We are spent 2019 exploring how power works, across political, economic, historical, social and interpersonal relations. You can explore the Fall 2019 guide here.
Southwest Airlines Program
Sarah Vowell: Past and Present
Ellen Stone Belic Presents: In Her Infinite Wisdom
Jane Elliott: The Anatomy of Prejudice
Bill and Penny Obenshain Program on Global Affairs
Nuclear Power After Chernobyl
Terra Foundation Series on American Art
Emmet Gowin: Nuclear Test Sites
Terra Foundation Series on American Art
Harold Holzer on Daniel Chester French
Allstate Insurance Company Program
Jesselyn Silva: In the Ring
R. Scott Falk Memorial Program
Richard Brookhiser: Give Me Liberty
The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Lecture on Architecture
Daniel Parolek: Thinking Big, Building Small
Doris Conant Lecture on Women and Culture
Supermajority: Ai-jen Poo, Alicia Garza, and Cecile Richards
William and Greta Wiley Flory Concert
Power Couples
Walter E. Heller Foundation Program
Salman Rushdie: Quichotte
Elaine and Roger Haydock Humor Series
Mobituaries with Mo Rocca
Paul M. Angell Family Foundation Program
Sister Helen Prejean: Dead Man Walking
Elaine and Roger Haydock Humor Series
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Richard J. Franke Program
David Blight on Frederick Douglass
Robert R. McCormick Foundation Program
Anabel Hernández: Dangerous Investigations
Fifth Third Bank Program
Melinda Gates: The Moment of Lift
Robert R. McCormick Foundation Program
Emily Bazelon on Prosecutorial Power
Joanne H. Alter Women in Government Lecture
Stacey Abrams on Leading From the Outside
Anita and Prabhakant Sinha Program
Raghuram Rajan on Community Power
Southwest Airlines Program
An Evening with Amor Towles: A Gentleman in Moscow
Karla Scherer Endowed Lecture Series
David Brooks on Power
Helen B. and Ira E. Graham Family Concert
Music That Lasts: Maude Maggart and the American Songbook
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