2011
"Forum Book Club"
MAY 2011
Panelists Include:
Azar Nafisi
John Irving
Jonathan Franzen
"The Glorious, Mysterious Brain"
FEBRUARY 2011
Panelists Include:
Steven Pinker
Temple Grandin
2010
"Our Great Education Challenge"
NOVEMBER 2010
Panelists Include:
Davis Guggenheim
Deborah Gist
Joel Klein
Jon Schnur
Lily Eskelsen
"The End of Civility?"
OCTOBER 2010
Panelists Include:
Christopher Buckley
David Gergen
Gina Barreca
Stephen Carter
"Forum Music Fest"
MAY 2010
Panelists Include:
Bill Flanagan
John Legend
John Forté
Patti Smith
"Forum Music Fest"
MAY 2010
Panelists Include:
John Forté
John Legend
Patti Smith
"A World of Change "
MARCH 2010
Panelists Include:
Bob Woodward
Tina Brown
2009
"It's Satire! "
NOVEMBER 2009
Panelists Include:
David Javerbaum
Jason Alexander
Samantha Bee
"Revolutionary Thinkers"
OCTOBER 2009
Panelists Include:
Jessica Jackley
Juan Enriquez
Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
Will Allen
"Food for Thought"
MAY 2009
Panelists Include:
Colin McEnroe
Alice Waters
Anthony Bourdain
Duff Goldman
"God: Big Questions... Bigger Questions"
JANUARY 2009
Panelists Include:
Christopher Hitchens
Rabbi Kushner
Rev Gomes
2008
"Storytellers & the Stories They Tell"
NOVEMBER 2008
Panelists Include:
David Simon
Suzan-Lori Parks
Tony Kushner
"The Presidency "
SEPTEMBER 2008
Panelists Include:
Elizabeth Edwards
Joseph Ellis
Matthew Dowd
"Talking Authors"
MAY 2008
Panelists Include:
Alexander McCall Smith
Amy Tan
Daniel Handler, a.k.a. Lemony Snicket
" The American Dream...Going, Going, Gone"
FEBRUARY 2008
Panelists Include:
Barbara Ehrenreich
Laura Ingraham
Roland Fryer
2007
"The Great Global Debate "
NOVEMBER 2007
Panelists Include:
Reza Aslan
Richard Armitage
Richard Holbrooke
Sheryl WuDunn
"The Tech Revolution "
OCTOBER 2007
Panelists Include:
Craig Newmark
danah boyd
Jimmy Wales
"A Funny Thing Happened... "
APRIL 2007
Panelists Include:
Bob Saget
Mo Rocca
Nancy Giles
"Saving the World "
FEBRUARY 2007
Panelists Include:
Clark Kent Ervin
Nicholas Kristof
Rory Kennedy
Tim Robbins
2006
"Leaders and Winners "
NOVEMBER 2006
Panelists Include:
Wendy Kopp
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld
John Read
Randal Pinkett
"A Conversation Between Bill Moyers and Andrew Sullivan"
OCTOBER 2006
Panelists Include:
Bill Moyers
Andrew Sullivan
"A Conversation Between Thomas Friedman and Malcolm Gladwell"
APRIL 2006
Panelists Include:
Thomas Friedman
Malcolm Gladwell
"Getting Education Right"
FEBRUARY 2006
Panelists Include:
Norah O'Donnell
Raye Jones Avery
Wendy Kopp
Rod Paige
Geoffrey Canada
"An Evening With Our Favorite Writers"
FEBRUARY 2006
Panelists Include:
Kurt Vonnegut
Joyce Carol Oates
Jen Weiner
2005
"Talkin' 'bout My Generation "
DECEMBER 2005
Panelists Include:
Ben Bradlee
Omar Wasow
Sue Bird
Tina Brown
"Hope and Human Spirit "
OCTOBER 2005
Panelists Include:
Bo Jackson
Kyle Maynard
Mia Farrow
Rev. James Forbes, Jr.
"The Culture War"
APRIL 2005
Panelists Include:
David Brooks
Frank Rich
Margaret Carlson
Ralph Reed
"Yankees vs. Red Sox / Red Sox vs. Yankees"
FEBRUARY 2005
Panelists Include:
Bob Ryan
Bucky Dent
Carlton Fisk
Mike Francesa
2004
"The Future of Human Life... and Medical Science "
DECEMBER 2004
Panelists Include:
Arthur Caplan
Atul Gawande
Francis Fukuyama
Gina Kolata
Lisa Sowle Cahill
"Extreme Politics! "
OCTOBER 2004
Panelists Include:
Howard Dean
Katty Kay
Tony Blankley
Walter Isaacson
"A Conversation Between Al Franken and Ann Coulter"
MAY 2004
Panelists Include:
Al Franken
Ann Coulter
"Behind the Scenes with The Simpsons"
MARCH 2004
Panelists Include:
Harry Shearer
Yeardley Smith
Tim Long
Al Jean
2003
"Looking at Life"
NOVEMBER 2003
Panelists Include:
Julie Taymor
Leonard Lopate
Louise Leakey
Salman Rushdie
Story Musgrave
"Personal Security vs. Personal Liberties - The Big Dilemma "
SEPTEMBER 2003
Panelists Include:
Fareed Zakaria
Heather MacDonald
Richard Perle
Stephen Shapiro
"The Forum Food Fest"
MAY 2003
Panelists Include:
Jacques Pépin
Jane & Michael Stern
Mario Batali
Ruth Reichl
"A Nobel Evening "
MARCH 2003
Panelists Include:
2002
"The Anatomy of Power"
OCTOBER 2002
Panelists Include:
Erin Brockovich
Gary Wendt
Julian Bond
Kevin Phillips
"A Conversation with PJ O'Rourke, Mort Sahl & Joe Queenan "
APRIL 2002
Panelists Include:
Joe Queenan
Mort Sahl
P.J. O'Rourke
"Our Nation"
FEBRUARY 2002
Panelists Include:
Andrew Cuomo
Jonathan Kozol
Newt Gingrich
Peggy Noonan
2001
"Power of Music"
NOVEMBER 2001
Panelists Include:
Beverly Sills
Nicholas Payton
Bob Weir
Trey Anastasio
"Being Black"
OCTOBER 2001
Panelists Include:
Spike Lee
Anita Hill
Stanley Crouch
Jamila Wideman
Bill Russell
"A Conversation Between Toni Morrison And Frank McCourt"
MAY 2001
Panelists Include:
Frank McCourt
Toni Morrison
"What Is The American Family? "
FEBRUARY 2001
Panelists Include:
Geoffrey Canada
John Rosemond
Michelle Shinsecki
Sylvia Ann Hewlett
2000
"A Historical Evening"
NOVEMBER 2000
Panelists Include:
David Halberstam
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Manning Marable
"What's So Funny?"
SEPTEMBER 2000
Panelists Include:
D.L. Hughley
Joan Rivers
Robert Klein
"A Conversation Between William Bennett And Robert Reich"
APRIL 2000
Panelists Include:
Robert Reich
William Bennett
"Explorers and Adventurers"
FEBRUARY 2000
Panelists Include:
Robert Ballard
Susan Butcher
Jean-Michel Cousteau
Tom Whittaker
1999
"Global Issues...Global Views "
DECEMBER 1999
Panelists Include:
Benazir Bhutto
George Mitchell
Jeane Kirkpatrick
Merle and Marshall Goldman
"Cruelty, Violence and Morality "
OCTOBER 1999
Panelists Include:
Alan Keyes
Alec Baldwin
Gerry Spence
William Pollack
"Integrity And The Media "
MAY 1999
Panelists Include:
Ben Bradlee
Mike McCurry
Walter Cronkite
"A World Of Business"
APRIL 1999
Panelists Include:
Laura D'Andrea Tyson
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Stephan Paternot
Todd Krizelman
"The Wonders Of Creativity "
FEBRUARY 1999
Panelists Include:
Danny Glover
Howard Gardner
Jane Alexander
Werner Pfeiffer
1998
"Brave New World Or Return Of Frankenstein?"
NOVEMBER 1998
Panelists Include:
Dr. Bonnie Steinbock
Dr. David Kessler
Dr. Willard Gaylin
Rabbi Marc Gellman
"The Wisdom Of Sages"
JUNE 1998
Panelists Include:
Gloria Steinem
Gordon Parks
Studs Terkel
William F. Buckley Jr.
"The Spirit In Our Lives - Search For Personal Meaning "
MAY 1998
Panelists Include:
Cornel West
Joan Borysenko
M.T. Winter
Thomas Moore
"Growing Up With TV "
MARCH 1998
Panelists Include:
Edward Asner
Flip Wilson
Florence Henderson
Henry Winkler
1997
"Mood & Mental Health In America "
OCTOBER 1997
Panelists Include:
Art Buchwald
Dr. Kay Redfield Jameson
Dr. Michael Roberts
George McGovern
"A Conversation About Leadership "
MAY 1997
Panelists Include:
Katharine Graham
Norman Schwarzkopf
"Heroes Among Us "
MARCH 1997
Panelists Include:
Dr. William Magee
Henry Fernandez
Marc Rubera
Morris Dees
"Cyberlife: Technology's Impact On All We Do "
JANUARY 1997
Panelists Include:
Christopher Janney
Jaron Lanier
Mary Catherine Bateson
Nicholas Negroponte
1996
"A Spoof On Presidential Politics "
NOVEMBER 1996
Panelists Include:
Al Franken
Bob Englehart
Jeff Greenfield
Rob Bartlett
"A Changing Political Landscape...The Sequel "
MAY 1996
Panelists Include:
James Carville
Molly Ivins
Oliver North
Ralph Reed
"A Conversation Between Jack Kemp & Mario Cuomo "
MARCH 1996
Panelists Include:
Jack Kemp
Mario Cuomo
"Values And Ethics In Today's America "
JANUARY 1996
Panelists Include:
Arianna Huffington
Joe Marshall
Joycelyn Elders
Tony Snow
1995
"90 Minutes With 60 Minutes "
NOVEMBER 1995
Panelists Include:
Andy Rooney
Lesley Stahl
Morley Safer
"Sports Personalities, Heroes? Role Models? Ordinary People? "
MAY 1995
Panelists Include:
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Rick Pitino
Robin Roberts
Sterling Sharpe
"About Death And Dying "
MARCH 1995
Panelists Include:
Derek Humphry
Geoffrey Fieger
Margaret Farley
Sherwin Nuland
"The Legal System On Trial "
JANUARY 1995
Panelists Include:
Bob Bennett
Dan Quayle
Edwin Meese III
Ralph Nader
1994
"Global Affairs - A Changing U.S. Role "
OCTOBER 1994
Panelists Include:
Henry Kissinger
Zbigniew Brzezinski
"American Women In Focus - Breaking New Ground"
MAY 1994
Panelists Include:
Billie Jean King
Eileen Kraus
Ellen Goodman
Faye Wattleton
Sarah Brady
"Business Leaders - Looking Into The 21st Century "
APRIL 1994
Panelists Include:
Jack Trout
Jimmy Rogers
John Naisbitt
Michael Bloomberg
Ron Crompton
"Children & Education, A Look Into The Future "
FEBRUARY 1994
Panelists Include:
Eddie Davis
Joseph Califano
Senator Christopher Dodd
Vincent Ferrandino
1993
"Is it News or Entertainment?"
OCTOBER 1993
Panelists Include:
Bernard Kalb
Mary Matalin
Sam Donaldson
"Focus on Race Relations "
MAY 1993
Panelists Include:
Chuck D
Daryl Gates
Dr. Betty Shabazz
Edward James Olmos
William F. Buckley Jr.
William Gray III
"Dr. Huxtable Comes to Hartford"
APRIL 1993
Panelists Include:
Bill Cosby
"Straight Talk and Honest Answers About AIDS"
FEBRUARY 1993
Panelists Include:
Arthur Ashe
Dr. Robert Gallo
Jeanne White
Larry Kramer
Mary Fisher
1992
"The Changing Political Landscape "
OCTOBER 1992
Panelists Include:
Ann Lewis
Bob Beckel
John Sununu
Pat Buchanan
Ron Brown
William Proxmire