Sidhartha Maitra Memorial Lectures
2022 - “” by Nobel Laureate Professor Amartya Sen
2020 - "" by Amitav Ghosh, an award-winning writer.
2019 - , distinguished fellow of Brookings Institution and former chair of the Federal Reserve. Presented in partnership with the ÍòÄÌÔ° Foundation Medal.
2018 - "" by Nirupama Menon Rao, Ambassador, Foreign Secretary, Scholar, and Poet on Diplomacy & the Feminist Voice.
2016 - “” by William “Bro” Adams, chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
2014 - ""
by Wade Davis, author, explorer, filmmaker, and professor.
2013 - "" by Peter Sellars, acclaimed director and visionary artist.
2012 - “” by Sandra Faber, UCSC Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics and Interim Director of the UC Observatories.
2011 - “’” by Abraham Verghese, Senior Associate Chair and Professor for the Theory and Practice of Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine and author of the NY Times bestseller, Cutting for Stone.
2010 - “, former CEO, Proctor & Gamble, India, columnist, and author of several books including the highly acclaimed India Unbound.
2009 - “ by Edward Luce, Washington Bureau Chief for the Financial Times and author of In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India.
2008 - "" by Martin Hellman, Professor Emeritus, Stanford University.
2007 - by author Shashi Tharoor, global affairs expert, and award-winning author.
2006 - by Amartya Sen, Nobel Prize Laureate, Lamont Professor of Economics and Philosophy, Harvard University, with a screening of The Home and the World.
2005 - ” by Indian art historian Dr. Partha Mitter and film actress Ms. Sharmila Tagore, with a screening of
2004 - "" by UCLA Professor Emeritus Nazir Jairazbhoy with a vocal performance by Purnima Chaudhuri and a screening of The Music Room.
2003 - "" by Pico Iyer with a screening of Devi.
2002 - "Twenty Years of Reality Shows" by Wlad Godzich, Dean of Humanities at UCSC, with a screening of Charulata (The Lonely Wife).
2001 - Inaugural Sidhartha Maitra Memorial Lecture: “Friendship and Poetry” by author Vikram Seth.
