Past Programs
Does a Liberal Arts Education Have a Future? (2023)
Dr. Jeffrey Docking, President, Adrian University; Dr. Himadeep Muppidi, Professor of Political Science, Vassar College (Click here for details)
How to Have Hard Conversations About Race and Racism (2022)
Shanelle Henry, Director of Equity and Inclusion, Greens Farms Academy (Click here for details)
How We Can Avert the Next Pandemic: Using Environmental Law and Policy to Prevent Zoonotic Diseases (2021)
(Click here to see webinar) - Nicholas A. Robinson, Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law Emeritus, Pace University
No program because of the pandemic (2020)
Global Warming: Confronting the Challenge (2019)
Dr. Alexi Arango, Associate Professor of Physics, Mount Holyoke College; Dr. Elizabeth DeSombre, Professor of Environmental Studies, Wellesley College; Dr. Pinar Keskin, Assistant Professor of Economics, Wellesley College; and Dr. Martin Stute, Professor of Environmental and Applied Sciences, Barnard College
Artificial Intelligence (AI): The Good, the Bad, and the Unknown (2018)
Dr. Valerie Barr, alumna and Chair, Computer Science Department, Mount Holyoke College; Dr. Roger Berkowitz, Professor of Political Studies and Human Rights, Bard College; Dr. Mark Weinstock, Clinical Associate Professor of Economics, Pace University; and Andree Pruitt, Program Director, Client Segment Marketing, IBM Global Markets
Reclaiming Our Democracy (2017)
Dr. Douglas Amy, Professor of Politics, Mount Holyoke College; Toni Boucher, Connecticut State Senator; Dr. Eric Fogg, CEO, Reconsider Media; Melissa Kane, Mount Holyoke alumna and Chair, Westport Democratic Committee
Social Media and You: Unraveling the Mysteries and Realities (2016)
Carole Bell, Assistant Professor of Communication Studies, Northeastern University and Radcliffe alumna; Jane Elizabeth, Senior Research Project Manager, American Press Institute; Gwyneth Jackaway, Associate Chair, Department of Communication and Media Studies, Fordham University, and Barnard alumna; Brenda Lewis, Principal, Transactions Marketing, Inc. and Smith alumna
Income Inequality: What’s Happening to the American Dream? (2015)
Douglas Amy, Professor of Politics, Mount Holyoke College; Gene Callahan, Professor of Economics, SUNY Purchase; Ilene Lang, Past president of Catalyst, Inc. and Radcliffe College alumna; Markella Rutherford, Professor of Sociology, Wellesley College
Crime and Punishment: Justice for All? (2014)
Faith Angell, Magistrate Judge for the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania and Mount Holyoke (BA) and Bryn Mawr (MS) alumna; James Dzurenda, Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Corrections; Sean Pica, Executive Director of Hudson Link; Dr. David Weiman, Professor of Economics at Barnard College
The Politics of Food: Whatever Happened to Old MacDonald’s Farm? (2013)
Dr. Abby Kinchy, Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Dr. Robert Paarlberg, Professor, Wellesley College; Dr. Molly Tambor, Assistant Professor, Long Island University
Democracy Under Siege: Money, Media and Morals (2012)
John Bonifaz, J.D., Executive Director, Free Speech for People; Stephen Fuzesi, Jr., Visiting Fellow, Brown University; Dr. Hahrie Han, Assistant Professor, Wellesley College
3R’s + 4C’s = 21st Century Education (2011)
Dr. Catalina Castillo, Principal, Charter School of Educational Excellence (Bronx, NY); Carolyn Copp, faculty, Brockton (MA) High School; Dr. David Karen, Professor, Bryn Mawr College; Dr. Brian Osborne, Superintendent, School District of South Orange and Maplewood (NJ)
Mirror, Mirror On the Wall: Influences on How We See Ourselves (2010)
Dr. Rosemarie Conforti, Professor, Media Studies, Southern Connecticut State University; Dr. Leif Nordberg, Physician, Stamford Hospital; Maud Purcell, Executive Director, The Life Solutions Center of Darien; Dr. Michele Respaut, Professor, Wellesley College
Hope in Anxious Times: Exploring New Dimensions of Poverty in America (2009)
Onleilove Alston, Poverty Scholar, Union Theological Seminary; Dr. John O. Fox, Visiting Professor, Mount Holyoke College; Dr. Shirley Johnson-Lans, Professor, Vassar College; Dannel P. Malloy, Mayor, Stamford, Connecticut
Science and Religion: Colliding, Coexisting…Creating Change (2008)
Dr. Randall Balmer, Professor, Barnard College; Dr. David Helfand, Professor, Columbia University; Dr. Mark McMenamin, Professor, Mount Holyoke College; Dr. Kirk Wegter-McNelly, Assistant Professor, Boston University
Women Empowering Women: Agents for Change Around the World (2007)
Nancy Barry, President, NBA Enterprise Solutions to Poverty; Dr. Isobel Coleman, Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations; Marjorie Margolies, Founder and Chair, Women’s Campaign International; Kay Maxwell, Past President, League of Women Voters; Gretchen Wallace, Founder and President, Global Grassroots
Matters of Life and Death: Ethical Dilemmas in Medicine (2006)
Dr. Maud H. Chaplin, Professor, Wellesley College; Dr. Ruth Fischbach, Professor, Director of the Columbia University Center for Bioethics; Dr. Donald Hoskins, (retired) Senior Vice President, Medical Affairs and Chief Medical Officer, Beth Israel Medical Center; Dr. Edward Jones, Surgeon, Hospital for Special Surgery
Ethics in a Troubled World: Issues in Politics, Business, Journalism and Education (2005)
Richard Blumenthal, Attorney General, State of Connecticut; Denise Davidoff, Vice-Chairman, Workplace, Inc.; Stephen Fuzesi, Jr., Vice President, Chief Counsel and Secretary of NEWSWEEK, Inc.; Rev. Janet Cooper Nelson, Chaplain/Director of the Office of Religious Life, Brown University; Jane L. Wexton, Chief Compliance Officer and Counsel, GE Global Consumer Finance
Crime and Punishment: Focus on Women (2004)
Linda Fairstein, Author, Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers; Janet Hall, United States District Judge, Connecticut; Elaine Lord, Superintendent, Bedford Hills (NY) Correctional Facility; Jane Maher, Director of Special Programs, Bedford Hills Correctional Facility
Zero Degrees of Separation: The Power of Community (2002)
Dr. Sunita Singh MacLaren, President, World Wise, Inc., and Partner, BioSeek; Dr. Phoebe Sessions, Professor, Smith College School of Social Work and Chair, Social Work Practice Sequence for the Springfield, MA public school system; Dr. Judith Shapiro, President, Barnard College; Dr. Brenda Stiers, Executive Director, YWCA of Greenwich (CT)
Searching for Sanity in a Crazy World: Perspectives on Mental Health Today (2001)
Dr. Ina Becker, Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and Albert Einstein College of Medicine; Dr. Pamela McCarthy, Director of Health Services and Director of College Counseling Services, Smith College; Dr. John Oldham, Director of the New York State Psychiatric Institute, Chief Medical Officer of the New York State Office of Mental Health, Professor, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons; Dr. Patricia Tun, Director of the Memory and Cognition Laboratory and Professor, Brandeis University
The New Genetics: A Blueprint for Fate or Freedom? (2000)
Dr. Raju Kucherapati, Chairman, Molecular Genetics and Director of the Human Genetics Program, Albert Einstein College of Medicine; Dr. Ellen Matloff, Director, Cancer Genetic Counseling Shared Resource, Yale Cancer Center; Dr. Lisa Newton, Professor and Director of the Programs in Applied Ethics and Environmental Studies, Fairfield University; Dr. Judith Willner, Director of Clinical Genetics at Mt. Sinai Hospital
Food as a Force: In the Kitchen and Around the World (2003)
Florence Fabricant, Food Critic, The New York Times; Dr. John E. Finn, Professor, Wesleyan University; Dr. Barbara Haber, Curator, Schlesinger Library, Harvard University; Dr. Ellen Messer, Visiting Professor, Brandeis University and Tufts University
Creative Aging: Growing Better While Growing Older (1999)
Dr. Carolyn Heilbrun, Professor, Columbia University; Dr. Lenard W. Kaye, Professor, Graduate School of Social Work, Bryn Mawr College; Dr. Robert M. Otto, Professor and Director of the Human Performance Laboratory, Adelphi University; Dr. Rosa Perla Resnick, Member, United Nations Committee on Aging
Health, Healing, Happiness: New Cures from Old Traditions (1998)
Dr. Jennifer Brett, naturopathic physician; Dr. Leo Galland, Director, Foundation for Integrated Medicine; Dr. Scott Gerson, ayurvedic medicine practitioner; Dr. Erica Kipp, Laboratory Manager, New York Botanical Garden; Dr. Patricia Mulready, family physician practicing holistic and environmental medicine
Relationships: How We Love, Bond, Swoon, Suffer and Thrive (1997)
Dr. Faye Crosby, Professor, Smith College, author, Juggling; Dr. Lynne Lieberman, Faculty of the Stone Center, Wellesley College; Dr. Lisa Silberstein, Clinical Supervisor, Department of Psychology, Yale University
IQ-EQ – What Makes Us Tick? (1996)
Dr. Paul Grobstein, Professor, Bryn Mawr College; Dr. John D. Mayer, Associate Professor, University of New Hampshire; Dr. Susan Oyama, Professor, John Jay School of Criminal Justice; Dr. Curtis G. Smith, Professor, Mount Holyoke College; Dr. Andrew C. Webb, Professor, Wellesley College
The State of the Arts (1995)
Dr. Thomas Crawford, Founder and Music Director, The Fairfield Orchestra; Virginia Irwin, Co-Founder and Artistic Director, Island Stage, Nantucket, MA; Dr. Anna Kisselgoff, Professor, Bryn Mawr College; Dr. Patrick McCaughey, Director, Wadsworth Athanaeum
Women’s Health: What We Need – What We Get! (1994)
Dr. Florence Comite, Professor, School of Medicine, Yale University; Dr. Margaret Maruschak, Vice-President, Bristol Myers-Squibb, Inc.; Dr. Joyce Saltsman, Associate Professor, Southern Connecticut State University; Dr. Barbara Smith, Surgeon, Harvard Medical School faculty, Breast Cancer Task Force Chair; Mildred Witkin, Associate Director, Human Sexuality Training, Cornell University Medical Center
The Law: For and Against Women (1993)
Catherine M. Abate, Commissioner, NYC Department of Corrections; George A. Dean, Founder, 50/50 by 2000; Eunice S. Groark, Lt. Governor, State of Connecticut; Susan A. Powers, Deputy District Attorney, Kings County, NY; Nan D. Stein, Director of Projects, Center for Research on Women, Wellesley College
Sex and Gender: Who’s Who? Vive La Difference! (1992)
Helen Fisher, Research Associate, American Museum of Natural History; Dr. Robert Gilkeson, Neuropsychiatrist; Barbara Gregorich, Director of Admission, NYU Stern School of Business; Dr. Paul Grobstein, Professor of Biology, Bryn Mawr College; Katherine Harrington, Historian and Author; Barbara Loomis Jackson, Author, Wellesley/AAUW study
Women in Communications: The Female Voice (1991)
Denny Davidoff, Vice President, Brunstad & Partners, Westport; Jane Hanson, Anchor, Today in New York; Dr. Joan Konner, Dean, Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University; Kate White, Editor in Chief, McCall’s
Tarnish on the Gold Coast: Challenges for the 90’s (1990)
Leslie Carothers, Commissioner, Connecticut Environmental Protection Agency; Dr. Judianne Densen-Gerber, Founder, Odyssey House; Dr. Thomas A. Kirk, Executive Director, Liberation Programs Inc.; Rev. Dr. Barbara A. Renton, President, Coalition for the Homeless, Lower Fairfield County; Sherrie Winkworth, Executive Director, INFO LINE
Women at the Crossroads: Making Choices (1989)
Midge Decter, Author Fred Friendly, Lecturer, Columbia University; Jack Hitt, Senior Editor, Harpers Bazaar; Susan Jackson, Associate Counsel, Champion International; Marty Petty, Vice President, Associate Publisher, Hartford Courant; Letty Cottin Pogrebin, Author/Editor, Ms. Magazine; Anna Quindlen, Author/Columnist; Michael Rosenbloom, President, Producer, CBS News;
Felice Schwartz, Founder/President, Catalyst
The International Personality of Women: The Interrelationship of Women and Their Cultures (1988)
Jane Condon, Author; Nannerl O. Keohane, President, Wellesley College; Elizabeth Luce Moore, Trustee, United Board for Christian Higher Education; Dora Romadinov, Assistant Vice President and Systems Designer, Dean Witter Reynolds; Glaudine Mishali, Visiting Researcher, Harvard University Law School
The Education Conundrum: Priorities and Prospects (1987)
Betty Allen, Executive Director, Harlem School of the Arts; Mary Maples Dunn, President, Smith College; Claire S. Gold, Superintendent of Schools, Westport, CT; Valerie O. Lovelace, Director, “Sesame Street” Research; Rosemarie Tong, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Chair, Women’s Studies, Williams College
Rights in Conflict: The Individual and Society: At What Risk Liberty and Justice for All? (1986)
Leslie G. Bank, Director, Guest Relations, Greenwich Hospital; Colleen Dewhurst, Actress; Mary Patterson McPherson, President, Bryn Mawr College; Harriet Fleischl Pilpel, Attorney; Lisa Sanders, Associate Producer, CBS News
Impetus-Implementation-Impact: Women as Initiators (1985)
Priscilla H. Blum, President, Corporate Angel Network; Muriel Fox, Founder, National Organization for Women; Mrs. Clara Hale, Founder, Hale House; Dr. Lorraine E. Hale, Director, Hale House; Dr. Elizabeth Topham Kennan, President, Mount Holyoke College; Ms. Linda E. Merk, Founder, Fine Objects Conservation
Current Ethical Dilemmas in Public and Private Decision Making (1984)
Rev. Margaret Brown, Professor of Philosophy, Norwalk Community College; Ellen V. Futter, President, Barnard College; Dr. Ruth Macklin, Professor of Bioethics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine; Dr. Lisa H. Newton, Project Director, Program in Applied Ethics; Dr. Elizabeth Thorne, Psychoanalyst
Influence and Power: Women as Communicators (1983)
Jane Alexander, Actress; Dr. Patricia Albjerg Graham, Dean, Harvard University Graduate School of Education; Sheila W. Lummis, Director, Corporate Marketing and Sales, WNET/THIRTEEN; Nan Robertson, Staff Reporter/Correspondent, The New York Times; Anne P. Streeter, State Senator
Challenges into the 21st Century (1982)
Anne Hummel, Professor, Wellesley College; Dr. Marcia Bull, MD; Elizabeth Janeway, Social Historian/Critic/Lecturer, Barnard College; Susan McHenry, Editorial Staff, Ms Magazine; Mary Tsocanos, MA Candidate in Nutrition
Women’s Creativity in the Arts (1981)
Ruth Steinkraus Cohen, Musicologist; Diane Monson, Teacher/Researcher; Eleanor Munro, Art Critic, Writer, Lecturer; Susan R. Van Dyne, Assistant Professor of English, Smith College
Sarey D. Bernstein, BVA Writer, Reviewer; Susan Cohen, Designer/Instructor, New York Botanical Gardens; Carol Nipomnich Dixon, Arts Department Chair, Greenwich Academy; Mimi Findlay, Consultant; Marian R. Jacob, Sculptor/Teacher; Jeanne D. Kimball, Director/Conductor, Westport Madrigal Singers; Beth Sheperd, Director, Photo Graphics Workshop
Women in Stress: An Opportunity for Growth (1980)
Brigette Berger, Chair, Sociology Department, Wellesley College; Jane Gould, Director, Women’s Center, Barnard College; Elinor Shore, Associate Dean of Women, Harvard University
Vidal Clay, President, Woman’s Place; Ida Davidoff, Marriage Counselor; Gail Faithful, Associate Minister, Presbyterian Church, New Canaan; Barbara Luton, Business Manager; Anne Dobbs, Business Consultant; Cecelia Rosenberg, Attorney; Marjan Schneider, Family Therapist; Linley Taylor, Social Worker, Waveny Care Center
