Previous speakers and topics in the Jones Visiting Lecture Series have included:

2017-2018:  Anthony Appiah:  “Mistaken Identities”

2016-2017:  Amitav Ghosh:  “The Great Derangement:  Climate Change and the Unthinkable”

2015-2016:  Sarah Vowell:  “An Evening with Sarah Vowell”

2014-2015:  Elizabeth Kolbert, “The Sixth Extinction:  An Unnatural History”

2012-2013: Jane Goodall, “Making a Difference”

2010-2011: Stephen Sondheim with Frank Rich, “A Life in the Theater”

2009-2010:  James T. Campbell,”Race and the Politics of Memory:  American Universities Confront their Pasts”

2008-2009:  Bernice Reagon, “Come and Go With Me to That Land: Notes from the Autobiography of a Freedom Singer”

Kwane Anthony Appiah, “Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers”

2007-2008:  Simon Schama, “Remembering the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 200 Years On: British Eloquence and American Silence”

2006-2007:  Francis Fukuyama, “America at the Crossroads”

2005-2006:  Dave Eggers, “The Year of the Book”

Johanna Drucker, “Open-Ended Possibilities: The Future of the Book in the Digital Age ”

2004-2005:  Robert Sapolsky

2003-2004:  Laurie Anderson, “Performance Art”

2002-2003:  Barbara Ehrenreich, “Nickel and Dimed in America”

2001-2002:  Robert Pinsky, “Icons of Memory, Voices of Myth”

2000-2001:  Robert Fagles, “The Odyssey and its Progeny”

Patricia Williams

1999-2000:

1998-1999:  Steven Pinker, “How the Mind Works”

1997-1998:  Peter Bogdanovich, “A Century of Film”

1996-1997:

1995-1996:  Arthur Danto and Marjorie Garber, “High Art and Pop Culture”

Gunther Schuller, “Interface between Classical Tradition and Popular Idioms in Music” with performance by Joe Lovano Quintet

1994-1995:  Derek Walcott, “Earth: Matter and Metaphor”

1993-1994:

1992-1993:  John Hope Franklin

1991-1992:  Ursula LeGuin, “Visions of Future Worlds”

1990-1991:

1989-1990:  Jules Feiffer and Roger Shattuck, “The Comic Spirit”