Initiated by Clark's President John Bassett, the President's Lecture Series was established in 2002. The series includes two-three lectures a year with eminent speakers in the sciences, arts, humanities and international relations. Lectures are free and open to the public and are sponsored by Clark University's Higgins School of Humanities.

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2007 Lectures:

• David W. Orr, renowned scholar of environmental politics and design
  January 22 at 7:30 pm
  Tilton Hall
  “Some Like it Hot . . . But Lots More Don't; The Changing Climate of U.S. Politics.”

• Anne Fadiman, Francis Writer in Residence at Yale University
  October 1 at 7:30 pm
  Atwood Hall
  Author of The Spirit Catches You

• John Holdren, Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy and Director of the Program on Science, Technology, and Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and President and Director of the Woods Hole Research Center
  September 10 at 5:00 pm
  Razzo Hall, Traina Center for the Arts
  "Science, Technology and the Sustainability Challenge."
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• Dr. Ellen Condliffe Lagemann, Charles Warren Professor of History of American Education at Harvard University
  March 21, 2007
  "Education and Public Enterprise: A Necessary Relationship?"

• Dr. Frank Wilczek, Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at MIT
  April 26, 2007
  Dr. Wilczek was a 2004 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work explaining some of the most puzzling paradoxes in particle physics and quantum field theory.
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2006 Lectures:

• Tracy Kidder, Pulitzer Prize-wining author
  Oct. 3, 2006, Daniels Theater, Atwood Hall
  Discussion of his book "Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World."
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2005 Lectures:

• Joseph Wilson, Former Ambassador
  Oct. 17, 2005, Atwood Hall
  "The Politics of Truth: Inside the Lies that Led to War and Betrayed My Wife's CIA Identity." Wilson is former member of the U.S. Diplomatic Service (1976-1998) and former Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq (1988-1991).

• Randolph M. Nesse, M.D
  April 28, 2005 for Lasry Center for Bioscience dedication
  "Darwinian Medicine: Why isn't the body better designed?"
  Nesse is Professor of psychology and psychiatry at UMIchigan and research professor for the Research Center for Group Dynamics, Institute for Social Research. Director, ISR Evolution and Human Adaptation Program.
  
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• Alice Rivlin, Ph.D., Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
  April 6, 2005
  "Fiscal Sanity: Why it Matters and How to Restore It."

2004 Lectures:

• Robert Pinsky, former Poet Laureate, Professor of Creative Writing at Boston University
  September 14
  Poetry reading to kick off the Worcester Poetry Fall Festival. The event is part of the President's Lecture Series and the Modern Poetry Series.

• Professor Philip Morgan, Johns Hopkins University
  March 25, 2004
  "The Early Caribbean and the Atlantic World: A Microcosmic View." The lecture was offered in collaboration with the Clark Department of History.

2003 Lectures:

• Lawrence M. Krauss, Ambrose Swasey Professor of Physics, professor of astronomy and chair of the Physics Department at Case Western Reserve University
  November 4, 2003
  
  "Einstein's Biggest Blunder? A Cosmic Mystery Story."
• Ambassador Charles Dunbar
  September 24, 2003
  "Squaring the Circle: U.S. Policy in the Middle East."
  Dunbar served as Ambassador to Qatar (1983-85) and to Yemen (1988-91) and as chargé d'affaires in Afghanistan and is currently the Warburg Professor in International Relations at Simmons College.

• Andrei Kozyrev, Boris Yeltsin's foreign minister (1991-1996) and deputy in the Russian Parliament
  February 4, 200
  "Putin's Foreign Policy -- Has Russia Joined the West?"
  Co-sponsored by Worcester Polytechnic Institute

• Edward Hirsch, President of the Guggenheim Foundation, award-winning poet, and Macarthur Fellow
  March 27, 2003
  Inaugurated the Higgins Modern Poetry Series by reading some of his poetry and discussing the poet's craft.
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2002 Lectures:

• Stuart Eizenstat, deputy secretary of the treasury in the Clinton Administration and former ambassador to the European Union
  November 6, 2002
  "Imperfect Justice: Looted Assets, Slave Labor, and the Unfinished Business of World War II"