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Welcome to the UFM Lou Douglas Lecture Series |
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2009 David Hursh, Professor of Education at University of Rochester 2008 Paula Allen, Photographer and "Activist with a camera" 2007 Robert Egger, Founder and President of the DC Central Kitchen Loretta Ross, National Coordinator of the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective Larry Schweiger, Executive Director, National Wildlife Federation 2006 Thomas Frank, Author of the book, "What's the Matter With Kansas?" David Mindich, Chair of the Journalism Department at Saint Michael’s College in Colchester, Vermont and author of "Tuned Out: Why Americans Under 40 Tune Out the News " Rink Dickinson, Co-founder and Co-executive director of Equal Exchange in Boston, Massachusetts 2005 David Eisenhower, Director of the Institute for Public Service Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania Patricia Williams. Author/Law Professor/Cultural Commentator Dr. Frances Fox Piven, Distinguished Professor of Political Science and
Sociology Graduate School and University Center, The City University of New York Jack Duvall: Founding Director and President of the International Center for Nonviolent Conflict and Executive Producer of the Emmy-nominated PBS series "A Force More Powerful" Paul Rogat Loeb: Author of Soul of a Citizen: Living with Conviction in a Cynical Time and Generation at the Crossroads: Apathy and Action on the American Campus Phyllis Bennis: Fellow and Director of the New Internationalism Program of the Institute for Policy Studies, Washington, D.C. and Fellow of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam Jeffrey Hollender: President and Corporate Responsibility Officer of Seventh Generation, the Leading Brand of Natural Household Products in the United States Stephen Douglas: Retired Professor of Political Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and Son of Lou and Mary Douglas 2003 Dr. William F. Schulz, Executive Director of Amnesty International, USA and former president of the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Milo Mumgaard: Executive Director/ Attorney, Nebraska Appleseed Center for Law in the Public Interest and an Inaugural winner of the Ford Foundation's Leadership for a Changing World Award Dr. Cornelia Butler Flora, Director, North Central Regional Center for Rural development and Charles F. Curtiss Distinguished Professor of Agriculture and Sociology, Iowa State University 2002 Sister Helen Prejean: Nobel Peace Prize Nominee and Author of Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the U.S. Norman Solomon: Syndicated Columnist and Executive Director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, Washington, D.C. Dr. Ali A. Mazrui: Albert Schweitzer Professor in the Humanities and Director, Institute of Global Cultural Studies, Binghamton University, State University of New York; Albert Luthuli Professor-at-Large in the Humanities and Development Studies at the University of Jos in Nigeria 2001 Juliette Beck: Policy Analyst at Global Exchange, San Francisco Carl Rosen: President, District 11, United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE), Chicago, IL Olga Idriss Davis, Ph.D.: Assistant Professor of Performance Studies and Women's Studies in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University Steffie Woolhandler, M.D., M.P.H.: Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard University School of Medicine and Co-founder of Physicians for a National Health Program 2000 Father Roy Bourgeois: Founder, School of Americas Watch James K. Galbraith: Professor of Public Affairs and Government, University of Texas at Austin Eugenie C. Scott: Executive Director of the National Center for Science Education I Laura A. Cecere, M.S.W., J.D: Founder and Director of China Seas Adoption Agency 1999: THE LIMITS OF AUTHORITY Noam Chomsky: Preeminent Linguist & Political Commentator Molly Marshall: Professor of Theology, Women's Religious Advocate Barney Frank: Democratic Congressman, 4th District Massachusetts 1998: NEWS YOU CAN USE Ellen Wartella: University of Texas at Austin Howard Zinn: Preeminent Historian Barbara Trent: Academy Award Winner, Best Documentary 1993 1997: CHOICES & RIGHTS James Howard Kunstler: Author Rhoda H. Karpatkin: President, Consumer's Union Malcolm C. Young: Executive Director, the Sentencing Project Cynthia Price Cohen: Executive Director, Childrights International Research Institute Timothy E. Quill: Associate Chief of Medicine at The Genesee Hospital 1996: DEMOCRACY UNDER SIEGE Morris Dees: Civil Rights Lawyer and Co-Founder, Southern Poverty Law Center Dr. Michael Apple: John Bascom Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison Edward Luck: President Emeritus and Senior Policy Advisor, United Nations Association of the USA 1995: THE PEOPLE COUNT Dr. M. Jocelyn Elders: Former United States Surgeon General Werner Fornos: Director, World Population Institute Jack Weatherford: Cultural Anthropologist FAMILY FARMING IN THE 21ST CENTURY: A ONE-DAY CONFERENCE Bob Bergland: Former United States Secretary of Agriculture Sarah Vogel: North Dakota Secretary of Agriculture Lee Swenson: President, National Farmers Union Ron Sampson: President, Mid-America Commercialization Corp. 1994: THE POLITICS OF CULTURE Diana Gordon: Associate Professor of Political Science, City University, New York Ron Takaki: Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley Kenneth Davis: Author and Former Professor, Kansas State University Jerry Mander: Senior Fellow, Public Media Center, San Francisco, California 1993: THE STRUGGLE FOR WORLD FAIRNESS Jeff Cohen: Co- Founder of FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) Julianne Malveaux: African American Studies, University of California, Berkley John Swomley, Jr.: Saint Paul School of Theology, Kansas City Ved Nanda: University of Denver, College of Law Ama Ata Aidoo: African Poet and Writer 1992: CHOICES FOR CHANGE Bill Roy: Chair of the Kansas Commission on the Future of Health Care Manning Marable: Professor of Political Science & Sociology, University of Colorado Howard Zinn: Historian Juliet Schor: Professor of Economics, Harvard University Alan Thein Durning: Professor of Philosophy and Music 1991: THE GLOBAL ECONOMY BROUGHT HOME Daniel Katz: Founder and President of the Rain Forest Alliance Mark Richie: President of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy Lloyd Dumas: Professor of Political Economics at the University of Texas, Dallas Holly Sklar: Writer and Lecturer 1990: 10th ANNIVERSARY SERIES T.S. Farisani: Assistant Bishop of Venda Lutheran Church, South Africa Molly Ivins: Reporter and Columnist David Orr: Professor of Environmental Studies, Oberlin College Hunter Lovins: President of the Rocky Mountain Institute Kenneth Boulding: Professor Emeritus University of Colorado 1989 FALL: ISSUES OF THE 1990'S Myron Aronoff: Professor of Political Science, Rutgers University Adm. Gene La Rocque: Director of the Center for Defense Information Claribel Alegria: Poet and Author Jim Nichols: Minnesota Commissioner of Agriculture 1989 SPRING: LIBERATING MOVEMENTS Nomonde Ngubo: U.S. Rep. of the Confederation of South Africa Trade Unions John Swomley: Internationally Known Theologian and Civil Libertarian Ibrahim Abu-Lughod: Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University 1988: U.S. POLITICS TODAY: A BICENTENNIAL VIEW Richard Rhodes: Pulitzer Prize-winning Author Michael Parenti: Professor of Political Science, Howard University Stalely Cohen: Editor and contributor to Advertising Age Barbara Ehrenreich: Author and Columnist 1987 Lester Thurow: Professor of Economics and Management, MIT Evalina Kane: Writer and Organizer for Women Against Pornography Samuel Bowles: Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Renny Golden: Poet and Member Chicago Religious Task Force on Central America 1986: "U.S. 1986: MYTH AND REALITY" George Reiter: Professor of Physics, University of Houston Frances Fox Piven: Professor of Economics, Washington University, St. Louis John Stockwell: Former Commander C.I.A. Mitch Snyder: Community for Creative Non-Violence 1985: STANDING TALL: U.S. INTERESTS AND GLOBAL REALITIES Sellig Harrison: Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Hyman Minsky: Professor of Economic, Washington University, St. Louis Esther Peterson: International Organization of Consumer Unions' Rep. To U.N. Patricia Mische: Co-founder of Global Education Assn.; Adjunct Prof., Seaton Hall 1984: THE AMERICAS IN CRISIS Nancy Kassebaum: Republican United States Senator, Kansas Efrain Diaz: Representative to Honduran Congress Bill Buzenberg: National Public Radio Joseph Collins: Co-founder of the Institute of Food Development 1983: ECONOMIC SURVIVAL IN A CHANGING WORLD Paul Tsongas: Democratic United States Senator, Massachusetts Frederick Taylor: Executive Editor, Wall Street Journal Paul Sweezy: Editor, The Monthly Review John Schnittker: Undersecretary, Department of Agriculture Kirkpatrick Sale: Author and Editor of The Nation 1982: ARMS CONTROL AND SURVIVAL Paul Cook: Special Assistant for Soviet Affairs, Bureau of Intelligence Daniel Berrigan: S.J., Jesuit Priest and Peace Activist Eugene Carroll, Jr: Retired Rear Admiral, United States Navy Daniel Ellsberg: Advisor on U. S. Military Policy in Vietnam and Political Scientist 1981: PERSPECTIVES ON HUMAN RIGHTS Dick Clark: Former U.S. Senator, " Human Rights in Africa , An American Perspective" Bill Sutherland: U.N. Observer in Zimbabwe after Majority Rule Elections Roberty White: Former Ambassador to El Salvador John McFadden: Educator with Nicaraguan Literacy Campaign 1980: A FOCUS ON THE PRESIDENCY Governor John Carlin Joe Hajda: Professor of Political Science, Kansas State University Jacob Kipp: Professor of History, Kansas State University Burt Kaufman: Professor of History, Kansas State University T. A. Williams: Professor of Political Science, Kansas State University Orma Linford: Professor of Political Science, Kansas State University John Exdell: Professor of Philosophy, Kansas State University James Butler: NAACP Sister Jean McKenna: Office of the Governor Scott Burnett: White House, Washington, D.C. Sherry McGowan: Democratic Party Mike Murray: Republican Party
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