University of Montana
Presidential Lecture Series 2007-2008
- Barnett R. Rubin (September 11, 2007)
- "What Is at Stake in Afghanistan?"
- "The Wars in Afghanistan: The Post Imperial Transformation of a Regional State System"
- David M. Walker (October 9, 2007)
- "Keeping America Great"
- "Keeping America Great"
- James Hansen (October 22, 2007)
- “The Threat to the Planet: How Can We Avoid Dangerous Human-Made Climate Change?”
- “What Determines Climate Sensitivity?”
- Jonathan Lear (November 1, 2007)
- “Dignity, Integrity, and Courage in the Face of Cultural Attack”
- “The Use of Myth in Plato’s Republic”
- Orville Schell (November 28, 2007)
- “The US and China: The Most Important Bilateral Relationship in the World”
- “The Role of Our Free Press in America: How Is It Doing?”
- David Blight (January 25, 2008)
- "Slaves No More: Two Recently Discovered Slave Narratives and the Story of Emancipation."
- "Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory"
- David Brion Davis (January 28, 2008)
- “The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture”
- “The Impact of British Abolitionism on American Sectionalism”
- Winona LaDuke (February 25, 2008)
- “Creating Just Societies: The Environment, the Economy, and Human Relations in the Next Millennium”
- “Indigenous Thinking on Sustainable Development: Strategies for the Northern Plains-Great Lakes Region”
- Daniel Jonah Goldhagen (March 17, 2008)
- “Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust”
- “The Globalization of Anti-Semitism”
- Rita Colwell (April 14, 2008)
- “Oceans, Climate, and Human Health: The Cholera Paradigm”
- “Infectious Diseases, Climate, and the Environment”
- John Guare (April 25, 2008)
- “How to Read a Play: The Theater and Society in the 21st Century”
- “Ripped from the Headlines: The Theater and the World Around It”
- Stephen M. Walt (September 11, 2006)
- "What Went Wrong with U.S. Foreign Policy"
- "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy"
- Eugene Ulrich (October 9,2006)
- "The Impact of the Dead Sea Scrolls on Our Bible"
- "Major Surprises in the Biblical Dead Sea Scrolls"
- Josef Joffe (October 26, 2006)
- "Europe in the 21st Century: Too Big to Be Left Alone, Too Weak to Go It Alone"
- "Iraq: America’s Most Foolish War?"
- Judith Meyer (November 14, 2006)
- "Birthplace of Rivers: The Diversity, Destruction, and Restoration of Headwater Streams"
- "Forest-Stream Linkages in an Urbanizing Landscape"
- Kenneth Maxwell (December 4, 2006)
- "The Red Wave in Latin America: What the Turn to the Left Means for the United States"
- "Contemporary Brazil: Continuity and Change"
- David Brion Davis (January 29, 2006)
- "Abolitionism in America"
- Cynthia Enloe (February 12, 2007)
- "Women and the Iraq War"
- "Women and the Globalization of Factories"
- Robert D. Bullard (March 5, 2007)
- "Deadly Waiting Game: An Environmental Justice Framework for Examining Natural and Manmade Disasters Beyond Hurricane Katrina"
- "Environmental Justice for All"
- Michael Ruse (March 19, 2007)
- "The Evolution-Creation Struggle: An American Story"
- "Is Darwinism an Exhausted Paradigm?"
- Patrick Allitt (April 9, 2007)
- "The Crisis of Teaching in America"
- "The Transformation of American Conservatism, 1955-2001"
- Robert Hass (April 30, 2007)
- "Study War No More: Violence and the Literary Imagination"
- "Litany, Dirge, and the Origins of Lyric Poetry: A Workshop"
- Anatol Lieven (September 12, 2005)
- "City on a Hill and Embattled Fortress: An Anatomy of American Nationalism"
- "Ethical Realism: A Foreign Policy Philosophy for Our Time"
- Ambassador André Baeyens (October 10, 2005)
- "From Copper to Corots: The Two Lives of William Andrew Clark, Senator of Montana"
- "Franco-American Relations: Past and Present"
- Marlene Zuk (October 27, 2005)
- "Sexual Selections: What We Can and Cannot Learn about Sex from Animals"
- "Singing and Scales:
Crickets Risking It All from an Acoustically-orienting Parasitoid"
- Monica Huggett (November 16, 2005)
- "A Short History of the Early Violin: A Lecture-Concert"
- "Master Class"
- Larry L. Rasmussen (December 1, 2005)
- "The Massive Mysticism of Stone: Religion’s Ecological Phase"
- "Song of Songs: Environmental Activism
by Religious Communities"
- Orlando Patterson (January 30, 2006)
- "The Privatization of Freedom in America: What It Means for Individuals and Democracy"
- "The Medieval and Christian Sources of Modern Freedom"
- Susan Douglas (February 13, 2006)
- "From Bewitched to Buffy: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media"
- "The Mass Media and Celebrity Culture"
- Wladimir Romuald Krysinski (March 9, 2006)
- "Rethinking World Literature from Goethe’s Idea to Harold Bloom’s The Western Canon"
- "The Novel: The Survival of the Fittest"
- Robert Bellah (April 3, 2006)
- "Ethical Politics: Illusion or Reality?"
- "The Evolution of Consciousness and Religion"
- Andrew J. Bacevich (May 1, 2006)
- "How Durable Is the American Empire?""
- "Revising the American Century""
- Toru Maekawa (Septemeber 29, 2004)
- "Bio-Nano Science and Technology"
- "Self-Organization in Nano/Micro Systems"
- Wendell Berry (October 7, 2004)
- "Imagination in Place"
- "Imagination in Place: A Seminar on a Lecture"
- Anthony Lewis (October 26, 2004)
- "Law and the War in Iraq"
- "New York Times v. Sullivan: A Retrospective After 40 Years"
- Jennet Conant (November 15, 2004)
- "Technology and the Winning of World War II: The Story of A Hero History Forgot"
- "Intimate Histories: Reexamining the Record on Robert Oppenheimer"
- John O’Malley, S.J. (December 6, 2004)
- "The Council of Trent and the Making of Modern Catholicism"
- "The Four Cultures of the West"
- William Julius Wilson (January 27, 2005)
- "The world of the New Urban Poor"
- "The Roots of Racial Tensions"
- Cynthia Prossinger (Febuary 11, 2005)
- "The Secessionist Movement in Vienna: A Visual Interpretation as Seen Through Gustav Klimt’s ’Beethoven Frieze’"
- "Otto Wagner’s Church at Steinhof: The Architectural Manifestation of a New Attitude Toward the Mentally Ill"
- Kevin T. FitzGerald, S.J. (February 24, 2005)
- "The New Genetics: A Visit from Prometheus or Pandora?"
- "Stem Cell Research: What is Progress?"
- Heidi Neumark (March 14, 2005)
- "Women and Social Justice: Midwives of a Better World"
- "Walking with Miss Ellie: Connecting Friendship, Prayer, and Justice-Making"
- Elliott Sober (April 4, 2005)
- "Creationism versus Evolution"
- "Morgan’s Canon"
- John Mearsheimer (April 25, 2005)
- "Why the U.S. Was Doomed to Fail in Iraq"
