Conversations with Honored Guests, 2009
 “The Right to Be Safe: Fistula, Maternal Health and Health Equity in Tanzania.” A talk by Margaret A. Bangser ’81, founder and former director of the nonprofit Women’s Dignity. Loading the player...
|  “Intertwined Pasts.” A talk by Peter Brown, the Philip and Beulah Rollins Professor of History at Princeton University and the foremost historian of the period known as Late Antiquity. Loading the player...
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 “Bipartisanship in a Partisan Washington.” A talk by former seven-term Republican Congressman Thomas M. Davis III ’71. Loading the player...
|  “Discussing Anything Musical with Leon Fleisher.” Join Leon Fleisher, famed pianist, conductor and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Chair in Piano at the Peabody Conservatory of Music. |
 “A Search for Novel Cures for Heart Disease, Muscle Fatigue and Muscular Dystrophy.” A talk by Andrew R. Marks ’76, M.D., biochemistry researcher and Chair of the Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics at Columbia University. |  “Making Life Multi-Planetary.” A talk by Elon Musk, Loading the player...
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 “The Global Economic Crisis: Its Impact on Developing Countries.” A talk by Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Managing Director of the World Bank and former Finance Minister of Nigeria. Loading the player...
|  “Obeying Verspohl.” A talk by Loading the player...
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Read more about Amherst’s 2009 honorands in the May 6 news release.