Great Lives

Archives: Lectures

Great Lives Archives for Lectures

Archives: Lectures

Season Date Lecture Speaker Media
Season Date Lecture Speaker Media
2022 Feb. 1 Jimmy Carter Jonathan Alter
2022 Jan. 27 Vincent van Gogh Marjorie Och
2022 Jan. 25 Charlie Chaplin Stephen Farnsworth
2022 Jan. 20 Frances Perkins Kirstin Downey
2022 Jan. 18 John Glenn Jeff Shesol
2021 Mar. 18 Lillian Hellman Gregg Stull
2021 Mar. 16 Artemisia Gentileschi Marjorie Och
2021 Mar. 11 Mohandas K. Gandhi Anand Rao
2021 Mar. 9 St. Augustine Jennifer Barry
2021 Mar. 4 Zora Neale Hurston / Eudora Welty Gary Richards
2021 Mar. 2 Madeleine Albright Jason Davidson
2021 Feb. 25 Goethe Sammy Merrill
2021 Feb. 23 Anna Julia Cooper / W. E. B. Du Bois Kristin Marsh
2021 Feb. 18 Douglas MacArthur Porter Blakemore
2021 Feb. 16 Horatio Alger Jack Bales
2021 Feb. 11 I.M. Pei Suzie Kim
2021 Feb. 9 Johnny Carson Stephen Farnsworth
2021 Feb. 4 Art Buchwald Michael Hill
2021 Feb. 2 Isaac Newton Keith Mellinger
2021 Jan. 28 Andrei Tupolev / Joseph Stalin Steven Harris

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