Visiting Speakers
The Foote Endowment in Ethics invites a number of speakers to the Hiram campus every year. Past speakers and their topics include:
Tony Alexander & Tom Sawyer
President, First Energy Corporation & Former U.S.
Congressman
Public Address: "Crisis—The Responsible Exercise of Political
Power"
Joan Brown Campbell
Director of the Department of Religion, the Chautauqua
Institution
Former General Secretary of the National Council of Churches
USA and
Director of the U.S.
Office of the World Council of Churches
Public Address: "Religion, Morality, & the Public
Square: The Expression of Moral Values in a
Pluralistic and Diverse Society"
John Dalton
Former Secretary of the Navy
Public Address: "The Timeless Traits of Leadership"
Bill Gentile
Professor of Journalism at Kent
State University
Public Address & Photography Exhibit: "A View from Afghanistan"
Thomas J. Moyer
Chief Justice of the Ohio
Supreme Court
Public Address: "Values and the Law"
Azar Nafisi
Author of Reading Lolita in Tehran:
A Memoir in Books
Public Address: "Exile and Literature"
Donald Ponikvar
Security analyst
Public Address: "Counter-Terrorism: How to Do It, by a Guy
Who Does It"
Nadine Strossen & Kyle B. Olson
President of the American Civil Liberties
Union & Terrorism Analyst with
Community Research Associates
Public Address: "Liberty & Security: A Discussion from
Two Perspectives"
Loung Ung
Best-selling author, activist, and lecturer
Public Address: "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia
Remembers"
Patricia Williams
Professor of Law at Columbia
University
"Diary of a Mad Law Professor" columnist for The Nation
Public Address: "Tending King's Dream in Nightmarish Times"
Marie Wilson
President of The White House Project/Women's Leadership Fund
Public Address: "Top of the Ticket. Isn’t It Time? A Woman in
the White House."