Thursday, July 10
The Next Influenza Pandemic: A Harbinger of Things to Come?
Michael Osterholm, Director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, Associate Director of the Department of Homeland Security's National Center for Food Protection and Defense, and Professor at the University of Minnesota's School of Public Health

Thursday, August 7
Why Foreign Policy Issues in the 2008 U. S. Election Matter So Much to the World
Strobe Talbot, President of The Brookings Institution in Washington, D. C., former Deputy Secretary of State, former Washington Bureau Chief of Time, and author of books on foreign affairs

Thursday, August 14
Women and Public Policy
Swanee Hunt, Director of Women and Public Policy Program at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, founder of the Women's Foundation of Colorado, and former Ambassador to Austria

Thursday, August 21
Israel, Palestine, and the Chances for Peace
Galia Golan, Emerita Professor and chair of the Department of Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, faculty member at the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy, and Strategy at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, a founder of Peace Now, and author of books including Israel and Palestine: Peace Plans and Proposals from Oslo to Disengagement