Past Years

Nobel Conference

Listed below are the topics of and participants in the Nobel conferences at Gustavus Adolphus College since the inception of the conference series in 1965. Nobel laureates have the prize and year they won after their name in parentheses. The College has developed a tradition of honoring laureates visiting the campus with honorary degrees: Since 1950, 92 laureates have been so honored, and of the 66 laureates who have appeared at one or more conferences since 1965, 60 have accepted honorary degrees (Tjalling Koopmans declined the honor in 1978; Stanley Prusiner was not present on campus to received the honor in 2001; and Steven Weinberg, James Buchanan, Elizabeth Blackburn, and Joseph Stiglitz had not yet won Nobel Prizes when they appeared at their respective conferences in 1976, 1986, 1999, and 2000).

2014 (L) - Celebrating 50 Years of the Nobel Conference: Where Does Science Go from Here?

Watch Archived Presentations

Sean B. Carroll – Evolution at the Molecular and Planetary Scale: A Tale of Two Biologies
Steven Chu (Physics '97) – Energy and Climate Change
Patricia Smith Churchland – The Brains behind Morality
Antonio Damasio – The Consciousness Issue
Freeman Dyson* – Living through Four Scientific Revolutions
W. Gary Ernst – Earth Resources, Global Equity, and Future Sustainability
Harry Gray – Solar–Driven Water Splitting
Sir Harry Kroto (Chemistry '96) – How to Survive & preview lecture The Birth of Natural Philosophy and Its Son: Science
Svante Pääbo – Of Neanderthals, Denisovans, and Modern Humans
Steven Weinberg (Physics '79) – Glimpses of a Hidden World
Jennifer West – Nanotechnology and Biomedical Engineering

*Freeman Dyson was unable to attend. A link to his talk at another event has been included.

Asit K. Biswas – Water Crisis: Myth or Reality?
Peter H. Gleick – Water for the 21st Century: New Thinking
William L. Graf – Where the Wild Things Are: Dams, Rivers, and Wildlife Preservation
Rajendra K. Pachauri (Peace '07) – Climate Change and Global Peace
Nancy N. Rabalais – Nutrients, Nutrients Everywhere and Not a Drop to Drink: Land Meets the Sea
Larry L. Rasmussen – Just Water
David L. Sedlak – Short-Circuiting the Hydrologic Cycle to Meet Urban Water Needs

Additional Participants

Erin Binder – The Acara Challenge: Applying Corporate Best Practices to Local, Sustainable Water Solutions
Steve Colman – The Superior Sea: What about All That Water?
Lucinda Johnson – Minnesota’s Aquatic Ecosystems: What Can We Expect under a Changing Climate?
Shawn Lawrence Otto – Democracy in the Age of Science
Fred Rose – The Acara Challenge: Applying Corporate Best Practices to Local, Sustainable Water Solutions
Edward Swain – Climate Change Impacts on Lakes – The Mercury Example

2008 (XLIV) - Who Were the First Humans?

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Robin Dunbar – Mind the Gap: Why Humans Aren’t Just Great Apes
Marcus Feldman – The History of Migration and Selection Seen through the Human Genome
J. Wentzel van Huyssteen – Human Origins and Religious Awareness – An Interdisciplinary Challenge for Theology?
Curtis Marean – The African Evidence for the Origins of Modern Human Behavior
Svante Pääbo – A Neandertal View of Human Origins
Dennis Stanford – The Ice-Age Discovery of the Americas: Constructing an Iberian Solution

Additional Participants

Scott Anfinson – Finding Minnesota: The First People of the North Star State
Guy Gibbon – After the PaleoIndians: Archaic and Woodland Peoples in Minnesota
Rod Johnson – Flintknapping Demonstration
Tom Sanders – Atlatl Dart Throwing Demonstration

2007 (XLIII) - Heating Up: The Energy Debate

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Steven Chu (Physics '97) – The World’s Energy Problem and What We Can Do about It
Kenneth S. Deffeyes – Peak Oil: Here and Now
James E. Hansen – The Threat to the Planet: The Dark and Bright Sides of Global Warming
Paul L. Joskow – Placing a Price on Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Lee Rybeck Lynd – Biofuels: Technology, Challenges, and Their Role in a Sustainable World
Joan M. Ogden – Prospects for Hydrogen Energy
Will Steger – The Front Lines of Global Warming – Will Steger’s Eyewitness Account

Additional Participants

Doug Cameron – Advances in Biofuels: Ethanol and Beyond
J. Drake Hamilton – Global Warming: Minnesota Impacts, Minnesota Solutions
Bishop Craig Johnson – Care for Our World’s Resources: A Biblical Perspective
Dan Juhl – Community-Based Energy: Local Ownership of Renewable Energy

2006 (XLII) - Medicine: Prescription for Tomorrow

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Henry J. Aaron – Healthcare in America: Three Paradoxes
J. Michael Bishop (Medicine '89) – Entering the Genomic Era
Daniel Callahan – Affordable Healthcare: Reforming the Idea of Medical Progress
James Orbinski – Family emergency prevented him from attending.
Michael T. Osterholm – A Modern World and Infectious Diseases: A Collision Course
Dame Julia M. Polak – Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
Jennifer L. West – Biomimetic and Biofunctional Materials

Additional Participants

Robert Brown – Research in Neurology: Unlocking the Cause and Optimal Treatment of Selected Disorders of the Brain
James Hart – A Collaborative and Alternative Approach to Medicine of the Future
William Manahan – A Collaborative and Alternative Approach to Medicine of the Future
Dean V. Marek – Healing and Spirituality
Anne L. Taylor – Population Variability and Cardiovascular Disease

2005 (XLI) - The Legacy of Einstein

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George F.R. Ellis – The Existence of Life in the Universe and the Crucial Issue of Ethics
Wendy Freedman – The Legacy of Albert Einstein for Cosmology
S. James Gates Jr. – Is Cosmic Concordance in Concomitance with Superstring/M-Theory?
Wolfgang Ketterle (Physics '01) – Bose-Einstein Condensates and Other New Forms of Matter Close to Absolute Zero
Thomas Levenson – The Education of Albert Einstein
Kip S. Thorne – Warped Spacetime: Einstein’s General Relativity Legacy

Additional Participants

Ira Flatow – Closing panel moderator
John F. Haught – Issues in Science and Religion: Einstein and Religion

2004 (XL) - The Science of Aging

Laura L. Carstensen – Motivation, Emotion and Aging
Leonard Hayflick – Longevity Determinants, Aging and Age-Associated Disease
Cynthia J. Kenyon – From Worms to Mammals: Regulation of Lifespan by Insulin/IGF-1 Signaling
S. Jay Olshansky – Human by Design
Dennis J. Selkoe – Aging, Amyloid and Alzheimer’s Disease
Peter J. Whitehouse – The Dementia of Alzheimer’s Disease: The Wisdom of Just Aging

Additional Participants

Richard Q. Elvee – Banquet moderator
Joseph Gaugler – Caregiver and Healthcare Policy Issues
Michael Hendrickson – Caregiver and Healthcare Policy Issues
Gabe Maletta – Clinical Aspects of Alzheimer’s Disease: Assessment and Treatment

2003 (XXXIX) - The Story of Life

Sean B. Carroll – Butterflies, Zebras, and Fairy Tales: Genetics and the Making of Animal Diversity
Philip J. Currie – Feathered Dinosaurs and the Origin of Birds
Christian R. de Duve (Medicine '74) – Life Evolving
Niles Eldredge – What Drives Evolution
B. Rosemary Grant – Evolution of Darwin’s Finches
Peter R. Grant – Evolution of Darwin’s Finches
John F. Haught – God after Darwin: Evolution and Divine Providence
Tim D. White – Evolution: A View from Afar

2002 (XXXVIII) - The Nature of Nurture

Avshalom Caspi – The Child Is Father to the Man: Personality Development from Childhood to Adulthood
Jerome Kagan – The Tapestry Woven by Biology and Experience
Eric R. Kandel (Medicine '00) – Genes, Synapses, and Long Term Memory
Eleanor E. Maccoby – The Nature of Children and Their Nurture by Parents
Thomas H. Murray – Parents and Children: What We Value and How That Is Challenged by Cloning and New Reproductive Technologies
Robert Plomin – Nature and Nurture: Genetic and Environmental Influences on Behavioral Development
Judith L. Rapoport – Normal and Abnormal Brain Development in Children and Adolescents

2001 (XXXVII) - What is still to be discovered?

Günter Blobel (Medicine '99) – Protein Targeting
Edmond H. Fischer (Medicine '92) – How Proteins Speak to One Another in Cell Signaling
Roald Hoffman (Chemistry '81) – Science and Ethics: A Marriage of Necessity and Choice for This Millennium
Sir Harold W. Kroto (Chemistry '96) – Science: A Round Peg in a Square World
Sir John R. Maddox – What Remains to Be Discovered
Erling C.J. Norrby – A Century of Nobel Prizes
Stanley B. Prusiner (Medicine '97) – Mad Cows, Demented People, and the Biology of Prions

2000 (XXXVI) - Globalization 2000: Economic Prospects and Challenges

Jagdish N. Bhagwati – Globalization and Appropriate Governance
John B. Cobb Jr. – The Stake of Christian Theology in Economic Globalization
Amitai Etzioni – The Future of the Global Community
Robert Mundell (Economics '99) – Does a Global Economy Need a Global Currency?
Jeffrey D. Sachs – New Approaches to Helping the Poorest of the Poor in the Global Economy
Michael Sohlman – Globalization—Some Reflections of a Practitioner
Joseph E. Stiglitz – Globalization, Equity, and the Developing World

1999 (XXXV) - Genetics in the New Millennium

Bruce Baker – The Molecular Basis of Sex
Elizabeth Blackburn – Telomerase: Dr. Jekyll or Mr. Hyde?
Lindon Eaves – Revisiting the Biology of Ultimate Concern
Dean Hamer – Genes for Human Behavior
Leroy Hood – The Human Genome Project: Revolutions in Biology, Medicine, and Society
Evelyn Fox Keller – Nature and Nurture in a Post-Genomic Age
J. Craig Venter – Genomics in the Next Millennium

1998 (XXXIV) - Virus: The Human Connection

Alfred Worchester Crosby – The History of Infectious Disease as a Characteristic of Civilization
Robert C. Gallo – Some New Approaches to HIV and HIV Disease
John J. Holland – Virus Evolution: Implications for Diseases
Wolfgang K. Joklik – The Evolution of Virology: From the Beginnings of Molecular Biology to the Conquest of Viral Disease
Elizabeth G. Nabel – Recombinant Gene Transfer: Lessons from Viruses and Applications to Human Disease
Gary J. Nabel – Recombinant Gene Transfer: Lessons from Viruses and Applications to Human Disease
Clarence J. Peters – Emerging Virus diseases: 5000 B.C. to the Present
Ted Peters – Co-Evolution: Pain or Promise?

1997 (XXXIII) - Unveiling the Solar System: 30 Years of Exploration

Alan P. Boss – Forming Star Systems, Here and Elsewhere
Story Musgrave – An Artist’s View of the Universe
F. Sherwood Rowland (Chemistry '95) – Our Changing Atmosphere
Robert John Russell – How the Heavens Have Changed
Carl Sagan – Scheduled to speak but died prior to conference.
Roald Sagdeev – New Horizons for Solar System Exploration
Eugene Shoemaker – Scheduled to speak but died prior to conference.
David J. Stevenson – Formation of the Earth and the Origin of Life
Edward C. Stone – The Search for Life Elsewhere

1996 (XXXII) - Apes at the End of an Age: Primate Language and Behavior in the '90s

Biruté M.F. Galdikas – Reflections of Eden
Gordon Kaufman – The Human Niche in Earth’s Ecological Order
Tetsuro Matsuzawa – Chimpanzee Intelligence in the Laboratory and in the Wild
Duane M. Rumbaugh – On the Psychology and Intelligence of Human, Ape and Monkey
Sue Savage-Rumbaugh – Why Do We Limit Language to Homo sapiens?
Frans B.M. de Waal – Chimpanzee Behavior and the Origins of Human Morality and Justice
Richard W. Wrangham – Apes and the Evolution of Human Violence

1995 (XXXI) - The New Shape of Matter: Materials Challenge Science

Philip W. Anderson (Physics '77) – New Physics of Metals: Fermi Surfaces without Fermi Liquids
Susan N. Coppersmith – The Complexity of Materials
Frederick Ferré – The Matter with Matter
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (Physics '91) – Principles of Adhesion
Harry B. Gray – Engineered Enzymes for Photosynthesis
Harold W. Kroto (Chemistry '96) – C₆₀ Buckminsterfullerene: The Celestial Sphere That Fell to Earth
Silvan S. Schweber – The Metaphysics of Physics: The Landscape at the End of a Heroic Century

1994 (XXX) - Unlocking the Brain: Progress in Neuroscience

Anders Björklund – Cell Transplants for Repair of the Damaged Brain
Patricia Smith Churchland – Prospects for a Neurobiology of Consciousness
Antonio Damasio – A Neurobiology for Emotion and Reason
Apostolos Georgopoulos – Behavioral Neurophysiology of the Motor Cortex
David Hubel (Medicine '81) – Eye, Brain and Perception
Eric R. Kandel (Medicine '00) – Genes, Synapses and Memory
Oliver Sacks – Neurology and the Soul

1993 (XXIX) - Nature Out of Balance: The New Ecology

Daniel B. Botkin – Discordant Harmonies: A New Ecology for the 21st Century
Jared M. Diamond – New Guinea: A Biological Treasure House
Thomas E. Lovejoy – National Biological Survey
Robert McCredie May – Causes and Consequences of Biological Diversity
Donella H. Meadows – Nature in Balance: A Vision
Bryan G. Norton – Finding Our Place: The Origins of Sustainability
George Masters Woodwell – Science and Government: Revolutions in Store for the Third Millennium

1992 (XXVIII) - Immunity: The Battle Within

Baruj Benacerraf (Medicine '80) – The Requirement of Antigen Processing and Presentation to Initiate Immunologic Response
R. Michael Blaese – Gene Therapy: Medicine for the Future
Robert C. Gallo – Human Retroviruses and Alterations of the Immune System: The Second Decade
Philippa Marrack – T-Cells in Health and Disease
Candace Pert – Immune System Neuro-Receptors: The Mind in the Body
Holmes Rolston III – Immunity in Natural History
Jonas Salk – The Immune System: The Mind of the Body

1991 (XXVII) - The Evolving Cosmos

Timothy Ferris – Evolution of Interstellar Communications Systems
William A. Fowler (Physics '83) – Early Nuclear Synthesis
Margaret Geller – Where the Galaxies Are
Edward Harrison – Our Evolving View of the Universe
Ernan McMullin – Extrapolating to a Distant Past
Phillip Morrison – Newton and Anti-Newton: Enforced Simplicity, Inaccessible Origins

1990 (XXVI) - Chaos: The New Science

Mitchell Feigenbaum – The Transition to Chaos
James Gleick – Chaos and Beyond
Benoit Mandelbrot – The Fractal Geometry of Nature and Chaos
Heinz-Otto Peitgen – The Beauty of Fractals
John Polkinghorne – Chaos and Cosmos: A Theological Approach
Ilya Prigogine (Chemistry '77) – Time, Dynamics, and Chaos: Integrating Poincaré’s “Non-Integrable Systems”
Stephen Smale – On the Role of Mathematics in Chaos

1989 (XXV) - The End of Science?

Sheldon Lee Glashow (Physics '79) – The Death of Science!?
Ian Hacking – Disunified Sciences
Sandra Harding – Why Physics Is a Bad Model for Physics: Feminist Issues
Mary Hesse – Need a Constructed Reality Be Non-Objective? Reflections on Science and Society
Gerald Holton – How to Think about the End of Science
Gunther S. Stent – Cognitive Limits and the End of Science

1988 (XXIV) - The Restless Earth

Don L. Anderson – Earth’s Interior: The Last Frontier
W.G. Ernst – The Pacific Rim: Plate Tectonics, Continental Growth, and Geological Hazards and The Future of the Earth Sciences
David Ray Griffin – The Restless Universe: A Postmodern View
Jack Oliver – Plate Tectonics: The Discovery, the Lesson, the Opportunity
David M. Raup – Catastrophes and the History of Life on Earth
J. Tuzo Wilson – Some Controls That Greatly Affect Surface Responses to Mantle Convection beneath Continents

1987 (XXIII) - Evolution of Sex

William Donald Hamilton – Sex and Disease
Philip J. Hefner – Sex, for God’s Sake: Theological Perspectives
Sarah Blaffer Hrdy – The Primate Origins of Female Sexuality and Raising Darwin’s Consciousness: Was There a Male Bias?
Lynn Margulis – Sex in the Microcosm
Dorion Sagan – Sex in the Microcosm
Peter H. Raven – The Meaning of Flowers: Evolution of Sex in Plants
John Maynard Smith – Theories of the Evolution of Sex

1986 (XXII) - The Legacy of Keynes

Karl Brunner – The Sociopolitical Vision of Keynes
James M. Buchanan (Economics '86) – Keynesian Follies
Geoffrey C. Harcourt – The Legacy of Keynes: Theoretical Methods and Unfinished Business
Axel Leijonhufvud – Whatever Happened to Keynesian Economics?
Ronald Haydn Preston – The Ethical Legacy of John Maynard Keynes
Baron Stig Ramel – The Swedish Model: Keynesian Policies Put into Practice
Lester Thurow – Constructing a Microeconomics That Is Consistent with Keynesian Macroeconomics
James Tobin (Economics '81) – Keynesian Economics and Its Renaissance

1985 (XXI) - The Impact of Science on Society

Winston J. Brill – The Impact of Biotechnology and the Future of Agriculture
Daniel J. Kevles – Genetic Progress and Religious Authority: Historical Reflections
Salvador E. Luria (Medicine '69) – The Single Artificer
J. Robert Nelson – Mechanistic Mischief and Dualistic Dangers in a Scientific Society
Merritt Roe Smith – Technology, Industrialization, and the Idea of Progress in America

1984 (XX) - How We Know: The Inner Frontiers of Cognitive Science

Daniel Dennett – Can Machines Think?
Gerald Edelman (Medicine '72) – Neural Darwinism: Population Thinking and Higher Brain Function
Brenda Milner – Memory and the Human Brain
Arthur Peacocke – A Christian “Materialism”?
Roger Schank – Modeling Memory and Learning
Herbert Simon (Economics '78) – Some Computer Simulation Models of Human Learning

1983 (XIX) - Manipulating Life

Christian Anfinsen (Chemistry '72) – Bio-Engineering: Short-Term Optimism and Long-Term Risk
Willard Gaylin – What’s So Special about Being Human?
June Goodfield – Without Laws, Oaths and Revolutions
Clifford Grobstein – Manipulating Life: The God-Satan Ratio
Karen Lebacqz – The Ghosts Are on the Wall: A Parable for Manipulating Life
Lewis Thomas – The Limitations of Medicine as a Science

1982 (XVIII) - Darwin's Legacy

Stephen Jay Gould – Evolutionary Hopes and Realities
Richard E. Leakey – African Origins: A Review of the Record
Sir Peter Medawar (Medicine '60) – The Evidences of Evolution
Jaroslav Pelikan – Darwin’s Legacy: Emanation, Evolution, and Development
Edward O. Wilson – Sociobiology: From Darwin to the Present

Additional Presenters

Irving Stone – The Human Mind after Darwin

1981 (XVII) - The Place of Mind in Nature

Ragnar Granit (Medicine '67) – Reflections on the Evolution of the Mind and Its Environment
Wolfhart Pannenberg – Spirit and Mind
Richard Rorty – Mind as Ineffable
John Archibald Wheeler – Bohr, Einstein, and the Strange Lesson of the Quantum
Eugene Wigner (Physics '63) – The Limitations of the Validity of Present-Day Physics

Additional Presenters

Czesław Miłosz (Literature '80) – Reflections

1980 (XVI) - The Aesthetic Dimension of Science

Freeman J. Dyson – Manchester and Athens
Charles Hartshorne – Science as the Search for the Hidden Beauty of the World
William N. Lipscomb Jr. (Chemistry '76) – Some Aesthetic Aspects of Science
Gunther Schuller – Form and Aesthetics in Twentieth Century Music
Chen Ning Yang (Physics '57) – Beauty and Theoretical Physics

Additional Presenters

Isaac Bashevis Singer – On Beauty

1979 (XV) - The Future of the Market Economy

Robert Benne – Ought the Market Economy Have a Future?
Richard Lipsey – An Economist Looks at the Future of the Price System
Kenneth McLennan – Redefining Government’s Role in the Market System
Baron Stig Ramel – Sweden: How a Mixed Economy Gets Mixed Up
Mark Willes – Rational Expectations and the Future of the Market System

1978 (XIV) - Global Resources: Perspectives and alternatives

Ian Barbour – Justice, Freedom, and Sustainability
Barry Commoner – A New Historic Passage: The Transition to Renewable Resources
Garrett Hardin – An Ecolate View of the Human Predicament
Tjalling C. Koopmans (Economics '75) – Projecting Economic Aspects of Alternative Futures
Letitia Obeng – Benevolent Yokes in Different Worlds

1977 (XIII) - The Nature of Life

Max Delbrück (Medicine '69) – Mind from Matter?
René Dubos – Biological Memory and the Living Earth
Sidney W. Fox – The Origin and Nature of Protolife
Bernard M. Loomer – The Web of Life
Peter R. Marler – In the Mind’s Eye: Perception and Innate Knowledge

Additional Presenters

Elizabeth Shull Russell – Panelist

1976 (XII) - The Nature of the Physical Universe

Murray Gell-Mann (Physics '69) – What Are the Building Blocks of Matter?
Sir Fred Hoyle – An Astronomer’s View of the Evolution of Man
Stanley L. Jaki – The Chaos of Scientific Cosmology
Hilary W. Putnam – The Place of Facts in a World of Values
Steven Weinberg (Physics '79) – Is Nature Simple?
Victor F. Weisskopf – What Is an Elementary Particle?

1975 (XI) - The Future of Science

Sir John C. Eccles (Medicine '63) – The Brian-Mind Problem as a Frontier of Science
Langdon Gilkey – The Future of Science
Polykarp Kusch (Physics '55) – A Personal View of Science and the Future
Glenn T. Seaborg (Chemistry '51) – New Signposts for Science

Panelists

Ian Barbour, Theologian
John Cobb Jr., Theologian
William Dean, Theologian
Van Austin Harvey, Theologian
Hans Schwartz, Theologian
Christian Anfinsen (Chemistry '72)
George Beadle (Medicine '58)
Hans Bethe (Physics '67)
Felix Bloch (Physics '52)
Walter Brattain (Physics '56)
Leon Cooper (Physics '72)
André Cournand (Medicine '56)
Christian de Duve (Medicine '74)
Gerald Edelman (Medicine '72)
Ulf S. von Euler (Medicine '70)
Robert Hofstadter (Physics '61)
Charles Huggins (Medicine '66)
Simon Kuznets (Economics '71)
Willis Lamb Jr. (Physics '55)
Willard Libby (Chemistry '60)
Fritz Lipmann (Medicine '53)
Robert Mulliken (Chemistry '66)
Lars Onsager (Chemistry '68)
Julian Schwinger (Physics '65)
Emilio Segre (Physics '59)
William B. Shockley (Physics '56)
Ernest Walton (Physics '51)
Thomas Weller (Medicine '54)
Chen Ning Yang (Physics '57)

Additional Presenters

David Matthews – Closing Address

1974 (X) - The Quest for Peace

Rubem Alves – Diagnosis of a Sickness: The Will to War
Elisabeth Mann Borgese – The World Communities as a Peace System
Polykarp Kusch (Physics '55) – Is Enduring Peace a Realistic Hope?
Robert Jay Lifton – Survival and Transformation—From War to Peace
Baron Stig Ramel – Nationalism and International Peace
Paul A. Samuelson (Economics '70) – Economics and Peace

1973 (IX) - The Destiny of Women

Mary Daly – Scapegoat Religion and the Sacrifice of Women
Martha W. Griffiths – Legal and Social Rights and Responsibilities of Women
Beatrix Hamburg – The Biology of Sex Differences
Eleanor Maccoby – The Development of Sex Differences in Intellect and Social Behavior
Johnnie Tillmon – The Changing Cultural Images of the Black Woman in America

1972 (VIII) - The End of Life

Alexander Comfort – Changing the Life Span
Ulf S. von Euler (Medicine '70) – Physiological Aspects of Aging and Death
Nathan A. Scott Jr. – The Modern Imagination of Death
Krister Stendahl – Immortality Is Too Much and Too Little
George Wald (Medicine '67) – The Origin of Death

Additional Presenters

Edgar M. Carlson – Moderator

1971 (VII) - Shaping the Future

Norman E. Borlaug (Peace '70) – The World Food Problem—Present and Future
John McHale – Shaping the Future: Problems, Priorities, and Imperatives
Glenn T. Seaborg (Chemistry '51) – Shaping the Future—Through Science and Technology
Joseph Sittler – The Perils of Futurist Thinking: A Common Sense Reflection

Additional Presenters

Anthony J. Wiener – Faust’s Progress: Methodology for Shaping the Future

1970 (VI) - Creativity

William A. Arrowsmith – The Creative University
Jacob Bronowski – The Creative Process
Willard F. Libby (Chemistry '60) – Creativity in Science
Donald W. MacKinnon – Creativity: A Multi-faceted Phenomenon
Gordon Parks – Creativity to Me

1969 (V) - Communication

Leroy G. Augenstein – A Little Black Box Called the Mind
Noam Chomsky – Form and Meaning in Natural Language
Abraham Kaplan – The Life of Dialogue
Eric H. Lenneberg – A Word between Us
Peter R. Marler – Animals and Man: Communication and Its Development

Additional Presenters

Edgar M. Carlson – Moderator

1968 (IV) - The Uniqueness of Man

Theodosius Dobzhansky – The Pattern of Human Evolution
Sir John C. Eccles (Medicine '63) – The Experiencing Self
Ernan McMullin – Man’s Effort to Understand the Universe
W.H. Thorpe – Vitalism and Organicism
S.L. Washburn – The Evolution of Human Behavior
Daniel Day Williams – The Prophetic Dimension

1967 (III) - The Human Mind

Sir John C. Eccles (Medicine '63) – Evolution and the Conscious Self
James M. Gustafson – Christian Humanism and the Human Mind
Holger Hyden – Biochemical Aspects of Learning and Memory
Seymour S. Kety – Biochemical Aspects of Mental States
Francis O. Schmitt – Molecular Parameters in Brain Function
Huston Smith – Human versus Artificial Intelligence
Nils K. Stahle – The Nobel Foundation at Work

1966 (II) - The Control of the Environment

Kenneth E. Boulding – The Prospects of Economic Abundance
René Dubos – Adaptations to the Environment and Man’s Future
Roger Revelle – The Conquest of the Oceans
Carl T. Rowan – The Free Spirit in a Controlled Environment
Glenn T. Seaborg (Chemistry '51) – The Control of Energy

Additional Presenters

Orville L. Freeman – Convocation Speaker

1965 (I) - Genetics and the Future of Man

Kingsley Davis – Sociological Aspects of Genetic Control
H. Bentley Glass – The Effect of Changes in the Physical Environment on Genetic Changes
R. Paul Ramsey – Moral and Religious Implications of Genetic Control
Sheldon C. Reed – The Normal Process of Genetic Change in a Stable Physical Environment
William B. Shockley (Physics '56) – Population Control or Eugenics
Edward L. Tatum (Medicine '58) – The Possibility of Manipulating Genetic Change

Additional Presenters

Philip S. Hench (Medicine '50) – Honorary Chair
Polykarp Kusch (Physics '55) – Symposium Chair