Lorraine W. Frank Speakers and Their Talks

• 2012 - Rita Dova, "Sonata Mulattica"

• 2010 - Gary Paul Nabhan, "Heritage Foods of Arizona -Linking Our Sense of Taste to a Sense of Place"

• 2009 - Naomi Shihab Nye, “Our Shared Humanity: Place Making and Sustainability”

• 2008 - Dennis Ross, "The Future of American Foreign Policy in the Middle East"

• 2007 - Sonia Nazario

• 2006 - Richard Rodriguez, "A Cup of Sugar: The Humanities and What We Borrow From Neighbors"

• 2005 - Timothy Egan, "The Search for Place: Can Westerners Ever Find a True Home in Their Setting?"

• 2004 - Nikki Giovanni, "The Clock Strikes as Strongly at Midnight as at the Noontime Hour: A Poetic Look at How Our Past Informs Our Future"

• 2003 - Martin Marty, "The Menacing Faith of Strangers" (9 pages - 341 KB)

• 2002 - Scott Russell Sanders, "Building Arks" (9 pages - 112 KB)

• 2001 - Stuart L. Udall, "The West's Water Wars: A Reminiscence"

• 2000 - Vicki L. Ruiz, "Comadres, Cowgirls and Curanderas: Mexican Women in the Southwest, 1540-1900"

• 1999 - Gary Paul Nabhan, "Moving Among Cultures"

• 1998 - William R. Ferris, Chairman, National Endowment for the Humanities, "Rediscovering America: NEH and the Millennium"

• 1996 - Luci Tapahonso, University of Kansas, "Tell Us How To Prevail: Invocations to the Elderly and the Land in Native Poetry"

• 1995 - Rita Dove, University of Virginia, "Poetry in the Modern World"

• 1994 - David McCullough, "The Art of Biography"

• 1993 - Alberto Alvaro Ríos, Arizona State University, "Days With Names"

• 1992 - Clay Straus Jenkinson in character as John Wesley Powell

• 1991 - Patricia Nelson Limerick, University of Colorado, "Trails of the Southwest"

• 1990 - Hanna H. Gray, President, University of Chicago, "The Humanities in Private and Public"