WUD DLS: Past Speakers
The Distinguished Lecture Series has been bringing incredible speakers to campus since 1987. Here’s a list of who’s made it to Wisconsin so far. 2015-16 2011-12 2008-09
RJ Mitte Mara Hvistendahl Amira Hanania John Waters Jake Woods (spotlight) Shirin Ebadi Jeannette Walls Bill Strickland Daniel Dennett John Hawks An Evening with The Onion (Joe Chrystia Freeland Alex Blumberg Garden and Carole Kolb) Neil deGrasse Tyson Marc Brown Jill Bolte Taylor Robin Wright Junot Diaz Nikki Giovanni Ishmeal Beah Jon Ronson Coffee w/ TED (spotlight) Francisco Ayala Sally Mann Robert Eggers (spotlight) Anna Deavere Smith Deb Pangerl (spotlight) 2007-08 Dean Strang Derrick Hensen (spotlight) Jeff Halper Benjamin Mee Amy Goodman Laverne Cox Neil deGrasse Tyson (Senior Michael Eric Dyson Class Event) Ken Mehlman 2014-15 Reza Aslan and Gideon Yago 2010-11 Richard Dawkins Tavi Gevison Andrew Sullivan Sheryl WuDunn Andrei Codrescu Dave Arnold Ben Huh (spotlight) 2006-07 Bill Bryson Christine Jeske (spotlight) Naomi Klein Chad Sorenson (spotlight) Laurie David Jad Abumrad Merlin Mann Howard Zinn Bill T. Jones Errol Morris Joseph Stiglitz Ta-Nehisi Coates Matt Taibbi Dinesh D’Souza Ezra Klein The Yes Men Sarah Vowell Danielle Allen Jill Pruez (spotlight) David Suzuki Brian Cox Stephen Lewis 2013-14 Sir Ken Robinson Ali Abunimah (spotlight) Billy Collins Jello Biafra (spotlight) Alexis Ohanian Alice Waters 2009-10 2005-06 Cheryl Strayed Jalen Rose Steven Pinker Isabel Allende Lawrence Krauss Dan Ariely George McGovern Olver Stone and Peter Kuznick Jeremy Rifkin E.O. Wilson Max Brooks Ayaan Hirsi Ali Brian Greene Michele Norris Cornelia Flor (spotlight) Francis Bok Bill Marler (spotlight) Laurie Garrett 2012-13 Post-Racial Comedy Tour w/ Ben Karlin Elon James & Christian Lander Mark Zupan Paul Farmer V.S. Ramachandran Frank Luntz Aron Ralston Vandana Shiva Dan Savage (spotlight) Byron Pitts Dan Savage Frank Warren Jane Goodall Michelle Alexander Morgan Spurlock WUD DLS: Past Speakers
The Distinguished Lecture Series has been bringing incredible speakers to campus since 1987. Here’s a list of who’s made it to Wisconsin so far. 2004-05 2001-02 1997-98
Robert Novak Susan Faludi Ralph Reed Jean Kilbourne David Horowitz Patricia Ireland Karan Armstrong Randall Robinson Luis Rodriquez Al Sharpton Spike Lee Kurt Vonnegut Robert Seigel Guerilla Girls Bobby Seale SIster Helen Prejean Patch Adams Joycelyn Elder Chuck Palahniuk Elie Wiesel Eric Schlosser Jamaica Kinkaid Michael Moore (spotlight) Spitfire Tour - Jello Biadra, 1996-97 John Perkins (spotlight) Ingrid Newkirk, Krist Novoselic, James Kunstler (spotlight) and Jill Sobule Jonathan Kozol Andy Greenwald (spotlight) Eric Soperston (spotlight) Adrienne Rich Craig Murray (spotlight) Gubernatorial Debate Stanley Crouch Paul Loeb (spotlight) Noam Chomsky Tim Wise (spotlight) 2000-01 Harry Wu Sarah Weddington 2003-04 Jeffrey Wigand Stephen Gould Rubin “Hurricane” Carter Richard Lamm (spotlight) Kurt Vonnegut Alan Keyes Salman Rushdie Judy Shepard 1995-96 James Dale Ralph Nadar Elizabeth Wurtzel Afeni Shakur Last Lecture (William Cronon, Linda Chavez Robert Pinsky Donald Downs, Mary LaYoun, Sylvia Earle and Hyuk Yu) Jared Diamond 1999-00 Gloria Steinem Arun Gandhi Dr. Peter Kramer Harvey Pekar (spotlight) Pat Schroeder Cornell West Lama Ole Nydahl (spotlight) Jaime Escalante Edward Said John Esposito (spotlight) Angela Davis Rigoberto Menchi William Kristol 2002-03 Sherman Alexie 1994-95 Howard Zinn Lani Guinier Nat Heutoff F.W. de Klerk 1998-99 Dennis Banks Ben Stein Olver Sacks John Trudell Terri McMillan Mary Matalin Leslie Feinberg Chai Ling Peter Singer Chuck D. Dr. William Schulz Tony Kushner Molly Ivins Michael Moore Hanan Mikhail-Ashrawi Dinesh D’Souza 1993-94
William Buckley, Jr. Bell Hooks Nadine Strossen Helen Zia Jello Biafra Stephen Jay Gould WUD DLS: Past Speakers
The Distinguished Lecture Series has been bringing incredible speakers to campus since 1987. Here’s a list of who’s made it to Wisconsin so far. 1992-93
Jesse Jackson Oscar Arias Chinua Achebe Phyllis Schafly Susan Faludi
1991-92
Charlene Spretnak Gloria Anzaldia Eqbal Ahmad Dennis Barrie Winona LaDuke Elie Wiesel
1990-91
Audre Lord Godfrey Binaisa Faye Wattleton Seymour Hersh Barbara Ehrenreich Isabel Allende
1989-90
Seymour Melman Angela Davis Edward Said Frances More Lappe Maya Angelou Daniel Ellsberg
1988-89
John Waters Martin Luter King III Garrett Hardin/Julian Simm Debate
1987-88
Jeremy Rifkin Charles King Irwin Abrams Costeau Society Ntozaki Shangi