Speaker Series
As part of its mission to further, foster and advance education and learning in the
fields of political science, public administration, and/or international studies at
the University of Wyoming, during the current academic year the Milward L. Simpson
Fund will sponsor a series of public research talks led by distinguished visiting
scholars and professionals as well as university faculty and graduate students working
in political science, public administration, and/or international studies and related
disciplines. A particular focus of the Simpson Speaker series is to bring to the University
of Wyoming distinguished lecture-scholars whose presence will serve to foster and
advance undergraduate and graduate education, learning, and enrichment for SPPAIS
students.
Lecture Series
Each year the Milward L. Simpson Fund helps to bring to campus eminent political figures
and practitioners in political science, public administration, and/or international
studies and related disciplines as part of the prestigious Simpson Lecture Series.
Previous Simpson Lecturers have come from a wide variety of backgrounds, ideologies
and disciplines and frequently draw large audiences from across campus and the surrounding
Wyoming community.
Previous guest speakers invited to campus as part of the Milward L. Simpson Lecture
Series have included:
- Chris Matthews, MSNBC's Hardball Host and Host of the syndicated Chris Matthews Show
- James A. Baker, U.S. Secretary of State, Secretary of Treasury, White House Chief
of Staff
- Dave Freudenthal, Governor of Wyoming
- George Mitchell, U.S. Senator
- Alan K. Simpson, U.S. Senator
- Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, U.S. Supreme Court
- Sam Donaldson, ABC News Correspondent
- George Mitchell, U.S. Senator
- Donald Kendall, Chairman of PepsiCo
- Sam Western, Western Identity Author
- Casper Weinberger, U.S. Secretary of Defense
- Lawrence Eagleburger, U.S. Secretary of State
- James G. Watt, U.S. Secretary of the Interior
- William S. Cohen, U.S. Senator
- Gerald Ford, President of The United States
- George H. W. Bush, President of The United States
- Jim Geringer, Governor of Wyoming
- Michael Sullivan, Governor of Wyoming & Ambassador to Ireland
- George McGovern, U.S. SenatorDavis Broder, Washington Post
- Paul Simon, U.S. Senator
- General George Joulwin, U.S. Supreme Allied Commander Europe (NATO)
- Kathy Karpan, Wyoming Secretary of State
- Karen Deike, Western Governors Association
- Charles Bartlett, Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalist
- Thomas Strook, Ambassador to Guatemala
- Ann Compton, ABC News White House Correspondent
- Patricia Limerick, Center of the West - University of Colorado
- Charles Levendosky, Editor Casper Star Tribune
- Ambassador Richard Schifter, Special Assistant to the President
- Boyd Eddins, Wyoming Senate President
- April Brimmer Kunz, Wyoming Senate President
- Speaker John Marton, Wyoming House of Representatives
- Speaker Fred Parady, Wyoming House of Representatives