University Distinguished Lecture

Previous Lectures

Carter V. Findley
Turkey, Islam, Nationalism, and Modernity

Peter W. Culicover
Grammar and Complexity: Language at the Intersection of Competence and Performance

Randy J. Nelson
Seasonal Rhythms in Sex and Death: A Time to be Born and a Time to Die

Edward B. Foley
The Original Bush v. Gore: An Historical Perspective on Disputed Elections

Kevin G. Boyle
The Splendid Dead: An American Ordeal

Harvey M. Friedman
LOGIC: Interdisciplinary Adventures in Mathematics, Philosophy, Computer Science, and Education

Marilynn B. Brewer
The Human Dilemma: Being the Same and Different at the Same Time

Martha Chamallas
Civil Rights and Civil Wrongs: Race, Gender and Tort Law

Barbara A. Hanawalt
Telling Stories in Medieval English Courts: Whose Voices Do We Hear?

Robert L. Hamlin
"Slightly" Modified, Giraffes Would Make Great Fighter Pilots, and Bats, Great Cardiologists...
and Please Give Me a Heart That's Part Guinea Pig, Part Spider, Part Rat, and Part Goat...
or It's Lucky We're so Smart!

Ellen Mosley-Thompson
Unique Insights to the Earth's Climate History Preserved in its Cryosphere

Barbara L. Andersen
Being 1 in 3: Psychological, Behavioral, and Biologic Responses to Cancer and Finding a Path to Optimize Quality of Life

Clive Edwards
The Future of Human Populations: Energy, Food and Water Availability in the 21st Century

Geoffrey Parker
Messianic Imperialism in Sixteenth-Century Europe

Ruth Colker
The Americans with Disabilities Act: The First Decade of Enforcement

Arthur J. Epstein
Nanotechnology, Plastics, and Your Investments

F. Abiola Irele
What is Africa to me?: Africa in the Black Diaspora Imagination

Stephen G. Cecchetti
Behind the Scenes on September 11: How the Federal Reserve Made Sure that Cash Machines and Credit Cards Kept Working

Jacqueline Jones Royster
Utopian Desire and Radical Action in African American Women’s Essay Writing

Joshua Dressler
Moral and Criminal Law Reflections on Battered Women Who Kill Sleeping Abusers: Convict or Acquit and Why