2009-10 Lecture Schedule
All lectures begin at 8 p.m. in McFarlin Auditorium.
Tuesday, September 8, 2009 SOLD OUT
The Linda and Mitch Hart Lecture
Thomas L. Friedman
Three-time Pulitzer Prize-winner and bestselling author of Hot, Flat, and Crowded
Fareed Zakaria
Editor of Newsweek International and host of CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS
and David Gergen, moderator
CNN Senior Political Analyst and former adviser to four U.S. presidents
Wednesday, September 30, 2009 SOLD OUT
Clarence Thomas
Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Christopher Buckley
Political satirist and author of bestsellers Supreme Courtship and Thank You for Smoking
Tuesday, December 8, 2009 SOLD OUT
The Oncor Electric Delivery Lecture
Buzz Aldrin
Space tourism advocate celebrating the 40th anniversary of his Apollo 11 moon landing
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
The Gregg and Molly Engles Lecture
21st Century Russia: U.S. Relations in the Post-Soviet World
Ian Bremmer
Expert on global politics and international risk management, and author of The J Curve: A New Way to Understand Why Nations Rise and Fall
Stephen Hadley
U.S. National Security Adviser, 2005-2009
and Claire Shipman, moderator
ABC News senior national correspondent and former member of CNN’s Moscow bureau
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Jill Bolte Taylor
Neuroanatomist named to TIME’s “100 Most Influential People in the World” for 2008 and author of bestseller My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey
