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 |
