Selected KIE Speakers and Programs
November 2007: Third Annual KIE Fall Lecture, "Resolving Conflict: The Test of Humanity" featuring peace activist and former hostage negotiator Terry Waite
April 2007: 21st Annual Charles W. Kegley Memorial Lecture, "Ethical Globalization," featuring Mary Robinson, former president of Ireland.
October 2006: The 2nd Annual KIE Fall Lecture, "WorldCom Warnings: What Went Wrong and Corporate Lessons Learned," featuring Cynthia Cooper.
April 2006: 20th Anniversary Charles W. Kegley Memorial Lecture, "Dead Man Walking: Reflections on the Value of Life," featuring Sr. Helen Prejean.
October 2005: The 1st Annual KIE Fall Lecture, "The Ethics of Washington Politics," featuring former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV.
May 2005: 19th Annual Charles W. Kegley Memorial Lecture, "Is There Life After Fox? American Journalism Tries to Speak to a Polarized Audience," featuring Tim Rutten, Pulitzer Prize winning reporter from Los Angeles Times.
April 2004: 18th Annual Charles W. Kegley Memorial Lecture--"Ethics and College Sports: Finding the Moral Balance," featuring Myles Brand, PhD, President, National Collegiate Athletic Association.
February 2004: "Ethics, Conservation and Field Biology: A View from the Trenches," featuring Phil Pister, PhD, renown field biologist and conservationist.
April 2003: 17th Annual Charles W. Kegley Memorial Lecture-- "Ethics in a Free Society: Convictions, Compromise, and Consensus," featuring Dan Callahan, PhD, Founder, The Hastings Center.
May 2002: 16th Annual Charles W. Kegley Memorial Lecture--"Women's Rights in Islam," featuring Halima Addou, Lawyer - Human Rights Activist - Algerian Refugee.
February 2002: "Terrorism, War, and the Politics of the Middle East," featuring Ray Geigle, Ph.D., Professor of Political Science and Former Dean, Arts and Sciences CSUB. With responses by: Greg Goodwin, Professor of History, Bakersfield College and Sayed Mohammed, M.D. Chief Psychiatrist & Neurologist Wasco Prison.
October 2001: "Power and Profit: The History and Ethics of California’s Energy Crisis," featuring Dean Florez, California Assemblyman - Chair of the Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee with expert commentators.
April 2001: 15th Annual Charles W. Kegley Memorial Lecture--"Race Matters," featuring Cornel West, PhD, University Professor, Princeton University.
February 2001: "Liberal Democracy and the Place of Religion in Politics," featuring Robert Audi, PhD, Charles J. Mach Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, University of Nebraska, Lincoln.
May 2000: 14th Annual Charles W. Kegley Memorial Lecture--"Rethinking Life and Death," featuring Peter Singer, DeCamp Professor of Bioethics, University Center for Human Values, Princeton University.
April 1999: 13th Annual Charles W. Kegley Memorial Lecture--"Scoops, Scandals and the Bottom Line: Media Coverage and Politics," featuring the late David Shaw, Pulitzer Prize Winning Media Analyst from Los Angeles Times.
March 1998: 12th Annual Charles W. Kegley Memorial Lecture--"Creativity, Poetry, and Humanhood," featuring Robert Hass, PhD, U. S. Poet Laureate, Professor of Literature, U.C. Berkeley.
September 1997: 11th Annual Charles W. Kegley Memorial Lecture--"Creativity and Humanhood," featuring Tony Kushner, Pulitzer Prize Winning Playwright of the Tony Award Winning Angels in America.
February 1997: 10th Annual Charles W. Kegley Memorial Lecture--"The U. S. Moral Climate as We Approach the New Millenium," featuring Dr. Joycelyn Elders, former U.S. Surgeon General.
November 1996: "Silicon Snake Oil: A Skeptical View of Computing," featuring Clifford Stoll, PhD, Astrophysicist and Celebrated Author.