Each season we invite 7 exceptional speakers across a range of topics.
We will add each speaker for the 2008/2009 season as they are confirmed. To receive notice of each new speaker, please sign up for e-updates by clicking on the upper right box.
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Wednesday, September 10, 2008 Beloved novelist and memoirist Isabel Allende tells compelling tales of adventure and passion. Click here to read more. |
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Wednesday, October 15, 2008 Archbishop Desmond Tutu Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, South African anti-apartheid leader and inspirational activist for social justice and racial reconciliation. Click here to read more. |
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Wednesday, November 12, 2008 Reza Aslan One of the nation’s most respected analysts on the Middle East and Islam, author of No god but God and CBS commentator. Click here to read more. |
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Tuesday, January 13, 2009 Charles Barkley The “9th Wonder of the World”, Sir Charles is a basketball legend, actor, author and an irreverent, provocative and charismatic commentator on everything from sports to race to politics. Click here to read more. |
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Tuesday, February 10, 2009 Bob Woodward Pulitzer prize winning political journalist, Assistant Managing Editor of the Washington Post and author of nine #1 best-selling non-fiction books. Click here to read more. |
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Thursday, March 5, 2009 Carole Baldwin Star of IMAX Galapagos and Smithsonian marine biologist will show us new discoveries from the deep ocean. Click here to read more. |
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Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Dave Barry Humorist, author and Pulitzer prize winner for commentary. Click here to read more. |
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That's the 2008/2009 season. Keep checking this page for our speakers in the 2009/2010 season. Or, better yet, tell us whom you'd like to see! Send me a note and give me your vote for the next season's speakers. Elizabeth
Looking ahead to Fall 2009...
Join us for an extraordinary evening with President Mikhael Gorbachev.
Former Soviet President, Nobel Peace Laureate
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Mikhael Gorbachev has been one of this century's pivotal leaders. As President of the Soviet Union, he ended the fifty years of brinksmanship named the Cold War. In it's place, he taught the world and his country two new ideas: glasnost and perestroika. These revolutionary concepts led to the blossoming of freedom in Eastern Europe and the introduction of democracy in Russia. |
President Gorbachev dedicated himself to building a relationship of mutual trust between the Soviet Union and the United States, signing two disarmament pacts that dramtically reduced the danger of worldwide nuclear destruction. For these efforts he was awarded the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize.
Now retired from politics, Gorbachev continues to strive towards achieving his global vision of peace. In 1992, he established the Gorbachev Foundation, a non-profit, non-partisan educational foundation dedicated to addressing the challenges of and articulating new priorities for the post Cold War world.
In 1993, he founded Green Cross International, an environmental organization with the mission to help ensure a just, sustainable, and secure future for all by fostering a value shift and cultivating a new sense of global interdependence and shared responsibility in humanity's relationship with nature.
