Previous DLS Speakers
April 10, 2001: TERRY WAITE, Humanitarian and hostage negotiator
October 9, 2001: JOSE RAMOS-HORTA, winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize for Peace for “his sustained efforts to hinder the oppression of a small people”” in his homeland of East Timor
April 25, 2002: HORST STORMER, winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics.
October 2, 2002: LECH WALESA, former president of Poland and winner of the 1983 Nobel Prize for Peace
April 17, 2003 (CANCELED): Prize-winning journalist LAURIE GARRETT, an expert on emerging infectious diseases, bioterrorism and public health issues canceled two days before her lecture to cover the SARS epidemic in China for Newsday.
October 9, 2003: Author MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM, who won the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for The Hours.
October 19, 2004: MARY ROBINSON, president of Ireland from 1990-1997 and U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights from 1997-2002
April 14, 2004: E.O. WILSON, a world-renowned biologist and two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
March 15, 2005 CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD, Internationally acclaimed conductor and musicologist
October 4, 2005: Religion scholar and author KAREN ARMSTRONG, who wrote “A History of God,” “The Battle for God,” the memoir “The Spiral Staircase” and a number of other well-received books.
February 13, 2006: SEYMOUR HERSH, an investigative reporter who won the Pulitzer Prize for exposing the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam. He is the author of "Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib" and other books.
April 12, 2006: JOSEPH STIGLITZ, winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics and bestselling author of "Globalization and Its Discontents."
October 10, 2006: JOHNATHAN KOZOL, public education advocate, author and winner of the National Book Award for "Death at an Early Age."
March 12, 2007: HANS BLIX, former chief UN weapons inspector in Iraq. Blix's lecture was entitled, “Looking Ahead: Controlling Weapons of Mass Destruction.” His book, “Disarming Iraq,” published in 2004, offers an insider’s view of the events and inspections in Iraq before the U.S.-led coalition began its invasion. The book also explores questions about the war’s inevitability and the consequences of pre-emptive strikes.
October 16, 2007: Louis Sullivan, Dr. Louis W. Sullivan, former secretary of health and human services under President George H.W. Bush. In his presentation, Sullivan proposes a two-pronged approach to improving the nation's health-care system — changing people’s personal health habits and fine-tuning the overall system. On June 27, Sullivan embarked on a nationwide campaign to discuss the consequences of “cost-over-care” health delivery.
April 16, 2008: William McDonough, an internationally renowned designer and one of the primary proponents and shapers of what he and his partners call “The Next Industrial Revolution.” Time magazine recognized him in 1999 as a “Hero for the Planet,” stating “his utopianism is grounded in a unified philosophy that in demonstrable and practical ways is changing the design of the world.”
