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The Walter P. Kistler Lecture Series was established to create direct access by the general public to information from experts on critical and urgent issues facing humanity today and into the future.
Overview
Named for the originator of the lecture series and benefactor of Foundation For the Future, the Walter P. Kistler Lecture Series sponsors periodic free public lectures. The series provides the Foundation an immediate means of meeting its mission to increase and diffuse knowledge concerning the long-term future of humanity.
2011 Lecturer
 Distinguished British environmentalist & expert on population pressures
Visiting Fellow, Oxford University’s Green College
Visiting Professor, Oxford University’s Centre for Environment, University of Vermont, and University of Cape Town
Adjunct Professor, Duke University
TITLE OF LECTURE: “Time of Breakdown or Breakthrough?”
DATE: May 2011
2010 Lecturer
 Acclaimed expert in paleontology, astrobiology, mass extinctions, and Earth sciences
Author of The Flooded Earth:
Our Future in a World Without Ice Caps
Professor of biology and Earth sciences,
University of Washington
TITLE OF LECTURE: “Our Flooding World”
DATE: October 2010
2009 Lecturers
 Renowned Paleoanthropologist, Discoverer of “Lucy”
Founding Director, Institute of Human Origins
Author of Lucy’s Legacy: The Quest for Human Origins
Professor, School of Human Evolution and Social Change,
Arizona State University
TITLE OF LECTURE: “Darwin and Human Evolution”
DATE: September 2009
 One of the world’s leading archaeological writers
Author of The Great Warming: Climate Change and
the Rise and Fall of Civilizations
Professor Emeritus, Anthropology,
University of California at Santa Barbara
TITLE OF LECTURE: “Water: The Elixir of Humanity”
DATE: November 2009
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