Joseph E. Stiglitz  
Tuesday, January 19, 2010, 7 pm (CST)

Matthew Bishop will interview.

Joseph E. Stiglitz, winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize for Economics, is the author of Making Globalization Work, Globalization and Its Discontents and The Three Trillion Dollar War. His most recent work is the forthcoming Freefall, a searing analysis of how America has exported bad behavior, bad policies and bad economics to the rest of the world, and which outlines how to restore the power balance between markets and government.

Jon Meacham & Fareed Zakaria: America and World Affairs
Wednesday, March 17, 2010, 7 pm (CST)

For the first time, Jon Meacham, editor of Newsweek and Fareed Zakaria, editor of Newsweek International appear together on our stage to discuss America’s role in the world. Jon Meacham is the editor of Newsweek and the author of Franklin and Winston and American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography. Fareed Zakaria is the editor of Newsweek International. His stories and columns on subjects from globalization and emerging markets to the Middle East and America’s role in the world reach more than 25 million readers weekly. He is also the host of the weekly international news program, Fareed Zakaria GPS, which airs on CNN. His most recent book is the national bestseller, The Post-American World.

Newt Gingrich
In conversation with Jeff Greenfield
Thursday, May 27, 2010, 7 pm (CST)

Hear from the former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives about the challenges facing America today. Newt Gingrich was the chief architect of the Contract with America that led the Republican Party to victory in 1994. He is senior fellow at American Enterprise Institute, a founder of the Center for Health Transformation and General Chairman of American Solutions for Winning the Future. He is the author of the bestsellers, Real Change and Winning the Future and the just published, To Save America. He asserts that the federal government is 'broken' and we must be willing to 'replace, not reform' our leaders and our policies. He also warns about the big-spending, big-government programs and lays out his radical new plan to restore the nation to what he sees are our fundamental values. Jeff Greenfield, CBS political analyst.

Paul Krugman
Tuesday, September 22, 7 pm

Nobel prize-winning economist Paul Krugman discusses how the current economic crisis parallels the Great Depression and explains how we can avoid catastrophe. He is the author of the bestseller, The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008, which gives clear advice on how to contain the crisis and turn around the world economy. Krugman writes a twice weekly op-ed column for the New York Times and a blog named for his book, The Conscience of a Liberal.

Salman Rushdie
Sunday, January 18, 6:30 p.m.

Salman Rushdie is the author of 10 novels including Midnight’s Children (1981), which won the Booker Prize and, in 1993, the “Booker of Bookers”; The Satanic Verses (1988), which won the Whitbread Book Award; The Moor’s Last Sigh (1995), which won the Whitbread Book Award; and most recently The Enchantress of Florence. In 2007, the British Crown appointed him a Knight Bachelor for “services to literature.”

Annual State of Anti-Semitism Lecture
Anna Deavere Smith Hatred Knows No Boundaries
Monday, February 2, 7 p.m.

Join groundbreaking playwright, author and actress Anna Deavere Smith for a unique address on hatred, racial conflict and genocide. Ms. Smith is a professor at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She founded and directed the institute on the Arts and Civic Dialogue, and is the author of Talk to Me: Listening Between the Lines and the forthcoming Letters to a Young Artist. Her articles have appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, The New Yorker and other publications.

Following the live broadcast there will be a panel engaging in further discussion of this topic with the audience.  The panel features Rabbi Avi Olitzky from Beth El Synagogue and Steve Hunegs, Director of the Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC).

Rabbi Joseph Telushkin on “Living Jewish Ethics”
Tuesday, March 17, 7:15 p.m.

Join Rabbi Telushkin, one of today’s premier scholars on Jewish tradition and thought, for an extraordinary look at how to practice "loving they neighbor as thyself." Telushkin covers topics such as love and kindness, hospitality, visiting the sick, charity, tolerance, self-defense and end of-life issues, with practical examples from the Torah, the Talmud, the Midrash and contemporary anecdotes.

Carol Leifer in Conversation with Jerry Seinfeld
Tuesday, April 7, 7 p.m.

Stand-up comedian Carol Leifer is an Emmy Award winning writer and producer who has been involved in such television shows as Seinfeld, The Larry Sanders Show, Saturday Night Live and The Ellen Show. Leifer is the author of When You Lie About Your Age, The Terrorists Win, a laugh-out-loud look at life, love, family and the aging process. Legendary comedian, writer, and actor Jerry Seinfeld moderates.

Forum on Sustainable Global Enterprise
Al Gore, Stuart Hart, H. Fisk Johnson & Ratan Tata
Wednesday, June 3, 7 p.m.

This discussion is the culmination of a three-day Cornell Global Forum. At the forum, 100 pioneers will seek innovative ways to transform business and the environment, while exploring the intersection between clean technology and business development at the “Base of the Pyramid”, the socioeconomic designation of the world’s four-and-a-half billion poor. The goal is to create profitable businesses that raise the quality of life for the world's poor, respect cultural diversity and conserve the ecological integrity of the planet. Panelists include: former Vice President Al Gore, chairman, Generation Investment Management LLP; Cornell University's Stuart L. Hart, an authority on the implications of sustainable development and environmentalism for business strategy; H. Fisk Johnson, chairman, CEO and chairman of the board of S.C. Johnson & Son; and Ratan N. Tata, chairman of Tata Sons Limited, the holding company of the Tata Group, India's largest conglomerate.