Ubben Lecture Series

The Timothy and Sharon Ubben Lecture Series brings the world's leaders to the Greencastle Campus.  A notable list of eminent individuals from a variety of backgrounds, including politicians, scientists, journalists, human rights activists, have presented Ubben Lectures, which are free and open to the public.

 

 

 

Below you will find a list of Ubben Lecture Series speakers. Click on the images to access text and/or photos, audio and video of highlighted Ubben Lecturers.

• Tony Blair Former Prime Minister of Great Britain March 3, 2008
• Frank Warren PostSecret Founder November 26, 2007
• Ralph Nader Consumer advocate, lawyer, activist and three-time presidential candidate September 27, 2007
• Jim Alling '83 President, Starbucks U.S March 13, 2007
• Mitch Albom Bestselling Author and Sportswriter November 13, 2006
• E.O. Wilson Biologist and Pulitzer Prize-winning Author November 8, 2006
• Charles Fishman Author, The Wal-Mart Effect April 18, 2006
• Mikhail Gorbachev Former Soviet Leader and Nobel Peace Prize Winner October 27, 2005
• Naomi Wolf Author and Feminist September 21, 2005
• Paul Rusesabagina Real-Life Hero of Hotel Rwanda April 25, 2005
• Liz Murray "Homeless to Harvard" April 6, 2005
• Peyton Manning 2003 NFL Co-Most Valuable Player October 26, 2004
• Richard G. Lugar U.S. Senator & Chair, Senate Foreign Relations Committee October 25, 2004
• Ambassador L. Paul Bremer III Former Presidential Envoy to Iraq September 16, 2004
• William S. Cohen Former Defense Secretary, U.S. Senator and Congressman April 22, 2004
• Eric Schlosser Author and Investigative Journalist November 11, 2003
• Paul A. Volcker Former Federal Reserve Chairman October 8, 2003
• Gen. Wesley K. Clark (Ret.) Presidential Candidate and Military Analyst September 23, 2003
• Spike Lee Director, Producer, and Writer April 3, 2003
• Ben Cohen & Jerry Greenfield Founders, "Ben & Jerry's" Ice Cream November 18, 2002
• Mike Krzyzewski Head Basketball Coach, Duke University September 12, 2002
• Harry Belafonte Entertainer and Human Rights Activist September 7, 2002
• David McCullough Pulitzer Prize-winning Author, Historian and Television Host March 18, 2002
• Robert M. Gates Former CIA Director December 3, 2001
• Robert H. Waterston, M.D., Ph.D. Director of the Genome Sequencing Center & James S. McDonnell Professor & Chair of the Washington University Department of Genetics November 15, 2001
• John Major Former British Prime Minister October 29, 2001
• Burton Lee Gerber Retired CIA Officer March 22, 2001
• Norman J. Ornstein Author, Columnist and CBS Election Analyst November 16, 2000
• Samuel E. Mann Methodist Minister, Human Rights Spokesman November 13, 2000
• William J. Bennett Former Secretary of Education March 2, 2000
• Andrew J. Young Former UN Ambassador and Atlanta Mayor March 2, 2000
• Julian Bond NAACP Chairman of the Board, Civil Rights and Peace Activist February 29, 2000
• Oliver Sacks Neurologist and Author, Awakenings, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Migraine October 28, 1999
• Ferid Murad, M.D., Ph.D. '58 1998 Nobel Laureate in Medicine April 23, 1999
• George Gilder Economist, Technology Consultant and Commentator April 16, 1999
• Doris Kearns Goodwin Pulitzer Prize-winning Historian and Best-selling Author and Commentator February 12, 1999
• Alan Simpson Retired Wyoming Senator, Attorney and Author November 6, 1998
• David R. Gergen Presidential Adviser, Journalist and Political Commentator October 14, 1998
• Sam Donaldson Correspondent, ABC News May 8, 1998
• Seymour M. Hersh Author, The Dark Side of Camelot December 9, 1997
• Jonathan Kozol Educator, Writer and Activist November 11-12, 1997
• Gloria Borger Columnist, U.S. News and World Report and CBS News Analyst November 5, 1997
• Christopher Edley, Jr. Senior Advisor to President Clinton for Race and Initiative and Author November 5, 1997
• Gwen Ifill Washington D.C.-based NBC News Correspondent October 28, 1997
• Roger Wilkins Educator, Writer, NPR Commentator and Activist October 14-15, 1997
• Bill Bradley Former US Senator and Basketball Hall of Famer September 10, 1997
• Benazir Bhutto Former Prime Minister of Pakistan May 7, 1997
• Sister Helen Prejean Prison Activist and Author of Dead Man Walking April 30, 1997
• Dr. David Ho Time Magazine's 1996 Man of the Year, America's premier AIDS researcher April 16, 1997
• Shimon Peres Former Israeli Prime Minister and 1994 Nobel Peace Prize Recipient November 11, 1996
• H. Ross Perot Business Executive and Presidential Candidate April 29, 1996
• Barbara Bush Former First Lady March 20, 1996
• James Lovell Former Astronaut and Apollo 13 Commander December 1, 1995
• Bob Woodward Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalist, Assistant Managing Editor, The Washington Post December 2, 1994
• General Colin Powell Former Chairman, U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff November 2, 1994
• Lynne Cheney Former Chair, National Endowment for the Humanities October 7, 1994
• Ken Burns Emmy Award-Winning Documentary Filmmaker April 6, 1994
• George Will Pulitzer Prize-winning Columnist, Newsweek Magazine and The Washington Post March 4, 1994
• Allen Neuharth Founder, USA Today December 3, 1993
• Brian Mulroney Former Prime Minister of Canada November 18, 1993
• Paul Tsongas Former U.S. Senator and Presidential Candidate April 30, 1993
• Carl Rowan Journalist and Author April 6, 1993
• Leon Lederman Physicist and Nobel Laureate April 2, 1993
• Tom Wicker Author, Commentator and Former New York Times Columnist March 12, 1993
• Jesse Jackson Civil Rights Leader and Two-Time Presidential Candidate December 3, 1992
• William J. Bennett Former Secretary of Education September 30, 1992
• Margaret Thatcher Former Prime Minister of Great Britain April 7, 1992
• David R. Brower Environmentalist January 25, 1991
• Willy Brandt Former Chancellor of West Germany and Nobel Peace Prize Winner November 2, 1990
• Lester C. Thurow Economist and Author March 9, 1990
• Elie Wiesel Author and Nobel Peace Prize Winner September 21, 1989
• William J. Bennett Former Secretary of Education October 6, 1988
• Zbigniew Brzezinski Former National Security Adviser March 4, 1988
• Mary Frances Berry Historian and Member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights November 6, 1987
• Allan Bloom Philosopher and Author, Closing of the American Mind September 11, 1987
• Gov. Richard Lamm (D) Colorado November 15, 1986