All Past Speakers

Below, you’ll find select newspaper articles, radio interviews, audio segments, and photographs from past speaker events.

During 2010, we’re expanding this archival section by adding whole pages on each of our past speakers, launching them as we complete them. When we produced these events, we generated a significant amount of educational material including biographical sketches, event videography, photographs, reading lists, radio interviews, newspaper articles, event notes, external speaker links, as well as permissions from our speakers for website postings. We are creating a new source of enrichment by sharing these special resources, a unique source for answers from the great minds who have appeared at The Progressive Forum. Stay tuned!

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	Karen Armstrong EVENT: October 8, 2009, Wortham Center

	Lester Brown EVENT: April 28, 2009, Wortham Center

	Ken Burns EVENT: November 13, 2007, Wortham Center PRINT: A Documentarian's Work Is Never Done, Houston Chronicle, November 13, 2007.

	Richard Dawkins EVENT: October 5, 2010, Wortham Center

	Jared Diamond EVENT: February 24, 2006, InterContinental Hotel

	Sylvia Earle EVENT: April 5, 2011, Wortham Center

	Elizabeth Edwards EVENT: May 21, 2008, Wortham Center

	Tim Flannery EVENT: March 19, 2007, Wortham Center AUDIO: KPFT Radio interview, March 19, 2007
	Mayor Bill White AUDIO: Mayor Bill White Introduces scientist Tim Flannery, author of The Weather Makers, March 19, 2007, Wortham Center

	Jane Goodall EVENT: March 9, 2011, Wortham Center

	Al Gore EVENT: June 7, 2006, Hobby Center WEB: Photo album

	Brian Greene EVENT: September 29, 2009, Wortham Center

	James Hansen EVENT: December 7, 2009, Wortham Center Visit our comprehensive page on Dr. Hansen's event.

	Seymour Hersh EVENT: March 23, 2006, InterContinental Hotel

	Arianna Huffington EVENT: September 15, 2010, Wortham Center

	Molly Ivins EVENT: April 17, 2006, Wortham Center

	Garrison Keillor EVENT: February 19, 2007, Wortham Center

	Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and Mayor Bill White EVENT: June 13, 2005, Hobby Center

	Joe Klein EVENT: April 12, 2007, Wortham Center AUDIO: Joe Klein, senior Time magazine columnist, appeared April 12, 2007, at The Wortham Center. In an excerpt from his speech, entitled "Islam, Iraq, and the War on Terror," he relates what he learned from military sources on the Bush administration's handling of the opening days of the War in Iraq.

	George Lakoff EVENT: February 28, 2008, Wortham Center

	Richard Leakey EVENT: October 28, 2010, Wortham Center

	Bill McKibben EVENT: April 4, 2008, Wortham Center PRINT: Environmentalist's Natural Interest Is Global Warming, Houston Chronicle, May 4, 2008

	Randall R. Morton and The Progressive Forum PRINT: “New Speaker Series, The Progressive Forum,” Houston Chronicle (Ultimate Houston insert, K13), October 19, 2006

	Bill Moyers EVENT: November 17, 2011, Wortham Center

	Nancy Pelosi EVENT: June 12, 2009, Wortham Center

	T. Boone Pickens EVENT: March 29, 2009, Wortham Center

	Michael Pollan EVENT: October 27, 2011, Wortham Center

	Robert Redford EVENT: March 27, 2008, Wortham Center PRINT: A Message From the Sundance Kid, Houston Chronicle, March 23, 2008. PRINT: Texans Beat Big Coal, and a Film Shows How, New York Times, April 5, 2008.

	Frank Rich EVENT: October 29, 2006, Wortham Center

	Eric Schlosser EVENT: September 30, 2010, Wortham Center

	Anna Deavere Smith EVENT: May 12, 2007, Wortham Center PRINT: "Multi-talented Artist Has Her Say Her Way," Houston Chronicle, May 21, 2007. Gregory Boyd AUDIO: Gregory Boyd, artistic director of The Alley Theatre, introduces playwright and performing artist, Anna Deavere Smith Event May 21, 2007, at The Wortham Center, audio

	George Soros EVENT: September 7, 2006, Hobby Center

	Gloria Steinem EVENT: September 17, 2007, Wortham Center PRINT: Gloria Steinem Mellowed. No Way, Houston Chronicle, September 18, 2007. PRINT: Houston and History: The 30th Anniversary of the Historic National Womens Conference Which Took Place in Houston November 18 to 21, 1977. Article from the event program by Randall Morton. (pdf 40k)

	John Paul Stevens EVENT: November 16, 2010, Wortham Center

	Larry Wilmore EVENT: February 25, 2009, Wortham Center

	Edward O. Wilson EVENT: September 27, 2006, Wortham Center AUDIO: Segment from speech by Wilson

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