Barrick Lectures are generally presented two to three times annually. Check back for updates. Starting time for the lectures is usually 7:30 pm. Tickets are always free to the public, with a two-per-customer limit. Ticket distribution announcements are posted in the Las Vegas Review-Journal. When tickets are made available, they can be obtained at the P.A.C. Box Office unless otherwise specified.
Upcoming Lecture
Free and open to the public, but tickets are required.
Distinguished Past Barrick Lecturers
2023
Nely Galán - Becoming Self Made
April 4, 2023
Founder of Galán Entertainment and former President of Entertainment of the Telemundo television network; first Latina president at a major network
2022
Deepak Chopra - The Future of Wellbeing
October 24, 2022
Bestselling author and world-renowned pioneer in integrative medicine and personal transformation
2020
Anita Hill - Restoring the Vision
Jan. 28, 2020
Attorney, Educator and Advocate for Women’s Rights
2019
Ryan Coogler
November 17, 2019
Oscar-Winning Director
2019
Annie Leibovitz
April 3, 2019
World-Famous American Photographer
2019
W. Kamau Bell - Ending Racism in About an Hour
February 5, 2019
Comedian, Political Satirist & Host of CNN's “United Shades of America”
2018
Guillermo del Toro
October 17, 2018
Oscar-Winning Film Director
2018
Erik Weihenmayer - No Barriers
April 9, 2018
Adventurer, Author, and Filmmaker
2018
Dr. Michio Kaku - The Future of the Mind
January 29, 2018
Theoretical Physicist and Best-Selling Author
2017
Dr. Sanjay Gupta - Medicine and the Media
November 14, 2017
CNN Chief Medical Correspondent and Emory Clinic Staff Neurosurgeon
2017
Barbara Corcoran (from "Shark Tank") - A True Rags to Riches Story
October 3, 2017
New York City Real Estate Mogul and Business Expert
2017
John Quiñones — What Would You Do? Words of Wisdom about Doing the Right Thing?
May 8, 2017
Emmy Award-Winning Co-Anchor
2016
Simple Dreams: A Conversation with Linda Ronstadt
December 8, 2016
Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and Latin Grammy Award-Winner
2016
Captain Scott Kelly
September 21, 2016
History-Making U.S. Astronaut & Retired U.S. Navy Captain
2016
Doris Kearns Goodwin — Leadership Lessons from the White House
April 25, 2016
Renowned Presidential Historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning Author
2016
Fareed Zakaria — In Defense of a Liberal Education
Feb. 9, 2016
Global Thinker, Columnist, and CNN Host
2015
Ehud Barak- Former Israeli Prime Minister
May 4, 2015
Former Israeli Defense Minister / Former Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Barak speaks. The date has been rescheduled from April 24 to May 4.
2014
Ray Kurzweil – Author, Inventor and Futurist
February 10, 2014
Author of How to Create a Mind and The Singularity is Near and Director of Engineering for Google, Ray Kurzweil is the first speaker on the Barrick Lecture Series in 2014, giving a talk titled "The Acceleration of Technology in the 21st Century: the Impact on Business, the Economy and Society."
2014
Race in America, A Panel Discussion Moderated by Soledad O'Brien
October 21, 2014
Soledad O'Brien, award-winning journalist and educator, moderates a panel discussion on race in America.
2013
Michael Eisner, Business and Entertainment Leader
October 1, 2013
Michael D. Eisner, Chairman and CEO of The Walt Disney Company from 1984-2005, will give a lecture titled, "Working Together in the Creative Economy: Why Great Partnerships Succeed."
2013
Dr. Eric Topol
April 15, 2013
Eric Topol, from the Scripps Research Institute, lectures on "The Creative Destruction of Medicine."
2012
Mark Russell: Master of Political Satire
October 17, 2012
UNLV is pleased to announce that Mark Russell will deliver his brand of political satire just in time for the 2012 presidential elections as the first Marjorie Barrick Lecture in the 2012-2013 series.
2012
Steve Forbes
April 25, 2012
The Marjorie Barrick Lecture Series is pleased to announce that Steve Forbes will give the second Barrick Lecture of the 2011-2012 season.
2011
Senator and Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle
Governor and Media Personality Mike Huckabee
November 7, 2011
The 1st Barrick Lecture Series event for the 2011-2012 season features Senator and Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle & Governor and Media Personality Mike Huckabee.
2011
Thomas L. Friedman
March 28, 2011
"Hot, Flat and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution - and How It Can Renew America" Thomas L. Friedman is an internationally renowned author, reporter, and columnist — the recipient of three Pulitzer Prizes and the author of five bestselling books, among them From Beirut to Jerusalem and The World Is Flat.
2011
Governor Jeb Bush and James Carville
January 31, 2011
Governor Jeb Bush, Politician
James Carville, Political Strategist and Commentator
Jon Ralston, Moderator, Broadcaster and Political Journalist
2010
Howard Dean and Karl Rove
April 9, 2010
Governor Jeb Bush, Politician
James Carville, Political Strategist and Commentator
Jon Ralston, Moderator, Broadcaster and Political Journalist
2010
Garrison Keillor
January 19, 2010
Garrison Keillor, Best-Selling Author and Host of A Prairie Home Companion.
2009
George Stephanopoulos
March 3, 2009
American broadcaster and former political adviser George Stephanopoulos is currently ABC News's Chief Washington Correspondent and the host of ABC's Sunday morning news show This Week with George Stephanopoulos.
2009
E.J. Dionne, J.C. Watts, Gloria Borger
January 22, 2009
E.J. Dionne, Journalist
J.C. Watts, Congressman/Journalist
Gloria Borger, Journalist/Commentator
2009
Jon Ralston
January 22, 2009
Jon Ralston, Political Analyst / Moderator
2007
F. W. de Klerk
April 17, 2007
Former South African President and Foe of Apartheid
2006
Bob Dole
April 17, 2006
National Politician and War Hero
2005
Catherine Crier
November 9, 2005
Journalist, Author, & Court TV Legal Analyst
2005
Jeffrey Toobin
November 9, 2005
CNN Legal Analyst
2005
Ken Burns
April 7, 2005
The New York Times calls Ken Burns "the most accomplished documentary filmmaker of his generation."
2004
Bob Woodward
September 28, 2004
As the most respected investigative reporter in the news business, Bob Woodward has earned nearly every American journalism award, including the Pulitzer Prize.
2004
Ben Bradlee
September 28, 2004
Benjamin C. Bradlee participated in the PBS television adaptation of Character Above All. His expertise was in the presidency of John Kennedy. Mr. Bradlee has written two books on John Kennedy.
2004
Mikhail Gorbachev
March 22, 2004
Mikhail Gorbachev served as leader of the Soviet Union from 1985-1991. He is world-renowned and admired for streamlining and decentralizing the oppressive system he inherited.
2003
Campbell Brown
December 2, 2003
Campbell Brown is the co-anchor of NBC’s Today, Weekend Edition, the nation’s top rated weekend news program.
2003
Jim Angle
December 2, 2003
Angle reports on overall political news from Washington, D.C., as well as broader issues, including social security and tax reform for the Fox News Channel.
2003
Terence Smith
December 2, 2003
Terence Smith joined The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer in August 1998 to establish and lead the media unit as its senior producer and correspondent.
2003
Don Gonyea
December 2, 2003
In January 2001, Don Gonyea was named NPR’s White House Correspondent, taking over the post previously held by NPR’s Mara Liasson who has become NPR’s National Political Correspondent.
2003
David Gergen
March 28, 2003
Commentator, editor, teacher, public servant, best-selling author and adviser to presidents for 30 years, David Gergen has been an active participant in American national life.
2002
John Irving
November 2, 2002
John Winslow Irving was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1942. He graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy, the University of New Hampshire, and the Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa.
2002
Gloria Borger
March 26, 2002
Gloria Borger joined U.S. News and World Report in 1986. Since then, she has been a political reporter/columnist, and now, a contributing editor.
2002
Frank Cappiello
March 26, 2002
Frank A. Cappiello is President of a McCullough, Andrews & Cappiello, Inc., a large investment counseling firm with offices in San Francisco, Calif., and Baltimore, MD. He is one of the country’s leading financial analysts.
2002
Richard Norton Smith
March 26, 2002
Richard Norton Smith is a nationally recognized authority on the American presidency and a familiar face to viewers of C-Span, as well as The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, where he appears regularly as part of the show’s round table of historians.
2002
Ray Suarez
March 26, 2002
John Winslow Irving was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1942. He graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy, the University of New Hampshire, and the Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa.
2001
Doris Kearns Goodwin
April 17, 2001
Doris Kearns Goodwin is the renowned author of The New York Times best-sellers Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream and The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys. The former was called “the most penetrating political biography” the New York Times reviewer had ever read.
2000
Cokie Roberts
October 25, 2000
Cokie Roberts serves as a senior news analyst for NPR, where she was the congressional correspondent for more than 10 years. In addition to her work for NPR, Roberts is a political commentator for ABC News, serving as an on-air analyst for the network.
2000
Steven Roberts
October 25, 2000
Steven Roberts has been a journalist for more than 35 years, covering some of the major events of his time, from the antiwar movement and student revolts of the 60s and 70s to President Reagan’s historic trip to Moscow in 1988 and nine presidential election campaigns.
2000
Mark Russell
September 21, 2000
Born in the ‘Thirties in Buffalo, New York,’ Mark Russell served in the Marines in the ‘Fifties and had a couple of weeks’ college before starting out as a piano player in the Carroll Arms Hotel Bar on Capitol Hill.
2000
James Carville
January 11, 2000
James Carville is a political commentator providing insight “from the left” on CNN’s programs including Inside Politics. On Inside Politics, Carville and liberal commentator Paul Begala debate the hottest issues of the day with conservative commentator Robert Novak.
2000
Mary Matalin
January 11, 2000
Born in September 1953 in Chicago, Ill., Mary Joe Matalin dropped out of Western Illinois University to work in a steel mill in the early 1970s. She later received a BA in political science in 1978.
1999
David Broder
December 8, 1999
David S. Broder, a national political correspondent reporting the political scene for The Washington Post, writes a twice-weekly column that covers an even broader aspect of American political life.
1999
Wole Soyinka
October 26, 1999
Born on July 13, 1934 and educated in Ibadan, Nigeria, and Leeds, England, where he obtained an Honours degree in Literature, Wole Soyinka has held Fellowship.
Pat Schroeder
March 1, 1999
1998
Linda Ellerbee
November 5, 1998
Linda Ellerbee is an outspoken journalist, award-winning television producer, best-selling author, one of the most sought-after speakers in America, a breast cancer survivor, and a mom.
1998
Andrea Mitchell
May 20, 1998
Andrea Mitchell is the Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent for NBC News, a position she's held since November 1994. She reports on evolving foreign policy issues in the United States and abroad for all NBC News broadcasts, including Nightly News with Brian Williams, Today, and for MSNBC.
1998
Bill Bradley
February 2, 1998
Bill Bradley was the senior U.S. Senator from New Jersey, elected to his third and final term in 1990. A Democrat, Bradley announced in 1995 that he would not seek re-election but would remain active in public life.
1997
Ann Richards
December 9, 1997
During her lifetime of public service, former Texas Gov. Ann Richards has won widespread acclaim for her accomplishments as an elected official and as an inspirational national leader and role model.
1997
Sam Donaldson
February 24, 1997
Sam Donaldson recently retired from ABC News after a more-than-twenty year career. Samuel Andrew Donaldson, Jr. was born in El Paso, Texas, and grew up just across the state line in Chamberino, New Mexico. His father died before he was born.
1996
Mark Russell
October 14, 1996
Born in the 'Thirties in Buffalo, New York' Mark Russell served in the Marines in the 'Fifties and had a couple of weeks' college before starting out as a piano player in the Carroll Arms Hotel Bar on Capitol Hill. He made up songs about his customers.
1996
John Henry Sununu
September 17, 1996
John Henry Sununu (born July 2, 1939) is a former Governor of New Hampshire (1983-89) and former White House Chief of Staff under President George H. W. Bush. Sununu was born in Havana, Cuba.
1996
Geraldine Ferraro
September 17, 1996
Geraldine A. Ferraro is president of G&L Strategies, a management consulting firm which provides corporations and global organizations counsel on creating productive and safe workplace environments; designs strategies and plans for creating and improving relationships of corporations with government institutions and non-governmental organizations; and develops initiatives designed to position corporations as responsible global citizens.
William F. Buckley Jr. & John Kenneth Galbraith
April 18, 1996
1995
| Louis Rukeyser | November 29, 1995 |
| Stephen Jay Gould | October 21, 1995 |
| Mario Cuomo | March 29, 1995 |
| Lesley Stahl | February 22, 1995 |
1994
| Barry Goldwater | December 15, 1994 |
| C. Everett Koop | March 28, 1994 |
| William Safire | January 19, 1994 |
1993
| Terry Waite | October 18, 1993 |
| George Plimpton | April 20, 1993 |
| Cokie Roberts | February 22, 1993 |
1992
| Arthur Ashe | December 02, 1992 |
| Mark Russell | September 15, 1992 |
| Ralph Nader | April 29, 1992 |
1991
| Art Buchwald | November 21, 1991 |
| Tom Wolfe | September 30, 1991 |
| Benazir Bhutto | January 28, 1991 |
1990
| Willy Brandt | October 29, 1990 |
| Ed Bradley | September 13, 1990 |
| Jane Goodall | May 02, 1990 |
1989
| Alistair Cooke | October 27, 1989 |
| Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill | May 08, 1989 |
1988
| Eric Sevareid | October 18, 1988 |
| Jimmy Carter | April 14, 1988 |
| Gerald Ford | February 08, 1988 |
1987
| Richard Leakey | November 19, 1987 |
| Mortimer Adler | April 30, 1987 |
1986
| Henry Kissinger | October 29, 1986 |
| Carl Sagan | September 28, 1986 |
| Abba Eban | April 21, 1986 |
1985
| Howard K. Smith | December 10, 1985 |
| Jeanne Kirkpatrick | September 04, 1985 |
| Malcolm Forbes, Jr. | April 18, 1985 |
1984
| Edwin Newman | September 12, 1984 |
| Jihan Sadat | May 29, 1984 |
| Mark Russell | April 01, 1984 |
| Dr. George Wald | February 16, 1984 |
1983
| Challenger 7 Space Shuttle Crew | August 12, 1983 |
| John Houseman | June 02, 1983 |
1982
| Douglas Hofstader | May 05, 1982 |
| Walter Cronkite | February 08, 1982 |
| William F. Buckley Jr. & John Kenneth Galbraith | January 10, 1982 |
1981
| Louis Rukeyser | September 22, 1981 |