Calendar of 2013 Lectures

All lectures are open to the public free of charge; no tickets are required.  Programs begin at 7:30 p.m. in Dodd Auditorium in George Washington Hall. For further information, contact the Office of University Events and Conferencing Events Information line, at (540) 654-1065. PLEASE NOTE: On December 1, a more detailed schedule will be posted containing lecture previews and speaker information. 

Thursday, January 24           Julius Caesar

Philip Freeman

Luther College

Author, Julius Caesar

Tuesday, January 29            Cleopatra

       Duane W. Roller

       Ohio State University

       Author, Cleopatra: A Biography

Thursday, February 7           Brigham Young

       John Turner

       George Mason University

       Author, Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet

Tuesday, February 12           Lawrence of Arabia

Nabil Al-Tikriti

Associate Professor of History

University of Mary Washington

Thursday, February 14          Houdini

        John Kasson

        University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

        Author, Houdini, Tarzan, and the Perfect Man

Thursday, February 21            Arthur Ashe

Arnold Rampersad

Stanford University

Co-author (with Ashe), Days of Grace: A Memoir

Tuesday, February 26          Marilyn Monroe

       Carl Rollyson

       Baruch College-CUNY

       Author, Marilyn Monroe: A Life of the Actress

Thursday, February 28        Marian Anderson

      Raymond Arsenault

      University of South Florida

      Author, The Sound of Freedom: Marian Anderson, the Lincoln Memorial,and                       the Concert that Awakened America

Tuesday, March 12             Walter Cronkite

      Douglas Brinkley

      Rice University

      Author, Cronkite

Tuesday, March 19             Winston Churchill 

      Jeremy Black

      University of Exeter

      Author, A History of the British Isles

Tuesday, March 26             The Pacific Admirals of World War II

      Walter R. Borneman

      Lawyer and Historian

      Author, The Admirals: Nimitz, Halsey, Leahy, and King—The Five-Star                                 Admirals Who Won the War at Sea

Tuesday, April 2                 Queen Elizabeth II

      Sally Bedell Smith

      Biographer, Washington D.C.

      Author, Elizabeth The Queen

Tuesday, April 9                 Bill Wilson (Founder of Alcoholics Anonymous)

      Susan Cheever

      Writer, Biographer

      Author, My Name is Bill: Bill Wilson – His Life and the Creation of Alcoholics                     Anonymous                                                

Thursday, April 11               Ernest Hemingway               

Paul Hendrickson

University of Pennsylvania

Author, Hemingway’s Boat

Tuesday, April 16                 Rasputin

Joseph Fuhrmann

Professor Emeritus, Murray State University

Author, Rasputin: The Untold Story

Thusday, April 18                 Abraham Lincoln

Michael Burlingame

University of Illinois

Author, Abraham Lincoln: A Life

Tuesday, April 23                Michelangelo

William Wallace

Washington University in St. Louis

Author, Michelangelo: The Artist, the Man and his Times

Thursday, April 25               Madness and Greatness

Nassir Ghaemi

Tufts Medical Center

Author, A First-Rate Madness