Raymond and Beverly Sackler
Distinguished Lecture Series
Past Speakers (1996-2009)
October 16, 1996
Francis Sejersted, Chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Chair of
the Foundation for Norwegian-Danish Cooperation, and Director of the University of
Oslo’s Centre for Technology and Culture, “The Nobel Peace Prize and the
World Struggle for Human Rights”
April 23, 1997
Bernard Williams, Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy, Cambridge and Monroe Deutsch
Professor of Philosophy at the University of California-Berkeley, “Human Rights:
The Challenge of Relativism”
October 21, 1998
Senator George J. Mitchell, “The Peace Process in Northern Ireland”
April 11, 2000
Dr. Henry C. Lee, Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Public Safety,
“Forensic Science: Using New Tools to Address Human Rights Abuses”
October 30, 2001
Fr. Robert F. Drinan, S.J., Georgetown University Law Center, “The Mobilization of
Shame: A World View of Human Rights”
April 11, 2002
Dr. Joshua Lederberg, Sackler Foundation Scholar, “Bioterrorism &
Civility”
February 26, 2003
Samatha Power, Founding Executive Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at
the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, “American Bystanding
in an Age of Genocide”
September 9, 2004
Michael Ignatieff, Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the John F.
Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, “The Lesser Evil: Hard
Choices in the War on Terror”
April 13, 2005
Nina Bang-Jensen, Executive Director of the Coalition for International Justice,
“International Criminal Courts: Worth the Effort?”
October 6, 2005
Michael R. Marrus, Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Professor of Holocaust Studies,
Massey College in the University of Toronto, “A Jewish Lobby at Nuremberg,
1945-1946”
November 7, 2005
Benjamin B. Ferencz, prosecuting attorney at the Nuremberg Trials, “The Lessons
of Nuremberg for Today and Tomorrow”
October 25, 2006
James Crawford, Whewell Professor of International Law at Cambridge University and
Director of the Lauterpacht Center for International Law, "Human Rights and State
Responsibility"
Lecture Transcript (109 kb Word Document)
Lecture Transcript (160 kb Adobe PDF Document)
October 2, 2007
Dr. Harold Koh, Dean and Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law at Yale Law School, "Repairing Our Human Rights Reputation"
March 3, 2008
Honorable Patricia Wald, Former Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia and
Chair, Open Society Institute’s Criminal Justice Initiative
"Perplexing Predicaments in Human Rights Law:
Women, Terror and Tribunals"
Lecture Transcript (142 kb Word Document)
Lecture Transcript (108 kb Adobe PDF Document)
October 20, 2009
Dr. Charlotte Bunch, Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Women's Global Leadership at Rutgers University, "Passionate Politics: The Intersection of Gender, Culture, and Human Rights"
March 31, 2009
Dr. Adam Fairclough, Raymond and Beverly Sackler Professor of American History and Culture at Leiden University, "‘The Last, Best Hope of Earth?’ American Democracy and the Right to Vote in Historical Perspective”
Lecture Transcript (200 kb Adobe PDF Docuement)
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