Lecture Series
The University Chair in Critical Thinking sponsors an annual lecture series, Ethical Thinking in Modern Times, that brings to campus leading figures from the media and culture to engage the community in a conversation on the ethical and intellectual challenges of their work in the context of these global times. The University Chair in Critical Thinking at Saint John's University sponsors this series with additional support from other programs and departments on campus.
Tom Gjelten
Nation of Nations
Eamonn Wall
Junction City: New & Selected Poems 1990-2015
Dan Barry
The Boys in the Bunkhouse
Aine Greaney
dance lessons
Chris Dodd
Eugene J. McCarthy Lecture
Hedrick Smith
Who Stole the American Dream?
Theo Dorgan
Nine Bright Shiners
Adam Zagajewski
Unseen Hand
James Silas Rogers
Northern Orchards: Places Near the Dead
Patrick Hicks
The Commandant of Lubizec
Larry Haeg
Harriman vs Hill: Wall Street's Great Railroad War
Jon Hassler Memorial Reading Group
New Edition: Simon's Night
James Fallows
Interview with Gary Eichten
Dan Barry
Bottom of the 33rd: Hope, Redemption and Baseball's Longest Game
Anthony Bukowski
Twelve Below Zero
Peter Quinn
The Man Who Never Returned
Patrick Hicks
This London
Marv Davidov and Carol Masters
You Can Do That
Carol Connolly
All This and More
Chuck Hagel
America Our Next Chapter: Tough Questions... Strait Answers
Bill Holm
The Windows of Brimnes
J. Peter Scoblic
U.S. v. Them: Conservatism and George W. Bush in the Age of Nuclear Terror
E.J. Dionne
Eugene J. McCarthy Lecture
Charles Simic
Poetry Reading
Lech Walesa
Former President of Poland
Sr. Ciril Mooney
"From the Streets of Calcutta: Teaching the Homeless and the Rural Poor of India"
Anne Fadiman
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors and the Collision of Two Cultures
James Fallows
Lecture on the Iraq War
Abraham Verghese
"The Search for Meaning in the Medical Profession"
Brenda Wilson
Lecture on AIDS in South Africa
Fred de Sam Lazaro
Lecture on Globalization