Previous Speakers

2012-2013

Immaculee Ilibagiza - Rwandan Genocide Survivor and Author, "Left to Tell"
Jean-Michel Cousteau - Marine Explorer, Environmental Activist, Educator and Filmmaker
Greg Mortenson - co-founder of the nonprofit Central Asia Institute and its Pennies for Peace program, and co-author of the New York Times bestseller "Three Cups of Tea(Raoul Wallenberg Humanitarian Lecture)

Jonathan Kozol - "In Praise of a Beautiful Profession: Educators Working in the Front Lines of the Public Schools" (Raoul Wallenberg Humanitarian Lecture)
Richard Dreyfuss - A Conversation with Richard Dreyfuss (Presented with the 2009 ONFilm Festival of Independent Film)
Frank DeFord - "Sports: The Hype and the Hoopla"

Jaap Doek - "Reducing Global Violence: The Role of Protecting Children from Corporal Punishment" (Raoul Wallenberg Humanitarian Lecture)
Tim Flannery - "The Weather Makers: How Man is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth"
Mia Farrow - "With Knowledge Comes Responsibility: The Darfur Crisis" (Raoul Wallenberg Humanitarian Lecture)
Kim Phuc - "Icon of the Vietnam War" (Raoul Wallenberg Humanitarian Lecture)

Terry Waite - "Iraq, Guantanamo and Human Rights"
Elie Wiesel - "An Afternoon with Elie Wiesel" (Raoul Wallenberg Humanitarian Lecture)

Coleman Barks - "Rumi's Work with Community"
Richard Rodriguez - "Brown: The Last Discover of America"
Shashi Tharoor - "From Midnight to Millennium: Democracy and Identity in Today's India"
Susan Landry - "Creating Family and School Environments that Support School Readiness for Young Children"
Louise Leakey - "Origins and Evolution: In Search of How We Became Human"
Garrison Keillor - "An Evening with Garrison Keillor"

Jill Kerr Conway - "When Memory Speaks"
Sarah Vowell - "A Partly Cloudy Patriot"
Norma Field - "Japanese Women's Pursuit of Global Justice"
David Pearson - "The Politics of Reading Pedagogy"
Gail Buckley - "Black America at War: From George Washington to George Bush"
Rory Kennedy - "The Camera Doesn't Lie: Social Change Through Documentary Filmmaking"
Harry Greene - "Darwin, Kant and Biodiversity"
Robert Evans - "Family Matters: How Schools Can Cope with the Crisis in Childrearing"

Oscar Arias, Nobel Peace Prize winner, former president of Costa Rica - "The Struggle for Peace in the New Millennium"
Ernest Gaines - "Gaines on Gaines"
Dwight Duncan & Richard Mohr - "Who Should be Allowed to Marry: The Same Sex Marriage Debate"
Stephanie Guttmann - "The Kinder, Gentler Military: Can It Fight?"
Jon Entine & Kenneth Shropshire - "Taboo; Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports and Why We're Afraid to Talk About It"
Sarah Weddington - "Some Leaders are Born Women"
The Capitol Steps - "The Lighter Side of Politics"

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