Reading Poetry Video;  Lecture 3:  **A.E. Stallings Writing Poetry Video
• Messenger Lecturer:  Professor Neil Price, Department of Archaeology, University of Aberdeen. Lectures:  Lecture 1:   The Children of Ash: Cosmology and the Viking Universe; Lecture 2:   Life and Afterlife: Dealing with the Dead in the Viking Age; Lecture 3:  The Shape of the Soul: The Viking Mind and the Individual
• University Lecturer:  Professor W. Ian Lipkin, M.D., John Snow Professor of Epidemiology Director, Center for Infection & Immunity, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Lecture:  Microbe Hunting

Spring 2012

• Messenger Lecturer:  Professor David Savran, Distinguished Professor and Vera Mowry Roberts Chair in American Theatre, CUNY Graduate Center. Lectures:  Lecture 1:  Branding as Cultural Performance; Lecture 2:  Branding American Theatre in Postwar Europe;  Lecture 3:   The Queer Brand of Broadway: The American Musical from Porter to The Book of Mormon
• University Lecturer:  Professor Neco Celik, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Center for Pregnancy & Newborn Research. Lecture:  Film Screening of Urban Guerillas
• University Lecturer:  Professor Lori Ginzberg, Professor of History and Women’s Studies, Pennsylvania State University. Lecture:  Rights, Racism, & “A Very Radical Proposition”: Grappling with the Complex Legacies of Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• University Lecturer:  Professor Brent Hayes Edwards, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University. Lecture:  Ici Ou Ailleurs/Here or Anyplace Else: Dancing in Translation
• University Lecturer:  Professor Ewine van Dishoeck, Professor of Molecular Astrophysics at the University of Leiden, Netherlands. Lecture:  Building Planets and the Ingredients for Life Between the Stars
• University Lecturer: Professor Paul J. Steinhardt, Albert Einstein Professor of Science at Princeton University. Lecture:  Once Upon a Time in Kamchatka: The Extraordinary Search for Natural Quasicrystals
• Messenger Lecturer:  Professor Silvio Ferrari, University of Milan. Lectures:  Lecture 1: Religion in the Western Legal Tradition: An Historical Perspective; Lecture 2: Law and Religions: Patterns; Lecture 3: Law and Religions: Problems
• Messenger Lecturer:  Professor Tariq Ramadan, Oxford University. Lectures:  Lecture 1:  What would Muhammad do?; Lecture 2: Muslims in the West; Lecture 3: “Arab Revolutions: What Next”
• University Lecturer:  Professor Jas’ Elsner,
  Humfry Payne Senior Research Fellow in Classical Art at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Lecture:   Rhetorics of Iconoclasm from Antiquity to Byzantium
• University Lecturer:  Professor Raymond Pierrehumbert, Louis Block Professor in Geophysical Sciences and the College, University of Chicago. Lecture:  The Runaway Greenhouse: Could it Happen Here
• University Lecturer:  Professor Sheldon Pollock, William B. Ransford Professor of Sanskrit and Indian Studies, Columbia University. Lecture:  Philology in Three Dimensions
• Messenger Lecturer:  Professor Amihai Mazar, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Lectures:  Lecture 1:  Archaeology and Biblical History: The Current State of Scholarship;  Lecture 2:  The Levant in the Tenth Century: Archaeology and the Alleged Time of David and Solomon; Lecture 3:  A Land of Milk and Honey:  Archaeological Research on the Unique Apiary at Tel Rehov, Israel
• University Lecturer:  Professor Steven Cowley, Director of the Culham Laboratory and the Chief Executive Officer of the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA). Lecture:  Fusion energy in the 21st century…and beyond!

Fall 2011

• University Lecturer:  Professor Gene Robinson, Swanlund Chair, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Lecture:  Understanding the Relationship Between Genes and Behavior: Lessons form the Honey Bee
• University Lecturer:   Ambassador Edward J. Perkins, Former Ambassador to South Africa. Lecture:  Reflections on a Career in Diplomacy
• University Lecturer:  Catharine A. Mackinnon, Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School. Lecture:  Women’s Status, Men’s States
• University Lecturer:  Theda Skocpol
  Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology at Harvard University. Lecture:  Obama’s New Deal, Tea Party Reaction, and America’s Political Future
• University Lecturer: Carol Graham
  Sr. Fellow and Charles Robinson Chair, The Brookings Institution. Lecture:  Happiness around the World: The Paradox of Happy Peasant and Miserable Millionaires

Spring 2011

• University Lecturer: Professor Nancy Armstrong, Gilbert, Louis, and Lehrman Professor of English, Duke University. Lecture:  What is Contemporary About Contemporary Fiction?
• University Lecturer: Alan Lightman
  Writer and Adjunct Professor, MIT. Lecture:  Mr. g, a novel about the creation
• University Lecturer: Elizabeth Freeman
  Professor of English at the University of California, Davis. Lecture:  Chronic Thinking (In conjunction with:  Strategic Ruptures: Feminist Reflections on Crisis Management Series
• University Lecturer: Rabbi Greg Epstein, Humanist Chaplain at Harvard University. Lecture:  Good Without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe
• University Lecturer:  Professor Sally Kohlstedt, History of Science and Technology, University of Minnesota. Lecture:  Through Books to Nature: Objects and Education in the Progressive Era
• University Lecturer:  Dr. Regina Sullivan, Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry of New York University. Lecture:  Neurobiology of Infant Attachment: Lessons from an Animal Model
• University Lecturer: Professor Susan R. Barry, Professor of Biology and Neuroscience, Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts. Lecture:  FIXING MY GAZE: A scientist’s journey into seeing in three dimensions
• University Lecturer:  Professor Dana Polan, Professor of Cinema Studies, New York University. Lecture:  Television that Tastes Good: Julia Child, television cooking, and the search for status in America
• Messenger Lecturer: Lord John Krebs
  Professor Principal of Jesus College at Oxford. Lecture:  Science and Public Policy Lecture Series: Risk, Uncertainty and Regulation; Is Food Safe?; Facing up to Climate Change
• University Lecturer:  Nilufer Gole
  Professor of Sociology, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France. Lecture:  Islamic Visibility in European Publics: Secularism, Culture, and the Sacred
• University Lecturer:  Jay T. Groves
  Chemical Biologist, University of California, Berkeley. Lecture:  At the Interface of Physics: Spatial Organization in Chemical Biology

Fall 2010

• University Lecturer:  Gananath Obeyesekere, Emeritus Professor, Anthropology, Princeton University. Lecture:  Madame Blavatsky’s Visionary Travels and the Work of the Dream-Ego
• Messenger Lecturer:  Nima Arkani-Hamed
  Professor, School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ. Lectures:  The Future of Fundamental Physics; *N. Arkani-Hamed: Setting the stage: Space-time and Quantum Mechanics Video
• Messenger Lecturer:  Nancy Fraser,
  Professor of Philosophy and Politics, The New School of Social Research. Lectures:  Lecture 1:  The Fictitious Commodity: Fount of Capitalist Crisis in the 21st Century; Lecture 2:  The Market in Nature: Seeds and Offshoots of Capitalist Crisis;   Lecture 3:  The Wages of Care Body and Soul of Capitalist Crisis”

Spring 2010

• Messenger Lecturer: Gregor Schoeler,
  Emeritus Professor, Islamic Studies, University of Basel. Lectures: Lecture 1:  Miracles in Islam;  Lecture 2:   The Arabic Divine Comedy – The 11th Century Epistle of Forgiveness of al-Ma’arri; Lecture 3:  Memory and Literacy – The oral and the written word in early Islam (8th Century)
• University Lecturer:  William Julius Wilson, Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor at Harvard University. Lecture:  More Than Just Race, Being Black and Poor in the Inner City
• University Lecturer:  A. James Hudspeth
  Professor at the Rockefeller University in New York and the Head of the Laboratory of Sensory Neuroscience. Lecture:  How Hearing Happens
• University Lecturer:   Martin Kemp,
  Emeritus Professor, History of Art at Oxford University. Lecture:  Structural Intuitions in Art, Science and Technology
• University Lecturer:  Phillip Lopate,
  John Cranford Adams Chair & Professor of English, Hofstra University, New York. Lecture:  The Art of Ambivalence: Self-Doubt and Changing One’s Mind and Books, Movies and Cities
• University Lecturer: Robert J. Richards,
  Fishbein Professor of the History of Science, Departments of History, Philosophy, Psychology, University of Chicago. Lecture:  Darwin and Haeckel
• University Lecturer:  Marga Gomez
  Award Winning Playwright, Actor and Humorist. Lecture: Long Island Iced Latina
• University Lecturer:  Susan Michaelis
  Professor of Cell Biology, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Lecture:  Cell Biology in the Translational Era: From Mating in Yeast to Aging in Humans

Fall 2009

• University Lecturer:  E. Patrick Johnson,
  Professor, Chair, and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Performance Studies and Professor in African American Studies at Northwestern University. Lecture:  Pouring Tea: Black Gay Men of the South Tell Their Stories
• University Lecturer: Elinor Ostrom,
  Arthur F. Bentley Professor of Political Science at Indiana University. Lecture:  Collective Action and the Commons: What Have We Learned?
• Messenger Lecturer:  Nancy Fraser,
  Professor of Philosophy and Politics, The New School of Social Research. Lecture:   Theorizing the Great Transformation of the 21st Century
• Messenger Lecturer: George Bass,
  Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Texas A&M University. Lectures:   Lecture 1:  The Birth of Nautical Archaeology;  Lecture 2:  Early Mediterranean Seafaring; Lecture 3:  A Midieval Puzzle: The Glass Wreck at Serce Limani

Spring 2009

• University Lecturer: Margaret Wertheim
  Science Writer and Exhibition Curator. Lecture:  Reefer Mathness: Confronting Coral Reef Destruction and Global Warming through Mathematics, Collective Art Practice and Crochet
• University Lecturer:  John A. Pickett
  Professor Head of Department of Biological Chemistry at Rothamsted Research. Lecture:  Developing plant-derived stress signals for new crop protection strategies
• University Lecturer:  Nidhal Guessoum,
  Professor of Physics & American University of Sharjah. Lecture: Science and the Arab Society: A Critical Survey and Assessment and The Anthropic Principle Today: Scientific, Philosophical, and Religious Perspectives
• University Lecturer:  Michael Geyer,
  Samuel N. Harper Professor of German and European History, University of Chicago. Lecture:  Millennial Militarism: Sovereignty Panics in the Contemporary United States
• University Lecturer:  Ira Mellman,
  Vice President of Research Oncology & Genentech, Inc.. Lecture:  From the Halls of Academia to the Shores of Industry: Basic Cell Biology for Human Benefit

Fall 2008

• Messenger Lecturer: Paul Griffiths,
  Author and Music Critic, Performer and Librettis. Lecture:  Restoring the Lost, Retrieving the Unwritten and Relinquishing the Unwritable
• University Lecturer:  Scott de la Hunta ’84
  Research Fellow, ARTI Group, Amsterdam School of the Arts. Lecture:   The Choreographic Resource: Technologies for Interpreting Dance
• Messenger Lecturer:  Sheilia Jasanoff,
  Professor of Science & Technology Studies, Harvard University. Lecture:  After Enlightenment: Rethinking Science’s Place in Democracy
• University Lecturer:  Garry Wills,
  Professor, Northwestern University, Pulitzer Prize Winning Author. Lecture:  Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858), One Hundred Fifty Years Later (2008)
• University Lecturer: Marita Sturken
  Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University. Lecture:  Consuming Security: Defensive Design in the Comfort Cultureof Everyday Life

Spring 2008

• University Lecturer: Anselm Haverkamp,
  Professor of English and Director of the Poetics & Theory Program, New York University. Lecture:  To Conceive of, in Pictures: Episodes from the History of Knowledge
• University Lecturer:  Robert Duke
  Professor in Music &  Human Learning, University of Texas, Austin. Lecture:   Why Don’t Students Learn What We Think We Teach”
• Messenger Lecturer:  Nancy Fraser,
  Professor of Philosophy and Politics, The New School of Social Research. Lecture:   Disputing the Subject of Justice: National Citizenry, Global Humanity, or Transnational Community of Risk?

Fall 2007

• Messenger Lecturer:  Michel Balinski,  Professor Emeritus, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris. Lectures:  Lecture 1:  How to apportion fairly:  Aristotle, the Talmud, the U.S. Congress and kidney transplants; Lecture 2:  How to elect and to rank:  Overcoming the paradoxes of social choice, electing a President of France and ranking wines; Lecture 3:  How to eliminate gerrymandering:  A new approach to representation, its realization in Zurich and its application to the U.S. Congress
• University Lecturer:   Mandyam Srinivasan,  Professor of Visual Neuroscience, Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland. Lecture:  Small Brains, Smart Minds: Vision, Navigation, and ‘Cognition’ in Honeybees and Applications to Robotics
• University Lecturer:   Speciosa Wandira former Ugandan Vice President. Lecture:  Achieving Freedom from Hunger, Poverty, and Poor Health in Sub-Saharan Africa: Priorities for Research and Public Policy

Spring 2007

Messenger Lecturer:  Steven Weinberg, Nobel Laureate, Holder of the Josey Chair in Science and Professor of Physics & Astronomy, University of Texas at Austin. Lectures:  The Invention of Science: Poetry and Technology; The Invention of Science: Mathematics and Philosophy; A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology

Spring 2005

Messenger Lecturer:  Sir Martin Rees,
Astronomer Royal, University of Cambridge, UK. Lecture:  Science and Survival in the 21st Century

Spring 2003

Messenger Lecturer:  Francis Fukuyama,
Johns Hopkins University. University Lecture:  The State After September 11

Spring 2001

Messenger Lecturer:  Norman Myers
Consultant in Environment & Development. University Lecture:  Environmental and Conservation Issues for the New Millenium

Fall 2001

Messenger Lecturer:  Janet Halley,
Harvard Law School. University Lecture:  Sexuality Harassment/Same Sex Marriage

Fall 2000

University Lecturer:  David J.P. Barker, University of Southampton. University Lecture:  Early Life Experiences and Adult Disease

Spring1999

Gerald R. Fink, Director, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research. University Lecture:  We’re Off to See the Genome

Fall 1998

Judith Butler, Chancellor’s Professor, University of California at Berkeley. Lecture:  Psychoanalysis, Politics, and Kinship

Fall 1997

Hon. Rex  Nettleford, Deputy Vice Chancellor & Prof. of Continuing Studies, Univ. of W. Indies, Mona, Jamaica. University Lecture:  Cultural Identity and Development: A Caribbean Perspective

Spring 1996

Clifton R. Wharton, Former Deputy Secretary of State. University Lecture:  Presidential Politics and Foreign Policy: Diminishing America’s Global Stature

Fall 1996

Byron S.J. Weng, Prof. of Government & Public Administration, Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong. University Lecture:  China’s One Country, Two Systems’ Policy and Its Implications for Sino-American Relations

Spring 1995

Ross Chambers, Prof. of French and Comparative Literature, University of Michigan. University Lecture:  Aspects of Literature

Fall 1995

Helen Vendler, Professor of English, Harvard University. University Lecture:  Shakespeare’s Sonnets

Spring 1994

Martha Nussbaum, University Professor & Professor of Philosophy and Classics, Brown University. University Lecture:  Upheavals of Thought: A Theory of the Emotions

Fall 1994

Leo Bersani, Class of 1950 Professor of French, University of California at Berkeley. University Lecture:  Homos

Spring 1993

Bruno Latour, Professor at the Ecole National Superieure des Mines, Paris. University Lecture:  From Baboons to Nuclear Plants: A Common Geneaology for Technology and Society

Fall 1993

Ronald Takaki, Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California at Berkeley. University Lecture:  A Past Re-Visioned: The Making of Multicultural America

Spring 1992

Maynard Solomon, Professor of Music, Julliard. UniversityLecture:  Mozart: A Family Portrait

Fall 1992

Peter Brooks, Professor of Humanities, Yale University. University Lecture:  The Place of the Body in Modern Narrative

Spring 1991

John & Jean Comaroff, Professors of Anthropology, University of Chicago. UniversityLecture:  Christianity, Colonialism, and Consciousness in South Africa

Fall 1991

Terrence Sejnowski, Professor of Biology & Physics, UCSD and the Salk Institute. University Lecture:  The Computational Brain

Spring 1990

Myles Burnyeat, Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College, UK. University Lecture:  Freedom, Anger, and Tranquility: An Archeaology of Feeling

Fall 1990

Sir Roger Penrose, Professor of Mathematics, Oxford University. University Lecture:  Three Worlds and Three Mysteries

Spring 1989

Peter H. Nye, Professor Emeritus, Plant Science, Oxford University. University Lecture:  Towards the Quantitative Control of Crop Production and Quality

Fall 1989

Susan Moller Okin, Professor of Politics, Brandeis University. University Lecture:  The Public/Domestic Dichotomy

Spring 1988

Houston Baker, Professor of English & Human Relations, University of Pennsylvania. University Lecture:  Workings of the Spirit: The Poetics of Afro-American Women’s Writing

Fall 1988

Bert Vallee, Professor of Biochemical and Biophysical Sciences & Medicine, Harvard University. University Lecture:  How Zinc Affects Biology and Medicine and the Fundamentals of Our Lives

Fall 1987

Baron Carl Friedrich von Weizsacker,
Emeritus Professor of Physics & Philosophy, Universities of Munich & Hamburg. University Lecture:  Philosophical and Political Consequences of Modern Science

Spring 1987

Charles Tilly, Professor of Sociology & History, New School for Social Research. Lecture:  War, States, and Collection Action

Spring 1986

Edward Said, Professor of English & Comparative Literature, Columbia University. Lecture:  Culture and Imperialism

Fall 1986

Irving Janis, Professor of Psychology, Yale University. Lecture:  Crisis Decision-Making in the Nuclear Age

Spring 1985

John E. Casida, Professor of Entomology, University of California at Berkeley. Lecture:  Retrospective and Prospect Views on Chemicals, Man, and the Environment

Fall 1985

Ernst Mayr, Professor Emeritus, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University. Lecture:  Evolutionary Biology and Philosophy

Fall 1984

• Jurgen Habermas, Director, Max Planck Institute, Munich. Lecture:  Discourse on Modernity
• Herbert York, Professor of Physics, University of California, San Diego. Lecture:  The Nuclear Arms Race

Spring 1983

• Maarten Brands, Professor of Modern History, University of Amsterdam. Lecture:  Re-Inventing Europe
• Paul de Man, Professor of French & Comparative Literature, Yale University. Lecture:  Rhetoric Aesthetics

Fall 1983

Quentin Skinner, Professor of Political Science, University of Cambridge, UK. Lecture:  The Idea of Liberty:  Classical and Contemporary Perspectives

Spring 1982

John T. Noonan, Jr., Professor of Law, University of California at Berkeley. Lecture:  Bribery

Fall 1981

Patrick Suppes, Professor of Philosophy, Stanford University. Lecture:  Rationality

Spring 1980

Robert J. Lifton, Professor of Psychiatry, Yale University. Lecture:  From Healer to killer:  The Doctors of Auschwitz

Fall 1980

• Donald Kennedy, President Stanford University. Lecture:  Health, Science and Regulation
• Rosemary Cramp, Professor of Art & Archaeology, Durham University, UK. Lecture:  The Viking Achievement

Spring 1979

Marvin Minsky, Professor of Science, Computer Science Dept., MIT. Lecture:  The Construction of the Mind

Fall 1979

Marvin Minsky, Professor of Science, Computer Science Dept., MIT. Lecture:  The Construction of the Mind

Spring 1978

Jean Seznec, Professor of French Literature, University of Oxford. Lecture:  Revival and Metamorphoses of the Gods in Nineteenth Century Art and Literature

Fall 1978

Arthur Kantrowitz, Chairman, AVCO-Everett Research Laboratory, Inc.. Lecture:  A Technologist Looks at Anti-Technology

Spring 1977

Rene Girard, Professor of French & the Humanities, Johns Hopkins University. Lecture:  Sacrifice, Symbolic Thought and Judeo-Christian Culture

Fall 1977

David Grene, Professor of Social Thought, University of Chicago. Lecture:  Shakespeare: Politics, History, and Poetry

Spring 1976

Edward O. Wilson, Professor of Zoology, Harvard University. Lecture:  Sociobiology

Fall 1976

Noam Chomsky, Professor of Linguistics & Philosophy, MIT. Lecture:  Concepts of Language

Spring 1975

Charles Rosen, Pianist & Writer. Lecture:  Music and the Perspectives of Historical Criticism

Fall 1975

Walle J.H. Nauta, Profesor of Psychology, MIT. Lecture:  Mammalian Behavior and the Anatomy of the Brain

Spring 1974

• Zhores Medvedev, Soviet Biologist & Critic. Lecture:  Intellectual Dissent in the Soviet Union
• Harry Bober, Professor of the Humanities, New York University. Lecture:  Celtic Illuminated Manuscripts:  Enigmas and Mysteries

Spring 1973

Elting Morison, Killian Professor of the Class of 1926, MIT. Lecture:  Celtic Iluminated Manuscripts:  Engimas and Mysteries

Spring 1972

C.T. deWit, Professor of Theoretical Production Ecology, Agricultural University, the Netherlands. Lecture:  Theoretical Production Ecology:  An Attempt Toward Integration

Fall 1972

Garrett Hardin, Professor of Biology, University of California at Santa Barbara. Lecture:  The Value and Dignity of Life

Spring 1971

Jerzy Neyman, Professor of Statistics, University of California at Berkeley. Lecture:  A Statistician’s Experience in Three Domains of Science: Astronomy, Cancer, and Weather Modification

Fall 1971

David Daube, Professor of Law, University of California at Berkeley. Lecture:  Civil Disobedience in Antiquity

Fall 1970

Oswei Temkin, Professor of the History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University. Lecture:  Galenism:  Rise and Decline of a Medical Philosophy

Fall 1969

• Yigael Yadin, Professor of Archaeology, Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Lecture:  From the Hasmoneans to Bar-Kochba: Archaelogical Findings and Finds in the Wilderness of Judea
• Samuel H. Beer, Professor of Government, Harvard University. Lecture:  The Politics of American Federalism

Spring 1968

Henry Eyring, Professor of Chemistry & Metallurgy, University of Utah. Lecture:  The Scientific Models We Live By

Fall 1968

Michel Jouvet, M.D., Faculty of Medicine, University of Lyons, France. Lecture:  Sleep and Dreams

Spring 1967

Madame Jacqueline de Romilly, Professor of Greek, The Sorbonne. Lecture:  Aspects of Time in Greek Tragedy

Fall 1967

Dame Helen Louise Gardner, Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford, UK. Lecture:  Shakespeare’s Tragic Art

Fall 1965

A. Frey-Wyssling, Department of General Botany & Electron Microscopy, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. Lecture:  Ultra-Structural Cell Organization

Spring 1964

C. Vann Woodward, Professor of History, Yale University. Lecture: The First Reconstruction in Light of the Second

Fall 1964

Richard Feynman, Professor of Theoretical Physics, California Institute of Technology. Lecture:  The Character of Physical Law

Spring 1963

H.L.A. Hart, Professor of Jurisprudence, University of Oxford, UK. Lecture:  Mind and Deed in the Law

Fall 1963

Kingsley Davis, Professor of Sociology, University of California at Berkeley. Lecture:  New Perspectives on Population: Change and Response in Modern Demographic History

Fall 1962

Alexander Hollaender, Director, Biology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Lecture:  Some Basic Problems in Radiation Biology

Spring 1961

William Haller, Professor of English, Barnard College, Columbia University. Lecture: The Elect Nation on Puritanism Reconsidered

Fall 1961

Harry Harlow, Professor of Psychology, University of Wisconsin. Lecture:  The Nature of Love and Affection in Primates

Spring 1960

Meyer Shapiro, Professor of Fine Arts, Columbia University. Lecture:  Abstract Painting