Archive of Lectures

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Marjorie Pay Hinckley Lecture "Promoting Positive Youth Development" David Hawkins February 9, 2012
Charles Redd Center Lecture "Bernard DeVoto's American West" Mark Harvey November 10, 2011
Charles Redd Center Lecture "In Search of Dominguez & Escalante" Siegfried Halus and Greg MacGregor October 20, 2011
Camilla E. Kimball Lecture "Forgiveness: Does it Matter?" Dr. Frank Fincham October 13, 2011
Honored Alumni Lecture "It's the Principle of the Thing" Don H. Staheli October 6, 2011
Martin B. Hickman Lecture "The Power of Sacred Living: Secrets of Families who Flourish" Randal D. Day, Ph.D March 10, 2011
Charles Redd Center Lecture "Law and Indigenous Treaties: Respecting the Continuing Legacy of the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868" John Wunder, University of Nebraska-Lincoln February 24, 2011
Charles Redd Center Lecture "Southern Anti-Mormon Violence and Post-Civil War Reconciliation" Patrick Mason, University of Notre Dame February 17, 2011
Marjorie Pay Hinckley Lecture "The Emotionate Child: Building Emotional Health and Compassion in Young Children" Ross A. Thompson, University of California at Davis February 10, 2011
Charles Redd Center Lecture "Bombast: Spinning Atoms in the Desert" Professor Michon Mackedon January 27, 2011
Chauncy Harris Lecture "Geographies of Racial Mixing in Households and Neighborhoods" Richard Wright, Dartmouth College November 18, 2010
Virginia Cutler Lecture "How Parents Matter in Promoting Children's Social Competence" Craig Hart, School of Family Life October 21, 2010
Constitution Day Lecture "Broken Government: Coping with Dysfunction in the American Political System" Norman Ornstein, American Enterprise Institute September 14, 2010
Martin B. Hickman Lecture "Why Educating Girls Matters" Renata Forste, Department of Sociology March 11, 2010
Geography Lecture "What has Befallen the Earth?" Graeme Wynn, University of British Columbia March 1, 2010
Marjorie Pay Hinckley Lecture "Marriage, Social Connections and Health: Why Married People are Healthier" Linda J. Waite, University of Chicago February 11, 2010
Economics Guest Lecture "Economic Challenges of Recovery" R. Glenn Hubbard, Dean of the Columbia School of Business January 7, 2010
Social Work Lecture "Crisis in Elder Care" Dr. Nancy R. Hooyman, University of Washington January 7, 2010
Chauncy Harris Lecture "Environmental Change and Coupled Natural Human Systems in the Western Amazon" Kenneth Young, University of Colorado at Boulder November 19, 2009
Virginia Cutler Lecture "Our Forgotten Families" Vaughn Call, Department of Sociology October 29, 2009
Geography Lecture "The New Age of Earth Exploration: Emerging Trends in Geospatial Sciences" Kamlesh Lulla, NASA October 29, 2009
Social Work Lecture "Contemporary Urban Families" Dr. Irwin Garfinkel, Columbia University October 27, 2009
Honored Alumni Lecture Senator Orrin G. Hatch October 22, 2009
Redd Center Lecture "The River Knows Everything" James M. Aton, Southern Utah University October 21, 2009
Redd Center Lecture "National Congress of American Indians" Jacqueline (Johnson) Pata, Executive Director of the National Congress of American Indians March 27, 2009
Redd Center Lecture "Indian-made: Navajo Culture in the Marketplace, 1868-1941" Erika Marie Bsumek, University of Texas at Austin February 26, 2009
Marjorie Pay Hinckley Undergraduate Seminar "Civic Engagement: What the Ordinary Person Can do to Make the World Better for Families" William J. Doherty, University of Minnesota February 12, 2009
Marjorie Pay Hinckley Lecture "Parenting Wisely in a Too-Much-of-Everything World" William J. Doherty, University of Minnesota February 12, 2009
Economics Lecture "The Financial Crisis: A Preliminary View" Randall D. Guynn December 4, 2008
Honored Alumni Lecture "Advancements in Remote Sensing of the Earth from Airborne and Satellite Platforms" John R. Jensen, University of South Carolina November 9, 2008
School of Family Life Lecture "The Non-Romantic Roots of Romantic Relationships" W. Andrew Collins, University of Minnesota September 24, 2008
School of Family Life Lecture "Family Routines and Rituals" Barbara H. Fiese, Syracuse University November 12, 2008
The Inaugural DeLamar Jensen Lecture Theodore K. Rabb, Emeritus Professor of History at Princeton University October 16, 2008
Virginia Cutler Lecture "Understanding and Strengthening Contemporary Mate Selection and Marriages" Thomas B. Holman, School of Family Life October 23, 2008
Redd Center Lecture "On Zion's Mount" Jared Farmer April 10, 2008
Women's Studies Book Club Luncheon "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan: The Power of Cultural Discourse in Shaping Perceptions and Behavior" Kristine Frederickson April 10, 2008
Mary Lou Fulton Mentored Student Learning Conference Luncheon Kali Beck & Professor Ramona Hopkins, Psychology Department April 3, 2008
Martin B. Hickman Lecture John Edward Clark, Anthropology Department March 13, 2008
Women's Studies Colloquium "Effects of Gender and Teaching Styles of Teacher Evaluation" Niwako Yamawaki, Psychology Department February 28, 2008
Marjorie Pay Hinckley Lecture "Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers" Christian Smith, University of Notre Dame February 7, 2008
Geography Lecture "A Longitudinal Analysis of Family Migration and the Gender Gap in Earnings in the United States and Great Britain" Thomas J. Cooke, University of Connecticut November 29, 2007
Virginia Cutler Lecture "Daily Lives of Families: What Difference Does it Make?" James M. Harper, School of Family Life November 15, 2007
School of Family Life Lecture "Positive Parenting and Positive Development in Children" Marc H. Bornstein, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development October 31, 2007
Sociology Lecture "Fighting for the American Family: Families in the Cross-Hairs of the Culture Wars" Ann Swidler, University of California at Berkeley October 18, 2007
Women's Studies Colloquium "WomanStats Project" Valerie M. Hudson, Political Science Department October 11, 2007
Harold B. Lee Library House of Learning Lecture "Taking Root: The Growth of The LDS Church in Indonesia" Chad Emmett, Geography Department September 27, 2007
Honored Alumni Lecture "Reflections from the Bench: Lessons of Humanity" Judge Lynn W. Davis September 20, 2007
Constitution Day "Living with the Founders" Jack Rakove, Stanford University September 18, 2007
Annaley Naegle Redd Lecture "A Big Western Life: The Challenging Biography of Granville Stuart" Clyde Milner, Arkansas State University March 21, 2007
Martin B. Hickman Lecture "Deal or No Deal: Risk Aversion, Smoothing and Prudence" Rulon D. Pope, Economics Department March 8, 2007
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Annaley Naegle Redd Lecture Jessie L. Embry, Charles Redd Center February 20, 2007
Family History Fireside Elder Richard H. Winkel February 9, 2007
Marjorie Pay Hinckley Lecture "Child and Family Well Being: A New Look" Kristin Anderson Moore, University of Michigan February 8, 2007
First Annual Social Work Conference "Vulnerable Families and Children" Madelyn Freundlich November 9, 2006
First Annual Social Work Conference "Vulnerable Families and Children" Round Table Panel November 9, 2006
Marriage, Family, and Human Development Lecture Ross A. Thompson, University of California at Davis October 25, 2006
Honored Alumni Lecture "Lessons Learned from the Olympics" Fraser Bullock October 19, 2006
Marjorie Pay Hinckley Lecture "Fragile Families: Myths and Realities" Sara McLanahan, Princeton University February 9, 2006
Chauncy Harris Lecture "Shadowed Ground: America's Landscapes of Violence and Tragedy" Kenneth E. Foote, University of Colorado at Boulder November 10th 2005
Virgina Cutler Lecture "Adolescence to Adulthood: Meandering Path or Wide-Open Highway" Bruce Chadwick, Sociology Department November 3rd 2005
Honored Alumni Lecture "Leadership in the Last Days" Sheri L. Dew October 13th 2005
Majorie Pay Hinckley Endowed Chair Lecture "Marriage and Commitment" James Q. Wilson, Pepperdine University February 10th 2005
Honored Alumni Lecture "The Case for Amending the Constitution to Define Marriage" Senator Gordon H. Smith October 14th 2004