Lou Douglas Archives
Listed below are the different Lou Douglas Lectures we’ve had over the years.
Lecture Archives
Governor John Carlin
Joe Haja
Professor of Political Science, Kansas State University
Jacob Kipp
Professor of History, Kansas State University
Burt Kaufman
Professor of History, Kansas State University
T.A. Williams
Professor of Political Science, Kansas State University
Orma Linford
Professor of Political Science, Kansas State University
John Exdell
Professor of Philosophy, Kansas State University
James Butler
NAACP
Sister Jean McKenna
Office of the Governor
Scott Burnett
White House, Washington, D.C.
Sherry McGowan
Democratic Party
Mike Murray
Republican Party
Dick Clark
Former U.S. Senator, ” Human Rights in Africa , An American Perspective”
Bill Sutherland
U.N. Observer in Zimbabwe after Majority Rule Elections
Roberty White
Former Ambassador to El Salvador
John McFadden
Educator with Nicaraguan Literacy Campaign
Paul Cook
Special Assistant for Soviet Affairs, Bureau of Intelligence
Daniel Berrigan
S.J., Jesuit Priest and Peace Activist
Eugene Carroll, Jr.
Retired Rear Admiral, United States Navy
Daniel Ellsberg
Advisor on U. S. Military Policy in Vietnam and Political Scientist
Paul Tsongas
Democratic United States Senator, Massachusetts
Frederick Taylor
Executive Editor, Wall Street Journal
Paul Sweezy
Editor, The Monthly Review
John Schnittker
Undersecretary, Department of Agriculture
Kirkpatrick Sale
Author and Editor of The Nation
Nancy Kassebaum
Republican United States Senator, Kansas
Efrian Diaz
Representative to Honduran Congress
Bill Buzenberg
National Public Radio
Joseph Collins
Co-founder of the Institute of Food Development
Sellig Harrison
Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Hyman Minsky
Professor of Economic, Washington University, St. Louis
Esther Peterson
International Organization of Consumer Unions’ Rep. To U.N.
Patricia Mische
Co-founder of Global Education Assn.; Adjunct Prof., Seaton Hall
George Reiter
Professor of Physics, University of Houston
Frances Fox Piven
Professor of Economics, Washington University, St. Louis
John Stockwell
Former Commander C.I.A.
Mitch Snyder
Community for Creative Non-Violence
Lester Thurow
Professor of Economics and Management, MIT
Evalina Kane
Writer and Organizer for Women Against Pornography
Samuel Bowles
Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Renny Golden
Poet and Member Chicago Religious Task Force on Central America
Richard Rhodes
Pulitzer Prize-winning Author
Michael Parenti
Professor of Political Science, Howard University
Stalely Cohen
Editor and contributor to Advertising Age
Barbara Ehrenreich
Author and Columnist
Nomonde Ngubo
U.S. Rep. of the Confederation of South Africa Trade Unions
John Swomley
Internationally Known Theologian and Civil Libertarian
Ibrahim Abu-Lughod
Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University
Myron Aronoff
Professor of Political Science, Rutgers University
Adm. Gene La Rocque
Director of the Center for Defense Information
Claribel Alegria
Poet and Author
Jim Nichols
Minnesota Commissioner of Agriculture
T.S. Farisani
Assistant Bishop of Venda Lutheran Church, South Africa
Molly Ivins
Reporter and Columnist
David Orr
Professor of Environmental Studies, Oberlin College
Hunter Lovins
President of the Rocky Mountain Institute
Kenneth Boulding
Professor Emeritus University of Colorado
Daniel Katz
Founder and President of the Rain Forest Alliance
Mark Richie
President of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
Lloyd Dumas
Professor of Political Economics at the University of Texas, Dallas
Holly Sklar
Writer and Lecturer
Bill Roy
Chair of the Kansas Commission on the Future of Health Care
Manning Marable
Professor of Political Science & Sociology, University of Colorado
Howard Zinn
Historian
Juliet Schor
Professor of Economics, Harvard University
Alan Thein Durning
Professor of Philosophy and Music
Jeff Cohen
Co- Founder of FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting)
Julianne Malveaux
African American Studies, University of California, Berkley
John Swomley Jr.
Saint Paul School of Theology, Kansas City
Ved Nanda
University of Denver, College of Law
Ama Ata Aidoo
African Poet and Writer
Diana Gordon
Associate Professor of Political Science, City University, New York
Ron Takaki
Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley
Kenneth Davis
Author and Former Professor, Kansas State University
Jerry Mander
Senior Fellow, Public Media Center, San Francisco, California
Bob Bergland
Former United States Secretary of Agriculture
Sarah Vogel
North Dakota Secretary of Agriculture
Lee Swenson
President, National Farmers Union
Ron Sampson
President, Mid-America Commercialization Corp.
Dr. M. Jocelyn Elders
Former United States Surgeon General
Werner Fornos
Director, World Population Institute
Jack Weatherford
Cultural Anthropologist
Morris Dees
Civil Rights Lawyer and Co-Founder, Southern Poverty Law Center
Dr. Michael Apple
John Bascom Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Edward Luck
President Emeritus and Senior Policy Advisor, United Nations Association of the USA
James Howard Kunstler
Author
Rhoda H. Karpatkin
President, Consumer’s Union
Malcolm C. Young
Executive Director, the Sentencing Project
Cynthia Price Cohen
Executive Director, Childrights International Research Institute
Timothy E. Quill
Associate Chief of Medicine at The Genesee Hospital
Ellen Wartella
University of Texas at Austin
Howard Zinn
Preeminent Historian
Barbara Trent
Academy Award Winner, Best Documentary 1993
Noam Chomsky
Preeminent Linguist & Political Commentator
Molly Marshall
Professor of Theology, Women’s Religious Advocate
Barney Frank
Democratic Congressman, 4th District Massachusetts
Father Roy Bourgeois
Founder, School of Americas Watch
James K. Galbraith
Professor of Public Affairs and Government, University of Texas at Austin
Eugenie C. Scott
Executive Director of the National Center for Science Education I
Laura A. Cecere, M.S.W., J.D.
Founder and Director of China Seas Adoption Agency
Juliette Beck
Policy Analyst at Global Exchange, San Francisco
Carl Rosen
President, District 11, United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE), Chicago, IL
Olga Idriss Davis, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Performance Studies and Women’s Studies in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University
Steffie Woolhandler, M.D., M.P.H.
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard University School of Medicine and Co-founder of Physicians for a National Health Program
Sister Helen Prejean
Nobel Peace Prize Nominee and Author of Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the U.S.
Norman Solomon
Syndicated Columnist and Executive Director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, Washington, D.C.
Dr. Ali A. Mazrui
Albert Schweitzer Professor in the Humanities and Director, Institute of Global Cultural Studies, Binghamton University, State University of New York; Albert Luthuli Professor-at-Large in the Humanities and Development Studies at the University of Jos in Nigeria
Dr. William F. Schulz
Executive Director of Amnesty International, USA and former president of the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
Milo Mumgaard
Executive Director/ Attorney, Nebraska Appleseed Center for Law in the Public Interest and an Inaugural winner of the Ford Foundation’s Leadership for a Changing World Award
Dr. Cornelia Butler Flora
Director, North Central Regional Center for Rural development and Charles F. Curtiss Distinguished Professor of Agriculture and Sociology, Iowa State University
Jack Duvall
Founding Director and President of the International Center for Nonviolent Conflict and Executive Producer of the Emmy-nominated PBS series “A Force More Powerful”
Paul Rogat Loeb
Author of Soul of a Citizen: Living with Conviction in a Cynical Time and Generation at the Crossroads: Apathy and Action on the American Campus
Phyllis Bennis
Fellow and Director of the New Internationalism Program of the Institute for Policy Studies, Washington, D.C. and Fellow of the Transnational Institute in Amersterdam
Jeffrey Hollender
President and Corporate Responsibility Officer of Seventh Generation, the Leading Brand of Natural Household Products in the United States
Stephen Douglas
Retired Professor of Political Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and Son of Lou and Mary Douglas
David Eisenhower
Director of the Institute for Public Service Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania
Patricia Williams
Author/Law Professor/Cultural Commentator
Dr. Frances Fox Piven
Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology Graduate School and University Center, The City University of New York
Thomas Frank
Author of the book, “What’s the Matter With Kansas?”
David Mindich
Chair of the Journalism Department at Saint Michael’s College in Colchester, Vermont and author of “Tuned Out: Why Americans Under 40 Tune Out the News”
Rink Dickinson
Co-founder and Co-executive director of Equal Exchange in Boston, Massachusetts
Robert Egger
Founder and President of the DC Central Kitchen
Loretta Ross
National Coordinator of the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective
Larry Schweiger
Executive Director, National Wildlife Federation
Paula Allen
Photographer and “Activist with a Camera”
Nancy Jackson
Executive Director of the Land Institute’s Climate and Energy Project
Simon Dang
Former child slave from the Sudan
David Hursh
Professor of Education at University of Rochester
Libuse Binder
Author, How to Make A Difference in your 20’s
Ali Noorani
Executive director, National Immigration Forum
Karen Countryman-Roswurm
Founder at the Anti-Sexual Exploitation Roundtable for Community Action
Daniel Wildcat
Professor at Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kansas, and writer on indigenous knowledge, technology, environment, and education.
Russ Feingold
Former senator from Wisconsin and founder of Progressives United
Sandra Praeger
Kansas Commissioner of Insurance
Edward Wolff
Professor of Economics at New York University
John Hofmeister
founder and CEO of Citizens for Affordable Energy. Former CEO of Shell Oil Corp.
Jeffrey Hollender
leading authority on corporate responsibility, sustainability and social equity.
Marc Bousquet
Professor of English at Emory University
Former Director of Finance for the state of Kansas
Thomas Frank
author, What’s the Matter With Kansas
Director of Outreach, Southern Poverty Law Center
Tim Wise
American Anti-racism activist and writer
National Speaker on Sexual Assault, Social Justice and Student Affairs Leadership
Charles Blow
New York Times Op-Ed Columnist
Independent Filmmaker. Co-writer and director of Dolores.
Carolyn DeWitt
Executive Director, Rock the Vote
American Film Director and Screenwriter
Steve Lerner
Psychologist, Filmmaker, Musician, and Activist
Sarah Smarsh
Author of Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth, Speaker, and Journalist
Diane Eickhoff
Historian and Author of Clarina Nichols: Frontier Crusader for Women’s Rights