United
Nations Association-McLean County Chapter
The Adlai E. Stevenson Memorial Lecture Series
Hubert H. Humphrey, April 1969 (top) and Anthony Eden, March 1967 (Photos courtesy of The Pantagraph)
The Board of Directors of the Adlai E. Stevenson Memorial Lecture Series invites distinguished international leaders to address the local community. These events are organized in collaboration with the UN Association-McLean County Chapter, Illinois State University and Illinois Wesleyan University.
The purpose of the memorial lecture series is “To honor the memory and perpetuate the work of Adlai E. Stevenson by establishing a lecture platform that will speak to future generations as he spoke to his, by promoting his ideals in the field of international affairs and by furthering the cause of world peace and good will among peoples.”
Quote from Board of Directors of the Adlai E. Stevenson Lectures on International Affairs, September 9, 1965 minutes, reprinted in John K. Boaz, The Adlai E. Stevenson Memorial Lecture Series: The First Twenty-Five Years 1966-1991 (Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, Inc.: 1995)
Past Lectures
June 8, 1966
Arthur J. Goldberg
Inaugural Lecture
| March 28, 1967 Sir Anthony Eden Lecture on International Affairs |
(Photo courtesy of The Pantagraph) |
March 26, 1968
Paul-Henri Spaak
De Gaulle As I See Him
September 30, 1968
Thanat Khoman
A General Settlement in Asia
| April 23, 1969 Hubert H. Humphrey Lecture on International Affairs |
(Photo courtesy of The Pantagraph) |
December 7, 1970
Lady Barbara Ward Jackson
Survival in the Seventies
December 3, 1971
John King Fairbank
China As an American Dilemma
March 12, 1973
James B. Reston
Speech Honoring Adlai Stevenson II
February 15, 1974
Peter G. Peterson
Lecture on International Affairs
March 18,1975
J. William Fulbright
The Politics of Survival
April 29, 1976
James R. Schlesinger
Relations between the United States and the Soviet Union
February 7, 1978
Fred Harvey Harrington
America and the Developing World
February 9, 1979
Barbara Jordon
Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Policy
February 7, 1980
Paul Simon
Foreign Policy: Response to Need or Response to Passion?
February 12, 1981
Adlai E. Stevenson III
Lecture on International Affairs
November 11, 1982
Edmund S. Muskie
Nuclear Explosions: the Future of Test Bans
December 1, 1983
A. James Heins
Forum: Economic Outlook of Illinois; Economic Pie in the Sky
October 25, 1984
Frank Newman, Robert Hexter, Walter Hanson, and James Carey
Forum: Future of Higher Education
December 6, 1985
Henry Kissinger
Lecture on International Affairs
November 3, 1987
Jeane Kirkpatrick
Lecture on International Affairs
October 3, 1989
Porter McKeever
Special Presentation: Can Idelaism and Politics Mix? The Case of Adlai
Stevenson
| October 13, 1991 Sir Edward Heath One World: The Challenge Ahead |
(Photo courtesy of The Pantagraph) |
September 28, 1993
Margaret Tutwiler
Observations Made, Lessons Learned
April 4, 1995
Li Lu
China: Tiananmen Square and Beyond
February 18, 1998
Mairead Maguire
Waging Peace in the 21st Century
March 6, 2000
Lech Walesa
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