October 27, 2005: Dr. Dwight Reynolds
Dr. Dwight Reynolds of University of California at Santa Barbara presented a talk entitled “Christians, Jews, and Muslims: Musical Interactions in Medieval Spain.” Dr. Reynolds, who is Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at UCSB, recently spent two years in Spain studying the medieval musical interactions between Christians, Jews, and Muslims.

February 16, 2006: Dr. Kristen Stilt
Dr. Kristen Stilt of the University of Washington Law School, a recognized authority on both Islamis Law and Constitutional Law and a frequent media commentator on the Iraqi Constituition, gave a talk entitled "Analysis of the Iraqi Constitution."  The talk was organized in cooperation with the Fred J. Hansen Institute on World Peace and the Charles Holster Institution on World Affairs.   

March 7, 2006: Dr. William Granara
Dr. William Granara, the Director of Harvard University's Arabic program, presented a talk entitled "Al-Andalus: Myth and History in Modern Arabic Literature, Culture and Thought."  In his lecture Prof. Granara argued that the image of medieval Spain serves a particular purpose in the writings of Arab novelists as well as in the works of Arab filmmakers.