THE LECTURES
This
free public lecture is given each fall on the Berkeley campus of the
University of California. It is rebroadcast nationally on public radio
stations. CDs and audiotapes of the lecture are also available.
Suggestions for future lecturers are welcome; e-mail us at savio at sonic dot net.
MOST RECENT LECTURE
Naomi Klein, "Shock Doctrine California Style: How the Poor Are Paying the Price of Wall Street's Greed, and How to Fight Back"
October 27, 2009 · 8:00 PM · Pauley Ballroom, Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union, UC Berkeley
PAST LECTURES
- 2008
- Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
- "Our Environmental Destiny"
- 2007
- Angela Davis
- "From Jim Crow to Guantanamo: Prisons, Democracy and Empire"
- 2006
- Jeff Chang and Tom Hayden in conversation
- "Can't Stop, Won't Stop...and it Don't Stop: Youth activism yesterday, today and tomorrow"
- 2005
- Seymour Hersh
- "Chain of Command: The road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib"
- 2004
- Molly Ivins
- "The State of the Union"
- 2003
- Amy Goodman
- "Fomenting Democracy: Independent Media in a Time of War and Elections"
- 2002
- Christopher Hitchens in conversation with Adam Hochschild
- "Fault Lines: Rights, Wrongs and Responsibilities in Iraq, Afghanistan, Israel, Palestine and The Nation"
- 2001
- Cornel West
- "Progressive Politics in These Times: From Vision to Action"
- 2000
- Barbara Ehrenreich in conversation with Arlie Russell Hochschild
- "Forward and Backward: Women, Globalization and the New Class Structure"
- 1999
- Lani Guinier
- "Lift Every Voice: Building Democracy in the New Millenium"
- 1998
- Winona LaDuke
- "Deconstructing the American Paradigm: Indigenous Thinking for a New Millenium"
- 1997
- Howard Zinn
- "The Possibility of Hope"