The following lectures were paid for in part or in whole by the Harrelson Fund.<\/p>\n
2019-2020 – Rich Harwood
\n“A Call to Step Forward: Bridging Divides and Healing Our Communities” – February 18, 2021<\/p>\n
2019-2020 – David Wallace-Wells
\n“The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming” – October 15, 2019<\/p>\n
2011-2012 – Chris Hughes
\n“The Changing Media Landscape: How Social Media Is Transforming News and Information” April 2, 2012<\/p>\n
2008-2009 – Bill Clinton
\nIn association with the Millennium Seminar Series
\nJanuary 26, 2009<\/p>\n
2005-2006 – Dr. Leon Kass
\n“The Challenge for Bioethics” – February 20, 2006<\/p>\n
2004-2005 – Edward Albee
\n“Art and Education in America” – March 21, 2005<\/p>\n
2003-2004 – Nina Totenberg
\n“The Supreme Court: Past, Present, and Future,” February 2, 2004<\/p>\n
2002-2003 – Dr. Eugene Tsui
\n“Evolutionary Architecture: Nature as a Basis for Design,” February 3, 2003<\/p>\n
2001-2002 – General Barry R. McCaffrey
\n“The War on Terrorism,” April 15, 2002<\/p>\n
2000-2001 -Nadine Strossen
\n“Civil Liberties in the Wake of the Election,” November 8, 2000<\/p>\n
1999-2000 -Julian Bond
\n“Civil Rights: Now and Then,” October 27, 1999<\/p>\n
1998-1999 -Richard D. Lamm
\n“The Ten Commandments of Community: Diversity and Unity, ” February 1, 1999<\/p>\n
1997-1998 -Anthony Badger<\/p>\n
1996-1997 -Dr. Thomas M. Sutherland
\n“A Hostage in Lebanon and Middle East Terrorism”, October 29, 1996<\/p>\n
1995-1996 -No Lecture<\/p>\n
1994-1995 -No Lecture<\/p>\n
1993-1994 – Sheila Tobias
\n“Two Cultures Revisited: Science and Mathematics as Liberal Arts,” September 20, 1994<\/p>\n
1992-1993 -Thomas F. Malone
\n“New Dimensions of the Environmental Problematique: Implications for Higher Education,” March 15, 1993<\/p>\n
1991-1992 -William W. Van Alstyne
\n“Reflections on the World’s Oldest Constitution,” April 9, 1992<\/p>\n
1990-1991 -Howard F. Taylor
\n“The Black Elite Network in America: New Findings from A National Study,” April 17, 1991
\n“Race, Sex and Standardized Testing in America,” April 17, 1991 (Main Lecture)
\n“Nature VS. Nurture in the Prediction of Human Intelligence,” April 18, 1991<\/p>\n
1989-1990 – Pepper Schwartz
\n“Challenges for Families in the 1990’s”<\/p>\n
1988-1989 -Ernest L. Boyer
\n“The Arts as Education,” September 28, 1989<\/p>\n
1987-1988 -Albert Carnesale
\n“Beyond Nuclear Deterrence: Visions of a Safer Future,” (I could not locate date of lecture)<\/p>\n
1986-1987 -Spiro Kastof
\n“America by Design,” April 6, 1987<\/p>\n
1986-1987 -Ralph L. Kitchell
\n“Understanding Animal Pain,” March 30, 1987<\/p>\n
1985-1986 -Sara Lawrence Lightfoot
\n“On Goodness in Schools: Themes of Empowerment,” March 24, 1986<\/p>\n
1984-1985 -David P. Billington
\n“Discipline and Play: The Engineer as Artist Since the Industrial Revolution,” February 21, 1985<\/p>\n
1983-1984 -William E. Leuchtenburg
\n“The Great Depression and Its Impact on North Carolina,” September 13, 1983
\n“The New Deal,” September 20, 1983<\/p>\n
1982-1983 -Paul Berg
\n“Molecular Basis of Heredity — The Recombiant DNA Breakthrough and its Implications,” April 21, 1983 (Harrelson Lecture)
\n“Expression of Transduced Genes in Mammalian Cells,” April 22, 1983 (Molecular Biology Seminar)<\/p>\n
1981-1982 -Jack Lenor Larsen
\nFabric in the Interior Environment: It’s Future Importance,” April 7, 1982 (Harrelson Lecture)
\n“On Designing a Collection,” April 8, 1982 (School of Design Visiting Lecture Series)<\/p>\n
1980-1981 -Theodore W. Schultz
\n“Economic Distortions by the International Donor Community”<\/p>\n
1979-1980 -Herman F. Mark
\n“Polymers in the Service of Man,” April 21, 1980<\/p>\n
1978-1979 – No Lecture<\/p>\n
1977-1978 -Wilbur J. Cohen
\n“The Myth of Failure of Social Policies,” (I could not locate the date of lecture)<\/p>\n
1976-1977 -No Lecture<\/p>\n
1975-1976 -Aaron Copland
\nA Colloquium on Music – Aaron Copland and panelists Milton C. Bliss, John A. Gosling, A. Sidney Knowles and J. Perry Watson, February 27, 1976<\/p>\n
1974-1975 -No Lecture<\/p>\n
1973-1974 -No Lecture<\/p>\n
1972-1973 -No Lecture<\/p>\n
1971-1972 -No Lecture<\/p>\n
1970-1971 – William O. Baker
\n“Academic Status of the Solid State: Materials Science in Modern Technological Universities,” April 6, 1971 (Provost’s Convocation)
\n“Fiber and Form in Functions of Materials,” April 7, 1971 (Seminar)
\n“Systems Science and Engineering: New Series for Mankind,” April 7, 1971 (Lecture)
\n“Real Life Meanings of Real Good Science of Matter,” (Seminar)<\/p>\n
1969-1970 -Stanley A. Cain
\n“Ecology’s Widening Horizons,” (Lecture Theme)
\n“Man, Nature and Society,” April 28, 1970
\n“The Need to Take off the Blinders,’ April 29, 1970
\n“From Individual to Government,” April 30, 1970<\/p>\n
1968-1969 -James Lory Clifford
\n“Problems of a Biographer” (Lecture Theme)
\n“The Search for Evidence,” March 18, 1969
\n“The Use of Evidence,” March 19, 1969
\n“Problems of Forces and Structure,” March 20, 1969<\/p>\n
1967-1968 -G. Ledyard Stebbins
\n“The Basis of Progressive Evolution” (Lecture Theme)
\n“Levels of Organization and their Evolution,” November 27, 1967
\n“The Genetic Code and its Implications,” November 28, 1967
\n“The Evolution of Social Organization,” November 29, 1967
\n“Developmental Integration and Evolutionary Progress,” November 30, 1967<\/p>\n
1966-1967 Roberto Burle Marx
\n“The Garden as an Art in Living,” October 24, 1966 (Lecture)
\n“Design Principles and Philosophies, October 25, 1966 (Seminar)
\n“Plants in the Landscape,” October 26, 1966 (Seminar)<\/p>\n
1965-1966 Mark Kac (November 30, 1965)
\n“Chance and Regularity: A Genesis of Statistical Thought.” November 29, 1965
\n“Chance and Regularity in Data -Examples from Ecology, Population Studies, etc.,”
\n“The Arrow of Time and Statistical Mechanics,” December 2, 1965
\n“Laws of Nature or Mathematical Theorems,” December 3, 1965<\/p>\n
1964-1965 No Lecture<\/p>\n
1963-1964 Glen Seaborg
\n“Science and the General Welfare in Democracy,” March 11, 1964<\/p>\n
1962-1963 No Lecture<\/p>\n
1961-1962 Adlai Stevenson
\n“Some Perils of Peacemaking,” March 7, 1962<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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