| Wednesday, September 13 |
Edward James Olmos, actor, Zoot Suit (1982) and Mi Familia (1995); "We're All in the Same Gang" (McKenna Auditorium) |
| Monday, September 18 |
Stanley Crouch, author, Notes of a Hanging Judge: Essays and Reviews, 1979-1989 (1990) and The All-American Skin Game, Or, the Decoy of Race: The Long and Short of It, 1990-1994 (1995); "Black Writers in America: Albert Murray" |
| Tuesday, September 19 |
James Lilley, former U.S. Ambassador to China and Korea; co-editor, Beyond Mfn: Trade with China and American Interests (1994); "The Future of U.S.-China Relations" |
| Wednesday, September 20 |
Parris Chang, director, Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party's Mission, Washington, D.C.; co-author, If China Crosses the Taiwan Strait: The International Response (1993) and author, Taiwan: Pawn or Pivot? (1980); "Taiwan's Democratization and Cross-Strait Relations" |
| Thursday, September 21 |
Sarah Weddington, attorney, adjunct associate professor of government and American studies, University of Texas, Austin; author, A Question of Choice (1992); "Practicing Leadership" |
| Monday, September 25 |
Susan Faludi, reporter, Wall Street Journal; author, Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women (1991); "Whose Backlash Is It Anyway?: The Women's Movement and Angry White Men" |
| Tuesday, September 26 |
Charles Johnson, professor of English, University of Washington; author, Middle Passage (1990) and The Sorcerer's Apprentice: Tales and Conjurations (1986); "Black Writers in America: Ralph Ellison" |
| Wednesday, September 27 |
Sandra McBrayer, 1994 National Teacher of the Year, California Teacher of the Year; "Educating America's Homeless Youth" |
| Thursday, September 28 |
Roberto Cani, violin; Anita Swearengin, piano; "Beethoven, Sibelius, and Paganini" |
| Monday, October 2 |
Shelby Steele P'96, professor of English, San Jose State University; author, Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in America (1990); "Black Writers in America: James Baldwin" |
| Tuesday, October 3 |
Jeffrey Madrick, financial journalist; author, Taking America: How We Got from the First Hostile Takeover to Megamergers, Corporate Raiding, and Scandal (1987) and "The End of Affluence: The Causes and Consequences of America's Economic Dilemma" (1995) |
| Wednesday, October 4 |
Harry Wu, research fellow, Hoover Institution; co-author, Bitter Winds: A Memoir of My Years in China's Gulag (1993) and Laogai: The Chinese Gulag (1991); "The Myths and Realities of Human Rights" |
| Monday, October 9 |
David Pawson, senior research scientist, Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History; co-author, Sea Slugs, Sea Urchins, and Allies: Echinoderms of Florida and the Caribbean (1995) and author, Molpadiid Sea Cucumbers of the Southern Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans (1977); "Deep-sea Animals: What Do We Know About Them, and What Do They Mean To Us?" |
| Tuesday, October 10 |
William Kennedy, author, Riding the Yellow Trolley Car (1993) and Ironweed (1983); "Readings from The Flaming Corsage " forthcoming (1996) (12:15 p.m.) |
| Tuesday, October 10 |
Gary Nash, director, National Center for History in the Schools, UCLA; co-author, National Standards in United States History: Exploring the American Experience (1994) and author, Race and Revolution (1990); "The History Wars of the 1990's" |
| Wednesday, October 11 |
Steve Kowit, professor of English language and humanities, Southwestern College; author, Lurid Confessions (1983) and In the Palm of Your Hand: A Poet's Portable Workshop (1995); "Poet Reads From His Work" |
| Thursday, October 12 |
Kenton Youngstrom, guitar; Putter Smith, bass; "Bach, Barrios, Bebop, and Beyond" |
| Wednesday, October 18 |
Maria Hinojosa, journalist and news correspondent, National Public Radio (NPR); author, Crews: Gang Members Talk to Maria Hinojosa (1995); "The U.S. Mambo: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back" |
| Thursday, October 19 |
Michael Hudson, Seif Ghobash professor of Arab Studies, Georgetown University; author, Arab Politics: The Search for Legitimacy (1977) and editor, The Palestinians: New Directions (1990); "Good News, Bad News: Washington Confronts a Changing Middle East" |
| Monday, October 23 |
Howard Rheingold, author, Virtual Reality (1991) and "The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electric Frontier" (1993) |
| Tuesday, October 24 |
Sanford Ungar, dean, School of Communication, American University, Washington, D.C.; author, Fresh Blood: The New American Immigrants (1995) and The Papers and the Papers: An Account of the Legal and Political Battle Over the Pentagon Papers (1972); Peter Brimelow, senior editor, Forbes and National Review; author, Alien Nation: Common Sense About America's Immigration Disaster (1995) and The Patriot Game: National Dreams and Political Realities (1986); "American Policy in Review: A Debate on Immigration" |
| Wednesday, October 25 |
Martha Andresen, Phebe Estelle Spalding professor of English literature, Pomona College; "Loving Not Wisely But Too Well: Love and Justice in Shakespeare's Othello and the Tragedy of O.J. Simpson" |
| Thursday, October 26 |
Phisit Pakkasem '60, senator, Judicial Council, Thailand; "The Emerging Middle Class in Southeast Asia" |
| Friday, October 27 |
Sung-Joo Han, professor of political science, Korea University; co-author, Korea (1987) and Asian Security Issues: Regional and Global (1989); "Asia's Emerging Middle Class" |
| Saturday, October 28 |
Ronnie Chan, president, Hang Lung Co., Ltd., Hong Kong; "Asia's Emerging Middle Class" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Monday, October 30 |
Hollis Taylor, fiddler; artist on albums Twisted Fiddle (1991) and Unsquare Dances (1995); "Musical Tea" (3:15 p.m.) |
| Monday, October 30 |
Denise Levertov, poet; author, Light Up the Cave (1981) and Evening Train (1992); "Poet Reads From Her Work" |
| Tuesday, October 31 |
Dith Pran, photojournalist, The New York Times; "Genocide in Cambodia: Can It Happen Again?" |
| Wednesday, November 1 |
Thomas Otten, piano; "The Virtuoso Pianist" |
| Thursday, November 2 |
Ishmael Reed, author; Japanese by Spring (1993) and Writin' is Fightin': Thirty-seven Years of Boxing on Paper (1988); "Black Writers in America: Richard Wright" |
| Monday, November 6 |
Walter Mosley, author, Devil in a Blue Dress: An Easy Rawlins Mystery (1990) and R.L.'s Dream (1995); "Black Writers in America: Black Male Heroes" |
| Tuesday, November 7 |
Kenneth Wilson, Nobel laureate in physics (1982); professor of physics, Ohio State University; author, Redesigning Education (1994) and Wisdom-Centered Learning: Striking a New Paradigm for Education (1994); "The Future of the Research University" |
| Thursday, November 9 |
David Hackworth, U.S. Army colonel, retired; contributing editor for defense, Newsweek; co-author, About Face: The Odyssey of an American Warrior (1989) and Brave Men: Odyssey of an Infantryman (1993); "In Commemoration of Veterans Day" |
| Monday, November 13 |
Rita Dove, U.S. poet laureate consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress (1993-1995); author, Mother Love (1995) and The Poet's World (1995); "Black Writers in America: Melvin Tolson" |
| Tuesday, November 14 |
Donald Regan, former Secretary of the Treasury and Chief of Staff; author, A View from the Street (1972) and "For the Record: From Wall Street to Washington" (1988)(12:15 p.m.) |
| Tuesday, November 14 |
Lynne Cheney, W. H. Brady, Jr. Distinguished Fellow, American Enterprise Institute; author, Sisters (1981) and "Telling the Truth: Why Our Culture and Our Country Have Stopped Making Sense- and What We Can Do about It" (1995) |
| Wednesday, November 15 |
T. R. Reid, Tokyo bureau chief, Washington Post; author, Ski Japan! The Guide to Japan's World Class Ski Resorts (1994) and Congressional Odyssey: The Saga of a Senate Bill (1980); "The Confucian Ethic: Truth, Justice, and the Asian Way" |
| Thursday, November 16 |
Julianna Malveaux, economist; author, Sex, Lies, and Stereotypes: Perspectives of a Mad Economist (1994); "The Battle to Dismantle an Inclusive America" |