2007-2008 Hilldale Lectures

May 5, 2008 -Arts and Humanities
"A Future University Without Humanities?"
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht

September 6, 2007 -Social Studies
"Nikita Khrushchev: The Man and His Era"
William Taubman

 

2006-2007 Hilldale Lectures

April 25, 2007 - Physical Sciences
"Arctic Warming and Global Climate Change: Where Have We Been and Where Are We Going?"
Glen MacDonald

October 31, 2006 - Biological Sciences
"Functional Foods and Dairy Fat: Opportunities and Challenges"
Dale E. Bauman

September 12, 2006 - Arts and Humanities
"The Threat to Indigenous People and Our Ice Age Wildlife"
Pater Matthiessen

2005-2006 Hilldale Lectures

April 6, 2006 - Social Studies
"Race, Regions and the Black/White Binary: Latinos in the New South"
Laura Pulido

 

2004-2005

September 22, 2004 - Physical Sciences
"Bernoulli Numbers and the Unity of Mathematics"
Barry Mazur

 

2003-2004

April 13, 2004 - Physical Sciences
"Computers as Puzzle-Solvers: The Challenge of Efficient Search"
Richard M. Karp

November 5, 2003 - Arts and Humanities
"Medicine, Literature, and the History of Reading: Some Ancient Solutions and Modern Problems in the Humanities"
Brian Stock

 

2002-2003

April 10, 2003 - Arts and Humanities
"Too Late for Synagogue"
Samuel Weber

March 28, 2003 - Social Studies
"Smart Heuristics: An Adaptive Intelligence of the Unconscious?"
Gerd Gigerenzer

 

2001-2002

April 25, 2002 - Arts and Humanities
"The Gutenberg Variations"
Jerome McGann, Ph.D.

October 16, 2001 - Physical Sciences
"Surfaces: Favorite Media of Evolution and New Technologies"
Gabor Samorjai

 

2000-2001

March 20, 2001 - Biological Sciences
"Consequences of the Human Genome Project for Medicine and Society"
Francis Collins, M.D., Ph.D.

September 18, 2000 - Social Studies
"Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community"
Robert D. Putnam