Past Lectures

In keeping with the Ethics/Religion and Society Focus' purpose of encouraging the ethical and religious analysis of socially significant issues, Xavier University has established a lecture series to bring to campus prominent intellectuals and public leaders having diverse perspectives on a specific issue. The speakers present a public lecture or presentation, followed by discussion and a reception. A discussion with Xavier faculty, staff, and students is usually held on the following day. Below you will find an overview of past lecture series at Xavier.

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2008-2009

Ecology and Sustainability: Global Climate Change

• Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
  Thursday, October 2, 2008, 7:00 pm Schiff Family Conference Center
  “Our Environmental Destiny”
  Co-Sponsored with the Brueggeman Center and Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Gardens

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s reputation as a resolute defender of the environment stems from a litany of successful legal actions. Mr. Kennedy was named one of Time magazine's “Heroes for the Planet” for his success in helping Riverkeeper lead the fight to restore the Hudson River. The group's achievement helped spawn more than 160 Waterkeeper organizations across the globe. Mr. Kennedy serves as senior attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council, chief prosecuting attorney for the Hudson Riverkeeper and president of Waterkeeper Alliance. He is also a clinical professor and supervising attorney at Pace University School of Law's Environmental Litigation Clinic and is co-host of Ring of Fire on Air America Radio. Earlier in his career, he served as assistant district attorney in New York City. Among Mr. Kennedy's published books are the New York Times bestseller Crimes Against Nature (2004); The Riverkeepers (1997); and Judge Frank M. Johnson Jr: A Biography (1977).

• Archbishop Celestino Migliore and Jame Schaefer
  Sunday, October 26, 2008, 7:00 pm Schiff Family Conference Center
  "The Lord God Took the Man and Put Him in the Garden of Eden to Till It and Keep It (Gen 2:15)."
  Co-Sponsored with the Archdiocese of Cincinnati and the Theology Department

Archbishop Celestino Migliore has served since 2002 as Apostolic Nuncio and Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations. In 2007, he addressed the U.N. General Assembly on the topic of global climate change. Migliore has a master's degree in theology from the Center of Theological Studies in Fossano and a Doctorate in Canon Law from the Pontifical Lateran University. His service to the Holy See's diplomatic corps includes work in Angola, Egypt, Warsaw, Strasbourg, and several Asian countries.

Jame Schaefer, respondent to Migliore's lecture, is associate professor of theology at Marquette University. Her work focuses on the constructive relationship between theology and the natural sciences with special attention to religious foundations for ecological ethics. Her theological publications include articles in Cistercian Studies Quarterly, Theological Studies, and Worldviews: Religion, Culture, Science, all of which explore promising notions in the Christian tradition for addressing ecological degradation. In progress are more articles exploring Christian notions for responding to ecological concerns, an anthology for Catholic University of America Press entitled Theocentric Foundations for Environmental Ethics: Promising Patristic and Medieval Sources.

• John R. McNeill
  Sunday, March 29, 2009, 7:00 pm Schiff Family Conference Center
  “An Age of Turbulence: Global Environmental History since 1890”

Since 1985, John McNeill has been a faculty member of the School of Foreign Service and History Department at Georgetown where he teaches world history, environmental history, and international history. From 2003 until 2006, he held the Cinco Hermanos Chair in Environmental and International Affairs at Georgetown. His most recent book, Epidemics and Geopolitics in the American Tropics, 1640-1920 came out last year. His earlier books include: The Human Web: A Bird's-eye View of World History (2003) with W.H. McNeill, Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the 20th-Century World (2000) and The Mountains of the Mediterranean World: An Environmental History (1992).

• David W. Orr
  Sunday, April 5, 2009, 7:00 pm, Schiff Family Conference Center
  "Some Like It Hot ... But Lots More Do Not: The Changing Climate of US Politics"
  Co-Sponsored with the Brueggeman Center

David W. Orr is the Paul Sears Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies and Politics and Chair of the Environmental Studies Program at Oberlin College. He is also a James Marsh Professor at large at the University of Vermont. He is the author of five books including: Design on the Edge: The Making of a High Performance Building (2006); The Last Refuge: Patriotism, Politics, and the Environment (2004); Earth in Mind (1994/2004); Ecological Literacy (1992) and The Campus and Environmental Responsibility (1992). He is best known for his pioneering work on environmental literacy in higher education and his recent work in ecological design. He raised funds for and spearheaded the effort to design and build a $7.2 million Environmental Studies Center at Oberlin College, a building described by the New York Times as “the most remarkable” of a new generation of college buildings and by the U.S. Department of Energy as one of thirty “milestone buildings” of the 20th century.

 2007-2008: Ethics and Globalization

• Ms. Farooka Gauhari
  Women’s Future in Afghanistan
  Sunday, October 21, 2007, 7:00 pm, Schiff Family Conference Center; Monday, October 22, 2007, 1:30-2:30 pm, Conaton Board Room.
  
  Informal discussion with students and faculty. Farooka Gauhari published her memoirs, Searching for Saleem: An Afghan Woman’s Odyssey in 1997. At the time no Afghan woman had published an English memoir in book form. Her personal account covers her search for her missing husband, Saleem, her country’s turmoil after the Russian-backed Communist takeover, and the declining role of women in politics. A former professor of biology at Kabul University, Ms. Gauhari fled to the United States in 1980. She now teaches biology at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.
  
  
• Hassan Abbas
  Can Democracy Work in the Arab World?
  Sunday, November 11, 2007, 7:00 pm, Schiff Family Conference Center; Monday, November 12, 2007, 1:30-2:30 pm, Conaton Board Room.
  
  Informal discussion with students and faculty. Hassan Abbas is a research fellow at Harvard University's Belfer Center and author of the recent book Pakistan's Drift Into Extremism. Previously, he served in the administration of President General Pervez Musharaf (1999-2000) and Prime Minister Benzir Bhutto (1995-1996). He also served as a senior police officer in the Northwest Frontier Province bordering Afghanistan during 1997-1998. Hassan has regularly appeared on MSNBC and NECN as an analyst on issues related to Pakistan, Afghanistan and international terrorism. He is also a political commentator for BBC and VOA.
  
  
• Kwame Anthony Appiah
  Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers
  Sunday, March 30, 2008, 7:00 pm, Schiff Family Conference Center; Monday, March 31, 2008, 1:30-2:30 pm, Conaton Board Room.
  
  Informal discussion with students and faculty. Kwame Anthony Appiah is one of America’s leading public intellectuals. As a person of mixed-race ancestry and a scholar of African and African-American Studies, Professor Appiah probes questions of identity and ethical behavior in a world where race, ethnicity, religion and nationalism remain strong dividers. In his newest book, Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (2006) he challenges readers to look beyond the boundaries, real and imagined, that divide us, to see our common humanity. His earlier works include In My Father’s House on African struggles for self-determination and Africana: The Encyclopedia of African and African-American Experience (with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.).
  
  
• Robin Wright
  Future of the Middle East: Dreams and Shadows
  Sunday, April 13, 2008, 7:00 pm, Schiff Family Conference Center; Sunday, April 13, 2008, 3:00 pm, Edgecliff Recital Hall.
  
  Informal discussion with political science students and faculty. Robin Wright is the author of Sacred Rage: The Wrath of Militant Islam and The Last Great Revolution: Turmoil and Transformation in Iran. Her forthcoming book is entitled Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East. She is currently the diplomatic correspondent for The Washington Post. She has worked for a number of major newspapers in the United States and Great Britain including the Los Angeles Times, the Sunday Times of London and the Christian Science Monitor. In 2003 she was awarded the United Nations correspondents’ Gold Medal for coverage of international affairs. In that same year she became a regular panelist on the “Meet the Press” roundtable. This event is co-sponsored by the American Jewish Committee.

2006-2007: Ethics and Globalization
"Responding Ethically to a Changing World Community"

• Derek Walcott
  The Impact of Globalization on Caribbean Life and Culture
  October 8, 7:00 pm, Schiff Family Conference Center Cintas Center.
  
  Winner of the 1992 Nobel Prize for Literature, Derek Walcott has published five books of plays, including Dream on Monkey Mountain and Other Plays, which won the Obie Award for distinguished foreign play. Walcott's poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Kenyon Review, The New York Review of Books, The Nation, London Magazine, Antaeusand other periodicals. Walcott has published 10 books of poetry, including Collected Poems 1948-1984, which won the 1986 Los Angeles Timesbook prize for poetry.
  
  
• Ariel Dorfman
  Living, Feeling, Writing in Many Worlds: Reaching Out to the Global Community
  November 12, 7:00 pm, Schiff Family Conference Center Cintas Center.
  
  Hailed by Newsweekas "one of the greatest living Latin American novelists," Dorfman was forced to flee his homeland of Chile in 1973 because he feared for his life at the hands of a corrupt and dangerous regime. He is perhaps best known for his acclaimed play Death and the Maiden. After winning the Olivier Award for best play in London, it was brought to the screen by Roman Polanski and starred Sigourney Weaver and Ben Kingsley. In his artfully assembled memoir, Heading South, Looking North: A Bilingual Journey, readers learn of Dorfman's own chilling political adventures while reveling in his prose.
  
  
• Deborah Lipstadt
  The New Global Anti-Semitism
  March 18, 7:00 pm, Schiff Family Conference Center Cintas Center.
  
  Deborah E. Lipstadt, director of the Rabbi Donald A. Tam Institute for Jewish Studies and Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies at Emory University, in an internationally respected Holocaust scholar. Lipstadt is author of the books History on Trial: My Day in Court with David Irving and Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory. History on Trialdescribes in a fascinating way her libel trial in London when David Irving sued her for calling him a Holocaust denier and right wing extremist. The Daily Telegraph (London) proclaimed that the libel trial had "done for the new century what the Nuremberg tribunals on the Eichmann trial did for earlier generations." Lipstadt appears courtesy of the B'nai B'rith Lecture Bureau.
  
  
• Paul Farmer
  HIV/AIDS Crisis: Research and Advocacy
  April 23, 7:00 pm, Schiff Family Conference Center Cintas Center.
  
  Dr. Paul Farmer (M.D. and Ph.D.) works tirelessly to bring transformative health care to the developing world. He is a co-founder of Partners in Health, an organization that brings the benefits of modern medical science to the poorest and sickest communities. Farmer is internationally known for his innovations in community-based health care models. He is director of Harvard Medical School's program in infectious disease and social change and a winner of several humanitarian awards. Farmer is also a featured panelist at the Town Hall meeting on April 22, which is sponsored by the Edward B. Brueggeman Center for Dialogue.

2005-2006: Ethics and Globalization
"175 Years of Xavier in Cincinnati: Responding Ethically to the Changing Face of the Community"

• Roger Fortin
  Xavier University and the Community: Fulfilling its Jesuit Mission
  October 2, 7:00 p.m., Schiff Family Conference Center, Cintas Center.
  
  Roger Fortin, provost and academic vice president for Xavier University, is a historian very familiar with Xavier's and Cincinnati's historical experience. He is reflecting on the University's responses to a changing community. Fortin is also exploring when Xavier has responded ethically to the community and when it has not. He is the author of Faith and Action: A History of the Catholic Archdiocese of Cincinnati, 1821-1996. He recently finished a history of the University.
  
  
• Linda Chavez
  The Changing Face of America
  October 9, 7:00 p.m., Schiff Family Conference Center, Cintas Center.
  
  Linda Chavez, president of the Center for Equal Opportunity (a non-profit public policy organization) and political analyst for the FOX News Channel, is suggesting ways in which Xavier University and Cincinnati can respond ethically to the burgeoning Hispanic community. Chavez is author of the critically acclaimed book, An Unlikely Conservative: The Transformation of an Ex-Liberal. She worked in the White House as director of public liaison during former U.S. President Ronald Reagan's second term in office.
  
  
• Jackie Brookner
  Community and the Being of Human
  February 12, 7:00 p.m., Schiff Family Conference Center, Cintas Center.
  
  Jackie Brookner, internationally renowned eco-sculptor, is speaking about the "Laughing Brook" pilot project for the Mill Creek Greenway system. This series of biosculptures and wetland habitats creates a focal point for Salway Park while it filters stormwater runoff from parking lots, sidewalks and ballfields before the water enters Mill Creek, one of North America's most endangered rivers. The recipient of numerous awards, Brookner has taught sculpture at Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania and Bard College.
  
  
• Jerry Mitchell
  Investigating Murders against Civil Rights Leaders
  March 26, 7:00 p.m. Schiff Family Conference Center, Cintas Center.
  
  Jerry Mitchell, reporter with the Clarion-Ledger, is speaking about his investigative reporting of closed murder cases from the Civil Rights era. Recently featured in Newsweek magazine's "America's Best" series, Mitchell's reporting has helped to bring about the successful prosecution and conviction of 22 criminals, including Byron De La Beckwith, who assassinated Medgar Evers. This story is depicted in the movie, "Ghosts of Mississippi."
  
  
• Karen Armstrong
  Understanding Islam
  April 25, 7:00 p.m., Schiff Family Conference Center, Cintas Center.
  
  Karen Armstrong, an original and inclusive thinker on the role of religion in the modern world. Both understands the acute differences among the world's great religions and calls our attention to their profound similarities. She is the author of The Battle for God: Fundamentalism in Judaism, Islam & Christianity. This event is intended to honor the Islamic Center on its 10th anniversary. Armstrong is a featured panelist at the Town Hall meeting on April 23. Co-sponsored by the Edward B. Brueggeman Center for Dialogue.

2004-2005: Ethics and Globalization
“Ethics and U.S. Foreign Policy"

G. John Ikenberry, professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University, delivered a public lecture entitled “American Power and World Order: Between Empire and a Community of Democracies” on October 14, 2004 in the Schiff Family Conference Center. He also held an informal meeting the next day in the Conaton Board Room for faculty and students. Max Boot, a senior fellow in national security studies on the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City, delivered a public lecture entitled “Liberal Internationalists vs. Conservative Internationalists: Bush vs. Kerry” on October 20, 2004 in the Schiff Family Conference Center. He also held an informal meeting the next day in the Conaton Board Room for faculty and students. Samantha Power, a lecturer in public policy in the John F. School of Government at Harvard University, delivered a public lecture entitled “Can American Foreign Policy be Fixed?” on March 8, 2005 in the Schiff Family Conference Center. She also held an informal meeting earlier the same day in the Conaton Board Room for faculty and students.

Vandana Shiva, the director for the Research Foundation on Science, Technology, and Ecology, and world-renowned environmental leader and thinker, delivered a public lecture entitled “The Environment, Globalization and U.S. Foreign Policy” on April 19, 2005 in the Schiff Family Conference Center. She had also been the keynote speaker for the Town Hall Meeting that E/RS cosponsors with the Brueggeman Center. The latter event took place on April 17, 2005 the same location.

The E/RS program has also cosponsored these events:

• Rev. Mpho Tutu came to Xavier to talk about AIDS and debt in Africa. She spoke as part of the Global AIDS Alliance. Rev. Tutu was accompanied by the director of GAA, David Bryden. The event took place on September 19, 2004 in the Cintas Center.
• Bangladeshi Workers Tour: this presentation described the abysmal working conditions of factory workers in Bangladesh. The event took place on September 20, 2004 in the Gallagher Center Theater.
• Dr. Ronald Glossop, author of Confronting War and of World Federation? A Critical Analysis of Federal World Government presented a paper on September 20, 2004 on “The Force of Law as an Alternative.
• “The Question of Iraq: Past, Present and Future”: Dr. Thielman and Dr. Adeed Dawisha debated the war in Iraq. September 23, 2004. The event took place in Kelly Auditorium.
• David Schilling, director of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, delivered a public lecture on October 19, 2004. The lecture addressed pressing corporations to adopt strong global codes of conduct that are independently monitored, paying sustainable living wages, working to eliminate sweatshop conditions in the contract supplier system, addressing the human rights context in which they operate and urging companies to issue public reports.
• Roger Fine, former corporate vice president and general counsel of Johnson & Johnson, delivered a public lecture on March 14, 2005 in the Schiff Family Conference Center entitled “The Johnson and Johnson Credo: A Conversation with Roger Fine.”
• Farid Esack, the current Besl Family Chair, and Paul Knitter, meritus professor of theology, engaged in a debate on interfaith dialogue. The debate, “Interfaith Dialogue: Whose Agenda?,” took place on March 15, 2005 in the Schiff Family Conference Center.
• “The Faces of Genocide–High Stakes in Sudan: Reflections on the Future of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights:” Featuring Sudanese immigrant Sabit O’Kuwa and Sharon E. Hutchinson, author, human rights monitor and professor of anthropology and African studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The event took place on April 5, 2005 in the Cintas Center.
• Eammon Wall, the Smurfit-Stone professor of Irish Studies at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, presented a public reading of selections of poetry from his newest work, Refuge at DeSoto Bend. The event took place on April 8, 2005 at the Joseph Beth Bookstore in the Rookwood Pavilion Shopping Center.
• “America’s Response to the Holocaust: What we now know and why it matters:” Featuring Dr. Rafael Medoff presenting the Kreitzer Family Lecture as part of the Holocaust Awareness Weeks organized by the Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education of Hebrew Union College. Medoff, author of the recently published A Race Against Death: Peter Bergson, America and the Holocaust (coauthored with David S. Wyman), is director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies; the associate editor of the scholarly journal American Jewish History; Visiting Scholar in the Jewish Studies Program at Purchase College of the State University of New York; and author of seven books about the Holocaust, Zionism, and the history of American Jewry. The event took place on April 10, 2005 in the Cintas Center.

The E/RS committee also cosponsored this year’s Center for Business Ethics & Social Responsibility Ethics Institute that took place on May 11, 2005.

2003-2004: Ethics and Globalization, Ethical Leadership

• William McDonough
  Leadership in the Face of the Environmental Crisis
  Sept. 28, 2003
  
  William McDonough is an innovative and visionary architect is working on “the next industrial revolution”—the challenge of reinventing architecture, design, and manufacturing to achieve positive and sustainable relationships with nature and better health for humans. With industrial chemist Michael Braungart, McDonough is the author of From Cradle to Cradle (2002), explaining how choices can be made to continue modern life without toxic substances in building or manufacturing. McDonough is founder of an architectural firm in Charlottesville, Virginia and the co-founder of McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry, a product and process design firm that creates new ways of producing eco-effective goods—from cars to carpets.
  
  
• Donald Cozzens
  The Future of Leadership in the Catholic Church
  
  Donald Cozzens is priest, theologian and psychologist. He currently teaches at John Carroll University in Cleveland and his scholarship and practice have made him a critical and discerning voice in the face of the sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Church. He is the author of ’The Changing Face of the Priesthood: A Reflection on the Priest’s Crisis of Soul and Sacred Silence: Denial and the Crisis in the Church.
  
  
• W. Deen Mohammed
  Leadership in the African American Religious Community
  
  Imam W. Deen Mohammed is the son of the late Elijah Muhammad, the former leader of the Nation of Islam. Since his election as the group’s leader in 1975, W. Deen has strongly promoted the teachings of the Qur’an. Louis Farrakan and his followers broke from the original group in 1979, but retained the Nation of Islam name. Since then, Imam Mohammed has overseen the transformation of his followers from the “Black Muslims” to the progressive American Society of Muslims. This religious group has mosques schools in the United States, Canada and the Caribbean. W. Deen is active in interreligious dialogue among Muslims, Christians, and Jews.
  
  
• Mary Robinson
  Human Rights and Ethical Globalization
  
  Mary Robinson is the former President of Ireland (1990-1997) and the former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (1997-2002). Now based in New York, Robinson is the Director of the Ethical Globalization Initiative (EGI), a non-governmental organization that seeks to integrate human rights standards into a more ethical globalization process and to support local and national human rights capacity building efforts. EGI is currently working with the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD). The goal is develop new principled partnerships between governments, the business sector, non-governmental activists, and academics which will be committed to using human rights as a shared framework for solving real world dilemmas.

2002-2003: Building Diversity

• Derrick Bell
  Ethical Ambition in Race Relations
  Sept. 29, 2002
  
  Derrick Bell is a compelling voice on issues of race and class in this society. The first tenured black professor at the Harvard Law School is best known for his series of allegorical stories including the books And We Are Not Saved, Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism, Gospel Choirs: Psalms of Survival in an Alien Land Called Home, and Afrolantica Legacies. Bell has served as Executive Director of the Western Center on Law and Poverty at the University of Southern California Law School, Counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and Deputy Director of the Office for Civil Rights in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare.
  
  
• Riffat Hassan, Professor of Religious Studies and Humanities at the University of Louisville.
  The Challenge of Global Terrorism: A Muslim Woman's Perspective
  Nov. 10, 2002
  
  Hassan is a feminist Muslim theologian and is renowned for her work in progressive Muslim thought. Born in Pakistan and educated at the University of Durham, England, Hassan founded The International Network for the Rights of Female Victims of Violence in Pakistan in 1999. She writes on Women in Islam, Islam and Interreligious Dialogue, Human Rights in Islam, and Peace Education in Islam.

• Patricia Williams, Professor of Law at Columbia University School of Law.
  Feb. 9, 2003
  
  Dr. Williams also serves on the boards of the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Society of American Law Teachers. She has published widely in both scholarly journals and the press in the areas of race, gender, and law. Her books include The Rooster’s Egg and Seeing A Color-Blind Future: The Paradox of Race. Her book, The Alchemy of Race and Rights, was named one of the twenty-five best books of 1991 by Voice Literary Supplement.

2001-2002

• David Orr, Professor and Chair of the Environmental Studies Program, Oberlin College.
  Environmental Justice and Higher Education
  Oct. 14, 2001
• Robert Bullard, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University.
  Racism and Environmental Justice
  Nov. 11, 2001
• James P. Buchanan, Besl Family Chair and University Professor of Ethics, Religion, and Society, Xavier University.
  A Systems Response to the Crisis of Environmental Justice
  Jan. 27, 2002
• Sandra Steingraber, Cornell University.
  Living Downstream: Women, Health and Environmental Justice
  Feb. 10, 2002
• Ralph Nader, Consumer Advocate.
  Globalization and Environmental Justice
  March 10, 2002
• Hans Kung, Catholic Theologian.
  A Global Ethics for a New Paradigm of Global Relations
  April 14, 2002
• Hans Kung, Paul Knitter.
  Standing Firm and Remaining Open: The Challenge of Interreligious Dialogue
  April 15, 2002

1999-2000: Human Nature and Human Rights

• Dr. Mary Frances Berry, Chairperson, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.
  Human Rights and Challenges in the Third Millennium
  Sept. 26, 1999
• Most Reverend Thomas J. Gumbleton, Auxiliary Bishop in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit,
  Dr. Michael Novak, The George Frederick Jewett Chair in Religion and Public Policy, American Enterprise Institute, Washington, DC.
  Economic Justice in the New Millennium
  Oct. 17, 1999
• Dr. Keith Campbell, Head of Embryology, PPL Therapeutics, Scotland.
  The Ethics of Cloning and Transgenic Technology
  Jan. 30, 2000
• Dr. Theodore Peters, Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, Berkeley, CA,
  John Robinson, Notre Dame Law School, Notre Dame, IN.
  Playing God? Ethics, Law, and the Cloning Controversy
  March 12, 2000

1998-1999: Justice and Race in the United States

• Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth, Pastor of Greater New Light Baptist Church, Cincinnati,
  Most Reverend Daniel E. Pilarczyk, Archbishop of Cincinnati Roman Catholic Church,
  Dr. Michael G. Rapp, Director of Jewish Community Relations, Jewish Federation of Cincinnati,
  Mr. Ilyas Nashid, Imam of the Cincinnati Islamic Center.
  Forum on Justice and Race
  Sept. 27, 1998
• Dr. Abigail Thernstrom, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute,
  Dr. Stephan Thernstrom, Professor of History, Harvard University.
  Black Progress:  Myth or Reality?
  Oct. 18, 1998
• Mr. Julian Bond, Chairman, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
  Civil Rights:  Now and Then, Then and Now
  Feb. 7, 1999.