The Ferdinand Phinizy Lecture
List of Lecturers
1956 - Judge Harold R. Medina, noted jurist and legal scholar - "Liberal Arts and the Professions" (Oct. 17 & 18, 1956)
1961 - Eugene Robert Black, President of the World Bank – “Tale of Two Continents: Africa and South America” (Apr. 12 & 13, 1961)
1968 - John Kenneth Galbraith, Harvard economist and author, and former Ambassador to India
1971 - Sir Rudolf Bing, General Manager of the Metropolitan Opera
1975 - Erskine Caldwell, author - "Recollections on a Visitor on Earth" (Dec. 2, 1975)
1978 - Walker Percy, author - "Going Back to Georgia" (Dec. 17, 1978)
1979 – Harriet Johnson, music critic of the New York Post, and Charles Wadsworth, pianist and Director of Chamber Music at Lincoln Center (Oct. 1 & 2, 1979)
1983 - Dean Rusk, Secretary of State under President Kennedy and Johnson - "In Praise of Consensus: Reflections upon the American Constitution" (Nov. 16, 1983)
1985 - A. Bartlett Giamatti, President of Yale University and, later, Commissioner of Baseball - "Reflections on Our University" (Jan. 22, 1985)
1988 - Charles R. Anderson, scholar of American literature - "Henry James: A Tale of Two Civilizations" (Jan. 20, 1988)
1990 - Eugene P. Odum, nationally known ecologist - "How to Prosper in a World of Limited Resources" (Jan. 25 & 26, 1990)
1991 - Jay Tolson, author - "Pilgrim in the Ruins: A Life of Walker Percy" (Apr. 5, 1991) (in Augusta, Ga.)
1992 - Celestine Sibley, journalist and columnist for the Atlanta Constitution (May 15, 1992)
1993 - Joseph E. Riley, Jr., Mayor of Charleston, S. C. (May 13 & 14, 1993)
1996 - Arthur Caplan, Professor of Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania - "Ethical Issues at the End of Life: from Quinlan to Kevorkian"
2000 – Edward Ball, author – “Slaves in the Family: The Consequences of Coming to Terms” (Mar. 24, 2000)
2004 – Dr. Kenneth T. Jackson, Professor of History and Social Sciences at Columbia University - ''The Road to Hell: Transportation, Sprawl and the Decline of the United States'' (Mar. 26, 2004)
2007 – Jon Meacham, author and Managing Editor of Newsweek - “God and Politics: from George Washington to George Bush” (Mar. 23, 2007)
2009 – Richard Ford, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist (Independence Day, 1996) (Sept. 18, 2009)
2013 – Melissa Fay Greene, author, “The Literature of Fact and Why Good Writing Still Matters” (Apr. 19, 2013)
2015 – James C. Cobb, Ph.D., B. Phinizy Spalding Professor of History Emeritus, University of Georgia, "Divided by a Common Past: Southerners and the Struggle to Secure Their Version of History", (Mar. 20, 2015)
2019 – Stephanie McCurry, R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of American History in Honor of Dwight D. Eisenhower at Columbia University. The title of Professor McCurry’s lecture will be "Reconstructing: A Georgia Woman's Life Amidst the Ruins." (Feb. 22, 2019)