Guest Speakers

Each year, several guest speakers visit campus for our annual speakers series to discuss important issues of the day with students. Recent annual themes include Faith and Reason, Oil and Water: Our Ecological Future and Conflict.

See our speakers for the 2009-10 school year. Our theme this year is South Asia.

Below are some of the speakers who have visited campus in recent years.

Nicholas D. Kristof — Hubbard Speakers Series

Nicholas D. Kristof, a columnist for The New York Times won a 2006 Pulitzer Prize for his writing on Darfur, which got the world’s attention focused on this heartrending situation. He writes op-ed columns that appear each Wednesday and Saturday. Previously, he was associate managing editor of The Times.

Reza Aslan — Hubbard Speakers Series

Expert on Islam and the Middle East; author of No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam and articles for The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Slate and The Nation; guest on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

Thomas Friedman

Three-time Pulitzer Prize winner; foreign affairs columnist for the Op-Ed page of The New York Times; former bureau chief in Beirut and Israel, chief diplomatic correspondent in Washington, chief White House correspondent and international economic correspondent for The Times; author of the bestselling books The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century, The Lexus and The Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization and From Beirut to Jerusalem; regular commentator on The News Hour with Jim Lehrer and frequent guest on Face the Nation and Charlie Rose

Jennifer Michael Hecht