2019: For the Common Good
Keynote Speaker: Marian Wright Edelman, founder and president of the Children’s Defense Fund
2018: Home
Keynote Speaker: Edwidge Danticat, activist and award-winning author.
2017: Slavery and Justice: from Antiquity to the Present
Keynote speaker: Kelly Brown Douglas, author of Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God; Professor of Religion at Goucher College
2016: Image
Keynote Speaker: Mark Samels, executive producer of “American Experience,” PBS’s flagship history series
2015: Race in America
Keynote Speaker: Michele Norris, award-wining journalist; host and special correspondent for NPR
2014: Resilience, Sustainability and the Humanities: Re-Imagining the Future
Keynote Speaker: Majora Carter, urban revitalization strategist
2013: Wealth: The Promises and Perils of Abundance
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Geoffrey Galt Harpham, president and director of the National Humanities Center
2012: The Transforming Book
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Anthony Grafton, Henry Putnam University Professor at Princeton University, Fellow of the British Academy and President of the American Historical Association
2011: Friendship
Keynote Speaker: The Honorable James Leach, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities
2010: Memory
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African American Research at Harvard University
2009: Faith and the Public Square
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Alan Wolfe. Director, Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life
2008: Eyes Wide Open: Engaging Technology with our Humanity
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Edward Tenner, noted scholar and writer on technology and culture
2007: Globalization
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Kent Hill, Senior Administrator of the Bureau of Global Health, US AID
2006: The Power of Human Imagination
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Wendy Wright, author and writer on spiritual formation
2005: E Pluribus unum or The Two Americas?
Keynote Speaker: David McCullough, celebrated American historian
2004: Culture, Community, and Belonging
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Jean Kilbourne, noted media critic
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