2007-08

Literary Lecture Series
Orhan Pamuk, October 15, 2007
Diane Ackerman, November 19, 2007
Colson Whitehead, January 14, 2008
Mary Oliver, February 4, 2008
Richard Powers, March 5, 2008
Pico Iyer, April 29, 2008

Special Events
An Evening with Wangari Maathai, September 19, 2007
An Afternoon with Lois Lowry, March 15, 2008
Writers in the Schools Student Reading & Celebration, May 22, 2008
John Waters, June 3, 2008

Poetry Series
Li-Young Lee, February 19, 2008
Eavan Boland, March 3, 2008
Lucille Clifton, April 7, 2008
Edward Hirsch, April 21, 2008

Wednesday University
Religion, Politics, and the Modern American Presidency, Fall 2007
Art and Action in Ancient Rome, Winter 2008
American Sabor: Latinos Shaping U.S. Popular Music, Spring 2008
Playing the God Card: Religion and Politics in the 2008 Presidential Campaign, Spring 2008

2006-07

Literary Lecture Series
Frank Rich, October 9, 2006
Frank McCourt, November 21, 2006
Edwidge Danticat, January 8, 2007
Suzan-Lori Parks, February 7, 2007
Art Spiegelman, March 5, 2007
Jonathan Lethem, April 18, 2007

Special Events
A Conversation with Eric Carle, October 21, 2006
An Evening with Stephen King, November 1, 2006
Elizabeth Kolbert on Climate Change, December 5, 2006
Writers in the Schools: Student Reading and Celebration, May 24, 2007

Poetry Series
Mark Strand, February 27, 2007
Kevin Young, March 13, 2007
Carolyn Forché, March 26, 2007
Charles Simic, April 10, 2007

Wednesday University
Nature, History, and Nation, Autumn 2006
The Fool in the Frame: American Film Comedy, Winter 2007
Sacred Cities of Asia, Spring 2007

2005-06

Literary Lecture Series
Cynthia Ozick, September 21, 2005
Simon Winchester, October 19, 2005
Alexander McCall Smith, November 14, 2005
Paul Auster & Siri Hustvedt, January 23, 2006
Azar Nafisi, February 28, 2006
Peter Matthiessen, April 25, 2006

Special Events
An Evening With Charles Jencks, November 2, 2005
Wilderness and Imagination, December 6, 2005
Writers in the Schools: Student Reading and Celebration, May 17, 2006

Poetry Series
Robert Bly, March 6, 2006
Adrienne Rich, March 22, 2006
Tony Hoagland, April 4, 2006
Peter Gizzi, Tyehimba Jess, Mary Ruefle, April 10, 2006

Wednesday University
Mapping The Dickens World, Autumn 2005
When Theatre Mattered, Winter 2006
Five Italian Cities, Spring 2006

2004-05

Literary Lecture Series
T.C. Boyle, October 5, 2004
Oliver Sacks, December 1, 2004
Terrence McNally, January 24, 2005
Tracy Chevalier, February 9, 2005
Adam Gopnik, March 2, 2005
Edward P. Jones, April 20, 2005

Special Events
An Evening with Roddy Doyle, November 15, 2004
Chris Van Allsburg Pajama Party, November 21, 2004
Women Writers of the Arab World: Art & Identity, May 10, 2005

Poetry Series
Kay Ryan, February 16, 2005
Ted Kooser, March 16, 2005
W.S. Merwin, March 28, 2005
Maxine Kumin, April 11, 2005

Wednesday University
Renaissance Italy: Merchants, Artists, and Princes, Autumn 2004
Great Film Directors, Winter 2005
What's So Hot About Art?, Spring 2005

2003-04

Literary Lecture Series
Jeffrey Eugenides, September 29, 2003
Sandra Cisneros, October 27, 2003
Garry Wills, December 1, 2003
Billy Collins, January 13, 2004
Ian McEwan, March 31, 2004
Anne Fadiman, April 27, 2004 [Please note: Anne Fadiman appeared in the place of Susan Sontag, who cancelled due to medical reasons.]

Special Events
An Evening with Paul Theroux, April 8, 2004
Zelda, Scott, and Ernest (featuring Robert Stone, Calvin Trillin, and Mary Karr), May 9, 2004

Poetry Series
Ellen Bryant Voigt, February 23, 2004
Paul Muldoon, March 15, 2004
Charles Wright, March 30, 2004
Carol Muske-Dukes, April 20, 2004

Wednesday University
Shakespeare's Ghostly Traditions, Autumn 2003
The Belle Epoque, Winter 2004
Mummies, Myth, and Magic, Spring 2004

2002-03

Literary Lecture Series
Seamus Heaney, October 4, 2002
Zadie Smith, November 12, 2002
George Plimpton, January 21, 2003
Francine Prose, February 18, 2003
Andrea Barrett, March 11, 2003
David Mamet, April 1, 2003

Special Events
Ira Glass, September 24, 2002
An Evening with Tim O'Brien, November 4, 2002
CanonBall Theatre, February 13 and April 15, 2003

Poetry Series
James Tate, February 3, 2003
C.D. Wright, February 24, 2003
Louise Gluck, March 3, 2003
Galway Kinnell, March 24, 2003

Wednesday University
The World of Islam: From Prophet to Crusaders, Autumn 2002
Druids, Poets, Clerics: Ireland's "Golden Age", Winter 2003
Why Human Rights Should Be Universal, Spring 2003

2001-02

Literary Lecture Series
Stephen Jay Gould, October 3, 2002
Edward Albee, October 30, 2002
Edna O'Brien, November 27, 2002
Writers on Writers: An Evening of Biography with James Atlas, Francine du Plessix Gray, and Edmund White, January 15, 2002
Anchee Min, February 4, 2002
J. M. Coetzee, March 3, 2002
Ursula K. Le Guin, April 8, 2002

Special Events
Joan Didion, September 25, 2001

Poetry Series
Cornelius Eady, February 25, 2002
Robert Creeley, March 11, 2002
Heather McHugh, March 25, 2002
Jorie Graham, April 1, 2002

Wednesday University
Early Shakespeare, Early Love, Autumn 2001
The Silk Road Observed and Imagined, Winter 2002
A House Divided: The Civil War & American Values, Spring 2002

2000-01

Literary Lecture Series
Reynolds Price, October 2, 2000
Jeanette Winterson, November 8, 2000
John Ridley, November 28, 2000
Marilynne Robinson, January 8, 2001
Peter Carey, February 13, 2001
Greil Marcus, April 2, 2001
Terry Gross, April 24, 2001

Special Events:
Ira Glass, October 28, 2000
Gao Xingjian, February 24, 2001

Poetry Series 2001:
C.K. Williams, January 29, 2001
Adam Zagajewski, February 28, 2001, rescheduled to March 21, 2001 due to earthquake
Claudia Rankine & Matthew Rohrer, March 13, 2001
Louise Glück, March 27, 2001, CANCELLED due to illness
Sharon Olds, May 15, 2001, replaced the Louise Glück event

Wednesday University
Baroque Personae: Politics & Personality in Early Modern Art, Autumn 2000
Greek Myth in Art and Culture, Winter 2001
Silent Cinema and Modern Culture, Spring 2001

1999-00

Literary Lecture Series
James Fenton, October 4, 1999
Ursula Hegi, November 1, 1999
Wole Soyinka, December 6, 1999
Elizabeth McCracken & Anne Patchett, January 10, 2000
Ron Chernow, March 7, 2000
Michael Cunningham & Amy Bloom, April 10, 2000
Frank O. Gehry, May 15, 2000

Special Events:
Jamaica Kincaid in conversation with Dan Hinkley, November 15, 1999
Michael Ondaatje, May 22, 2000
Nathan Englander, April 12, 2000
Susan Sontag, March 14, 2000

Poetry Series 2000:
Philip Levine, February 28, 2000
Anne Carson, March 6, 2000
Frank Bidart, March 21, 2000
Robert Hass, with Linda Bierds, Richard Kenney, Alan Lau, Colleen McElroy: The Century in Poems, April 3, 2000

1998-99

Literary Lecture Series
Charles Frazier and Kay Gibbons, September 14, 1998
Richard Ford, October 26, 1998
David Remnick, December 7, 1998
Barbara Kopple, January 5, 1999
Julie Taymor, February 1, 1999 CANCELLED
Caryl Phillips, March 1, 1999
Julian Barnes, April 12, 1999
Salman Rushdie, May 3, 1998 replaced the Julie Taymor event

Special Events:
Walter Mosley, October 8, 1998
Ursula K. LeGuin, October 22, 1998
Adrienne Rich, February 8, 1999
John le Carré, March 23, 1999
Vikram Seth, May 13, 1999

1997-98

Literary Lecture Series
Elaine May, September 23, 1997
Grace Paley and Anne Lamott, November 17, 1997
Orville Schell, December 8, 1997
Amos Oz, January 5, 1998
Sherman Alexie, Christina Garcia, Gish Jen, and David Foster Wallace, February 2, 1998
Frank McCourt and Mary Gordon, March 9, 1998
Jules Feiffer, April 6, 1998 - Feiffer replaced Maurice Sendack who cancelled due to illness
Chinua Achebe and Robert Lyons, May 11, 1998, rescheduled from May 19, 1997

Special Events:
Don DeLillo, October 20, 1997
Julia Alvarez, February 19, 1998

The Poets Among Us:
Sam Hamill, February 5, 1998
Heather McHugh, February 12, 1998
Sherman Alexie, February 19, 1998
Colleen McElroy, February 26, 1998
David Wagoner, March 5, 1998
A Tribute to Denise Levertov with Robert Creely, Sam Hamill, Colleen McElroy, Jan Wallace and Emily Warn, March 12, 1998

1996-97

Literary Lecture Series
Elmore Leonard, September 30, 1996
Antonia Fraser, October 28, 1996
Mary Karr, December 9, 1996
Michael Ondaatje, January 9, 1997
Jim Harrison, March 3, 1997
Maya Lin, April 14, 1997
Chinua Achebe and Robert Lyons, May 19, 1997, rescheduled to May 11, 1998

Special Events:
Eilean Ni Chuilleanain & Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill, May 1, 1997

1995-96

Literary Lecture Series
Kazuo Ishiguro, Monday, October 16, 1995
Anna Deavere Smith, December 11, 1995
Tim O'Brien, January 9, 1996
Doris Kearns Goodwin, March 25, 1996
John Fowles, April 22, 1996
Edward O. Wilson, May 14, 1996

Special Events:
Paul Theroux, October 25, 1995
Salman Rushdie, January 23, 1996

1994-95

Literary Lecture Series
Tony Hillerman, October 5, 1994
Lorrie Moore, December 12, 1994
Robertson Davies, January 17, 1995
Edward Said, March 6, 1995
A. S. Byatt, April 11, 1995
Nicholson Baker, May 8, 1995

Special Events:
Patrick O'Brian, April 25, 1995
Bailey White & David Sedaris, June 12, 1995

1993-94

Literary Lecture Series
Jan Morris, October 20, 1993
Czeslaw Milosz and Robert Hass, December 1, 1993
Terry McMillan and John Edgar Wideman, January 11, 1994
Margaret Atwood, February 3, 1994
Tony Kushner, February 22, 1994
Saul Bellow, April 20, 1994

1992-93

Literary Lecture Series
Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne, September 21, 1992
Philip Roth, October 21, 1992
Doris Lessing, November 10, 1992
Hanif Kureishi, January 5, 1993
Bill Buford and James Fenton, February 23, 1993
Charles Johnson, April 13, 1993

Special Events:
Dave Barry, November 17, 1992
Robert Hughes, May 7, 1993

1991-92

Literary Lecture Series
William Styron, October 8, 1991
Garry Trudeau, November 19, 1991
Maxine Hong Kingston, January 8, 1992
Toni Morrison, March 18, 1992
Robert Coles, April 24, 1992
Carolyn Heilburn, May 13, 1992

Special Events:
Annie Dillard, April 28, 1992
Jamaica Kincaid, May 5, 1992

1990-91

Literary Lecture Series
August Wilson, October 3, 1990
Wallace Stegner, November 28, 1990
Amy Tan, January 9, 1991
E. L. Doctorow, March 12, 1991
Eduardo Galeano, April 16, 1991
Jane Smiley, May 8, 1991

Special Events:
V. S. Naipaul, January 29, 1991
Henry Louis Gates Jr., February 12, 1991
Jonathan Miller, February 28, 1991

1989-90

Literary Lecture Series
John McPhee, October 13, 1989
Joyce Carol Oates, November 2, 1989
Peter Gay, January 10, 1990
Brendan Gill, February 13, 1990
Andre Dubus, March 14, 1990
Wendy Wasserstein, May 2, 1990

Special Events:
May Sarton, March 28, 1990
Richard Ford & Tobias Wolff, May 31, 1990

1988-89

Literary Lecture Series
John Updike, November, 16 1988
Calvin Trillin, January 11, 1989
Donald Barthelme, February 7, 1989
Isabel Allende, March 14, 1989
Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris, April 12, 1989
Rosamond Bernier, May 24, 1989