Gladys West, Technology Pioneer Lecture Date: February 2, 2023 The Irene and Curry Roberts Lecture Would you imagine that a young Black girl growing up in rural Virginia during the Jim Crow era would go on transform our world? This is the story of Dr. Gladys West (b. 1930), a mathematician who helped develop GPS […]

Ted Kennedy Lecture Date: February 14, 2023 The Yuh Prosthodontics Lecture As the fourth son of his famous clan, Ted Kennedy was the runt of the litter. Expelled from Harvard for cheating, he was a fun-loving playboy who nevertheless found a role, serving his brothers John and Robert loyally. It was easy to take him […]

J. Edgar Hoover Lecture Date: February 16, 2023 The John and Linda Coker Lecture We remember J. Edgar Hoover as a bulldog–squat frame, bulging wide-set eyes, fearsome jowls. But in 1924, when he became director of the FBI, he was the trim, dazzling wunderkind of the administrative state, buzzing with energy and big ideas for […]

Rembrandt Lecture Date: February 23, 2023 The Joe and Mary Wilson Lecture How does one tell a story with images? This was a question Rembrandt posed to himself throughout his long career. He turned to the great narratives of the Bible, Greco-Roman mythology, and European history for inspiration, but he never merely described a text. […]

Magellan Lecture Date: March 2, 2023 The Coldwell Banker Elite Lecture Magellan was the first person to think globally, to see the world as we see it today. To research his life, I immersed myself in the rigors and suffering and beauty and drama of this, the most famous sea voyage in history. The result […]

Sandra Day O’Connor Lecture Date: March 7, 2023 The Chancellor’s Village Lecture Sandra Day O’Connor was born in 1930 in El Paso and grew up on a cattle ranch in Arizona. At a time when women were expected to be homemakers, she set her sights on Stanford University. When she graduated near the top of […]

The Transcendentalists Lecture Date: March 9, 2023 The Dovetail Cultural Resource Group Lecture Transcendentalism is widely regarded as the first great intellectual movement of the new American republic. Yet, it arrived in the United States in the mid-1830s as a foreign import in language that many Americans found obscure and unintelligible. Within a few years […]

Anne Frank Lecture Date: March 14, 2023 The Synergy Periodontics and Implants Lecture The most common question asked by those who tour the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam is: “Who Betrayed Anne Frank?” 74 years after the Nazis’ tragic abduction of the residents of the secret Annex in August 1944, two Dutchmen decided to take […]

Lafayette Lecture Date: March 16, 2023 The Davenport & Company Lecture Few in history can match the revolutionary career of the Marquis de Lafayette. Over fifty incredible years at the heart of the Age of Revolution, he fought courageously on both sides of the Atlantic. He was a soldier, statesman, idealist, philanthropist, and abolitionist. As […]

Queen Isabella Lecture Date: March 21, 2023 The Community Bank of the Chesapeake Lecture At a time when Christianity appeared to be dying out and the Ottoman Empire was aggressively expanding, a young princess was born into obscurity in a remote village in the weak and splintered kingdom of Castile. Inspired in her youth by […]

Bruce Springsteen Lecture Date: March 23, 2023 The Jon Properties/Van Zandt Restorations Lecture I will discuss the currents of truth and fiction in Bruce Springsteen. Now fifty years into his recording career, and long renowned both the literary depth of his songwriting and transformative power of his live performances, Springsteen has also honed a reputation […]

Colin Powell Lecture Date: March 28, 2023 The Gemini 3 Group Lecture For many years, opinion polls told us that Colin Powell was the most trusted and admired person in this country, greeted like a rock star as he traveled around the world. The son of immigrants, he rose to become the president’s national security […]