2000s

Hanan Ashrawi (2005-2006)

Oct 25, 2005

“The Global Context and Human Imperative of Peace in the Middle East” Hanan Ashrawi is a scholar and activist in the struggle for a Palestinian homeland. As the founder and secretary general of the Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy, [...]

Sister Helen Prejean (2005-2006)

Sep 28, 2005

“Dead Man Walking – The Journey Continues” Sister Helen of St. Joseph of Medaille, New Orleans is a Roman Catholic nun. She has been a spiritual advisor to many individuals on death row. She wrote a book, Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the [...]

Evelyne Accad (2004-2005)

Mar 08, 2005

“Sexuality and War in the Aftermath of September Eleven” Evelyne Accad is professor emerita of Francophone, Arabophone, African, Middle East, Women’s Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She was born in Beirut in 1943 and [...]

Linda Colley (2004-2005)

Nov 25, 2004

“The Difficulties of Empire: Present, Past and Future” Linda Colley is the Shelby M.C. Davis 1958 professor of history at Princeton University and the author of Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837, which investigated how inhabitants of England, Scotland, and Wales came to [...]

Margaret MacMillan (2004-2005)

Nov 04, 2004

“The Uses and Abuses of History: Versailles and Beyond” Margaret MacMillan is a provost at Trinity College and Professor of History at the University of Toronto. She is also emeritus Professor of International History and the former Warden of St. Antony’s College at the [...]

Naomi Klein (2004-2005)

Oct 20, 2004

“War and Fleece: How Economic ‘Shock Therapy’ Backfired in Iraq” Naomi Klein is an award-winning author, a senior correspondent at The Intercept, and the inaugural Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture and Feminist Studies at Rutgers University. She is a syndicated [...]

Martha Nussbaum (2000-2001)

Jan 20, 2001

“In Search of Universal Values” Martha Nussbaum is a renowned legal academic known for her work on Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, feminist philosophy, political philosophy, and philosophy and the arts. She was trained as a classicist at Harvard University and is an [...]