Former Speakers
Since its beginning in 1992, the University Speakers Series has hosted distinguished writers, scientists, critics, and political figures. The following is a list of former speakers:
| 2009 | Salman Rushdie, | |
| 2008 | Richard Rodriguez, Essayist and commentator | |
| 2007 | Dr. David Walton, senior resident in internal medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston | |
| 2007 | Maria Hinojosa, Host of NPR's "Latino USA" | |
| 2006 | E. O. Wilson, biologist and Pultizer Prize-winning author | |
| 2006 | Vali Nasr, expert on the Islamic world and Muslim politics | |
| 2005 | Ed Morales, contributor to The Village Voice and author of Spanglish | |
| 2005 | Seymour Hersh, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist | |
| 2004 | Karen Armstrong, historian of religion | |
| 2004 | Robert F. Kennedy, environmental lawyer | |
| 2003 | Edward James Olmos, actor and social activist | |
| 2003 | Samuel Bilson and Roy Hawthorne, Navajo Code Talkers | |
| 2002 | Susan Sontag, essayist, novelist, critic | |
| 2002 | Judy Chicago, artist | |
| 2001 | N. Scott Momaday, novelist | |
| 2000 | Oliver Sacks, neurologist; author of "Awakenings" | |
| 1999 | Gloria Steinem, author and activist | |
| 1998 | F. W. de Klerk, former Prime Minister of South Africa; Nobel Prize laureate | |
| 1997 | Elie Wiesel, author, humanitarian, and Nobel Prize laureate | |
| 1996 | Alice Walker, novelist and essayist | |
| 1995 | Jane Goodall, primatologist | |
| 1994 | Stephen Jay Gould, paleontologist and author | |
| 1992 | Carlos Fuentes, Mexican novelist and diplomat |