2009/10/14. Looks at how adversity can help create qualities of determination, character and transformative leadership. Professor of Music.

2009/10/14. Examines how Walt Whitman captured both Lincoln's magnificence and American grief. Professor of English and Director of the Center for Scholarship and Faculty Development.

2009/10/14. Keynote address. Emeritus Professor of American Religious History at San Francisco Theological Seminary.