Annual Events

Annual Dinners

Each spring, The University Seminars community gathers for a celebratory meal, to hear the Tannenbaum Lecture, and witness the presentation of the Tannenbaum-Warner Award to an outstanding member of The University Seminars community.

Tannenbaum-Warner Awardees

1992 | William S. Vickrey 1993 | Paul Oscar Kristeller 1994 | John N. Hazard
1995 | Wm. Theodore De Bary 1996 | J. C. Hurewitz 1997 | Joseph B. Maier
1998 | Joan Ferrante 1999 | Anslie T. Embree 2000 | Aaron Warner
2001 | Oscar Schachter 2002 | Marshall D. Schulman 2003 | Sam Devons
2004 | Kenneth T. Jackson 2005 | Carole Vance 2006 | George Halasi-Kun
2007 | Harry R. Kissileff 2008 | Seth Neugroschl 2009 | Allan Gilbert
2010 | Gary Sick 2011 | Robert L. Belknap 2012 | Peter H. Juviler
2013 | Peter V. Norden 2014 | Roxie R. Smith 2015 | Chauncey G. Olinger, Jr.
2016 | Herbert S. Terrace 2017 | Sidney M. Greenfield 2018 | Gertrude S. Goldberg
2019 | Ronald Gross 2022 | Marianne Hirsch 2024 | Alice Newton

Tannenbaum Lecturers

1971 | Gilbert Highet 1972 | Philip C. Jessup 1973 | Harvey Picker
1974 | Paul Henry Lang 1975 | Theodosius Dobzhansky 1976 | Eric Louis McKitrick
1977 | Daniel Yankelovich 1978 | Harrison E. Salisbury 1979 | Barbara W. Tuchman
1980 | Charles Gati 1980 | John N. Hazard 1980 | R. Randle Edwards
1980 |Seweryn Bialer 1981 | Marshall D. Shulman 1982 | Richard N. Gardner
1983 | Richard W. Lyman 1984 | Gerda Lerner 1985 | Joan M. Ferrante
1986 | Robert L. Payton 1987 | Henry F. Graff 1988 | Arthur A. Hartman
1989 | Robert L. Belknap 1990 | Fritz Stern 1991 | J. C. Hurewitz
1992 | William S. Vickrey 1993 | M. Elaine Combs-Schilling 1994 | Eli Ginzberg
1995 | 50th Anniversary 1996 | Alan Brinkley 1997 | Eric Foner
1998 | Martin Meisel 2000 | Cynthia H. Whittaker 2001 | Richard W. Bulliet
2002 | Robert O’Meally 2003 | Andrew J. Nathan 2004 | John Stratton Hawley
2004 | Alice Kessler-Harris 2005 | James G. Neal 2006 | Herbert S. Terrace
2007 | Ester Fuchs 2008 | Lisa Anderson 2009 | Andrew S. Dolkart
2010 | Paul Anderer 2011 | Patricia J. Williams 2012 | Kenneth T. Jackson
2013 | Wallace S. Broecker 2014 | Joseph E. Stiglitz 2015 | Wafaa El-Sadr
2016 | Ann Douglas 2017 | David Johnston 2018 | Farah Jasmine Griffin
2019 | Eric R. Kandel, M.D. 2022 | Deborah Paredez 2024 | Steve Coll