2024-2025: Lessons from the Natural World
Amy Tan “A Conversation with Amy Tan"
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Aimee Nezhukumatathil "How to Fall Down into the Grass: Nature Journaling Workshop"
2023-2024: Uprooted: Displacement, Migration and Searching for Home
Parag Khanna “A World on the Move: The Forces Uprooting Us”
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Forum Youth Panel “Displacement and Reimagining the American Dream”
Lynsey Addario “Of Love & War: Stories of Tragedy & Resilience”
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Leilani Farha “Back Home: Returning Human Rights to Housing”
2022-2023: Creativity to Solve Global Challenges
Candice Millard “A Clear and Steady Eye: Storytelling and Our Shared History”
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Dr. Ali S. Khan “Putting the Public Back in Public Health: A Global Perspective”
Tyler Riewer “The Craziest Thing We Can Do is Nothing”
Martha Schwartz “The Urban Landscape and The Future of Cities”
Amy Herman “The Art of Perception: See What Matters”
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Jane Chen “How Design Thinking Saves Lives - Lessons on Innovation, Leadership and Resilience”
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2021-2022: Moments of Reckoning: Global Calls for Racial Equity and Action
UNL Faculty Discussion “Global and Historical Moments of Reckoning with UNL Faculty”
Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia “Facing Immigrant Exclusion: Then and Now”
Anna Deavere Smith “A Conversation on Race and the Arts, Moderated by Sändra Washington”
Forum Youth Panel “Performative Activism: Youths Reckoning with Racial Justice”
Walter Echo-Hawk “Reckoning and Reconciliation on the Great Plains: Healing Historical Harm Caused by Conquest and Colonialism”
2020-2021: Regeneration: Leadership and Hope for a Changing Planet
Mary Pipher “Trauma and Recovery: A New Story of Interconnection and Action...”
Doris Kearns Goodwin “Leadership in Turbulent Times”
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Xiuhtezcatl Martinez “Roots of Revolution”
Forum Youth Panel “Naming the Beast: Climate Change and our Youth Taking Action”
Ann Bancroft “No Horizon is So Far”
2019-2020: Global Human Rights
Nadia Murad “From the Front Lines: Human Rights, Sex Trafficking, and the Survival of the Yazidi People”
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Leymah Gbowee “Mighty Be Our Powers: Building Women, Building Peace”
Farah Pandith “How We Win: Mobilizing Youth in the Fight Against Violent Extremism”
2018-2019: Prospect/Retrospect
Jon Meacham “Tumult, Tragedy and Hope: America in 1968 from a Half Century’s Perspective”
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Nadine Strossen “HATE: Why We Should Resist It With Free Speech, Not Censorship”
Jana Eggers “Yes, You Have a Critical Role in Raising Artificial Intelligence.”
2017-2018
Misty Copeland “A Conversation with Misty Copeland”
British National Debate Team “Is Regulation of Social Media Necessary to Protect Democracy?”
Mark Blyth “Why People Vote for Those Who Work Against Their Best Interests”
2016-2017: Crossing Borders
David Brooks “It's Better Than It Looks: Election 2016”
Sonia Nazario “Enrique’s Journey and America's Immigration Dilemma”
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Sonia Shah “From Cholera to Ebola and Beyond”
2015-2016: Activism
Jose Antonio Vargas “Define American: My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant”
Bill McKibben “The Climate Fight at Its Peak”
Wes Moore “The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates”
Sheryl WuDunn “Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide”
2014-2015: The Creative World
Wilson Dialogue - Marlo Lewis Jr. & Gilbert Metcalf
Milton Chen
British National Debate Team vs. UNL Speech & Debate Team
Neil Gershenfeld
Chris Abani
2013-2014: U.S. & Them
Yong Zhao
Andrew Bacevich and Derek Chollet
Hedrick Smith
Susan Glasser
David Wessel
2012-2013: Religion, Rights and Politics
Shirin Ebadi
Felice Gaer
J. Kirk Brown & Michael Radelet
Charles Villa-Vicencio
2011-2012: Water and Global Security
Don Worster
Mogens Bay & E. Robert Meaney
Michael Forsberg
Sandra Postel
2010-2011: Globalization's Promise
Pietra Rivoli
Laurie Garrett
Chuck Hagel and Chinese Ambassador Zhang Yesui
Christine Todd Whitman
E. Benjamin Skinner
2009-2010: China
Rob Gifford
Richard Behar
Dr. Susan Shirk
Kaiser Kuo
Doug Bereuter
2008-2009: Democracy's Future
Colin G. Campbell
Dr. Michael Olivas & Dr. Vernon Briggs - Wilson Dialogue
Sarah Chayes
F.W. de Klerk
Theodore "Ted" Sorensen
Ronald Dworkin
David Gergen
2007-2008: Changing Nature
Bruce Babbitt
Richard Cizik
Amory Lovins
Wilson Dialogue on Domestic Issues: Featuring Douglas Durante & Jerry Taylor
Joel Sartore