Department of English

Past Casey Shearer Memorial Lectures

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Past Casey Shearer Memorial Lectures

Past Lectures

Bill Clinton

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20th Annual Casey Shearer Memorial Lecture: A Conversation with President Bill Clinton, 42nd President of the United States

Sarah Stillman

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When Deportation is a Death Sentence: Covering Immigration in the Trump Era

Rory Kennedy

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Social impact and storytelling through documentary. Featuring Documentary Filmmaker Rory Kennedy

Ezra Edelman

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A conversation with Oscar winner Ezra Edelman. Director of Academy Award-Winning Documentary Series OJ: Made In America

Joe Morgenstern

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Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal Critic

Karen Crouse

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Is Sports Real Life Or Just A Game? Reflections From The Global Playing Fields. Karen Crouse, New York Times Correspondent

James Fallows

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An Evening With James Fallows, Atlantic Monthly Correspondent

Early Years of the Lecture (2000-2013)

  • Jeff Zimbalist (2013)
    An Evening with Filmmaker and Brown University Graduate Jeff Zimbalist
  • Pico Iyer (2012)
    Honorary Citizens of the 21st Century: Our New Planetary Order of Movement and Stillness
  • Curt Ellis (2011)
    Ask Not What Your Country Can Feed You -- Ask What You Can Feed Your Country
  • Mara Liasson (2010)
    A View from Washington
  • Andrew Zimbalist (2009)
    Equal Play: Title IX and Public Policy
  • Davis Guggenheim '86 (2008)
    Can Movies Be an Agent for Social Change?
  • David Maraniss (2007)
    The Mythology of Sport
  • Marian Wright Edelman (2006)
    Stand Up for Children Now
  • A. Scott Berg (2005)
    Telling Lives: Writing Biography
  • Chris Berman '77 (2004)
    Sports: America’s Last Melting Pot
  • Thomas L. Friedman (2003)
    A Conversation with Thomas L. Friedman
  • Cokie Roberts (2002)
    An Evening with Cokie Roberts
  • Thomas Boswell (2001)
    True Success: the Pleasures of a Lifetime Spent in Sports writing
  • President Bill Clinton (2000)
    Remarks at a Memorial Service for Casey Shearer